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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US.
The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed.
This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.
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CDC is ending its media campaign promoting influenza vaccination
drrubin.substack.com/p/cdc-ends-i...
The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week has been postponed indefinitely to “accommodate public comment in advance of the meeting.” Why do I have the feeling that is not all that is going on here?
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed: ACIP scheduled to meet 2/26-28. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Square image with a purple background and a quote from a Perspective article by Eleanor R. Menzin, M.D., that reads "Some will ask, “Can you recommend a good pediatrician who does not believe in vaccines?” No, I say, no more than I can recommend a good physicist who does not believe in gravity." At the bottom of the image is "NEJM" next to the logo for the New England Journal of Medicine.
Perspective by Eleanor R. Menzin, MD:
With U.S. politics threatening to erase the gains of science, reduce access to vaccines, and undermine their vast public health benefit, what is a conscientious pediatrician to do?
Read the full Perspective: nej.md/4iZNHQW
Massive cuts to funding for the National Institutes of Health will eliminate the promise of lifesaving medical treatments for millions of Americans of all ages, says IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP.
Our statement: https://buff.ly/4hNBHRd
Trump is cutting BILLIONS in biomedical research funding — which will have a large impact on Tennessee, including and especially Williamson County.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
“It’s important to see the big picture...
[The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.”
This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪
Devastating 😢
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"We have come a long way in preventing disease through vaccination, and we must not lose our progress."
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of early and continued vaccine use in the US.
ja.ma/42FLxAn
#MedSky
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them.
https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4
Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
Data sets relating to issues like diversity, reproductive health, climate are disappearing from the CDC website. #IDSky
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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