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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6h

RIFed:
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center

Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.

They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.

Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠

2024 Accomplishments

Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States

www.cdc.gov

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6h

Another RIF theme:
Eliminating policy branches.

📊 Science collects the data
🧠 Policy sets the course — the bridge between the science and the programs that actually make it happen

We need policy to turn evidence into action.
Which, of course, is exactly what 🧠🪱 does not want.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: 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:

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

RIFed:

Office of the Director, Center for Chronic Disease

Am I hallucinating? Because these are continuing to get crazier and crazier.

🧠🪱: “If we don’t fund it, diabetes just won’t exist.” Ummmm that’s not how this works.

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)

Programs in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

www.cdc.gov

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

RIFed:
NCHC, National Center for Health Statistics - comms, policy, leadership

🧠🪱 - Do you need me to define health statistics for you?
All your concerns about chronic disease, indigenous health disparities, etc — we know what’s an issue AFTER we measure it.

National Center for Health Statistics

The nation's official source for health data

www.cdc.gov

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 7h

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8h

RIFed:
Global Health Center - Office of the Director

GHC works to reduce illness and respond to health threats worldwide - BECAUSE HEALTH ISSUES WORLDWIDE WILL AFFECT THE USA AS WELL.
(and also, it’s the right thing to do)

GHC’s leadership - gone. Doesn’t seem efficient (or wise) to me.

Global Health Center

CDC's Global Health Center works 24/7 to reduce illness and respond to health threats worldwide.

www.cdc.gov

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 11h

Make your plans now for October 18th! Invite your friends. #NoKings

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 19h

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)

THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 11h

There is no bothsidesing this.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Dr. Susan Winters ☕️ @docwinter.bsky.social · 1d

💉 New study: 2024–25 COVID vaccines cut ER visits by 29%, hospitalizations by 39%, and death by 64%.

➡️ Protection was seen across ALL age groups — not just the elderly.
➡️ Benefits held even if you’d had COVID or prior shots.

#COVID19 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #MedSky #COVIDVaccine #TrustScience

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 12h

Gee where else have we seen ordinary citizens forced to hide their neighbors from an secret police putting people into concentration camps on the basis of their ethnicity in a country run by a personality cult headed by a madman driven by personal resentments?

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 2d

Can we hope that when (if?) the war in Gaza in over the world, and especially the West will finally turn their attention to this mass murder. The violence is bankrolled by the West's closest allies/partners, it's not like there is no leverage and it is just a local fight. Or am I just too naive?

Sacha de Wijs @sachadewijs.bsky.social · 2d

El-Fasher, Sudan — besieged by the RSF since May 2024 — has become “an open-air morgue” for starving civilians. The world’s silence is shocking. Since 2023 Sudan has seen 150k civilians killed, 15 million displaced & 25 million people facing acute hunger www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

RSF attack on hospital in Sudan’s el-Fasher kills 12, medics say

The attack by the paramilitary on the hospital wounded 17 others, and is the second such attack in 24 hours.

www.aljazeera.com

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 4d

Join us tomorrow!

Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 11d

I'm delighted to host @craigspencer.bsky.social at the University of Connecticut next week for a conversation about "Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present."
October 7th, 12:30pm. Join us if you're in northeastern CT!
events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present

Dr. Craig Spencer (Brown University SPH) looks back at the history of eugenics in medicine to explore how lessons from the past can teach us about ...

events.uconn.edu

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 10d

Our timeline: Trump posted an AI video of himself promising every American will have access to a miraculous cure (that figures in a conspiracy theory) called a "medbed," while in reality Trump and his people are shutting down the government rather than enable access to real healthcare for Americans.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10d

Are you a healthcare worker or scientist (or know someone who is)? #RFKJr is bragging that he has your support. Time to let Congress know HCWs and scientists do NOT support this man. Take a few minutes to send in a postcard. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/hel...

Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health

When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 10d

Read this piece to face some of the people — the children — who have died preventable deaths this year because of irresponsible changes to US policy.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 10d

📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid).

Please bear with me.

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 10d

Our timeline: Trump posted an AI video of himself promising every American will have access to a miraculous cure (that figures in a conspiracy theory) called a "medbed," while in reality Trump and his people are shutting down the government rather than enable access to real healthcare for Americans.

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 11d

I'm delighted to host @craigspencer.bsky.social at the University of Connecticut next week for a conversation about "Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present."
October 7th, 12:30pm. Join us if you're in northeastern CT!
events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present

Dr. Craig Spencer (Brown University SPH) looks back at the history of eugenics in medicine to explore how lessons from the past can teach us about ...

events.uconn.edu

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 11d

Yes. And I think about the better world we could be focused on building if we weren’t always reacting to the latest crisis and trying to salvage what we can.

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 11d

I'm delighted to host @craigspencer.bsky.social at the University of Connecticut next week for a conversation about "Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present."
October 7th, 12:30pm. Join us if you're in northeastern CT!
events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present

Dr. Craig Spencer (Brown University SPH) looks back at the history of eugenics in medicine to explore how lessons from the past can teach us about ...

events.uconn.edu

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15d

When people start rationing their healthcare bad things happen. Ask anyone who has to pay for insulin. Hell, people already literally die in this country because asthma inhalers still cost $50 with insurance because of corporate price manipulation.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15d

Millions more who aren't facing QUITE as insane rate hikes will instead have to downgrade to a worse plan (from Gold to Silver, from Silver to Bronze, from PPO to HMO, etc) in order to escape some/most of the hikes.

That means higher deductibles/co-pays & more paperwork/hoops to jump through.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · Sep 3

We tried to warn you.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Sep 3

Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.

FDA quietly positions itself to disrupt childhood vaccine schedule

While CDC turmoil grabbed the media spotlight, a quieter but potentially more consequential drama unfolded last week at FDA. The agency has positioned itse...

www.biocentury.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 2

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.

Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.

Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

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