Eric Meyerowitz

Free HIV drugs save lives. Why one state is restricting access for thousands. An estimated 16,000 HIV and AIDS patients in Florida might lose free medication, health care as the state dramatically rolls back a decades-old program.

Florida is proposing the introduction of new eligibility rules for ADAP which subsidizes HIV treatment. Under the new rules up to 16000 people living with HIV in the state could lose access to life saving medication.
Without ADAP meds cost 3000$-6000$ US/month.
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Using FDA Law to Threaten Medical Practice | NEJM Though recent subpoenas from the U.S. DOJ target providers of gender-affirming care, the legal arguments behind them could affect physicians prescribing off-label treatment for any reason.

“By suggesting that physicians may be committing a federal crime under the FDCA when they prescribe or administer a drug for an unapproved use, the DOJ — in its effort to deter gender-affirming care — calls into question patients’ access to off-label uses of all drugs.”

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

We Do Care | NEJM Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.

“And so, in order to uphold our professional covenants, we call for an immediate end to the violence and trauma that is being inflicted on our patients and our communities by ICE. We implore all in our medical community to use the power of your voices as well, to protect our patients and your own.”

FDA Labeling Change for mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines To the Editor The decision by Drs Prasad and Makary to report changes to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety labels for COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines in a Viewpoint1 rather than on t...

I wrote this back in July partly in response to process changes by FDA leaders. There has been enormous erosion and destruction of our federal public health institutions since then.

The damage being done is devastating and the preventable deaths that will follow are heartbreaking and unnecessary

Today’s announcement that HHS is drastically altering the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule without a transparent process or clear scientific justification represents the latest reckless step in Secretary Kennedy’s assault on the national vaccine infrastructure.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/497Tj8V

CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe

I am glad to see large media outlets reporting on this. Hopefully it shames the researchers into not continuing with the planned study or at minimum making sure ALL children in the study receive the birth dose of the HepB vaccine.
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Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
 
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.

When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.

The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

IDSA has selected Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FIDSA, as its next chief executive officer, effective Jan. 12, 2026.

Learn more: bit.ly/4pHt2nF

Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors

This will harm kids.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.

The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity While NIH director Jay Bhattacharya focuses on podcasting, his second in command is dramatically remaking the agency.

This is an important article by @katherinejwu.com on the destruction of infectious disease research - and the man behind it.

As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Its not that Makary has come to scientifically reasoned conclusions about these issues (HIV, COVID, vaccines), it’s that his brain is completely reprogrammed to see only conspiracy theories where science itself is the antagonist. He is unable to change his views based on scientific evidence

In such a dark time it’s so important to remember we are also surrounded by good and great people like this

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

It won’t change votes much. But the gutting of USAID might be the most consequential policy of the second Trump administration simply in terms of people who died, who went without food or medicine
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I can't imagine an IRB approving this study.

AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families.
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Jeanne Marrazzo, the former head of the U.S. NIAID, has sued the federal government, which fired her on 26 September.

Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X

Letter to the Dietary Supplement Industry on the DSHEA Disclaimer Letter to the Dietary Supplement Industry on the DSHEA Disclaimer

You know the "quack Miranda warning?" The text that must be placed on labels of supplements to indicate that the FDA has not evaluated any of it?

Well, it's on its way out, further blurring the lines between drugs & nonsense in the US.

h/t @builduprdns.bsky.social

www.fda.gov/food/informa...

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies The president’s immigration policy is “beyond inhumane.”

"When I said in February that they were going to cast a wide net for deportations, I had no idea how bad it would be. This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous."

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Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.

ICE is a criminal organization and a national disgrace. They all must be held fully accountable.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.

There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government

From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'.

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'.

WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

It’s very important & relevant that doctors continue to make clear that standard of care has not changed & that we continue to recommend vaccines to our patients

We need a loud & exciting education campaign to reshare the good news about vaccines & fight back against all the lies & disinformation