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Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.

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CDC folks: Disability rights aren’t optional -- they’re law! ✨

Check out this megathread on protecting your Reasonable Accommodation (RA) rights.

Read it without all the scrolling 🙂:
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🚨 New artist drop! Meet *RAnsky* - creating bold, clear infographics to help you understand your rights to *Reasonable Accommodations* at CDC.

AltCDC is sharing their work so everyone can access the info.

Thread starts here 👇♿️✨
👇 Many Congress members are too old to have children exposed to lockdown drills and shootings. We must vote out anyone unwilling to value our children over our guns.
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We don’t have to live like this.

It’s a choice.

Every day we do nothing to restrict guns. Every day we claim it’s mental illness and not access. Every day we let them change the subject.

We don’t have to live like this.
It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
These days ads for and media about AI feel like harbingers of the apocalypse, yet occasionally they get it right.

Good night all!
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Guess Liam Neeson turned to the Dark Side. Asshole.
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by Alt CDC (they/them)
Dr. Walter Orenstein criticizes ACIP Meeting for focusing on vaccines risks - sometimes, made up, inflated, or theoretical risks - and ignoring their benefits.
www.medicaleconomics.com/view/acip-pr...
ACIP presentation focuses on potential vaccine harm while ignoring benefits, physician expert says | Medical Economics
Walter Orenstein, MD, said vaccines have made some diseases disappear, but people may not understand how they work.
www.medicaleconomics.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
PEPFAR normally shares annual data around now. (🔗👇)

❓Where is it❓
🤔 Why is the gvt hiding it?

Oh right… after gutting USAID + key CDC branches, the numbers will likely show:
⬆️ AIDS & deaths
⬆️ New HIV cases
⬆️ Babies infected at birth

Release the PEPFAR data. Now.
PEPFAR Latest Global Results & Projections Factsheet (Dec. 2024) - United States Department of State
Since 2003, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been steadfast in supporting lifesaving treatment for people living with HIV, saving 26 million lives and enabling 7.8 mill...
www.state.gov
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Old US global health policy: PEPFAR - a bipartisan success story.
⬇️ AIDS and dying
⬇️ New cases of HIV
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Thriving ppl
⬆️ 🇺🇸 Soft global power

New US global health policy:
Plunder African countries while dangling bits of health aid $$

Well… good for Kenya for balking at this! You deserve better.
Kenyan court suspends US health aid deal over data privacy concerns
The landmark $2.5bn Kenya-US deal has been stopped until the court hears the case over data privacy.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
1/2 FDA’s vaccine chief blasted out a memo full of rhetoric and exaggerated claims about pediatric COVID-vax deaths… before the scientists even finished their work.

Actual findings?
0 confirmed pediatric deaths due to COVID vax.

But sure, why wait for data when you can cause panic? 🙃
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🧵1/5 Positive Public Health News

Highlighting prior post cuz I need to remember the bigger picture of hope.

Australia is on track to ELIMINATE cervical cancer by 2035.
Eliminate. A whole cancer ❤️‍🔥

All because a government actually invested in HPV vaccination (prevention)+ cervical cancer screening
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's morning already? 😴

Alright, coffee first… then will attempt functional adult mode.

Though napping on potato chips is looking real appealing right now...
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Leaving you tonight with dreams of a better future.

Goodnight! 🚀
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
www.popularmechanics.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Our bad take of the day comes from Mark Cuban.

Medicare already serves every American over 65 and does it fairly well. National healthcare gives bargaining power to the govt.

Cuban knows that European countries do this and pay FAR LESS for the same treatments and have better outcomes.
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.

What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?

Who in the USA gov runs the program?

R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Reposted by Alt CDC (they/them)
Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth.

According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.

Well worth reading.
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
📖 Word of the day: QUACK 🦆

Many kids today don’t know the meaning of QUACK, as in “this 🧠🪱 is a quack” or “ACIP is now a collection of delusional quacks”.

A quack is an ignorant, misinformed, or dishonest practitioner of medicine; a snake oil salesman. The term has a fascinating history. 👇
Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics
What charlatans of the past can teach us about the COVID-19 crisis.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
White, Asian, and Wasian men rejoice! You are valued by HHS. The rest of us are not so lucky.

A horrifying revelation that nonetheless has us questioning why the 🧠🪱 thinks Head Start staff are talking about commercial sex workers.

Take comfort that Kennedy is such an incompetent eugenicist.
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
@altfda.altgov.info has a great thread on how production decisions increased the risk of tainted infant formula.

A good illustration of the need for both robust regulation and oversight (FDA). Parents can’t inspect facilities. The government should.
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A powerful piece describing how anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric impacts the doctor patient relationship.

“In my clinic, I can feel it before I even speak. With approximately half of my patients, when I bring up vaccines, a tension settles into the room.”

www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
www.statnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Nice work by the authors of this MMWR with some good vaccine news!

The report found that the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccines provided significant protection against COVID-19 related emergency department and urgent care visits among U.S. children aged 9 months to 17 years.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children...
This report describes COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among children ages 9 months to 17 years.
www.cdc.gov
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Love the podcast, “What Now? With Trevor Noah”

This episode is a fascinating discussion with author Tom Mueller on hemodialysis in America and the role corporate America plays in the destruction of our healthcare system.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=62d9...
Tom Mueller: The Most Dangerous Part of America’s Healthcare System Isn’t What You Think
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Alt CDC (they/them)
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Shoutout to WHO for confirming (again) that vaccines don’t cause autism.

Shoutout to ACIP for… whatever it is they’re doing. Performance art?

www.who.int/news/item/11...
WHO expert group’s new analysis reaffirms there is no link between vaccines and autism
New analysis from a WHO global expert committee on vaccine safety has found that, based on available evidence, no causal link exists between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The conclusio...
www.who.int
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A Kenyan court suspended a US health aid deal after concerns it might allow US access to sensitive medical records like HIV status and vaccination data.

Hard to blame anyone for being worried when the US response to those questions is “no comment.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kenyan court suspends US health aid deal over data privacy concerns
The landmark $2.5bn Kenya-US deal has been stopped until the court hears the case over data privacy.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
WI Senator Ron Johnson is endorsing a book that suggests chlorine dioxide can treat autism, cancer, and COVID-19. FDA guidance says ingesting it is potentially fatal.

Public health professionals recommend not taking medical advice from Senator Johnson.

www.propublica.org/article/ron-...
Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Good Morning!

One of our favorite cheesy holiday movies is Home Alone. A child vs. a bunch of wildly incompetent men. Honestly it hits different this year and not in a comforting way.

Let us know what some of your favorite holiday movies are!
a young boy in a red sweater looks out a window and smiles
ALT: a young boy in a red sweater looks out a window and smiles
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM