June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S. By Erika Mills ~ In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles. This article, titl…

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Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.

Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS

About NHANES Learn about the only national health survey that includes health exams and laboratory tests

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(We think) people working on the NHANES surveys.

🧠🪱 is obsessed about healthy eating and ending the obesity outbreak.

Um, this is where you get DATA to learn about what people eat, drink, and their health.

Nothing says “fight obesity” like cutting the team that studies, uh… nutrition. 🍎

Ebola disease WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

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Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

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NCHC, National Center for Health Statistics - comms, policy, leadership

🧠🪱 - Do you need me to define health statistics for you?
All your concerns about chronic disease, indigenous health disparities, etc — we know what’s an issue AFTER we measure it.

2024 Accomplishments Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States

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PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center

Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.

They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.

Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

As public health federal workers we support a shut down as a negotiating tool to keep Americans on their health insurance.

We are prepping to go without pay. We are readying our documents in case Vought uses a shut down to illegally fires us.

Dems, hold the line.

Honestly, never thought "Tylenol" would be trending.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:xtrzqicesfwterpbweugpl4u/post/3lzho4gbu6c2a.

Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community clinics and health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children will lose access to lifesaving vaccines due to cost.

Heath Equity Funding! 👇

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This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests.

“The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”

There comes a point when we can no longer “fight from within”. A point when the best way to protect the American people is to leave CDC. Deb, Dan, and Demetre reached that point. We are so proud of them for resigning. Loudly. As a warning. This is not surrender. This is fighting back.

I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you.

Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.

We’re with you.

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.

This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

The four high-level CDC leaders who resigned yesterday after the ouster of the CDC director had deep expertise in immunization and infectious diseases and were crucial agency leadership.

Americans are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our health protection agency.

We need more voices. We need more people to be publicly pushing back. They have been all over the media raising awareness of the dangerous choices Kennedy is making. They are upholding CDC’s mission by resigning. There is no shame in leaving when leaving is the last tool you have left.

The quit‑smoking ads that helped millions are ending. A former smoker and experts fear what comes next. For 13 years, the CDC's "Tips" ads shared real stories and free quitline support. With funding ending, experts worry fewer people may quit.

This is not how we make American healthy

"Quitlines in some states may disappear altogether; in others, services are being cut back from several calls to just one, and nicotine replacement therapy that used to be available for all callers may only be given to a few"

www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-fr...

CDC’s Pledge to the American People 1. Be a diligent steward of the funds entrusted to our agency: CDC accomplishes agency-wide fiscal accountability and oversight of appropriations, acquisitions, assistance, and financial management of government funds. This aids in CDC's public health mission by ensuring appropriate fiscal stewardship of taxpayer dollars. 2. Provide an environment for intellectual and personal growth and integrity: CDC expects that employees know and follow the fourteen principles of ethical conduct for executive branch personnel. These principles help foster growth for both individual employee and agency wide progress to further public health science, and maintain the public's trust. 3. Base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data that is derived openly and objectively: CDC ensures its science and research activities, as well as employees, comply with various federal laws, regulations, and policies in order to exercise the highest level of scientific integrity. To "enhance the quality, integrity of and access to CDC science," is one of 4 pillars the Office of the Associate Director of Science at CDC considers a priority and responsibility. 4. Place the benefits to society above the benefits to our institution: CDC employees are prohibited from participating in any matter that would pose a conflict of interest or appearance of bias. This helps ensure CDC achieves the highest quality of scientific research, and works to protect the nation's health. 5. Treat all persons with dignity, honesty, and respect: The Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health is intended principally for public and other institutions in the United States that have an explicit public health mission. It contains values and beliefs underlying the code, principles of the ethical practice of public health, and supplemental materials.

Worth reading CDC's Pledge to the American People from 2024. It is, put simply, the antithesis of RFK Jr.'s actions in office to date. www.cdc.gov/about/pledge...

Demetre Daskalakis, former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, speaks to a reporter at his clap out

Deb Houry, CDC's former Chief Medical Officer, speaks to reporters at her clap out

Dan Jernigan, CDC's former director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, speaks to reporters at his clap out

Some images from today's clap out. Deb, Dan, and Demetre - we appreciate everything you've done. You were the best of us public health dorks, and we will miss you immensely.

And we'll do our damnedest to keep the watch 💚💚💚

YouTube video by CNN CDC leaders who resigned sound alarm over direction of public health under RFK Jr.

G'morn!

A little past 18 min in interview 👇, Demetre replies to WH press secretary angry he used "pregnant ppl" in his resignation letter

"I accept the note from the press secretary & I counter that with- I don't care"🔥🔥🔥

We've been fighting back for months & mainstream media is finally listening

Ok so what else happened today for CDC?
Sept 18 ACIP meeting opens for comment tomorrow.
Tentative agenda includes several well-studied vaccines, which will probably undergo the same sham as the flu vaccine/thimerosal portion of the last meeting

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-16706.pdf

NEVER FORGET: The GOP Congress lack of interest in the breach of actual science at the CDC has made it CLEAR: they don’t care if we live or die.