Greg Folkers

The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone RFK Jr.’s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.

Atlantic: The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone

RFK Jr.’s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.

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A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJM Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.

This is extraordinary. Prasad's memo was something else, but to have 12 former FDA commissioners get together so quickly and say what a threat it is...just wow. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #medsky #vaccine #fda

How some treatments can lead to a ‘functional cure’ for HIV Specific class of immune cells help keep virus at bay for months or years—even in the absence of drugs

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Georgetown University Medical Center: Treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS: Unfinished business bit.ly/3XYYLo2

PLOS Med/ Fauci and Folkers on World AIDS Day:Treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS: Unfinished business

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New Yorker: The Undermining of the C.D.C.

The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.

by Dhruv Khullar

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JIAS/D Daskalakis:

This is not normal: a call for HIV activism

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by @drdemetre.bsky.social

bioRxiv: Detection and isolation of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b high pathogenicity avian influenza virus from ticks (Ornithodoros maritimus) recovered from a naturally infected slender-billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei)

Dylan Andrieux et al

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@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

UNICEF/UNAIDS: Their Future is on the Line: Cost of inaction on HIV for children

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npj Vaccines: Influenza mRNA vaccine reduces pathogenicity and transmission of A(H5N1) virus in a ferret model

Masato Hatta et al

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#h5n1

FDA Memo Claims to Link 10 Kid Deaths to COVID Shots Expert calls report without proper scientific review 'dangerous and irresponsible'

MedPage Today: FDA Memo Claims to Link 10 Kid Deaths to COVID Shots

Expert calls report without proper scientific review "dangerous and irresponsible"

by @kristinafiore.bsky.social
@medpagetoday.com

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NYT/ David Wallace-Wells: When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own

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Commentary on Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Memoli op-ed

NEJM: Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human Infection Model

Anna P. Durbin et al

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NYT: Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

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“It just seems petty and hostile, frankly....."

(yes)

C&EN: At MAHA Summit, the NIH head pushes for research that risks failure

"....we have not done a good job in the past"
😕
i can think of dozens of big advances, many transformational, in many disciplines

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PNAS: Pathogens spread by high-flying wind-borne mosquitoes

Roland Bamou et al

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CIDRAP: Experimental mRNA flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness

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@cidrap.bsky.social

medRxiv: Emergence of a novel reassorted high pathogenicity avian influenza A(H5N2) virus associated with severe pneumonia in a young adult  

Joel Armando Vazquez-Perez et al

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h5n1 h5n2 etc

Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.DC.’s Second in Command

The latest phase of the MADA movement

Make Americans Dead Again

[Gift link]

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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation - KFF Health News When a measles outbreak emerged in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in October, health officials announced that most cases were tied to one public charter school, where only 17% of the 605 students enroll...

KFF Health News: South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation

by Lauren Sausser

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NOTUS: CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back

By Margaret Manto

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@notus.com
@margaretmanto.bsky.social

Commentary: Reaching a new low, CDC discards science in claims about vaccines and autism Changing its web page, the CDC now promotes the myth that vaccines are linked to autism despite years of research refuting the claim.

LA Times: Reaching a new low, CDC discards science in claims about vaccines and autism

by michael hiltzik

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Wow.

Inside Medicine: Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.

by @jeremyfaust

@CDCgov

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Gavi and UNICEF announce equitable pricing deal for malaria vaccine to protect 7 million more children by end of decade

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Nature Communications: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of vaccination on prevention of long COVID / Rhiannon Green et al

go.nature.com/4rgBz22

WSJ editorial board: RFK Jr. Turns the CDC Against Vaccines

The agency’s website is revised to spread autism fears, despite serious science finding no link.

▶️ on.wsj.com/4okTJgD

Atlantic: Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

Like Bhattacharya, Kennedy tends to invoke Galileo

by Michael Scherer

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A lot of the transformational advances in HIV science — Truvada PrEP, Treatment as prevention (HPTN 052), U=U, lenacapavir PrEP etc. happened under Carl's watch. A kind and generous person to boot. Huge loss.

Observer, UK/ I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards

by Rachel Clarke

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