Eric Feigl-Ding
@drericding.bsky.social
Public health warnings & health policy. Epidemiologist & health economist. Chair and Faculty at NECSI. Former 16 years at Harvard. DC & Virginia.
Bio & contact: necsi.edu/eric-feigl-ding
A story: bit.ly/raisealarm
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Bio & contact: necsi.edu/eric-feigl-ding
A story: bit.ly/raisealarm
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Eric Feigl-Ding
@drericding.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Folks, this is a great group of folks who fight for social justice, public health, and a more fair & equal world. Highly recommend these folks.
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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
Dear MAHA—you’ve been conned by Trump and RFK Jr… food safety laws now decimated by industry lobbyists for their profits and your future diarrhea. Fun fact— food borne illness already surging since EFK Jr slashed CDC tracking system for food borne outbreaks. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Dear MAHA—you’ve been conned by Trump and RFK Jr… food safety laws now decimated by industry lobbyists for their profits and your future diarrhea. Fun fact— food borne illness already surging since EFK Jr slashed CDC tracking system for food borne outbreaks. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...
Whisper: it’s not JFK.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Whisper: it’s not JFK.
Trump WH truly don’t want to feed the poor and starving.
Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Trump WH truly don’t want to feed the poor and starving.
Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
RFK Jr had slashed the CDC’s program to monitor and track food-borne outbreaks back in August. Fast forward to now… deadly listeria outbreak across the U.S. has now caused 25 hospitalizations and 6 deaths across 18 states, one of the largest outbreaks. These events are linked.
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
RFK Jr had slashed the CDC’s program to monitor and track food-borne outbreaks back in August. Fast forward to now… deadly listeria outbreak across the U.S. has now caused 25 hospitalizations and 6 deaths across 18 states, one of the largest outbreaks. These events are linked.
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This is the pretty damn powerful speech that @rdmorris.bsky.social gave in front of the Capitol bldg yesterday: drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-house-...
The House of Public Health Is On Fire
We Must Stop Junior from Burning it Down
drbobmorris.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is the pretty damn powerful speech that @rdmorris.bsky.social gave in front of the Capitol bldg yesterday: drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-house-...
Hey hey, ho ho, RFK Jr has got to go!
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hey hey, ho ho, RFK Jr has got to go!
📢It's time.
Stand Up.
Speak Out.
📍Join the 911 March for Health and Science.
November 5th, 4 PM.
National Mall, at 7th Street SW.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
Stand Up.
Speak Out.
📍Join the 911 March for Health and Science.
November 5th, 4 PM.
National Mall, at 7th Street SW.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
📢It's time.
Stand Up.
Speak Out.
📍Join the 911 March for Health and Science.
November 5th, 4 PM.
National Mall, at 7th Street SW.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
Stand Up.
Speak Out.
📍Join the 911 March for Health and Science.
November 5th, 4 PM.
National Mall, at 7th Street SW.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
Reposted by Eric Feigl-Ding
It's time.
Stand Up
Speak Out
Join the 911 March for Health and Science
Tomorrow, 4 PM.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
Stand Up
Speak Out
Join the 911 March for Health and Science
Tomorrow, 4 PM.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's time.
Stand Up
Speak Out
Join the 911 March for Health and Science
Tomorrow, 4 PM.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
Stand Up
Speak Out
Join the 911 March for Health and Science
Tomorrow, 4 PM.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
💡Key findings:
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
💡Key findings:
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness
📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization
📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
BREAKING—40 million set to lose food aid next week after Trump USDA says it refuses use emergency funds for food stamps. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...
Exclusive: USDA says it won't use emergency funds for food stamps
States also won't be reimbursed if they cover SNAP expenses on their own, the memo says.
www.axios.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING—40 million set to lose food aid next week after Trump USDA says it refuses use emergency funds for food stamps. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...
