Taylor Heald-Sargent

Election Day in Oak Park today! Polls close at 7. Get your polling place here: www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/elections/yo...

Trump Administration Begins Layoffs at CDC, FDA and Other Health Agencies (Gift Article) The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss 10,000 employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr...

Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors in senior leadership positions, began hearing early Tuesday morning that they are losing their jobs, part of a vast restructuring that will winnow down the agencies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

22 States sued the Federal government today in federal court in Boston regarding change in NIH indirects to 15%.

PUBLIC LAW 118–47— 138 Stat 688, sec 224.
Congress mandated in March 23, 2024 law that NIH indirects shall continue at level of Q3 2017.

Yeah…looks like her family moved to Naperville during the 60s. The timing of their move out of OP tracks with her current actions

'It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn

“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”

From our @science.org news team 🧪

Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following Trump’s federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health insurance from millions of Americans overnight and could get people killed.

Gotta love the stuff you get to look up while caring for ID patients- last week I needed to look into exposures after being licked by a camel in the Middle East

An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”

Thank you so much for pointing that out! I def skimmed the title wrong…

A limited number of travel stipends remain for the 2025 St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference. These $1k awards are offered to accredited Pediatric ID Fellowship Training Programs (not individuals) based in the US or Canada. #IDSky pids.org/event/2025-s...

Thank you for making me laugh today!

I also feel like people have started relying on hand sanitizer more and it gives them a false sense of security against norovirus.

Dr. Jennifer Jao from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine has been selected as Co-Chair of the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network. www.luriechildrens.org/en/news-stor...