Lauren Paige Kennedy

A lot has happened this week—and it all deserves our attention. If you can, please read and share the inaugural guest essay for HealthCentral's "The Future Is Science" column, written by American Medical Association President Bobby Mukkamala, M.D.

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HealthCentral partnered with the American Lung Association to ask leading experts to share important new findings on #longCOVID for this special report.

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Defying defiance to the laws. Good for NIH!

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

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A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.

"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'

A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

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500 million plastic straws wind up in our oceans every single day from the U.S. alone, a huge source of our microplastics problem—now so bad, scientists are finding microplastics inside our brains. But let’s ban the federal use of paper straws. Genius at work.

Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them.

The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM

And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13