@cdferre.bsky.social
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Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.
Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS
Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.
Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS
June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.
By Erika Mills ~ In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles. This article, titl…
circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov
October 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.
Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS
Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.
Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS
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(We think) people working on the NHANES surveys.
🧠🪱 is obsessed about healthy eating and ending the obesity outbreak.
Um, this is where you get DATA to learn about what people eat, drink, and their health.
Nothing says “fight obesity” like cutting the team that studies, uh… nutrition. 🍎
(We think) people working on the NHANES surveys.
🧠🪱 is obsessed about healthy eating and ending the obesity outbreak.
Um, this is where you get DATA to learn about what people eat, drink, and their health.
Nothing says “fight obesity” like cutting the team that studies, uh… nutrition. 🍎
About NHANES
Learn about the only national health survey that includes health exams and laboratory tests
www.cdc.gov
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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(We think) people working on the NHANES surveys.
🧠🪱 is obsessed about healthy eating and ending the obesity outbreak.
Um, this is where you get DATA to learn about what people eat, drink, and their health.
Nothing says “fight obesity” like cutting the team that studies, uh… nutrition. 🍎
(We think) people working on the NHANES surveys.
🧠🪱 is obsessed about healthy eating and ending the obesity outbreak.
Um, this is where you get DATA to learn about what people eat, drink, and their health.
Nothing says “fight obesity” like cutting the team that studies, uh… nutrition. 🍎
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Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.
You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)
Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.
Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.
You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)
Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.
Ebola disease
WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.
www.who.int
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.
You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)
Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.
Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.
You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)
Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.
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NCHC, National Center for Health Statistics - comms, policy, leadership
🧠🪱 - Do you need me to define health statistics for you?
All your concerns about chronic disease, indigenous health disparities, etc — we know what’s an issue AFTER we measure it.
NCHC, National Center for Health Statistics - comms, policy, leadership
🧠🪱 - Do you need me to define health statistics for you?
All your concerns about chronic disease, indigenous health disparities, etc — we know what’s an issue AFTER we measure it.
National Center for Health Statistics
The nation's official source for health data
www.cdc.gov
October 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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NCHC, National Center for Health Statistics - comms, policy, leadership
🧠🪱 - Do you need me to define health statistics for you?
All your concerns about chronic disease, indigenous health disparities, etc — we know what’s an issue AFTER we measure it.
NCHC, National Center for Health Statistics - comms, policy, leadership
🧠🪱 - Do you need me to define health statistics for you?
All your concerns about chronic disease, indigenous health disparities, etc — we know what’s an issue AFTER we measure it.
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PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center
Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.
They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.
Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center
Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.
They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.
Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠
2024 Accomplishments
Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States
www.cdc.gov
October 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center
Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.
They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.
Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center
Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.
They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.
Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠
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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.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
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As public health federal workers we support a shut down as a negotiating tool to keep Americans on their health insurance.
We are prepping to go without pay. We are readying our documents in case Vought uses a shut down to illegally fires us.
Dems, hold the line.
We are prepping to go without pay. We are readying our documents in case Vought uses a shut down to illegally fires us.
Dems, hold the line.
This government shut down is all about whether Republicans will get away with raising health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million people off their health care.
We can't allow that to happen.
We can't allow that to happen.
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
As public health federal workers we support a shut down as a negotiating tool to keep Americans on their health insurance.
We are prepping to go without pay. We are readying our documents in case Vought uses a shut down to illegally fires us.
Dems, hold the line.
We are prepping to go without pay. We are readying our documents in case Vought uses a shut down to illegally fires us.
Dems, hold the line.
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Honestly, never thought "Tylenol" would be trending.
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Honestly, never thought "Tylenol" would be trending.
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.
September 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.
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The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:xtrzqicesfwterpbweugpl4u/post/3lzho4gbu6c2a.
Page by Alt CDC (they/them) | @altcdc.altgov.info - skywriter.blue
Let's talk #acetaminophen, #autism, & ague (or fever, if you’re modern)
Tl;dr: causes of autism = complicated
(Also, can we stop with "curing" autism
www.autism.org.uk)
Time to whack 🍊 & 🧠🪱's claims with some critical epi thinking
🧵👇...
skywriter.blue
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:xtrzqicesfwterpbweugpl4u/post/3lzho4gbu6c2a.
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Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️
Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers he would fight for them, write Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens. But ahead of Labor Day weekend, it is worth summarizing how extensive his assault on labor has been in his first months in office.
Trump's War on Workers
Buried beneath the bluster is a systematic assault on labor.
www.thenation.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️
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Rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community clinics and health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children will lose access to lifesaving vaccines due to cost.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community clinics and health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children will lose access to lifesaving vaccines due to cost.
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Heath Equity Funding! 👇
The @rwjf.org Rapid Response Research funding is available to applicants who have received federal funding for their health equity research, but have had it partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. Deadline is 10/1/25. Details in the link:
www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.
www.rwjf.org
September 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Heath Equity Funding! 👇
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Current and former federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously.
To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica.
Here's how to get in touch.
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Here's how to get in touch.
Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
www.propublica.org
September 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Current and former federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously.
To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica.
Here's how to get in touch.
To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica.
Here's how to get in touch.
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If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests.
“The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
“The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge
The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.
www.thebulwark.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests.
“The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
“The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
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There comes a point when we can no longer “fight from within”. A point when the best way to protect the American people is to leave CDC. Deb, Dan, and Demetre reached that point. We are so proud of them for resigning. Loudly. As a warning. This is not surrender. This is fighting back.
August 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There comes a point when we can no longer “fight from within”. A point when the best way to protect the American people is to leave CDC. Deb, Dan, and Demetre reached that point. We are so proud of them for resigning. Loudly. As a warning. This is not surrender. This is fighting back.
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I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you.
Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.
We’re with you.
Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.
We’re with you.
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you.
Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.
We’re with you.
Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.
We’re with you.
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I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
August 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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The four high-level CDC leaders who resigned yesterday after the ouster of the CDC director had deep expertise in immunization and infectious diseases and were crucial agency leadership.
Americans are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our health protection agency.
Americans are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our health protection agency.
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The four high-level CDC leaders who resigned yesterday after the ouster of the CDC director had deep expertise in immunization and infectious diseases and were crucial agency leadership.
Americans are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our health protection agency.
Americans are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our health protection agency.
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We need more voices. We need more people to be publicly pushing back. They have been all over the media raising awareness of the dangerous choices Kennedy is making. They are upholding CDC’s mission by resigning. There is no shame in leaving when leaving is the last tool you have left.
August 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We need more voices. We need more people to be publicly pushing back. They have been all over the media raising awareness of the dangerous choices Kennedy is making. They are upholding CDC’s mission by resigning. There is no shame in leaving when leaving is the last tool you have left.
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This is not how we make American healthy
"Quitlines in some states may disappear altogether; in others, services are being cut back from several calls to just one, and nicotine replacement therapy that used to be available for all callers may only be given to a few"
www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-fr...
"Quitlines in some states may disappear altogether; in others, services are being cut back from several calls to just one, and nicotine replacement therapy that used to be available for all callers may only be given to a few"
www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-fr...
The quit‑smoking ads that helped millions are ending. A former smoker and experts fear what comes next.
For 13 years, the CDC's "Tips" ads shared real stories and free quitline support. With funding ending, experts worry fewer people may quit.
www.cbsnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is not how we make American healthy
"Quitlines in some states may disappear altogether; in others, services are being cut back from several calls to just one, and nicotine replacement therapy that used to be available for all callers may only be given to a few"
www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-fr...
"Quitlines in some states may disappear altogether; in others, services are being cut back from several calls to just one, and nicotine replacement therapy that used to be available for all callers may only be given to a few"
www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-fr...