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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It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
"From her confinement in a remote detention center in Louisiana, Bruna Ferreira recounted all the ways she said she has tried to maintain a friendly relationship with the family of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. After all, Ferreira shares a child with Leavitt’s brother."
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"From her confinement in a remote detention center in Louisiana, Bruna Ferreira recounted all the ways she said she has tried to maintain a friendly relationship with the family of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. After all, Ferreira shares a child with Leavitt’s brother."
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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Big Pharma guy here (>35 years). It does indeed work out that way financially (and for "Big Hospital" too). Just don't give folks the impression that we're in favor of them - RFK Jr. and his stooges make me incandescent with rage. I actually have to meter out the time I spend thinking about them!
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Big Pharma guy here (>35 years). It does indeed work out that way financially (and for "Big Hospital" too). Just don't give folks the impression that we're in favor of them - RFK Jr. and his stooges make me incandescent with rage. I actually have to meter out the time I spend thinking about them!
amazing
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
amazing
This is incredible
NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is incredible
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
www.loc.gov/programs/poe...
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
www.loc.gov/programs/poe...
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
www.loc.gov/programs/poe...
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
www.loc.gov/programs/poe...
I had a tea party for my birthday and it went even better than I expected, highly recommend
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I had a tea party for my birthday and it went even better than I expected, highly recommend
Thank god they ended the chronic disease epidemic in only 11 months!
This is like announcing you won a marathon because you thought about running one.
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Thank god they ended the chronic disease epidemic in only 11 months!
is this bad
Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike, UN nuclear watchdog says - www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/e...
Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike, UN nuclear watchdog says | CNN
The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to th...
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
is this bad
There's been a ton of news about the FDA lately -- catch up here! notadoctor.news/2025/12/06/t...
Tumultuous FDA upends regulations on vaccines and medications
As most experienced, knowledgeable leaders leave or are pushed out of the FDA, Trump appointees are quietly changing the way vaccines and medications are regulated. Photo: The building at the U.S. …
notadoctor.news
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There's been a ton of news about the FDA lately -- catch up here! notadoctor.news/2025/12/06/t...
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This week's ACIP meeting was filled with false and misleading statements that are not supported by evidence. Here's an explanation of that evidence by two experienced science writers, one of whom has a PhD in Immunology from Yale:
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/vacc...
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/vacc...
Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information - FactCheck.org
Upending decades-old guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted to no longer issue a blanket recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vac...
www.factcheck.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This week's ACIP meeting was filled with false and misleading statements that are not supported by evidence. Here's an explanation of that evidence by two experienced science writers, one of whom has a PhD in Immunology from Yale:
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/vacc...
www.factcheck.org/2025/12/vacc...
ACIP might have made for good TV. But it carries great weight and significance, @doritreiss.bsky.social writes: www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel is beset by incompetence, bias, and procedural chaos
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) meetings used to be a geek’s dream: hours of long, maybe dreary presentation of extensive data
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ACIP might have made for good TV. But it carries great weight and significance, @doritreiss.bsky.social writes: www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
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...
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
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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...
Back on my bullshit (insisting every houseguest watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Back on my bullshit (insisting every houseguest watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
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“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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"Vaccine advisers for the US ... (CDC) voted ...to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CDC advisory panel votes to limit hepatitis B vaccines for newborns
Move from CDC advisers mirrors Trump team’s regressive approach to longstanding vaccine guidance
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"Vaccine advisers for the US ... (CDC) voted ...to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com
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Me after writing "a" "an" "the":
I wrote three articles today
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Me after writing "a" "an" "the":
I wrote three articles today
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I wrote three articles today
I still can't believe they didn't cancel school, but whewww that would've made for a tough day!
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I still can't believe they didn't cancel school, but whewww that would've made for a tough day!
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!!!
The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee.
"We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M
The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee.
"We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
!!!
The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee.
"We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M
The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee.
"We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M
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Vanity Fair to part ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Vanity Fair to part ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi
NEW: What does the hepatitis B vote mean, exactly? My explainer: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Who’s allowed to get the hepatitis B vaccine in the US now?
Advisers for the CDC voted to limit the vaccines – here’s what happened and why the vote is so significant
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
NEW: What does the hepatitis B vote mean, exactly? My explainer: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Retsef Levi calls out the scientific community: "I believe we have failed," he said. Levi is not a scientist, he's a management expert, so I'm not sure who he means by "we"
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Retsef Levi calls out the scientific community: "I believe we have failed," he said. Levi is not a scientist, he's a management expert, so I'm not sure who he means by "we"