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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 2d

Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans’ tax and spending law take effect. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care - KFF Health News

Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are generally ineligible for federally funded health care programs. Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable C...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6d

I’m 100% sure that’s actually not the question to be asking

NPR @npr.org · 6d

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

National Guard presence may deter crime, but experts warn of the long-term costs

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22d

Come spend the midnight hour with @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social. We have some great presentations from Africa and Asia, as we head into the second half of our 24 hour livestream to Save AIDS Research! saveaidsresearch.org.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26d

“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”

STAT @statnews.com · 26d

Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and closed prevention offices. Expert calls it a 'cruel irony' – gun violence grows as prevention efforts fade
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...

As U.S. faces deadly week, gun violence experts lament end of prevention research

Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and shut down research on preventing gun violence. Expert calls it a "cruel irony."

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders."

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 7

And let's say it, @jamellebouie.net was there at the beginning saying this. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Opinion | Now Is Not the Time for Surrender

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s been a while since I’ve been in school, but isn’t war something that countries usually declare on OTHER countries, not cities within their own country? How do you win a war on yourself?

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · Sep 3

A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 1

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Aug 28

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X)
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

CDC Director Susan Monarez is ousted as senior leaders exit agency

Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been ousted after just a month on the job.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 24

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage
cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Aug 23

Great analysis of Macedo and Lee's "In Covid's Wake," revealing it to be cherry-picked storytelling that is often disconnected from evidence. Their institutional affiliation doesn’t make any of their arguments more true 🎁

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COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far

If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 21

5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling.

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ALT: a close up of a white dog 's face with red eyes

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · Aug 15

This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
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The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6

“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · Aug 11

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 15

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6

“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

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Josh Levy @josh-levy.bsky.social · Aug 15

Postdoc position is still open! Definitely reach out if you’re keen on tracking pathogen evolution and spread (especially using wastewater 😎)!

Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Jul 15

Are you looking for a Postdoc or Research Programmer position? Want to work as part of highly collaborative infectious disease programs that have direct relevance to global health?

Well, we got you covered!

Learn more 👇

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About - Andersen Lab

Learn more about the Andersen Lab, as well as jobs and career opportunities.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is really reporting 'inside' the response to the devastating Mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone.

Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Aug 12

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · Aug 9

The shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, which killed a police officer, followed the spread of false information around Covid vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Vought & his cronies are shitting bureaucratic nukes & wiping their asses with the Constitution. This Executive Order is egregiously unlawful. It is a flagrant attempt to kill scientific research & education & exact economic ruin in service of corruption & the erosion of democratic norms."

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Aug 8

This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America.

Congress must act now.
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Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up

Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order

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Josh Levy @josh-levy.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s been quite a while… but we’re glad to report our San Diego wastewater dashboard is back up and running!

Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · Aug 7

We're back in business with the SEARCH wastewater surveillance - and things aren't looking too shabby!

Head on over to our website for live San Diego data: searchcovid.info

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Theiagen Genomics @theiagen.bsky.social · Aug 4

@kevinlibuit.bsky.social & @curtiskapsak.bsky.social were two of the co-authors on a new paper on Freyja 2 — a bioinformatics tool for real-time, multi-pathogen wastewater surveillance.

Read about it here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Real-time, multi-pathogen wastewater genomic surveillance with Freyja 2

Case-based infectious disease surveillance is fundamental to public health, but is resource-intensive, logistically complex, and prone to sampling bias. Wastewater testing and sequencing have increasi...

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · Jul 31

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows

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