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Atul Gawande
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Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.

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Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. .. more

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
You could see where this was going before they even started. 7/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
It’s like seeing a surgeon about a curable cancer and focusing entirely on the potential harms of the surgery option without evaluating the potential harms of the no-surgery option. 6/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
Meanwhile they jettisoned CDC’s usual, careful process for grappling with risks of changes they’re voting for. ACIP did zero evaluation of harm, costs, or problems in implementation, while asking for an impossible standard for current vaccination practice. 5/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
Discussion went round in circles on CDC’s review of the strong evidence supporting current vaccine administration. Prompting this from member Retsef Levi: “I’m hearing a lot of ‘there’s no evidence of harm.’... I think the question is ‘Is there evidence of no harm?’” 4/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
Finally, an answer came back: we must make changes because trust in vaccines has decreased. “The signal that is prompting this is not one of safety, but one of trust,” said member Robert Malone. 3/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
Liaison members from medical societies asked repeatedly: what is the reason for the votes to now change routine children’s vaccine schedules when there’s been no signal of harm and clear evidence of great benefit? 2/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 21d
I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Aug 11
#freedc I returned from the wedding of our daughter to find the city where I have lived for the last 3 years in the midst of a military takeover.

The military policing Americans.

This is happening. It is a danger for everyone in our country. Now is the moment to turn out in protest.
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