Brian Vickery
@atlergist.bsky.social
Chief of Allergy/Immunology at Emory University & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dad, husband, Dawg. Fan of: innovation; kindness; creativity; sustainability. Hope to learn something.
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Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Over the last 5 years, ACA marketplace insurance enrollment increased 157% in red states and 36% in blue states. It’s these Americans that are likely to lose their insurance if Republicans don’t do something about the expiring tax credits.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
October 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Over the last 5 years, ACA marketplace insurance enrollment increased 157% in red states and 36% in blue states. It’s these Americans that are likely to lose their insurance if Republicans don’t do something about the expiring tax credits.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
ENDORSE: "We are speaking out because protecting public health is our responsibility as physicians, scientists and patient advocates. It is also the responsibility of our elected officials, and we call for their support at this critical moment to protect the health of the nation." (1/2)
Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation
www.idsociety.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
ENDORSE: "We are speaking out because protecting public health is our responsibility as physicians, scientists and patient advocates. It is also the responsibility of our elected officials, and we call for their support at this critical moment to protect the health of the nation." (1/2)
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The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
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We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
August 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
We cannot get people with even basic scientific literacy back into leadership positions quickly enough.
RFK Jr and HHS just ended all US supported mRNA vaccine development
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
www.hhs.gov
August 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We cannot get people with even basic scientific literacy back into leadership positions quickly enough.
The highest cost of demagoguery is paid by the eight thousand little souls who starve to death *every day* while their salvation sits in a warehouse.
The Christians who enabled & still support this administration should be haunted the rest of their days by this ungodly cruelty.
Watch the 2 vids 👇🏻
The Christians who enabled & still support this administration should be haunted the rest of their days by this ungodly cruelty.
Watch the 2 vids 👇🏻
These are part of the emergency rations used to save displaced people facing starvation. This is a horrific and cruel waste.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The highest cost of demagoguery is paid by the eight thousand little souls who starve to death *every day* while their salvation sits in a warehouse.
The Christians who enabled & still support this administration should be haunted the rest of their days by this ungodly cruelty.
Watch the 2 vids 👇🏻
The Christians who enabled & still support this administration should be haunted the rest of their days by this ungodly cruelty.
Watch the 2 vids 👇🏻
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A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...
Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases
A new large study from Denmark finds no evidence that aluminum salts used in vaccines are tied to a higher risk of childhood diseases.
www.statnews.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...
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The American Academy of Pediatrics is proud to stand with leading public health organizations by taking legal action to protect the integrity of our immunization system to defend science, evidence-based medicine, and the policies that keep children safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODV...
Protecting Kids: Why Pediatricians Are Suing the Government | AAP
YouTube video by American Academy of Pediatrics
www.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The American Academy of Pediatrics is proud to stand with leading public health organizations by taking legal action to protect the integrity of our immunization system to defend science, evidence-based medicine, and the policies that keep children safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODV...
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🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.
We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Very important study
Around 25% of U.S. infants lack detectable Bifidobacterium, regardless of birth or feeding method. This deficit could have implications for immune health and the trajectory of noncommunicable diseases, according to a study published in Communications Biology. go.nature.com/4lgA1ls 🧪
July 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Very important study
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Read more about the role that vaccines have played in reducing child mortality: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...
Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years
Every ten seconds, one child is saved by a vaccine against a fatal disease.
ourworldindata.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Read more about the role that vaccines have played in reducing child mortality: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...
Please enjoy some basic facts about thimerosal, a favorite boogeyman of the anti-vax movement, from our friends at Rollins at Emory, the #2 ranked school of public health in the country according to USNWR.
Thimerosal is an agenda item during tomorrow's Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Why is it a topic of conversation? Due to misinformation claiming it causes autism.
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Please enjoy some basic facts about thimerosal, a favorite boogeyman of the anti-vax movement, from our friends at Rollins at Emory, the #2 ranked school of public health in the country according to USNWR.
A great post to pin. Vaccines are safe, cost-effective, & prevent serious infections leading to things like deafness, paralysis, cancer, & death. They have probably been the single most important advance in the history of medicine and they are under unnecessary attack.
XO, a pediatric immunologist
XO, a pediatric immunologist
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A great post to pin. Vaccines are safe, cost-effective, & prevent serious infections leading to things like deafness, paralysis, cancer, & death. They have probably been the single most important advance in the history of medicine and they are under unnecessary attack.
XO, a pediatric immunologist
XO, a pediatric immunologist
Read this.
“The evidence overwhelmingly shows that ensuring children have access to care leads to better outcomes and that Medicaid improves their health and economic well-being into adulthood.”
Of all the s*#t happening in the world, the needless suffering of children is the biggest atrocity(1/)
“The evidence overwhelmingly shows that ensuring children have access to care leads to better outcomes and that Medicaid improves their health and economic well-being into adulthood.”
