Betsy Nicoletti
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Your first year of a PhD program, they give you a methods class explaining why not to do this study.
When you become a faculty member, they make you submit proposed studies to an ethics board to make sure you never do this study.
When you become a faculty member, they make you submit proposed studies to an ethics board to make sure you never do this study.
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Your first year of a PhD program, they give you a methods class explaining why not to do this study.
When you become a faculty member, they make you submit proposed studies to an ethics board to make sure you never do this study.
When you become a faculty member, they make you submit proposed studies to an ethics board to make sure you never do this study.
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Here's my latest thinking on totals for Tuesday. 1st of the season can be tricky. Remember snow bands likely shift with data. During the day this time of year grass accumulates more than roads. Focus on idea of bands, not exact placement. Updates tomorrow. 🙏#Winter #snow
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Here's my latest thinking on totals for Tuesday. 1st of the season can be tricky. Remember snow bands likely shift with data. During the day this time of year grass accumulates more than roads. Focus on idea of bands, not exact placement. Updates tomorrow. 🙏#Winter #snow
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A cartoon by Dabin Han. #NewYorkerCartoons
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A cartoon by Dabin Han. #NewYorkerCartoons
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
Foretold in N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became"
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Foretold in N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became"
Which doesn't stop them from denying claims big and small.
UnitedHealth just posted $4.3 BILLION in profit last quarter —
even after losing customers.
How? Uncle Sam’s money. 💸
78% of its revenue now comes from taxpayers — mostly Medicare Advantage.
Corporate welfare in a lab coat.
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky
even after losing customers.
How? Uncle Sam’s money. 💸
78% of its revenue now comes from taxpayers — mostly Medicare Advantage.
Corporate welfare in a lab coat.
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky
UnitedHealth’s $4.3 Billion Quarter – Brought to You by Uncle Sam
Even as it lost thousands of customers in its commercial and Medicaid plans, UnitedHealth made billions in profits… thanks to a Medicare Advantage cash stream.
healthcareuncovered.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Which doesn't stop them from denying claims big and small.
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This beautiful volume, a longtime passion project of my husband's, is out now. If you don't know the work of John Guare, treat yourself--he's one of our most important, funny, and original playwrights. (And as a bonus, the book includes his great Atlantic City screenplay!) www.loa.org/books/plays/
Plays - Library of America
Introduction by John Lahr
www.loa.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This beautiful volume, a longtime passion project of my husband's, is out now. If you don't know the work of John Guare, treat yourself--he's one of our most important, funny, and original playwrights. (And as a bonus, the book includes his great Atlantic City screenplay!) www.loa.org/books/plays/
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reupping my explanation of how the shutdown impacts health programs with the aid of my corgis...
www.youtube.com/shorts/N4VvV...
www.youtube.com/shorts/N4VvV...
How Federal Shutdown Hits Health Agencies, Explained to Aspen the Corgi
YouTube video by KFF Health News
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
reupping my explanation of how the shutdown impacts health programs with the aid of my corgis...
www.youtube.com/shorts/N4VvV...
www.youtube.com/shorts/N4VvV...
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Dropping on October 14th.
September 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Dropping on October 14th.
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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After news of Monarez's ouster, multiple top CDC officials announced their resignations, per emails obtained by The Post
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social
Today = no precedent at CDC
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social
Today = no precedent at CDC
August 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
After news of Monarez's ouster, multiple top CDC officials announced their resignations, per emails obtained by The Post
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social
Today = no precedent at CDC
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social
Today = no precedent at CDC
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This will forever be the most amazing email.
August 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This will forever be the most amazing email.
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V highly recommended read 👇
Eloquent, personal account of the emotional ebbs and flows of pandemic ID medicine (#HIV vs #COVID19), including how it can become as hard to manage general public opinions as it is the patients themselves.
#IDSky
Eloquent, personal account of the emotional ebbs and flows of pandemic ID medicine (#HIV vs #COVID19), including how it can become as hard to manage general public opinions as it is the patients themselves.
#IDSky
"What’s it like to have lived through both HIV and COVID as an ID doctor?"
A new intern asked me that last week.
