Eric Schrimshaw
@ericschrimshaw.bsky.social
Psychologist, dept Chair Population health sciences at UCF MED; research focused on LGBTQ+ health, mental health, and HIV prevention. 🏳️🌈
The Trump administration is ending a key health insurance subsidy program that aimed to keep premiums for seniors' prescription drug plans in check. abcnews.com/Health/trump...
Trump administration to end Medicare Part D subsidy program in 2027
The prescription drug benefit is used by millions of seniors.
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"Although this is promising for life sciences applications, it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions. The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not.” www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/h...
AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch, showing promise for drug resistance and drawing warnings about potential for misuse | CNN
Scientists used an artificial intelligence program to create new viral genomes that are different from any known natural viruses and that targeted specific hosts, according to a new study. The develop...
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China being assessed more positively than the U.S. is a relatively recent shift in most countries surveyed. These favorability reversals usually come down to two forces moving in opposite directions: China's reputation rising, America's falling.
We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
HIV prevention drug could reduce number of cases globally but USAID cuts prevent access, say experts
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide
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I saw this posted elsewhere, and hoped it was just an AI spoof, but sadly, it's a real CDC Webpage, and the information it contains is deeply dangerous and untrue.
White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.
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Thousands of new private schools have opened recently, many without running background checks or receiving the kind of oversight public schools routinely get. We're still reporting. If you find something in your research, we want to hear about it.
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The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act. The administration narrowed the definition of "harm" under the landmark law. n.pr/4wWVo0H
Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife
The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act. The administration narrowed the definition of "harm" under the landmark law.
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This story alludes to ASPR's role in the strategic national stockpile but doesn't mention its role in overseeing BARDA which funds a lot of key vaccine research.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo agoUgh: “The Trump administration’s pick to oversee preparedness and response to public health emergencies and disasters has questioned the use of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants and raised the disproven link between vaccines and autism in past comments reviewed by STAT.”
We are in the timeline where Taco Bell is leading the response to stop the diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak
Taco Bell Locations Stop Serving Lettuce and Guacamole amid ‘Explosive’ Diarrhea Parasite Outbreak: Report
Some Taco Bell locations in the U.S. are reportedly not serving lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and cilantro onion items amid a cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s affected 2,000 people, with Michigan re...
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The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability, officially became law, despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the legislation. https://cnn.it/4f964lc
"The government's schools guidance constitutes a form of ‘Ambient Conversion Therapy’ by embedding systemic pressures that will undermine trans children's identities and wellbeing 24/7" - @natacha.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/english-scho...
English schools to segregate Trans+ kids from toilets – including those who've already transitioned – from September
New ‘Keeping Children Safe In Education 2026’ (KCISE) guidance sets out in detail the limits now placed on schools on supporting Trans+ children
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Experts set out recommendations for people with low but detectable HIV viral load (aka low level viraemia). Note: risk of sexual transmission below 200 copies - referred to as undetectable - is zero. Risk of sexual transmission below 1000 copies is ‘almost zero’.
Experts publish recommendations on managing low-level but detectable HIV
An international panel of scientists reviewed the evidence to construct a framework of recommendations on the management of low-level but detectable HIV. The guidance, published in The Lancet HIV by D...
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Quiet little announcement on CDC website: American aid worker has tested positive for Bundibugyo Ebola. Wonder where they will take this person — presumably not Kenya. Germany again? Or will they actually bring them to the US? www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
CDC Statement on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda: 7/10/26
CDC Statement on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda: 7/10/26
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A group of nine prominent Americans are given a series of worst-case scenarios for defending the midterm election.
Commentary: The troubling takeaway when experts game out election threats
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A US citizen working for a humanitarian group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement. https://cnn.it/4bDBJdE
Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.
IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.
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it’s like we created the absolute dumbest people in a lab and gifted them all microphones and cameras on their way out
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · last yr.Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”
One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.
Over 130,000 people are currently deemed missing or have disappeared in Mexico.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Washington was beloved by many for giving away power he could have kept. Trump is reviled by many for snatching power he isn’t entitled to,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “One famously wouldn’t tell a lie. The other famously can’t stop telling lies.”
Opinion | Founding Father vs. Foundering Toddler
No. 1 puts No. 45/47 to shame.
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Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel, paved the way for Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders. Now, her story is one of thousands about women and people of color to be removed since Trump’s return to office.
The Army took down its page commemorating a civil rights icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to "align with current guidance."
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America's 250th anniversary offers a moment to reckon with our history — & its contradictions — to determine our #democracy’s future. This #IndependenceDay, join us in using #LFJ's new resource page to imagine a more inclusive democracy for the next generation & beyond 📱: https://bit.ly/44aGh7s
NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:
Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders
The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present.
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If ending #HIV means relying on systems that keep people locked out of affordable care, then we need to rethink the strategy. writes advocate @shekinahrose.bsky.social in a First Person commentary for @posaware.bsky.social. . positivelyaware.com/drug-pricing-is-hiv-policy