Of all the s*#t happening in the world, the needless suffering of children is the biggest atrocity(1/)
Kids will not be spared by the BBB's draconian cuts to Medicaid. Some will lose coverage or find services they rely on are pared back. Others will feel it more indirectly- a clinic in their area closes or fewer mental health providers take the insurance. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com 🎁 link:
Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt Nearly Half of America’s Kids
Regardless of the form cuts to the public insurance program take, the result will be worse health for about 37 million children.
www.bloomberg.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Read this.
“The evidence overwhelmingly shows that ensuring children have access to care leads to better outcomes and that Medicaid improves their health and economic well-being into adulthood.”
Of all the s*#t happening in the world, the needless suffering of children is the biggest atrocity(1/)
“The evidence overwhelmingly shows that ensuring children have access to care leads to better outcomes and that Medicaid improves their health and economic well-being into adulthood.”
Of all the s*#t happening in the world, the needless suffering of children is the biggest atrocity(1/)
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The ripple effect from the cruelty and fear of these raids is profound. Pediatricians from around the country are seeing an increasing rate of children not showing for their medical appointments due to fear. To enact policies that instill fear of accessing basic needs is truly a low of lows.
My friend who works at a safety-net clinic in LA says that no-shows have increased more than two-fold. It breaks my heart that this administration is out to harm the most vulnerable.
June 18, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The ripple effect from the cruelty and fear of these raids is profound. Pediatricians from around the country are seeing an increasing rate of children not showing for their medical appointments due to fear. To enact policies that instill fear of accessing basic needs is truly a low of lows.
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
👏🏻 Slashing 👏🏻 federal 👏🏻 investment 👏🏻 in 👏🏻 research 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 major 👏🏻 strategic 👏🏻 mistake 👏🏻
“We are embarking on a major experiment in restructuring the innovative engine in America, and China is the control,” said Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences. “China is not going to cut its research budget in half.”
The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
👏🏻 Slashing 👏🏻 federal 👏🏻 investment 👏🏻 in 👏🏻 research 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 major 👏🏻 strategic 👏🏻 mistake 👏🏻
Children like Evan are dying needlessly and we have willfully turned away from them, led by an addled man-child who in large part made his own fortune with the help of government grants.
Cutting PEPFAR & similar relief programs should be viewed as a crime against humanity, full stop. Watch👇🏻
Cutting PEPFAR & similar relief programs should be viewed as a crime against humanity, full stop. Watch👇🏻
wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine
June 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Children like Evan are dying needlessly and we have willfully turned away from them, led by an addled man-child who in large part made his own fortune with the help of government grants.
Cutting PEPFAR & similar relief programs should be viewed as a crime against humanity, full stop. Watch👇🏻
Cutting PEPFAR & similar relief programs should be viewed as a crime against humanity, full stop. Watch👇🏻
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This baby is alive because the NIH and other US federal agencies supported research and development of CRISPR technology.
How many babies will die due to cuts in federal research funding?
How many babies would have to die for the richest people in the world to be willing to give up their tax cuts?
How many babies will die due to cuts in federal research funding?
How many babies would have to die for the richest people in the world to be willing to give up their tax cuts?
KJ Muldoon was born in August with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disease. Six months later, he received a Crispr treatment made just for him to address the disease-causing misspelling in his DNA. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-baby...
A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies.
www.wired.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This baby is alive because the NIH and other US federal agencies supported research and development of CRISPR technology.
How many babies will die due to cuts in federal research funding?
How many babies would have to die for the richest people in the world to be willing to give up their tax cuts?
How many babies will die due to cuts in federal research funding?
How many babies would have to die for the richest people in the world to be willing to give up their tax cuts?
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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We didn’t come this far for my daughter to be subject to this kind of bullshit from delusional old white male billionaires.
Out of the way, grandpa. Thanks for making a giant mess (again) that our kids will have to clean up for you once you’re gone.
Out of the way, grandpa. Thanks for making a giant mess (again) that our kids will have to clean up for you once you’re gone.
2 dolls, 5 pencils, a job placing screws into AirPods, and the measles: every little girl's american dream, so worth the sacrifice
Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We didn’t come this far for my daughter to be subject to this kind of bullshit from delusional old white male billionaires.
Out of the way, grandpa. Thanks for making a giant mess (again) that our kids will have to clean up for you once you’re gone.
Out of the way, grandpa. Thanks for making a giant mess (again) that our kids will have to clean up for you once you’re gone.
We are beginning to see in the data evidence of the brain drain which is entirely predictable, and which Dr. Collins spoke about last week on 60 Minutes. It is essential that the general public understand the nature of scientific research funding so that we can collectively advocate for NIH (1/)
Researchers in the US are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data. #Academicsky 🧪
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
go.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We are beginning to see in the data evidence of the brain drain which is entirely predictable, and which Dr. Collins spoke about last week on 60 Minutes. It is essential that the general public understand the nature of scientific research funding so that we can collectively advocate for NIH (1/)