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Miriam Rabkin @miriam2024.bsky.social · 10h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18h

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals www.axios.com/2025/10/13/t...

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals

The casualties include employees working on health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 19h

RFK Jr. Is Doubling Down On Multiple Unproven Links To Autism www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...

RFK Jr. Is Doubling Down On Multiple Unproven Links To Autism

Kennedy’s doubling down on disputed links isn't a one-off. He has often done this regarding exposure to substances like acetaminophen that he thinks are linked to autism.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Miriam Rabkin @miriam2024.bsky.social · 2d

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

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Miriam Rabkin @miriam2024.bsky.social · 2d

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The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

My quote of the day

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 4d

That other things continue to happen should never take away from the fact that RFKJr is a sociopathic con man and should be nowhere near any power affecting the health and wellbeing of any person, in perpetuity.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Was a mistake to drop the "weird" attack

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 5d

In a national cohort of veterans, the 2024–2025 Covid-19 vaccine was linked to reduced risks of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths from Covid-19 across the overall cohort and in various subgroups. Full study results: nej.md/47anKdz

#MedSky #IDSky

A graph showing the Covid-19–associated composite outcome over 180 days in the 2024–2025 vaccination season

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5d

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 6d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Miriam Rabkin @miriam2024.bsky.social · 6d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 6d

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

Do you even hear yourselves?

NPR @npr.org · 6d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · 9d

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Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9d

RFK Jr. also falsely claims that with the government shutdown:

“Democrats want to hurt hospitals and clinics in vulnerable communities by repeal of $50B in rural health care funding”.

He omits the fact that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts $187B and that rural health clinics are already closing.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 10d

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11d

Powerful interview of recently fired CDC director by @maxkozlov.bsky.social . What unfolded is chilling and also sad to read in her words. The decimation of the CDC is a low point in global public health history because its impact extended beyond America.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

www.nature.com

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