Alex Yonts

Great read! I basically had this same discussion with residents at noon conference this week.

To be fair, this change was already under consideration by the working group, pre RFK Jr era, but a proposal for change hadn't been determined yet.

Gender affirming care for me, but not for thee.

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New shocking discovery: ACIP and Real Housewives of Atlanta share the same plot structure.
• Filmed in Atlanta
• Chaos
• Wild claims
• Cast members powered by “I don’t need evidence, I have vibes.”

Tune in today to watch the continued erosion of public health, sponsored by RFK.

ACIP has officially just become the worst, trashiest reality show of all time. And I know that me talking about it right now is literally the only thing that the Trump administration wants #attentionwhores but I cannot emphasize enough what a farce this entire committee has become.

At this point, people on the ACIP just want to hear themselves talk because evidence, data, and science have left the building. They want us to believe them because they say it is true- but we are smarter than that. We know how to look at decades of literature and have the ability to reason.

Wtf is Tracy Beth talking about? The WHO recommends Hepatitis B immunization for all infants, ideally with 24 hours of birth, which is the policy in 117 countries worldwide, including most of the Americas, Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and North Africa. Europe is the outlier...

Also, respectfully, you would have more time to hear comments or questions if you didnt defensively respond to every comment, Dr. Malone. Look to your past, pre-2025, ACIP chairs as an example...

Even the "set change" that ACIP has undertaken (getting rid of the round table and going with a "head of the class/lecture" set up) speaks volumes about their mindset and how much they care about any input from anyone in the scientific and medical community that isn't in their "clique".

A medieval church carving showing The Massacre of the Innocents in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. The carving shows Herod on a throne and 2 minions are putting infants to the sword and pulling them from the arms of their mothers

RFK Jr, Makary, and Prassad prepping for the ACIP meeting like…

You just GOTTA make it to the 8am session when Dr. Hamdy is sharing the latest, practice-changing papers on BSI and UTI treatment duration and adjunctive steroids in meningitis for the pediatric population! #IDWeek2025 #PIDS

#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy

Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”

It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences.

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

75% of the children in the study had never had a COVID vaccine.

Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social

Same thing with me last week! Maryland (has thus far) made it easy. I wish everyone could have this level of access if they desire.

What Is ME/CFS — And Why Should Pediatricians Care? ME/CFS is a complex, multi-system chronic illness that can strike both adults and children.

What Is ME/CFS — And Why Should Pediatricians Care?

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COVID vaccine ✅️ Flu vaccine ✅️ #vaccineswork #trustyourdoctornotrfkjr

It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs

I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

When describing this shift in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, as well as in a livestreamed FDA press conference, Prasad and Makary—neither of whom has formal training in infectious disease or vaccinology—focused primarily on the implications for COVID boosters for young, healthy adults.

In the past, the U.S. government has seen fit to restrict or pull vaccines only under extraordinary circumstances: major new safety concerns, a better immunization option, eradication of disease. And those decisions have generally come only after political leaders consulted multiple scientific experts in the field, which Prasad and Makary chose not to do through their agency’s typical channels. (The FDA’s panel of independent vaccine experts is scheduled to meet tomorrow.) Rather, political appointees with preexisting opinions on COVID vaccines appear to have enacted policy unilaterally. Prasad and Makary publicly went after COVID boosters. But kids’ first defenses against the virus are likely to be that attack’s collateral damage.

I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com.

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There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.

With nary a word about Long COVID and protection for those who desire it....

Vinay Prasad tapped to run FDA center that regulates vaccines, gene therapies Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out.

Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/

Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….

Very vocal patient advocate community and some champions (and long covid patients, like Tim Kaine himself) on HELP! It is a slight relief to see that speaking up can make a difference some times.

I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬

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Standing UP for science!

What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?