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Washington, D.C.
KFF Health News: South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation

by Lauren Sausser

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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation - KFF Health News
When a measles outbreak emerged in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in October, health officials announced that most cases were tied to one public charter school, where only 17% of the 605 students enroll...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
NOTUS: CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back

By Margaret Manto

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@notus.com
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November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
LA Times: Reaching a new low, CDC discards science in claims about vaccines and autism

by michael hiltzik

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Commentary: Reaching a new low, CDC discards science in claims about vaccines and autism
Changing its web page, the CDC now promotes the myth that vaccines are linked to autism despite years of research refuting the claim.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Wow.
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Inside Medicine: Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.

by @jeremyfaust

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November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Gavi and UNICEF announce equitable pricing deal for malaria vaccine to protect 7 million more children by end of decade

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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Nature Communications: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of vaccination on prevention of long COVID / Rhiannon Green et al

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November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
WSJ editorial board: RFK Jr. Turns the CDC Against Vaccines

The agency’s website is revised to spread autism fears, despite serious science finding no link.

▶️ on.wsj.com/4okTJgD
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Atlantic: Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

Like Bhattacharya, Kennedy tends to invoke Galileo

by Michael Scherer

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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A lot of the transformational advances in HIV science — Truvada PrEP, Treatment as prevention (HPTN 052), U=U, lenacapavir PrEP etc. happened under Carl's watch. A kind and generous person to boot. Huge loss.
As @gregggonsalves.bsky.social said, here is the main winner in the forced departure of Carl Dieffenbach.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Observer, UK/ I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards

by Rachel Clarke

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November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
MedPage Today: The FDA Commissioner Is Missing the Point of Advisory Committees

by Diana Zuckerman

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November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
IDSA podcast -- From Darkness to Opportunity: Reimagining the Future of Public Health

Mati Hlatshwayo Davis + @drdemetre.bsky.social

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From Darkness to Opportunity: Reimagining the Future of Public Health
Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, FIDSA, and former CDC director Demetre Daskalakis MD, MPH, explore the current state of public health.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
TNR/Ana Marie Cox: My Weekend With the Anti-Vaxxers

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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Forbes: NIH Under Trump Just Made It Easier To Terminate Grant Funding

@Bruce Y. Lee

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November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Zimbabwe approves twice-yearly HIV prevention drug in 23 days

lenacapavir

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Zimbabwe approves twice-yearly HIV prevention drug in 23 days
Lenacapavir is recommended, together with safer sex practices, for PrEP in adults and adolescents weighing at least 35 kg.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Forbes: Reminders Of What Our Losses From CDC And USAID Mean

by @drjudystone.bsky.social Stone

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November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Age Ageing: Association between vaccinations and risk of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Stefania Maggi et al

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November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
IVR Initiative: November 2025 updates to the Universal Influenza Vaccine Technology Landscape

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@CIDRAP
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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In fairness, the NIH Director was describing his own research...
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.

“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
WHO Disease Outbreak News: Diphtheria – African Region (AFRO)

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November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
CIDRAP: After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy

by Liz Szabo, Laine Bergeson

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After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy
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November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bloomberg: The Danish Studies Undermining the CDC’s New Vaccine Information

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November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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"Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism."

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Mass. officials rebuke ‘dangerous’ vaccine misinformation added to CDC website
Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines ...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM