Emily Evans
@emilyevs.bsky.social
ID fellow at Emory University. Interested in HIV and opportunistic infections. Aspiring brothmonger and quirky artist
Standing in solidarity with colleagues at the CDC who were fired as part of yet another RIF wave. We are all less safe without their expertise and dedication.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg@sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12mo agoBREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
In the State of Georgia, it is now easier to buy a gun than it is to get a COVID booster vaccine. Pretty crazy stuff.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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🆕In their Comment, @emilyevs.bsky.social and @boghuma.bsky.social discuss the new Article published by Ned Latham and Colleagues on fully vaccinated individuals with mpox in NSW, Australia Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Protection that lasts? MVA-BN against clade IIb mpox
Clade IIb monkeypox virus infection was first declared a public health emergency of international concern in 2022. The global outbreak was largely driven by sexual transmission, primarily among men wh...
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The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday.
Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000
Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.
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Even when we’re cast as villains, those of us working in infectious diseases still have a vital role to play. In this reflection, I share how I’m continuing to show up for patients, for public health, and for the next generation even when it’s hard. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...
This Is How I Keep Showing Up
A infectious diseases physician’s reflections on trust, defiance, and public health in a time of outrage
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What a great piece by @arstechnica.com: "This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.
Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.
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The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..
Beside measles outbreaks, we are likely to see resurgence of: - HIV - Tuberculosis - STIs (Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea) - A worse flu season - other vaccine preventable diseases. Because that's what happens when you gut public health, defund research and promote vaccine misinformation.
he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public. The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department, by @maggieastor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/w... via @nytimes.com #infodemic #journalism
Kennedy Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public
The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department.
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We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday. Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.
Atlanta showed up in a big way yesterday. Love this city 💜
News from #CROI2025: Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment. If these men remain in remission, they will be the 8th & 9th known cases of a functional cure after the procedure. www.poz.com/article/two-...
Two More People May Be Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplants
One experienced viral rebound after an initial treatment interruption but remains in remission after stopping antiretrovirals a second time.
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At the Save Our Sciences Rally for HIV Research! Past HIVMA Chair, Carlos del Rio @docdelrio.bsky.social , applauded the role of NIH in making the U.S. a leader in biomedical research and a major driver of economies and the importance of reauthorizing the lifesaving PEPFAR program.
Global Toll of US Tuberculosis Funding Cuts Grim results of a modeling study on what US funding cuts to TB projects might mean TB deaths are projected to increase by 99,800 (minimal impact scenario), 268,600 (moderate impact), and 2,243,700 (worst case scenario) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Stand Up For Science rallies are tomorrow! With the attacks on science, this seems more important than ever. See how you can participate: standupforscience2025.org
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
standupforscience2025.org
The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼. bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
The Global Fund will roll out the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab — with or without Pepfar - Bhekisisa
The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It’s a good economic investment, says the Fund’s Peter Sands, into a ga...
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🌍 "Early impacts of the #PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment" 📰 Check out these new field notes in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and join the call to #SavePEPFAR!
<em>Journal of the International AIDS Society</em> | IAS HIV Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the article title to read more.
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This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on. Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞 Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...
Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported
Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola
independent.co.uk
The global South is leading in keeping us all safe. 1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks 2.Uganda is fighting Ebola 3. DRC is fighting #mpox Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...
Africa CDC Call for Applications: The African Epidemic Service Program 2025 (AES) - Empowering Africa's Public Health Workforce - Global South Opportunities
In an increasingly interconnected world, the rapid spread of disease can pose significant challenges to public health systems. The African continent, with its
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The Trump administration’s sweeping actions—withdrawal from WHO, halting USAID, freezing Medicaid funds, and crippling the NIH & CDC—are an assault on global & public health Read The Lancet's Editorial @thelancet.bsky.social #health #who #us #nih #cdc #globalhealth #publichealth #usaid #trump
While there is general concern, WHO has stepped up in the interim to fill the gap left by US abandoning biodefense role that US has historically supported. Realizing that we live in an interconnected world. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/som...
As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread
Americans are among those exposed to the virus in Uganda.
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"Don't give in to cynicism or apathy. That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what...Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen" www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Imagine going to your doctor and being told the treatment plan for whatever ails you has to align with an executive order of the President.This is where we are headed. The banner now adorning the CDC website pages on various treatment guidelines is most sinister.
Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...
The richest man in the world wants us to stop feeding the poorest in the world.
