Eric Meyerowitz

RFK Jr must resign and I believe those of us who work in healthcare, public health, health research, or any related field should demand his resignation

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

“It makes it sound like he knows what he’s talking about when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about at all.” - Paul Offit

It seems to me the same playbook that destroyed our democracy is destroying US science: learn the language & use it to mean the opposite, thereby destroying from the inside.

All of this. Kennedy is fanning hatred and misinformation, and that is harming not only the greater public, but also directly targets everyone who works in healthcare advocating for evidence-based vaccination

Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats

They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.

mRNA Vaccines Are a Game-Changer—Here’s Why Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology

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RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to go backwards and roll back progress.

"Dr. Paul Offit said whole-virus vaccines have been around since the late 1800s, noting that “we make safer, better vaccines” today due to technological advances."
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Again, aside from this being illegal & fascist, it's also completely destructive of the entire business model of an R1 public university in the 21st century.

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kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Hard to overstate how harmful this action is

I wouldn’t want to be in a country without mRNA vaccines for the next pandemic

ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants

This morning, ICE sent out a memo offering cash bonuses for quick deportations.

The New York Times reached out to DHS about the memo.

It then got cancelled.

Story:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Brown’s Trump surrender shatters a dream | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, about those "Trump accomplishments"

Brown's liberal, open curriculum taught me higher ed wasn't just career prep but reading the great books and learning to be a good citizen

My alma mater's heartbreaking capitulation to the Trump regime makes me wonder if my dream was a mirage

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2 dead and at least 58 sick from growing Legionnaires' disease cluster in New York City Two people have died and at least 58 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease in a cluster that broke out in New York City last week.

2 dead and at least 58 sick from growing Legionnaires' disease cluster in New York City. (Legionnaires' is caused by airborne bacteria carried in water vapor.) abcnews.go.com/US/2-dead-58...

I hope everyone understands that the bribes the universities are paying the Trump administration are just the beginning - they will continue to demand the universities do whatever they demand, like firing professors for speaking inconvenient truths or expelling students for expressing themselves

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

“Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’ and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials...”

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TRUMP IS BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP With an all-out assault on democratic norms and the rule of law, President Donald Trump is amassing far more power than any previous U.S. president, creating unmistakable momentum toward establishment of a fascist dictatorship.

Dear mainstream media,
You’re nibbling around the edges of the Trump disaster without reporting the huge overall story that’s in front of you. Feel free to use this headline and lead paragraph, no charge.
Sincerely, Mark

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

I wanted to do a thread debunking misinformation about the ACIP working groups (WG) - I was a long time member of the influenza WG. The flu WG had expertise in epidemiology, clinical trial design, pediatric ID, ob-gyn, family medicine etc. Not sure anything is missing - #MedSky + #IDSky. (1/6)

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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As the job market stalls, remember that a major piece of the Republican tax and spending law that just passed is a work requirement for Medicaid enrollees.

Goodbye, Washington Post "A swirl of terrified excitement" for 18 years, 5 months and 16 days

“The Constitution gives us the inherent, unapologetically patriotic right to rail against such affronts to democracy and the rule of law. The First Amendment demands it.”

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the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Short Course Therapy With Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir for Early Hepatitis C Virus Infection: PURGE-C This study shows that people with early hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can achieve moderately high cure rates with a short course of 4 weeks of glecapre

“In this population with elevated risk of onward HCV transmission, 84% were cured with 4 weeks of G/P. Failing this short-course treatment did not compromise retreatment.”

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A list of the number of people on Medicaid in each state with the text "HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ON MEDICAID IN YOUR STATE?" at the top, and "TRUMP AND CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS JUST PASSED A BILL TO CUT THEIR CARE." below.

For 60 years, Medicare and Medicaid have supported nursing home stays, check-ups, and trips to the emergency room.

But Trump and Republicans in Congress just passed over $1 TRILLION in health care cuts.

It’s cruel, and I’m fighting back.

May more and more people rise up powerfully and effectively against this tide of fascism on these campuses and throughout our country

Watching formerly world-class universities self-immolate as they fall in line with this fascist administration, dramatically limit free speech & expression on their campuses, and agree to violently harm trans people and other highly marginalized individuals is very depressing

Shame on Brown U admin

Wow, how incredibly depressing (but entirely unsurprising) to see Drs Bhattacharya & Makary—true MAGA & MAHA heroes!—ignore the science pointing to zoonosis & instead go full-on conspiracy crank & accuse the NIH of, um, creating SARS-CoV-2, presenting zero evidence to support their kooky conspiracy🤯