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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16h

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 18h

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

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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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 14h

We can't rely on the CDC for evidence-based information about vaccines anymore. It's sad and frustrating, but that's where we are. So here are a ton of other resources where you can go instead. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/10...

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

healthjournalism.org

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · 15h

If you’re an older adult, you have a story to tell about a time before routine vaccinations for contagious childhood diseases.

Please share your stories with the young adults in your life who have never seen these diseases.

www.grandparentsforvaccines.com

open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

Grandma Knows Best: The Generation That Survived Polio Has Something to Say About Vaccines

67 million grandparents remember what we’ve been lucky enough to forget

open.substack.com

Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · 15h

Free newsletter for families from the News Literacy Project folks at @newslit.org

Info to support parents wanting to help their kids navigate online information. Could also be a valuable resource for the classroom!

newslit.org/scroll-smart...

Scroll Smarter Newsletter - The News Literacy Project

Scroll Smarter Newsletter A family guide to news literacy. Subscribe now Navigate the news — together Is your teen getting their news and information from TikTok or Instagram? Can they tell what’s rea...

newslit.org

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 9d

👏 @donnagaffney.bsky.social & @nurseteria.bsky.social

Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills: MAHA is bad for America's health

For months we issued a warning: do not hand the nation’s health to a person who treats evidence like an inconvenience, who lets ideology replace...

www.post-gazette.com

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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 14d

RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day”

Let’s prove him wrong

Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK
#VaccineTrust
#PublicHealth
#MedSky

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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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · 29d

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Who Should Trump Fear? Grandmothers.

A masterclass in resistance.

open.substack.com

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · 29d

So excited to hear about this group - thank you! The links to your Facebook and Instagram pages don’t work from your website and couldn’t find them in a search on those platforms. Will they be up soon? Looking forward to helping the effort! Already signed up!

Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Sep 7

Did he also call her “darling”? 😳

Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Sep 5

Respect you both enormously and enjoyed this conversation. Not surprised by your continued optimism - I’m fighting for my children and grandchildren, too. Thank you for all you do and have done for public health.

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Sep 4

Many of these senators are lawyers, right? Surprised by the lack of fact checking of Kennedy’s lies in real time by most. Do your homework and don’t ask a question if you don’t know the answer & can prove the witness’s response is a lie in real time. Fact checking in news articles is much too late.

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Sep 4

Immunity wanes from both infection & vaccines, which is why a yearly (or more often) vax matched to the current variant has been the recommendation up to now. “Healthy” people still risk long COVID, time out of work and school, and spreading to the vulnerable - reason enough for universal access.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 29

Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

www.advocate.com

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Aug 12

Now, more than ever, media literacy matters.

News Literacy Project @newslit.org · Aug 12

📢 Educators: Join us in 1 week! During this FREE webinar, you'll learn to empower students to:

✨ Understand the process behind standards-based journalism
✨ Take their narrative, nonfiction writing skills to the next level
✨ Discern credible info + sources

🔗 Register: go.newslit.org/Aug19NLP

NEWS LITERACY In Action TUES., AUG. 19 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT Getting Students to Think and Write Like Journalists

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Apr 15

I have commented for previous ACIP meetings and look forward to doing so this time. More important than ever! Thanks!

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Apr 14

Is it still helpful to have a risk-based recommendation if most of the population (>74%) is considered “at risk”? 😳 I’m guessing most people don’t know this (and don’t know if they are in that majority group).

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Apr 6

Thank goodness you’re here! Welcome!

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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · Apr 5

For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST

Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.

MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place.

A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Apr 5

This was a tough episode to listen to - but so important. We all need to speak out against the dismantling of public health.

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 13

We need a well-functioning loyal opposition party.

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 8

We are the cavalry.

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 8

Heartsick to hear this. You are one of the best!

Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Jan 31

Great to see you here!

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Chris Zimmermann @czimmermann.bsky.social · Jan 29

Bennet was outstanding.