Miriam Rabkin

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Do you even hear yourselves?

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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RFK Jr. also falsely claims that with the government shutdown:

“Democrats want to hurt hospitals and clinics in vulnerable communities by repeal of $50B in rural health care funding”.

He omits the fact that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts $187B and that rural health clinics are already closing.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired “I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

Powerful interview of recently fired CDC director by @maxkozlov.bsky.social . What unfolded is chilling and also sad to read in her words. The decimation of the CDC is a low point in global public health history because its impact extended beyond America.
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Covid Shots Protect Pregnant Women, but Getting Them Now Can Be Hard

New: The CDC acknowledges that pregnancy, in and of itself, is a high-risk condition for severe Covid. Yet it removed its vaccine recommendation for pregnant people without other conditions. Its contradictory messaging, plus the Trump admin's broader actions/inaction on vaccines, has reduced access.

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.

RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks.

The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.

Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Blames Tylenol Taken in Pregnancy for Autism | Defend Public Health

Defend Public Health corrects the lates Whopper of the Week from RFK

Tylenol taken during pregnancy does not cause autism and making women feel guilty for using the only safe fever and pain reduction drug during pregnancy is both cruel and dangerous.

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“The current context”

Federal Data Are Disappearing as Statistical Agencies Face Budget Cuts and Political Pressure | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which threat...

The Trump Administration is defunding important surveys and undermining federal statistical agencies, suppressing data that would reveal the harmful effects of the Republican megabill’s deep cuts and leaving families’ struggles harder to track. www.cbpp.org/research/pov...

Fragile N.C. Residents Lose Medicaid Support for Food and Housing One year after Hurricane Helene, people in the hard-hit western region of North Carolina can no longer rely on a successful program that helped keep them afloat.

North Carolina's Medicaid pilot, which provided healthy food and housing to vulnerable residents, is being shut down, leaving many families at risk and highlighting the impact of social safety net cuts.
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Opinion | Trump, Tylenol and the Plaintiffs Bar The acetaminophen link to autism is based on weak evidence pushed by RFK Jr. and his legal allies.

The WSJ Editorial Board is sick of RFK too.

"What’s going on here has less to do with healthcare than with a campaign by the plaintiffs bar."

Apparently RFK's trying to influence the appeals for a case his buddies lost against Tylenol.

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RFK Jr. launches FDA review of abortion pill Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Republican states this week that the FDA would conduct a new review of abortion pills.

“Review” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. 
 
It has been thoroughly reviewed. Mifepristone is safe… but that doesn’t fit in with their agenda so they’re going to find a way to restrict it anyways.

Whopper of the week: Kennedy's Lies About Fluoride Undermine Public Health | Defend Public Health RFK, Jr comments about the dangers of water fluoridation are not supported by data and put the dental health of the public at risk.

Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is on Kennedy's lies about fluoride.

Kennedy wants to change the water fluoridation recs, get states to ban fluoridation, and phase out approvals for fluoride tablets at FDA. Pay attention!

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RFK Jr. has proven nothing but his unfitness. He must go. - The Boston Globe Kennedy is endangering America’s health.

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The Doctors Building a Public-Health Universe Outside the Government A growing contingent of physicians and policymakers are breaking away from federal health guidance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A growing contingent of doctors say they are wary of federal health guidance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe.

‘Based on what I feel’: Trump escalates attack on childhood vaccines Trump promoted long-debunked claims that vaccines can cause autism as he called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule sought by anti-vaccine activists.

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us.

More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

YouTube video by Sarah Cooper How to medical

Reupping “light inside the body” from the great Sarah Cooper. An all timer.

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This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Trump: "Asceda -- well, let's see how we say that. Ascenem -- enophin. Acetaminophen. Is that okay?"

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

White House press conference with Trump, RFK Jr, Marty Makary, and Dr. Oz, for fuck's sake

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

Does Tylenol Use during Pregnancy Cause Autism? What the Research Shows Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin

To prepare you for today's wild ride in science news--here's what experts know and don't know about the causes of autism and the use of Tylenol during pregnancy: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

According to a State Department memo, the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development will cost taxpayers an extra $6.4 billion.

That amount could save more than one million children's lives, and this administration is instead stealing our money to eliminate programs that save lives.

UN proposes closing UNAIDS in 2026 as funding cuts bite The United Nations agency focusing on the HIV/AIDS pandemic could close by the end of next year as the U.N. restructures in the face of a funding crisis, according to a U.N. document published online.

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Opinion | Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Is a Calamity

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Is a Calamity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...