Something bad happening after a vaccine and a vaccine causing something bad are two different claims. Separating them is most of the work. My new op-ed in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap-op-ed...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harm

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CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harm The right response is to investigate it: fund the work, design the study so that it can come out either way, and wait for the answer. https://bit.ly/4vLFdSQ @jakescottmd.bsky.social

"There is no vaccine injury that improves and then kills a child overnight. And certainly not two children in the same night.” Excellent reporting on the Idaho twins case by Michelle Smith. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com

Idaho mom charged with murder says vaccines killed her twins. Doctors say it’s not possible

Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr, still stands by Andrea Shaw after her indictment

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this is one of the clearest and most soberly written pieces on "chronic lyme" that exists. if you feel confused on the distinction between this and Lyme disease, this is the only thing to read. jail for doctors who prey on "chronic lyme" patients www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there

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Read this. “Believing a patient is not the same as agreeing with what she has been told. The cruelest thing I could do is nod along with a wrong diagnosis because it is the kind thing to say, and let her spend the next several years, and her health, chasing a cure for a disease she does not have.”

Jake Scott, MD@jakescottmd.bsky.social · last mo.

Lyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there. Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/bWJh50ZjgW8

Lyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there

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“The old assignment was to figure out how to use vaccines well. The new one, in plain terms, is to build the case against them.” Great piece in @cidrap.bsky.social by @lizszabo.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

New ACIP charter could allow RFK Jr. to further restrict vaccine access, critics say

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The US has effectively lost its measles elimination status. The virus has spread across the country for over a year, driven by falling vaccination rates. The official call comes in November. But it’s not a lost cause. We’ve done it before, and it’s winnable. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

U.S. may have lost a ‘crown jewel’ of public health, experts say

The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. But experts now say ongoing outbreaks have probably ended one of the nation’s biggest public health successes, which relied heavily on immunization.

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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says by Jake Scott @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/49nzhqS

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says After a top FDA official claimed the COVID vaccine killed at least 10 US kids, the actual report noted only 2 as even "probable." Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/TfMY50Z4Vjb

FDA's then-vaccine chief said the agency would acknowledge COVID vaccines had killed at least 10 American children. The analysis behind that claim was kept private for six months. It's now public & doesn't say what he said it said. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says

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After having consulted the #DRC & #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR. My statement: bit.ly/4wGGiwX

The CDC is weighing an ICD-10 code for a COVID vaccine injury syndrome with no case definition. Codifying an undefined condition doesn't help injured patients. It produces the appearance of medical recognition without the science behind it. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

CDC to Weigh Adding Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Medical Codes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is gathering feedback on a proposal that would create a medical code to track adverse effects from the Covid-19 vaccine.

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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the FDA tried to bury studies showing vaccines are safe? Because political leaders did not like the results of carefully controlled studies using large data sets and valid methods, explains @jakescottmd.bsky.social in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the FDA tried to bury studies showing vaccines are safe

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The @fda.gov withdrew its scientists’ COVID and shingles vaccine studies from publication last fall. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece walks through what those studies actually found, and why their suppression matters. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the FDA tried to bury studies showing vaccines are safe

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New in @cidrap.bsky.social: amid the worst measles outbreak in 30+ years, the HHS Secretary said on national TV that MMR contains "millions of particles from aborted fetal tissue." It doesn't. What the manufacturing and regulatory record show. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Measles, misinformation, and what's actually in the MMR vaccine

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Informed dialogue is a cornerstone of effective public health. Through thoughtful voices on @cidrap.bsky.social's Op-Eds, we aim to foster scientifically grounded conversations. Welcome, Jess @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social! Thanks for your important work, @jakescottmd.bsky.social! ow.ly/zm9950YIV90

Director’s note: Adding Dr Jess Steier to our CIDRAP Op-Ed team

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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Don’t be distracted—ACIP was never the only play While we were distracted, vaccine-injury lawyer Aaron Siri submitted a petition demanding that hundreds of conditions be added to the Vaccine Injury Table. Full Op-Ed from @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social's Jess Steier: ow.ly/OqV650YIT9m

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Measles, misinformation, & what's actually in the MMR vaccine RFK Jr. has said the MMR vaccine contains "millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments." It does not. Full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/n39O50YKoOP

I’m hearing that the rank and file of MAHA is trying to distance itself from the anti-vaccine movement. But they can’t. RFK Jr. has spent the past two decades focusing on destroying vaccines. When you promote the man you are promoting the anti-vaccine message. Period.

Really well done piece from @jessicanix.bsky.social and @rachelcohrs.bsky.social on Kennedy’s political retreat and what it means for the MAHA agenda. The legal and political walls are real. So is the damage that was done on the way through. Worth reading. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Great reporting by @whatsitlike.me on BA.3.2, a new SARS-CoV-2 variant now detected in 29 states. It has substantial mutations and WHO has it flagged, but no data showing increased severity. Worth watching, not catastrophizing. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New Covid variant BA.3.2 detected across US, but experts urge vigilance over alarm

Strain found in 29 states and Puerto Rico carries spike mutations, but no data shows increased severity

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RFK Jr.’s anti-vax attorney buddy Aaron Siri had disgraced ACIP members Robert Malone and Retsef Levi on his podcast today and I took one for the team and listened. This is going to be a series of posts of things I found to be interesting for one reason or another.

@jakescottmd.bsky.social connects the dots perfectly in this must-read @cidrap.bsky.social op-ed. It's hard to focus on any single issue with this ongoing barrage of insanity and illegality, but what's happening at HHS/CDC needs to stay on everyone's short list of important issues.

Jake Scott, MD@jakescottmd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A leaked government report on COVID vaccine safety reveals what happens when federal health policy is built around predetermined conclusions rather than evidence. My latest for @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The report that proves the point—ACIP, COVID vaccines, and predetermined conclusion by Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/40D9lmf

Why did rates of pneumococcal disease fall in older people in the early 2000s? “Nobody vaccinated those grandparents,” said @jakescottmd.bsky.social, a clinical associate professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University. Thanks to a vaccine, “the children around them stopped carrying it.”

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Important piece by the always excellent @helenbranswell.bsky.social The indirect — and sometimes surprising — benefits of vaccines www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/v... via @statnews.com

Vaccines don't just protect the person who receives them. @helenbranswell.bsky.social does brilliant work breaking down the knock-on benefits we've quietly taken for granted and stand to lose. @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/v...

The indirect — and sometimes surprising — benefits of vaccines

Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

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A leaked government report on COVID vaccine safety reveals what happens when federal health policy is built around predetermined conclusions rather than evidence. My latest for @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The report that proves the point—ACIP, COVID vaccines, and predetermined conclusions

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It doesn’t matter what Surgeon General nominee Casey Means says now. The fact that during her confirmation hearing she was unable to give a complete and unambiguous recommendation for the MMR vaccine is immediately and irrevocably disqualifying. Especially in the midst the U.S. measles outbreak.