I didn’t answer it fully then -- but I did here. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
A new intern asked me that last week.
I didn’t answer it fully then -- but I did here. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Two Pandemics, Compared: Reflections on HIV and COVID-19
“Dr. Sax, what’s it like to have lived through two pandemics as an ID doctor?” The question came from a brand-new intern during afternoon sign-out. I took a breath — because wow, were they different. ...
blogs.jwatch.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Was glad to have the opportunity to join Morning Edition today — despite being, emphatically, not a morning person — to chat about the looming cuts to Medicaid. (Tough to hit all of the essential points in five minutes, though.)
How the GOP spending bill now before the Senate would impact Medicaid
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Adrianna McIntyre, assistant professor of health policy and politics at Harvard, about how the GOP spending bill before the Senate would impact Medicaid.
www.npr.org
July 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Was glad to have the opportunity to join Morning Edition today — despite being, emphatically, not a morning person — to chat about the looming cuts to Medicaid. (Tough to hit all of the essential points in five minutes, though.)
Let's all be Vulcans
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Let's all be Vulcans
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Talk about a double entendre title for an article about what RFKJr,
Oz, Makary and Bhattacharya are doing to do at HHS with vaccines! @healthaffairs.bsky.social
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Oz, Makary and Bhattacharya are doing to do at HHS with vaccines! @healthaffairs.bsky.social
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Vaccine Advisory Committee Meetings Resume: What Lies Ahead? | Health Affairs Forefront
On April 15 and 16, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will meet. These meetings, once considered routine, are being closely watched because of factors such as Secretary of Health...
www.healthaffairs.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Talk about a double entendre title for an article about what RFKJr,
Oz, Makary and Bhattacharya are doing to do at HHS with vaccines! @healthaffairs.bsky.social
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Oz, Makary and Bhattacharya are doing to do at HHS with vaccines! @healthaffairs.bsky.social
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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At costplusdrugs.com, we believe that prescription pricing should be simple, transparent, and fair.
We cut out the middlemen and pass the savings directly to you. 👏 It’s 👏 that 👏 simple.
See how much you can save: costplusdrugs.com/create-account
We cut out the middlemen and pass the savings directly to you. 👏 It’s 👏 that 👏 simple.
See how much you can save: costplusdrugs.com/create-account
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
At costplusdrugs.com, we believe that prescription pricing should be simple, transparent, and fair.
We cut out the middlemen and pass the savings directly to you. 👏 It’s 👏 that 👏 simple.
See how much you can save: costplusdrugs.com/create-account
We cut out the middlemen and pass the savings directly to you. 👏 It’s 👏 that 👏 simple.
See how much you can save: costplusdrugs.com/create-account
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We’d like to speak with HHS personnel — whether currently working or have recently left — who believe the public should understand the impact of what’s happening. Please get in touch: kffhealthnews.org/hhs-tips/, or contact reporter Arthur Allen directly by email or Signal, at [email protected].
Share Your HHS Story With Us - KFF Health News
Do you have an experience related to reductions in the Department of Health and Human Services workforce that you’d like to share with KFF Health News? Tell us here.
kffhealthnews.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We’d like to speak with HHS personnel — whether currently working or have recently left — who believe the public should understand the impact of what’s happening. Please get in touch: kffhealthnews.org/hhs-tips/, or contact reporter Arthur Allen directly by email or Signal, at [email protected].
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This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10
February 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10
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JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives
JPMorgan, Goldman CEOs Resist Calls to Roll Back DEI Programs
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives.
www.bloomberg.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives
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This is a great explainer of how Medicare and Medicare Advantage works.
www.linkedin.com/posts/ericbr...
www.linkedin.com/posts/ericbr...
Eric Bricker, MD on LinkedIn: #medicare #traditional #advantage #partd #supplement #traditionalmedicare… | 53 comments
All of #Medicare Explained in 12-Min: #Traditional Medicare vs. Medicare #Advantage vs. #PartD vs. Medicare #Supplement.
#TraditionalMedicare Consists of Part… | 53 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is a great explainer of how Medicare and Medicare Advantage works.
www.linkedin.com/posts/ericbr...
www.linkedin.com/posts/ericbr...