Lisa Gralinski

Not only is this bonkers in general, but there are no single measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines manufactured in the US. (Or anywhere else I suspect?) Tylenol is safe in pregnancy, MMR is safe, hepB vaccine is safe at birth, no other vaccines need to be spaced out, autism is primarily genetic.

Science is amazing. Love seeing some good news!

Questions Are Raised About Vaccine Panel’s Reliability as Policy Review Gets Underway

The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated.

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Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

COVID-19 Vaccine Update Governor Josh Stein has issued orders to allow pharmacies to provide updated COVID-19 vaccines to people age 65 or older and people age 18-64 who have an underlying condition, without a prescription from a healthcare provider. We have not yet (as of Friday, September 12) begun vaccinating but will provide another update when appointments are available soon!

Governor Stein has issued an order allowing people age 65+ or 18-64 with an underlying condition to get a COVID-19 vaccine at pharmacies without a prescription! We have not yet begun vaccinating but will share an update when appointments are available! Learn more: covid19.ncdhhs.gov/vaccines

“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’

Picture of a podium and screen starting our first UNC Epidemiology Research Day.

Kicking off UNC EPID faculty research day!

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Three states take steps to ensure COVID vaccine access

Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Massachusetts will allow pharmacists to provide updated COVID-19 vaccines to residents without a doctor's prescription.

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As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...

This is not how preventative interventions work.

No individual knows that their death was prevented by vaccine. Many people get COVID and dp not die. Was this due to vaccine?

Modeling and statistical estimates are the ways to estimate the impacts.

His desire for "real data" is real bullshit.

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Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.

“I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric.”

If ACIP recs are approved without reviewing evidence, it’s not an advisory panel. It’s a rubber stamp.

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Dr. Daskalakis has a résumé for the ages: NYU med school, Harvard residency, fellowship, *and* MPH, double board certified, and over a decade of boots on the ground experience in epidemic-fighting. He used his identity to build trust in public health. He's exactly who you want in government. ffs

COVID-19 case rates are increasing. Wear masks: Masking protects you and the people around you. Wear high-quality masks/respirators like N95s or KN95s when possible, but all masks are better than wearing none at all. Get tested & treated; Free home tests available at the Durham County Department of Public Health. Visit DCoPublicHealth.org/COVIDtests for more info. Stay home if you test positive or are not feeling well.

COVID-19 case rates are increasing, so it’s important to take precautions to keep yourself and others safe. Wear masks, get tested and treated, and stay home if you test positive or are not feeling well. Free tests are available for pickup here at the health department: dconc.gov/Public-Healt...

What the CDC lost: a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit Here is a closer look at the top-ranking officials who resigned from the CDC this week.

What the CDC lost: a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says agency suffers from ‘malaise,’ but departed officials had deep expertise

Knowledge, experience and talent lost due to political ideology.

"Do no harm": Why three CDC officials left over vaccine policy "We became aware by conversations with work groups that many of them were deciding on what recommendations would be before actually having the data. And for us, that's problematic," a departing official said.

“Jernigan…said over the last several months he was asked to review & revise long-established findings about vaccine safety data at the behest of Lyn Redwood & David Geier, anti-vaccine activists who promote a debunked link with autism.”

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Fin/ So that's what he's really getting at here, and it will likely be a part of his big release on autism. He's not really diagnosing mitochondrial disorders by sight. He's saying he sees kids who are autistic due to vaccines, and mitochondrial issues are the underlying susceptibility.

🎤 Demetre’s official resignation letter.

(It’s worth a visit to X to read the full letter — just hold your nose and dodge the racist algorithm.)

It irks me a bit that this is being pitched as medical groups "defying" RFKJ. They're just doing their job and putting out reasonable recommendations, declining to lie about their work just because there is some absolute crackpottery in the federal office.

Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’ - National | Globalnews.ca An update to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine that targets the newest variants and is made entirely within Canada's borders was just approved by Health Canada.

Canada has fully approved Moderna’s 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccine.

"Every dollar spent relitigating the disproven vaccine-autism link is a dollar stolen from research that could actually help people with autism — studies on support services, educational interventions, employment programs and other factors behind autism."
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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.

This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
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There’s Money to Be Made From ‘MAHA.’ Food Companies Want In.

A NYT comment: “Humans ate organic, whole foods for millennia. They got plenty of exercise, lived without plastics. Until the mid-1800s, life expectancy at birth was 39. Food may be good medicine, but it’s not a panacea. Medical advances—like vaccines—have doubled the human lifespan, not superfoods”

Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

It is important that people understand that only building engineering prevented this being a wholesale slaughter of dedicated public servants.

7min ago Police believe, after speaking with shooter's family, that CDC was the target From CNN's John Miller After speaking with the suspected shooter’s family members, police are operating under the theory that he was either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine, a law enforcement official told CNN.

the people responsible for spreading lies about covid vaccines have blood on their hands tonight.

it is not the case that if you stop observing bad things, the bad things go away

“We will get through this.” Will all due respect, many of us will not.

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!

My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!

We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Big change here: NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year.

Going to hurt a lot of people as they try to recover lost funding.