Melody Schreiber
@melodyschreiber.com
Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
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Experts fear for US childhood vaccine schedule after hepatitis B guideline change
Pediatricians say panel’s decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn ‘parody of public health’
www.theguardian.com
NEW: The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
When you left your scarf at home
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
When you left your scarf at home
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My latest for @thenation.com: "Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender"
It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender
It's time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My latest for @thenation.com: "Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender"
It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It’s time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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I cannot stress how scary RSV was when my firstborn contracted it and how quickly he went from normal to incredibly ill (2 hours!)
Re-sharing this excellent piece from @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #MedSky #PedSky #PublicHealth #VaccinesCauseAdults
Re-sharing this excellent piece from @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #MedSky #PedSky #PublicHealth #VaccinesCauseAdults
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I cannot stress how scary RSV was when my firstborn contracted it and how quickly he went from normal to incredibly ill (2 hours!)
Re-sharing this excellent piece from @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #MedSky #PedSky #PublicHealth #VaccinesCauseAdults
Re-sharing this excellent piece from @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #MedSky #PedSky #PublicHealth #VaccinesCauseAdults
For an article: Do you have any experiences with RSV? What do you think of the news that they're being examined next? (Looking for comment with full names on the record)
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
For an article: Do you have any experiences with RSV? What do you think of the news that they're being examined next? (Looking for comment with full names on the record)
RSV shots are one of the biggest public health accomplishments of the decade www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time promoter of anti-vaccine views, is presiding over a review of routine childhood immunizations.
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
RSV shots are one of the biggest public health accomplishments of the decade www.reuters.com/business/hea...
It's a bit strange that Prasad said all vaccines must now show clinical endpoints -- not antibody levels -- around the same time that CDC advisers recommended measuring antibody levels to hep B vaccines
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It's a bit strange that Prasad said all vaccines must now show clinical endpoints -- not antibody levels -- around the same time that CDC advisers recommended measuring antibody levels to hep B vaccines
“For the first time in my career, I am deeply concerned that I cannot fully rely on the CDC’s recommendations.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“For the first time in my career, I am deeply concerned that I cannot fully rely on the CDC’s recommendations.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
The NIH has been gutted.
December 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The NIH has been gutted.
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the original gift link to the story has expired, so here’s another one. I worked on this for 2+ years and learned so much from the dozens of birth mothers who shared their experiences in open adoption.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the original gift link to the story has expired, so here’s another one. I worked on this for 2+ years and learned so much from the dozens of birth mothers who shared their experiences in open adoption.
"It"—the illness—"stole people from themselves. You might look the same to others, but you had been replaced."
I really want to read this autobiographical novel about Long Covid!
I really want to read this autobiographical novel about Long Covid!
Patricia Lockwood's inexhaustible mind: defector.com/patricia-loc...
Patricia Lockwood’s Inexhaustible Mind | Defector
“People were writing poems,” Patricia Lockwood tells us. Also: “People brought you cabbages.” In her hands, events don’t unfold in the usual way, with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, we seem…
defector.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"It"—the illness—"stole people from themselves. You might look the same to others, but you had been replaced."
I really want to read this autobiographical novel about Long Covid!
I really want to read this autobiographical novel about Long Covid!
One thing they don't tell you about becoming friends with writers: you get to watch their careers evolve over the years, and you see them create new spaces for vital writing. @boyceupholt.bsky.social recently launched Southlands as a print magazine and I just placed my order. southlandsmag.com
Southlands
Take the low road.
southlandsmag.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One thing they don't tell you about becoming friends with writers: you get to watch their careers evolve over the years, and you see them create new spaces for vital writing. @boyceupholt.bsky.social recently launched Southlands as a print magazine and I just placed my order. southlandsmag.com
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2) The risk of HBV is different depending on where you are. In most European countries the HBV vaccine coverage is high, and risk of transmission low. Most infants are vaccinated at 2 or 3 months. This is perfectly fine.
In other places, including the US, vaccine coverage
3/5
In other places, including the US, vaccine coverage
3/5
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
2) The risk of HBV is different depending on where you are. In most European countries the HBV vaccine coverage is high, and risk of transmission low. Most infants are vaccinated at 2 or 3 months. This is perfectly fine.
In other places, including the US, vaccine coverage
3/5
In other places, including the US, vaccine coverage
3/5
Please tell me it's not going to get colder!!!
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Please tell me it's not going to get colder!!!
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ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.
The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
Alan MacLeod tracks how billionaire media barons like Musk, Ellison, Bezos and Zuckerberg are capturing global news outlets and reshaping politics.
www.mintpressnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.
I'm reading through an old copy of Vanity Fair and look who's here! @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social and @nicolechung.bsky.social!!!
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I'm reading through an old copy of Vanity Fair and look who's here! @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social and @nicolechung.bsky.social!!!
I can GUARANTEE you the side effects are nothing compared to getting shingles
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I can GUARANTEE you the side effects are nothing compared to getting shingles
when someone drops the latest Nuzzi installment into the groupchat
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
when someone drops the latest Nuzzi installment into the groupchat
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The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
Tbh I'm pretty mad that I had to learn exactly why hepatitis B sucks. We could be taking on new problems instead of resurrecting old ones!
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tbh I'm pretty mad that I had to learn exactly why hepatitis B sucks. We could be taking on new problems instead of resurrecting old ones!
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I don't know how you square saying this stuff about Olivia Nuzzi with the fact that the CDC decided to stop recommending birth doses of the hepatitis b vaccine days ago. The stakes here are children's lives.
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I don't know how you square saying this stuff about Olivia Nuzzi with the fact that the CDC decided to stop recommending birth doses of the hepatitis b vaccine days ago. The stakes here are children's lives.
Everything he says about breastfeeding makes me regret breastfeeding
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Everything he says about breastfeeding makes me regret breastfeeding
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👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…
apparently the bad prose and belabored metaphors are contagious, I'm getting out of here while I still can
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
apparently the bad prose and belabored metaphors are contagious, I'm getting out of here while I still can