Greg Folkers
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Inside Medicine: BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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NYT: Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

by @sherylnyt.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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WHO: First lenacapavirs prequalified

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lenacapavir PrEP
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

by Jake Scott, MD
@jakescottmd.bsky.social
@cidrap.bsky.social

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Politico: CDC panel announces plans to assess childhood vaccines

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Science Translational Medicine: A replicating RNA vaccine protects cynomolgus macaques against lethal clade 2.3.4.4b influenza A H5N1 virus challenge

David W. Hawman, Heinz Feldmann et al

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TAG to Honor Gloria Reuben, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, and Richard Lynn at the 2025 Research in Action Awards

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Modern-day analysis of 1918 birth records highlight importance of protecting pregnant women from flu

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CNN: Acting CDC director, citing Trump directive, calls for MMR shot to be split into three despite no evidence of benefit

by @megtirrell.bsky.social

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Epidemiol Infect: Mask wearing by COVID-19 index cases reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission to household contacts

Pere Godoy et al

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CID: Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Hospitalizations and Emergency Department or Urgent Care Encounters for Children, Adolescents, and Adults During the 2023-2024 Season, USA

Mark W Tenforde et al bit.ly/4mWytNx
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Inside Medicine: There are now two CDC's / Can the agency survive?

by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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My review of the third autism-Tylenol study RFK Jr mentioned is out now.

If you weighed in on "what proportion of kids have neurodevelopmental disorders" yesterday, this paper is why I asked the question. Most of you will be very surprised by their answer!

open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
RFK Jr's third Tylenol-autism study is just run-of-the-mill bad research
I’m reading through RFK Jr’s supposed evidence that Tylenol causes autism and it’s not looking good for his conclusions.
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Vaccine: Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention /

T. Joseph Mattingly II

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“Dr. Bhattacharya has pledged to welcome conflicting views, describing dissent in his confirmation hearing as ‘the very essence of science.’”

How’s that coming along?

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Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
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MAGA hero Jay Bhattacharya says that “political priorities may override the scoring system provided by outside experts appointed to hundreds of review panels”

This is absolutely disgusting & utterly scandalous. If your study doesn’t fit with Trump & Bhattacharya’s right wing ideology, it’s toast 👀
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CNN: RFK Jr.’s HHS killed a research grant to investigate vaccine safety, then asked the researcher to publicly present results

by @megtirrell.bsky.social

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