It is so wild to me that we had a terrorist attack on the CDC and it just blended into the rest of the political violence.
17.08.2025 04:24 — 👍 1682 🔁 525 💬 24 📌 13It is so wild to me that we had a terrorist attack on the CDC and it just blended into the rest of the political violence.
17.08.2025 04:24 — 👍 1682 🔁 525 💬 24 📌 13
Chaos at the CDC’s vaccine meeting.
One member resigned.
Some scientific materials weren’t vetted.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is boycotting.
So yeah, it’s going great!
Here's a bunch of information and analysis, including some breaking news 🧵 1/
Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign
(This is foolish and harmful at any time, but also worth mentioning that flu hospitalizations hit a 15-yr peak earlier this month…)
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The deleted pubs include safety guidelines for EMS response to hazardous substance releases, and nursing home injury prevention guidance.
Basically the Trump mob did a Ctrl+F across the federal gov and deleted all the search results without regard for context….
“Almost all of [the deleted OSHA publications] are not associated with DEIA topics but appear to have been targeted because they include a DEIA-related keyword used in a completely different context.”
popular.info/p/in-botched...
Per source, they also fired 18 contractors this week just from the flu division who work on data and communications, 4 from the comms team.
This is also the primary division handling bird flu.
Trump and Musk’s takeover of the US government is a human disaster
HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website bsky.app/profile/cram...
Meanwhile in Texas, health officials are scrambling to get a handle on a measles outbreak and suspect 200-300 are infected
As seasonal flu surges and bird flu expands, CDC analyses of the outbreaks are missing.
Doctors, health departments, and the World Health Organization have looked to the agency for information and been met by silence.
@amymaxmen.bsky.social reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
(a) all federally funded health research should empower Americans through transparency and open-source data, and should avoid or eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate distrust;
RFK just released his plan for HHS.
He claims he will “eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate distrust.”
Hypocrisy. RFK profits from spreading disinformation about vaccines and suing vaccine makers, which creates distrust in science and kills people.
It's worth saying that while this news is gutting--it is NOT surprising. Science denialism has been brewing for decades. Many of us who have been doing this work for longer than COVID have been sounding the alarms about RFK Jr (and CHD) This was always his end game. And he finally got it.
13.02.2025 21:26 — 👍 143 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 3
Seems relevant to share this now.
#PedSky
#MedSky
www.aap.org/en/patient-c...
This marks a huge, and avoidable, leap backwards for America’s health….
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
I am worried about:
- the future of vaccines
- the unchecked spread of bird flu
- the suppression of public health voices
- the rolling back HIV care access
- the assault on science and researchers
Today more than ever, I am worried about these things and the threat to our collective health.
Major breaking trans news: The States of Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block it from enforcing a national gender affirming care ban for those under 19 years of age.
This is the second major lawsuit over Trump's trans ban EO.
Docs to come.
Temporary restraining order request filed in the transition care executive order ban.
Remember to follow this bot for updates on LGBTQ related federal litigation!!!
NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned.
The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.
Whatever one's position on foreign aid, no denying policy changes have consequences. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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…City of Pittsburgh EMT service. They stole all of the ideas and innovation from Freedom House and eventually pushed out the men who actually invented the entire concept. Have a watch if you can for more information. www.wqed.org/freedomhouse/
04.02.2025 01:43 — 👍 59 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first EMT service in the U.S. It was begun by a group of Black men in Pittsburgh in 1967. They were so effective that white people got angry that they didn’t have such a lifesaving service, so the Mayor cancelled Freedom House’s contract and started up the…
04.02.2025 01:43 — 👍 120 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 1
Every Senator will now have to weigh in—and we aren’t giving up on any vote. #StopRFK
Our statement 👉
Literally just one person, a physician who knows that RFKJr is a dangerous charlatan, needed to be brave today. And… that didn’t happen.
Now it comes down to a full Senate vote.
Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism
Sadly, given current events, I thought this needed explanation.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...
According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!
04.02.2025 00:02 — 👍 3309 🔁 939 💬 16 📌 21New York protects gender identity in its constitution as voted by the people. The feds requiring entities in New York to discriminate against trans people are requiring them to break New York law. While the relevant laws are statutes, the NY Constitution requires the state to prevent discrimination.
03.02.2025 18:08 — 👍 2103 🔁 372 💬 18 📌 16The WH celebrates as hospitals comply in advance with a cruel EO to take away evidence-based treatment from kids. The organizations doing this are breaking their oaths to do no harm and to advocate for their patients.
03.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inbox: The White House is celebrating reports that some hospitals have paused gender-affirming care for transgender youth in response to an executive order threatening their funding.
03.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 191 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 8
At least the vaccine info statements are back online as of this morning (have to click through a redirect page to get each one). But troves of other vital data are still missing, with no accountability or info on when/if they’ll be restored….
#rnsky #medsky
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...
An EO doesn't change that
- STI rates are high & need effective diagnosis and treatment
- US still has highest rate of congenital syphilis among rich countries.
- AMR is rising
- There's an uncontrolled HIV epidemic in the US SE.
Hiding access to treatment guidelines worsens these crises for all.
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive Language English Item Size 98.5G An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.
Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!
