Daniel Tiefengraber
@dantie.bsky.social
Austrian Public Health MD // Global Health & Vaccination // Author „Impfen für Dummies“ // Father of 3 - let me sleep
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One of the strangest & most unhelpful things I heard from Tracy Beth Høeg (amid strong competition!), the RFK Jr ally who wants the US to adopt Denmark's vaxx schedule, was when she said athletes are fit so don't need vaccines
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One of the strangest & most unhelpful things I heard from Tracy Beth Høeg (amid strong competition!), the RFK Jr ally who wants the US to adopt Denmark's vaxx schedule, was when she said athletes are fit so don't need vaccines
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
Um, OK 😔
www.today.com/health/teen-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5q...
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The return of preventable diseases threatens vulnerable adults as well - including those who are immunocompromised due to medications or medical conditions.
This horrific change affects people you know, and will hurt your community.
This horrific change affects people you know, and will hurt your community.
RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.
RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.
RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
December 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The return of preventable diseases threatens vulnerable adults as well - including those who are immunocompromised due to medications or medical conditions.
This horrific change affects people you know, and will hurt your community.
This horrific change affects people you know, and will hurt your community.
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RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr
Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
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When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
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„Frühstart bei Influenza: Warum beginnt die Saison heuer so früh?“
Die aktuelle Folge von viroLOGISCH
mit Florian Krammer liefert ein kompaktes Update zur Influenza- und Covid-19-Situation im Dezember 2025. Florian Krammer spricht über den ungewöhnlich frühen Start der Grippesaison in Ländern wie …
Die aktuelle Folge von viroLOGISCH
mit Florian Krammer liefert ein kompaktes Update zur Influenza- und Covid-19-Situation im Dezember 2025. Florian Krammer spricht über den ungewöhnlich frühen Start der Grippesaison in Ländern wie …
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
„Frühstart bei Influenza: Warum beginnt die Saison heuer so früh?“
Die aktuelle Folge von viroLOGISCH
mit Florian Krammer liefert ein kompaktes Update zur Influenza- und Covid-19-Situation im Dezember 2025. Florian Krammer spricht über den ungewöhnlich frühen Start der Grippesaison in Ländern wie …
Die aktuelle Folge von viroLOGISCH
mit Florian Krammer liefert ein kompaktes Update zur Influenza- und Covid-19-Situation im Dezember 2025. Florian Krammer spricht über den ungewöhnlich frühen Start der Grippesaison in Ländern wie …
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If you’re thinking of getting your loved ones an unusual gift this Christmas—subverting an election, say, or tarnishing a rival’s reputation—this research is a must-read ;)
A fascinating new paper in @science.org looks at the global costs of SMS verifications that fake accounts rely on.
My 🧪 story:
A fascinating new paper in @science.org looks at the global costs of SMS verifications that fake accounts rely on.
My 🧪 story:
Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
Systematic price monitoring sheds light on economics of online manipulation
www.science.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you’re thinking of getting your loved ones an unusual gift this Christmas—subverting an election, say, or tarnishing a rival’s reputation—this research is a must-read ;)
A fascinating new paper in @science.org looks at the global costs of SMS verifications that fake accounts rely on.
My 🧪 story:
A fascinating new paper in @science.org looks at the global costs of SMS verifications that fake accounts rely on.
My 🧪 story:
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COVID-19 vaccines prevented 76% of healthy kids ages 9 monthss to 4yr visit to ER or urgent care, 56% among children and adolescents aged 5–17 years, compared with those who did not receive a 2024–2025 vaccine. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children...
This report describes COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among children ages 9 months to 17 years.
www.cdc.gov
December 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
COVID-19 vaccines prevented 76% of healthy kids ages 9 monthss to 4yr visit to ER or urgent care, 56% among children and adolescents aged 5–17 years, compared with those who did not receive a 2024–2025 vaccine. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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It's not enough for RFK Jr, Hoeg, Makary and Prasad to attack vaccines and endanger infant's lives but now they want sick children to die from RSV.
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Exclusive-US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
By Dan Levine and Patrick Wingrove Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for
ca.finance.yahoo.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's not enough for RFK Jr, Hoeg, Makary and Prasad to attack vaccines and endanger infant's lives but now they want sick children to die from RSV.
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...
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I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
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#medsky #pedsky #idsky #immunosky #episky
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
The Role and Safety of Aluminum Adjuvants in Childhood Vaccines
Aluminum salts have been used as adjuvants in vaccines for nearly a century, enhancing the immune response to purified antigens and ensuring durable protection against serious infectious diseases. Des...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#medsky #pedsky #idsky #immunosky #episky
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
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If you're an expert in your field but still occasionally feel a tinge of imposter syndrome, just have a look at some of the current ACIP lineup.
