@apoorvanyt.bsky.social
Science and global health reporter for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/by/apoorva-mandavilli Signal: amnyt.91
Favorite headline this Friday
01.08.2025 18:51 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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...
he CDC’s new director is a scientist who believes in vaccines. But the big question is: Can she stand up to her boss, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/h...
BREAKING: OMB director Russ Vought said Pepfar had funded $9.3 million to teach doctors in Russia how to perform abortions.
It turned out to be untrue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...
The Trump administration can move forward with plans to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies, the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the TSA is letting people keep their shoes on at the airport. https://trib.al/PJXkCcf
08.07.2025 19:25 — 👍 135 🔁 23 💬 14 📌 14
BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...
“It’s also not entirely rare for officials to catch perpetrators attempting to smuggle the snakes in their pants”
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OTOH, yesterday’s decision is also a warning of what can happen when the HHS secretary can appoint and remove panelists at will — as scotus has just said he can do with the preventive task force members
27.06.2025 15:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They are particularly relieved after the decision yesterday by the CDC’s vaccine advisers to embrace an old and debunked anti-vaccine theory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h...
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With #scotus decision on Braidwood case, my phone is buzzing with experts rejoicing that it is a win for public health for ACA to continue to cover prevention at no cost.
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BREAKING: Vaccine advisers recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to stop recommending flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a preservative that Mr. Kennedy has falsely linked to autism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h...
BREAKING: Vaccine advisers recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to stop recommending flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a preservative that Mr. Kennedy has falsely linked to autism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h...
Just minutes into the first meeting of scientific advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it was clear that the skeptical panelists intended to upend longstanding vaccine recommendations in the US, particularly those pertaining to children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Also note that quorum applied when there were 16 members, and 8 was quorum. Now it would be 4
25.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Right but there are ex officio members here who can serve that function
25.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Outside the CDC this
morning, ahead of this meeting, signs saying RFK jr “is right” and “think for yourself”
RFK Jr’s chosen vaccine advisers meet for the first time today — minus one of the eight — to discuss measles vaccine and a preservative that the health secretary has falsely claimed causes autism
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Kennedy’s Handpicked Vaccine Advisers Are Set to Meet for the First Time. My comments with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
My understanding is that there is no legal minimum in the charter
25.06.2025 04:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
SCOOP: RFK Jr. wiped out the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel and named eight new members.
Now the panel is down to seven.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
Americans Are Going to Die’ -- Why Dr. Fiona Havers, an influential vaccine researcher, left the CDC. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
NEW: With two extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended the certainty that American children will always have cost-free access to lifesaving vaccines
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/h...
My original post also has a gift link, fyi. I try to post gift links each time
10.06.2025 20:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
BREAKING: The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Monday retired all 17 members of an advisory committee on immunization to the CDC, arguing that the move would restore the public’s trust in vaccines.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...
The technology that powered Covid vaccines may also lead scientists to a cure for H.I.V.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...
The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year eliminates funding for programs that provide lifesaving vaccines around the world, including immunizations for polio.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/h...
The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
