This will result in children, mostly babies, dying for no reason. CDC reduces access to RSV, meningitis, flu, and COVID shots. Now only rec for "at risk" kids...but it's impossible to know if they're at risk until it's too late to vaccinate. RSV in babies is brutal, even when they survive.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2d ago

"It may be a "better thing" if fewer children receive the flu vaccine, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CBS News, after the Trump administration announced sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations."

“There is a strong tradition of public factories for vaccines in the United States. For example, in 1894, Massachusetts created a public drug manufacturer and research lab known as MassBiologics, which has produced vaccines for smallpox, tetanus, typhoid, & pertussis, among other biologic products”

How states can resist the potential Trump vaccine shortages

“States can serve as a last line of defense against the Trump administration’s anti-vaccine policy,” writes Joel Dodge.

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Feeding the brain worm....

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 6d ago

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to expand a controversial loophole to allow some of the world’s most toxic chemicals to be added directly to food without a safety review." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This was an entirely preventable death. The needless death, particularly of babies and young children, deserve our collective outrage. Antivaxx ideology is not about freedom, it's extreme, pathological narcissism.

Ferric Fang, MD@fangferric.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hib is a devastating pathogen of young children that virtually disappeared in the US as a result of the Hib vaccine.

It's fall in Arizona! #MomLife

1 in 4 of the people who are hospitalized are babies. Let that sink in. This is also the population most likely to suffer from SSPE, a universally fatal and devastating consequence of surviving measles. Unforgivable.

Bob Morris, MD, PhD@rdmorris.bsky.social · 6d ago

Meanwhile, measles has put over 400 people in the hospital including 107 infants and toddlers. At 4080, the highest case count in over 30 years. More than the last thirty years combined. And his response is to game the numbers.

This is not ok. Not for the government, nor the companies that are selling *our* lives.

Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social · 7d ago

Congress MUST rein in ICE's surveillance tactics.

Got the whole family the COVID/flu vaccines very easily this year at Walgreens. I made the appointment for all of us. Also got a great reminder that hubby needed his TDaP update. No one has time for the month long cough! #TakeAShot #VaccinesWork

Barbarity.

Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · last wk.

“Guinea-Bissau has some of the highest rates of hepatitis B in the world, with about 18% of adults carrying the virus. While it may be transmitted from mother to child during birth, it could also be transmitted from another parent, relatives, siblings or caregivers.”

This study was unethical when it was announced last year and it remains unethical today. The birth dose of the hepatitis b vaccine prevents perinatal acquisition of the infection. You cannot randomize a group of newborns to not receive it while giving it to others. www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...

Hepatitis B vaccine study condemned as unethical wins approval from Danish university

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Where are all the free market absolutist billionaires who were definitely going to save us from this?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

So much for "let the states decide."

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2w ago

An underappreciated part of the two abortion pill cases filed last week: they target not just mifepristone, but also *misoprostol.* That's the second drug in a typical regimen, but it's effective on its own. Louisiana says the cases would prevent mailing "back-up drugs" @autonomynews.co

Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.

Jhoira's Bizarre Adventure: Sax Ball Run@saximus.bsky.social · 2w ago

I feel like in literally any other context, if you gave 6 figures to a teenager with no assets, income, credit, or work history, when said teenager struggled to pay back those 6 figures, you'd be told "you made a shitty deal, eat the loss, sucks to suck" but school is the exception for some reason

This is #MeToo going "too far."

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 3w ago

1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Sounds like a "major question" that anyone *really* worried about admin overreach would care about. But they're the ones proposing it. I also note that this is a priority, but stopping for profit colleges from defrauding students isn't. Source: dailycal.org share.google/wa22c7u9Ciay...

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There’s NO WAY anyone on earth thought that suddenly slashing resources for critical child/maternal health services, medicines, & control of TB, HIV, & malaria would cause zero sickness or death in low-income nations No sentient being could genuinely believe that Mass death/eugenics was the point👇

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3w ago

Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil

Measles can be eliminated. There should be zero deaths.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2w ago

A fifth measles death in Pennsylvania. Entirely preventable.

I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.

Vince Mancini@vincemancini.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trying to turn a funny story into a “teachable moment” should warrant prison time.

Susan Collins, probably.

Nick Miller: Do I Regret It? Yes.

Alt: Nick Miller telling Zoe Daschenelle in the show The New Girl: Do I Regret It? Yes. Would I do it again? Probably. He is wearing a white long sleeve button up shirt, with the top two buttons undone. Zoe is in a bright red shirt with a wide neck.

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Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3w ago

We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director.

"Despite Mr. Kennedy’s focus on chronic diseases and autism, the C.D.C. centers that aim to prevent chronic diseases and birth defects are at half their previous size" #MAHA!

Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

It was never, ever about "medical freedom." It's always been an antivaxx crusade to make us all sicker, and survival more precarious.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 4w ago

NEW: The HHS is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one territory. And it's not clear when - or whether - the shots will be available. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is a dire threat for the entire country. Anyone who purports to love the US needs to respond. And a reminder: This need not last until the end of his term. He can be removed at any time if sufficient # of Congress critters grow a spine.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4w ago

Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy.

"MAHA"

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4w ago

💉Most promising medical technology in a generation 1. Sadly, Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr killed federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D 2. RFK Jr has allowed kids to use sunbeds—he’s pro-melanoma Scientists move 1 step forwards—MAHA dudes pull us 2 steps back www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"Before that, humanity spent several thousand years asking Me to save their children from diseases which are now prevented by a jaunt to CVS." -God (probably)

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 4w ago

"Even now, some amongst you still say, 'Surely, God would not want me to put a vaccine into the body He gave me.' To which I say: Whateth the actual fucketh?" buff.ly/eifDNoc

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.

This is why antivaxx ideology is not about "freedom." It's about not harming others. Basic vaccinations SHOULD BE just part of living in society. Like paying taxes or not driving impaired/distracted. If these babies are infected (by the most infectious virus), it'd be shocking to have 0 deaths.

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 4w ago

There are few worse places for a measles exposure. A pediatric bone marrow transplant ward perhaps. Either is a disaster if the suspect case turns out to have measles and be in the infectious window 😳😳😳

NOTHING in medicine has saved as many children's lives as vaccination. Absolutely nothing. To be giving oxygen to anti-vaxxers is helping to kill children. That may sound like hyperbole, but it 100% is not.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

RFK Jr: "We care about every child who dies from measles. They get headlines. We should care about the children who are dying or suffering or being injured by vaccine injuries."

Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr, and he did so knowing the full history of RFK Jr’s decades of extreme anti-vaccine activism These 2 men—Cassidy and RFK Jr—have sealed their “terrible legacy” together. It’s all they will be remembered for: suffering, sickness, pain, & death.

Sara Gaiser@akrazia.bsky.social · last mo.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) on Wednesday said the nation’s worst measles outbreak in the United States in 35 years is “going to be a terrible legacy for this administration,” citing recent deaths in Pennsylvania.