Jeremy Faust, MD

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Inside Medicine: There are now two CDC's / Can the agency survive?

by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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Democrats Should Use the Impending Government Shutdown to Force RFK Jr.'s Resignation. An impending government shutdown presents an opportunity. This is the best way to leverage that.

Read the full argument: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/democrats-...

If Democrats wait, they may not get another chance. The shutdown is leverage, but it is fleeting.

Now, some people have argued to me that we simply can't support any cuts, even for RFK's ouster.

My response: the cuts are coming anyway and we should try to do something positive with this moment

This last point is even more important because, the White House is already threatening to weaponize the shutdown with more RIFs, which would be really, really bad. So, we need a way out of this...

For their part, Democrats would get something the country needs immediately: the removal of a dangerously unqualified cabinet official.

Plus Dems will avoid being being blamed for a shutdown...

It's a win-win (or an "everybody loses something") situation.
Republicans would get something they already want (spending reductions). (And also, whether they realize it or not, RFK is a liability to them.)

Instead of only playing defense against budget cuts, Democrats would be putting a specific demand on the table that helps everyone.

Democrats should offer to support *some* of those cuts (that they would otherwise reject) in exchange for one clear concession:

Dismiss RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, or accept his immediate resignation.

The appropriations process has already produced House and Senate markups with significant proposed cuts.

Normally, Democrats would oppose these reductions outright, but this moment calls for an unusual move.

Democrats should use the impending government shutdown to demand Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation.
This is the best opportunity they are likely to have.

Hear me out:

YouTube video by Boston Globe Events Fireside Chat with Jeremy Faust

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Democrats Should Trade Spending Cuts for RFK Jr.'s Resignation. An impending government shutdown presents an opportunity. This is the best way to leverage that.

Democrats Should Trade Spending Cuts for RFK Jr.'s Resignation. open.substack.com/pub/insideme... via @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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I suspected this administration might try its hand at audacious censorship.

What I didn’t anticipate was how many apparently Constitution-loving Americans would be all like “GOOD!”

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down. The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

It’s here: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Read the full analysis and see the list of websites + their last online date in the latest edition of Inside Medicine.

This latest action is yet another angle in the administration's ongoing attack not only on our public health infrastructure, but on the mission-critical work carried out by CDC employees themselves.

Many, if not most, of the removed websites have obvious tie-ins to topics known to be disfavored by the Trump administration, including:
-the care of LGBTQ+ people
-health equity issues related to a variety of diseases or disabilities
-STIs and related educational resources.

In some cases, agency staffers have been specifically instructed to remove websites.

Others were discovered by employees in the course of their work.

The complete list of censored CDC websites, however, is anything but random…

22 websites have been removed so far:

(Plus two more I’ve learned of since we posted this information)

BREAKING NEWS over in Inside Medicine:

Censorship at the CDC. Again.

Two dozen websites were removed, including resources for health equity, disability, and LGBTQ+ care.

Here’s what we know:

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down. The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

Inside Medicine -- BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down

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by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down. The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.
by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

GLEN JACKSON (@theglenjackson) Overall, this latest action appears to be yet another angle in the administration's ongoing attack not only on our public health infrastructure, but on the mission-critical work carried out by CDC emp...

Overall, this latest action appears to be yet another angle in the admins ongoing attack not only on our #publichealth infrastructure, but on the mission-critical work carried out by #CDC employees themselves. “The agency is so compromised and the #scientists are #hostage,”
@jeremyfaust.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down. The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

@jeremyfaust.bsky.social
reporting that 22 sites have been removed from the CDC website.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

"I'm still confused," member says during vote on national vaccine policy. Notes from Day 1 of the CDC's ACIP meeting. Out: comprehensive evaluation of data or feasibility studies. In: vibes!

"I'm still confused," member says during vote on national vaccine policy. Notes from Day 1 of ACIP.

They were so confused that they had to re-vote this morning. "No" meant "yes."

This is the rigor in our national vaccine advisory group under RFK Jr.

Read on:
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...