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you're an expert in your field but still occasionally feel a tinge of imposter syndrome, just have a look at some of the current ACIP lineup.
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Summary of ACIP so far today.
In the 10 months since RFK Jr. took the helm at HHS, this committee has slipped into the realm of disinformation, conspiracies, and data torture.
They have targeted vulnerable groups for stigma by blaming them for HBV even existing in the U.S.
In the 10 months since RFK Jr. took the helm at HHS, this committee has slipped into the realm of disinformation, conspiracies, and data torture.
They have targeted vulnerable groups for stigma by blaming them for HBV even existing in the U.S.
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Summary of ACIP so far today.
In the 10 months since RFK Jr. took the helm at HHS, this committee has slipped into the realm of disinformation, conspiracies, and data torture.
They have targeted vulnerable groups for stigma by blaming them for HBV even existing in the U.S.
In the 10 months since RFK Jr. took the helm at HHS, this committee has slipped into the realm of disinformation, conspiracies, and data torture.
They have targeted vulnerable groups for stigma by blaming them for HBV even existing in the U.S.
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Inexpert #ACIP - "very little evidence of horizontal transmission."
Reality - Armstrong and al. - over 16,000 under 10 get hepatitis B a year. Not a model only - based on survey and blood drawing. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Reality - Armstrong and al. - over 16,000 under 10 get hepatitis B a year. Not a model only - based on survey and blood drawing. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Childhood Hepatitis B Virus Infections in the United States Before Hepatitis B Immunization
Objective.. To estimate the number of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections among US children younger than 10 years before implementation of routine childhood hepatitis B immunization.Methods.. Incidence...
publications.aap.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Inexpert #ACIP - "very little evidence of horizontal transmission."
Reality - Armstrong and al. - over 16,000 under 10 get hepatitis B a year. Not a model only - based on survey and blood drawing. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Reality - Armstrong and al. - over 16,000 under 10 get hepatitis B a year. Not a model only - based on survey and blood drawing. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA
In the sadly continuing story of how Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at a useful idiot, Dr. Vinay Prasad, and how he is weaponizing dead children
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
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Geschlechtersensible Erziehung, „Ich mag das nicht, hör auf“, Konsens, ü Gefühle reden, Gefühlstagebuch, Selbstbewusstsein-WS, Reflexionsrunden usw usf - das sind alle Elemente e aktuellen KiGA-/Schulpädagogik. Alles um Burschen gut zu erziehen. Alles wird von der (extremen) Rechten massiv bekämpft.
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Geschlechtersensible Erziehung, „Ich mag das nicht, hör auf“, Konsens, ü Gefühle reden, Gefühlstagebuch, Selbstbewusstsein-WS, Reflexionsrunden usw usf - das sind alle Elemente e aktuellen KiGA-/Schulpädagogik. Alles um Burschen gut zu erziehen. Alles wird von der (extremen) Rechten massiv bekämpft.
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You could watch this happen in real time. The MDs and PhDs who are now in the MAGA/MAHA government, running the federal health agencies, are case studies in online radicalization.
Physicians and academics often believe that they/we are immune to being radicalised online, but the reality is the opposite. No one is immune, and I saw this happen to Prasad and so many other physicians and academics when covid started. It’s pure hubris to believe anyone is immune.
Prasad is exhibit A of Twitter brain. Someone needs to do a detailed case report tracking his decline from reasonable skeptic of high price oncology drugs with questionable outcomes to COVID mask skeptic to full on vaccine skeptic. It was all in plain site on Twitter, and a hell of thing to see.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You could watch this happen in real time. The MDs and PhDs who are now in the MAGA/MAHA government, running the federal health agencies, are case studies in online radicalization.
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Call your elected officials. Get loud. Tell them you’re demanding public health leaders follow the science.
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Call your elected officials. Get loud. Tell them you’re demanding public health leaders follow the science.
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
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Do not believe this.
@joho.bsky.social @wendyorent.bsky.social god f’n damnit all
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Do not believe this.
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Yes, certainly, the anti-vaccine/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration/conspiracy theory movement is both wildly authoritarian AND eugenicist
MAHA is expanding its reach but many experts in authoritarianism are hearing echoes of the eugenics movement, the discredited pseudoscience that supports racial superiority & quackery, not scientific facts. Make America Healthy Again pushes vulnerable people aside & cuts off lifelines to healthcare👇
As MAHA Expands Its Reach, Some Critics Hear Echoes of the Eugenics Movement
What does 'Make America Healthy Again' really stand for?
www.medpagetoday.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Yes, certainly, the anti-vaccine/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration/conspiracy theory movement is both wildly authoritarian AND eugenicist
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????
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They did this in Louisiana and currently have their worst pertussis outbreak in 35 years. Ridiculous.
NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
They did this in Louisiana and currently have their worst pertussis outbreak in 35 years. Ridiculous.