INSANE INFLATION: Average ACA premiums will rise ⬆️ 30% next year. The higher premiums, along with the likely expiration of subsidies, mean millions of people will see their health insurance payments double or even triple in 2026.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
INSANE INFLATION: Average ACA premiums will rise ⬆️ 30% next year. The higher premiums, along with the likely expiration of subsidies, mean millions of people will see their health insurance payments double or even triple in 2026.
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$172 million can fund a lot of medical research. Or 2 fancy private jets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
$172 million can fund a lot of medical research. Or 2 fancy private jets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
BREAKING—New Trump White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay. (Read: possible mass- airport sickouts if TSA & air traffic controllers refuse to work without pay during shutdown)
www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...
www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay
A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.
www.axios.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
BREAKING—New Trump White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay. (Read: possible mass- airport sickouts if TSA & air traffic controllers refuse to work without pay during shutdown)
www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...
www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...
Shutdown fight—to save the average American family $13k in Obamacare health insurance subsidies. GOP want to dissolve this and then allow rates to rise to any amount.
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Shutdown fight—to save the average American family $13k in Obamacare health insurance subsidies. GOP want to dissolve this and then allow rates to rise to any amount.
TYLENOL—“Why hasn’t the CDC refuted it? Well, RFK Jr. fired CDC director Monarez....and the acting director has no medical background is a speechwriter for Bush. So if you’re a speechwriter, you too can become a CDC director someday if you really believe in yourself”
www.pennlive.com/politics/202...
www.pennlive.com/politics/202...
Medical experts slam Trump administration on Tylenol and autism link at Pa. House hearing
Three medical experts with decades of experience in autism and epidemiology on Tuesday slammed Trump administration federal officials for spreading disinformation and distrust with new guidance falsel...
www.pennlive.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
TYLENOL—“Why hasn’t the CDC refuted it? Well, RFK Jr. fired CDC director Monarez....and the acting director has no medical background is a speechwriter for Bush. So if you’re a speechwriter, you too can become a CDC director someday if you really believe in yourself”
www.pennlive.com/politics/202...
www.pennlive.com/politics/202...
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Donald Trump Becomes Dr. Death & Declares War on Tylenol
Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march.
W/ @drericding.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march.
W/ @drericding.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Donald Trump Becomes Dr. Death & Declares War on Tylenol
Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march.
W/ @drericding.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march.
W/ @drericding.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉
Breaking—RFK Jr’s self appointed vaccine committee voted Friday to end the CDC’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with doctors instead—read: more difficult to get COVID shots.
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Breaking—RFK Jr’s self appointed vaccine committee voted Friday to end the CDC’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with doctors instead—read: more difficult to get COVID shots.
⚠️DUMBEST ERA OF HUMANITY. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) for children under age 4. Some committee members said there was no evidence to support the move.
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
⚠️DUMBEST ERA OF HUMANITY. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) for children under age 4. Some committee members said there was no evidence to support the move.
BREAKING—in rebuke to RFK Jr—the West Coast Health Alliance—health officials in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii—recommended every resident 6 months & older receive the flu vaccine, most get Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all kids 0.5-2 yrs
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...
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Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
BREAKING—in rebuke to RFK Jr—the West Coast Health Alliance—health officials in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii—recommended every resident 6 months & older receive the flu vaccine, most get Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all kids 0.5-2 yrs
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...
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Dooming our dogs—A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged friends.
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Nearly Half of Dog Owners Are Hesitant to Vaccinate Their Pets
A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged ...
www.bu.edu
September 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dooming our dogs—A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged friends.
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Across the NIH and NSF, billions in research grants have been frozen or cancelled. The National Cancer Institute faces a $4 billion slash - a 37% cut.
Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures.
open.substack.com/pub/drericdi...
Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures.
open.substack.com/pub/drericdi...
Science dies in darkness - ignorance kills in silence
MAGA’s assault on Harvard is about destroying truth itself.
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Across the NIH and NSF, billions in research grants have been frozen or cancelled. The National Cancer Institute faces a $4 billion slash - a 37% cut.
Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures.
open.substack.com/pub/drericdi...
Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures.
open.substack.com/pub/drericdi...