Anti-vaxxers have long weaponized VAERS, which, as this article notes, is just a repository of *unverified* reports. An adverse reaction found in VAERS is not necessarily indicative of anything, but anti-vaxxers prey on low health and information literacy to sow doubt.

this needs to be a bigger story —

RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks.

my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines.

free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh

We found that staff do believe pall care is important but have varied knowledge, engagement, and clinical/training needs around it. Pain management, psych symptom management, and caregiver support were identified as top priority areas for pall care to support in nursing homes.

More work with @pallipsych.bsky.social is out today! We asked nursing home staff about their perceptions of palliative care, their engagement with advance cafe planning and which components of pall care are most valuable to them. doi.org/10.1111/jgs....

RFK Jr. just implied that antidepressants cause suicide.

This is false.

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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Latest Gallup poll data reveal, once again, that the main obstacles to unions in the the US are broken labor laws and employer aggression

Two-thirds of the US public approves of labor unions, but unions only represent about 11 percent of the workforce

Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday.

The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.

Major thanks to @pallipsych.bsky.social and colleagues for helping this one across the finish line!

We found that most PACE clinicians want palliative care access for their patients, and that patients have high unmet needs in multiple domains of palliative care, including advance care planning, family/caregiver support, and psychiatric symptom management.

My latest paper is out!! In Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), we investigated areas that clinical staff identified needs for palliative care support. www.jamda.com/article/S152...

the expression "never the twain shall meet" is about how Mark Twain will never hear Man! I Feel Like A Woman

If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.

I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

tl;dr- egotistical edgelord intoxicatingly enamored with the (false) idea that he's far smarter than everyone else and therefore superior

As others have commented, this requirement has ethical problems. It would unethical to use a placebo as a control if an effective vaccine exists.

There has been a significant reduction in the number of kids getting the flu vaccine over the past 5 years—a drop from 64% to 49%.

Consequently, there have been 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this flu season, the highest number since the swine flu 15 years ago (link below).

Vaccinate.

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research."

The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

6/ HHS Sec.'s job is to oversee med. product safety (e.g., FDA) & ensure public trust. Thus, RFK Jr. shld be saying, "HHS is here to protect your kids. Instead, he's saying the opposite: Parents (Moms): don't trust us to do this technical work. It's your parental responsibility to do it yourself.