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So sorry to hear. Thinking of Louie and hoping for the best 🐶💜. It is heartbreaking when we can’t do more to help them after all they do for us.

Watching the Chaos at the CDC -- with Sadness and Alarm Throughout my career as an infectious diseases doctor, the CDC has been a rock-solid source. Need reliable data on an outbreak? The CDC. Need thoughtful, evidence-based guidelines? The CDC. Need an au...

For us ID doctors, the CDC has been a rock. Data, guidelines, surveillance, travel advice -- all there, vetted by experts, referenced, reliable. Perfect? No. But watching its dismantling now breaks my heart. Some thoughts: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Federal HIV Guidelines Face a Shutdown — A Critical Loss for Clinicians and Patients Each week, our HIV clinical group gathers to review active patients, share updates, and celebrate good news. On our whiteboard, we list four columns: Inpatients, Outpatients, Issues, and Celebrations....

The federal HIV guidelines face a shutdown.
A trusted, living resource -- used by clinicians, programs, and public health agencies for decades -- may disappear due to “budget decreases and revised priorities.”
Big mistake. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Everything is awful…

He’s the Marco Rubio of the FDA! Wonder what title is next

Why the Sudden Firing of ACIP Members Should Put Every Clinician on High Alert There are certain irrefutable verities when, like me, you’re an infectious diseases specialist married to a pediatrician. Here are our top two, which are deeply interrelated: Infectious deaths in chil...

The head of HHS said he’d preserve ACIP. Then he fired the entire committee.

Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Any response from Bill Cassidy?!?

Excellent critique.

Trump officials downplay fake citations in high-profile report on children’s health References to phantom studies comes after White House pledge to practice “gold standard” science

The White House is downplaying major citation errors in a sweeping report on chronic disease in children released last week by the Make America Healthy Again Commission. scim.ag/4dPFNaQ

Where is Vinay Prasad?

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist “However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Terrible to see Peter leave the FDA. He is a top notch scientist

Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

There should be quite a few extras from federal employees not attending in person (like me).

Thank you in advance!

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.

Repeating myself -- the years of life lost from missed vaccines for life-threatening childhood diseases is vastly higher than for adult preventive measures.

Expecting more information later today.

Truly tragic.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

First measles death since 2015

Preventable, tragic, heart-breaking

Will we become numb as a country to these incalculable losses or will this spur society to reaffirm our trust in life-saving vaccines?

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO