Lisa Gralinski

Guinea-Bissau officials stop CDC-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial The country's foreign minister told Reuters the controversial trial is "not going to happen."

Guinea-Bissau officials stop CDC-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/gu...

Luckovich is never NOT brilliant.

Suffice it to say, this will not make America healthy again.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. A man shivers in bed while a smiling lady in a red mask shows off her bandage on her arm. Text: Noses are red Ice packs are blue I'm vaxed so miss me with severe symptoms of flu.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Two lady scientists shrug lackadaisically. Text reads: My love for you can't be explained by science. Just like the new federal vaccine guidelines.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Protesters in Minneapolis wear thick clothes and hold signs of support for immigrant neighbors. Text reads: To the health departments in the Twin Cities: Love unites us. Our hearts are with you.

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

"[the US's] premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages".

As leadership said, all as part of the effort to "restore trust".

Down is up and up is down.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Measles exposure in Durham February 6 Exposición al sarampión en Durham, 6 de febrero. An individual with measles visited the following locations on Friday, February 6: Goodwill, 4318 Garret Rd., Durham, NC February 6, 2026, 10:20AM. to 1:10PM Chubby’s Tacos, 4711 Hope Valley Road., Durham, NC February 6, 2026, 11:45AM to 2:30PM Plato’s Closet, 8128 Renaissance Pkwy #110, Durham, NC February 6, 12:45PM to 4:00PM If you visited one of these locations during these time frames, check your vaccination status and get vaccinated as soon as possible if you are unvaccinated; monitor your symptoms for 21 days; and call your doctor if symptoms develop. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2rabwb5t

An individual with measles visited 3 Durham locations on February 6. Learn more here: dconc.gov/DurhamCo-New.... If you were in one of these locations during the affected time frames, get vaccinated if you are unvaccinated, monitor your symptoms for 21 days, & call your doctor symptoms develop.

70,000 Voters Must Fix Their Registrations or Face Hurdle at the Polls Thousands of North Carolinians will have to cast a provisional ballot in the 2026 midterms if they don’t update their voter registration information.

Through no fault of their own, more than 70,000 North Carolinians could hit an extra obstacle when trying to cast a ballot in this year’s primaries.

Read this piece and weep. Trump's concentration camps cannot be "reformed" or "modernized," they must be closed.

A striking parallel:

Milhoan, chair of RFK Jr’s vaccine committee, sees the US explosion of measles as a chance to learn about how uncontrolled measles affects the unvaxxed

RFK Jr financed Danish researchers to learn what happens when you deny the hep B vaxx birth dose to babies in Guinea Bissau

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

I see we're at the 'arresting opposition journalists' phase of I Can't Believe It's Not Fascism!

The MAHA approach!

(Seriously. They ended the universal hep B vaccine birth dose recommendation based on zero data—I’m convinced that RFK Jr funded that proposed unethical trial of withholding the birth dose from babies in Guinea-Bissau in the hope of generating some kind of “data” to back him up)

Not content to roll back vaccination in the US alone, the extreme anti-vaxx activist & conspiracy theorist RFK Jr is taking his anti-vaxx crusade worldwide

It is children in low- & middle-income countries who will suffer the most from his awful anti-science policies

Let’s talk about that

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State health officials expand access to measles vaccine following confirmed community spread in WNC The new guidance allows early infant doses and no-cost shots for adults as transmission moves beyond travel-linked cases

New measures in Western NC to improve measles vaccine availability and access: elective (early) doses available for babies over 6 months and free shots from the health department for underinsured adults.

www.bpr.org/health/2026-...

UI researcher loses grant funding amid NIH shakeup - The Daily Illini A University influenza research lab lost its NIH funding after shifting federal rules on gain-of-function studies.

“What she told me is that (the grant) was terminated for violating guidelines that don’t exist...She told me she doesn’t even know if anyone’s working on developing the guidelines.” dailyillini.com/news-stories...

#governmentefficiency

damn

it’s incumbent on us to be this brave

Amazing SciENcv biosketch tip from faculty meeting today - if the system won't accept your biosketch without any awards just add the Nobel and FIFA Peace prizes.

The median American here imo

Measles - it's all over SC and starting to spill into western NC as well. The North Carolina Dept of Health and Human Services just rolled out a new measles case tracking page; unfortunately I'd guess that they're expecting a lot of cases (2 today).
www.dph.ncdhhs.gov/programs/epi...

Spike in Upstate measles outbreak, nearly 100 new cases, hundreds more ‘likely’ “An increasing number of public exposure sites are being identified with likely hundreds more people exposed...,” said Dr. Linda Bell.

99 *new* #measles cases in South Carolina; over 300 for the total confirmed there so far with 200+ in quarantine. We need leadership to end this and Kennedy is off pushing beef tallow. Disgraceful.

The scientific (bureaucratic) uncertainty over what constitutes gain of function research is going to stymie important research into pathogens, just as the US & Canada are poised for a dramatic resurgence of infectious diseases thanks to the ‘wisdom’ of non-scientists who have abandoned reason.

This is a cartoon by Dennis Goris. It's a play on the road sign "CAUTION ICE AHEAD." Above the sign is a picture of a masked man shooting into a car.

Astounding cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social, deserves to win multiple awards, will be etched in our brains forever

1. New #measles numbers out from #CDC. Confirmed cases for 2025 stand at 2,144, the highest single year count since 1991. A decision was taken in 1989 to make measles vaccination a 2-dose regimen; after it was implemented, it & high vaccination rates brought measles to very low levels. Not now.

US builds case to retain measles elimination status as infections mount U.S. officials are building a case that ongoing measles outbreaks in South Carolina and other states are unrelated to last year's major outbreak in Texas, as it tries to retain its status of having el...

You cannot simultaneously care about maintaining measles elimination status while actively campaigning against the vaccine that allowed this elimination status to be achieved in the first place.
That's not how any of this works 🤷🏽‍♀️
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

It will take some time (a few years), but this change will lead to hundreds of thousands of preventable diseases in the most vulnerable parts of the population, including deaths.

I assume we'll follow this up with the introduction of universal healthcare and paid family/sick/parental leave?

Officials claim the new schedule is meant to bring the U.S. recommendations closer to those in other developed nations. Though some other wealthy countries, including those consulted by U.S. officials, actually have similar recommendations to the ones the administration is jettisoning.

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Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children

Kennedy unilaterally guts the US Vaccine schedule. Public health is the great equalizer, but this administration does not want a more equitable America. And children will die. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

If we're going to have the childhood vaccine schedules of Germany, Denmark and Japan, can we have their healthcare systems too?