Stephanie Noblit

As respiratory virus season begins, federal shutdown leaves critical gap in surveillance | CNN The federal government shutdown has brought respiratory virus surveillance to a halt at the national level, leaving local governments, health systems and the general public with critical blind spots a...

Key federal reports on flu, Covid-19, and RSV haven’t been updated in nearly a month, even as virus activity picks up, due to the federal government shutdown.

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Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠.
Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death.
None of this is pro-life.

USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

Many American families struggle to put food on the table ...but we won't know how many after this year.

🍎 Food insecurity is apolitical
🍎 The fight against hunger is not a 🔴 or 🔵 issue, it's a human issue

@hcwvshunger.bsky.social @tmprowell.bsky.social
@shematologist.medsky.social

It's a really, really tough time to be a scientist and a lawyer. Both evidence and precedent don't seem to matter anymore.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Let me make this very clear:
Being sarcastic about sexual assault while also anti science, and scaring pregnant people into not appropriately treating their pain while simultaneously belittling the lives of autistic people is really a full encapsulation of this administration.

Something to remember as the administration works to stop children from getting lifesaving vaccines

75 Organizations Representing Public Health, Patients, Family Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals Send Letter to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - Alliance for Aging... Today, 75 organizations representing public health, patients, family caregivers, and healthcare professionals sent a letter to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The letter...

Thankful and proud that @iamascls.bsky.social signed on to this letter to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

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When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?

Fired CDC director who clashed with RFK Jr. set to testify in Senate The hearing would give Susan Monarez a high-profile opportunity to respond to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about her ethics and their conversations about vaccines.

BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week.

Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines.

RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy.

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Florida AG announces ban on "7-OH" products The announcement makes Florida the first state to ban the concentrated kratom byproduct.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday made it illegal to sell 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, a compound found in some kratom products, by classifying it as a Schedule I controlled substance in the state.

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Disturbing

Same-sex marriages have zero effect on religious extremists.

A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings.

So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

They want us all to die.

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Florida AG Blasts ‘Woke’ ABA and Pushes for New Legal Accreditor The American Bar Association should lose authority in Florida to accredit law schools, state Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said, because of its pattern of left-leaning political actions.

The Florida AG is arguing that the ABA (@americanbar.org) should lose the authority to accredit law schools in Florida because of its pattern of left-leaning political actions.

So wanting an independent judiciary and upholding the rule of law is woke?

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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

They vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Instead, they:

Kicked millions of people off health insurance

Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics

Cut billions of dollars from science research

Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers

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This is critical reporting from ProPublica and I’ll have more context at my newsletter, Abortion, Every Day.

Politics in the US today is about as morally simple as it has ever been. The only relevant question is “Do you support totally eviscerating the already threadbare US social safety net to fund a system of concentration camps for immigrants and people of color, or do you not support that?”

We already consistently have a shortage of blood. If people could receive proper abortion care, we could avoid the need for transfusion and reduce the strain on our blood banks.

We will not stay silent on vaccines, say leaders of five major U.S. medical associations “We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities,” write the presidents of the AAFP, AAP, ACP, ACOG, and IDSA.

"We will not stay silent."

IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP, joins @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, @acpimphysicians.bsky.social,
@acog.org, and @aafp.org in urging evidence-based vaccine recommendations. bit.ly/443ptQw

US CDC report shows no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted a report on Tuesday that said evidence does not support a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders, ahead of a two-day meeting of an advisory panel later this week.

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the CDC's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

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Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous.
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BREAKING: A Massachusetts federal judge blocked the NIH from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government. www.law360.com/artic...

Outgoing president of @aphl.org giving the keynote address at #LabJAM.

"The future of science is at risk."

This is 100% going to come back and bite us all in the ass.

Vaccine vial for COVID-19

FDA's changes to COVID vaccine approval could make it harder to access the vaccine and harm populations.

“This policy change will increase likelihood of variant emergence and worsen health inequities," RSPH's Jodie Guest told @cnn.com. www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/h...

Americans sometimes drive across the border to buy cheaper insulin in Canada

I fear they might now need to do that to access vaccines