Justin Gero

RFK Jr. Made Promises in Order To Become Health Secretary. He’s Broken Many of Them. - KFF Health News Before being confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation’s official vacci...

RFK Jr. was sworn in as health secretary one year ago, after promising not to cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation’s vaccine recommendations.

Since then, he’s done both.

Watch for more on some of the promises Kennedy made during his confirmation process ⤵️

As someone with 15 years of experience working in public health, including vaccines, the loss of CDC leadership is a tragedy. We are healthier when the CDC is healthy, and I hope that when we regain power, we seriously invest in rebuilding public trust and learning lessons from this era.

“Not in the Best Interests of Child Health” - RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Schedule Tanks CDC Credibility Contagion found hundreds of pediatric offices in all 50 states and DC that are rejecting RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule.

The latest from Contagion: I found hundreds of pediatric providers who are rejecting the CDC's new vaccine schedule, and not a single one who endorses it.

At the same time, public trust in the CDC is tanking. Just 47% of Americans trust the CDC on vaccines.

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we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

7. #CDC reports that about 95% of the confirmed cases so far this year are in people who aren't fully vaccinated (2 shots).
This map shows most parts of the country don't have measles vaccination rates high enough to stop spread if measles is introduced. Measles isn't going away anytime soon.

YouTube video by It Was A Sh*t Show The Making of The Fugitive was a Sh*t Show

Great behind-the-scenes look at what a shitshow this movie was to make. Incredible it's a good as it is! They didn't even know how the movie would end while they were filming.

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Eye Protection for Tear Gas and other Hazards: A Protest Safety Guide Protesters may be hit with rubber bullets, projectiles, tear gas, pepper spray or paintball guns. Learn about eye protection for tear gas and other hazards.

From the American Academy of Ophthalmology:

We could create more primary care providers in an instant by letting nurse practitioners fully practice in every state, but these grifters would rather spend your money on chat bot docs.

“Warfare” is the Most Realistic Depiction of Concussions and Brain Injuries on Film Warfare is an unglamorous lesson in the trauma and horror of war, and a rare look at the effects and consequences of concussions and TBIs.

I recently watched Warfare (2025) @a24movies.bsky.social, and couldn't stop thinking about it.

I think it's the most realistic depiction of concussions and traumatic brain injury I've seen on film.

Am I crazy? That's a pig, right? We all see a pig?

The U.S. will likely lose its measles elimination status. Here's what that means The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status. n.pr/46gC8jB

It is disingenuous for media outlets to continue reporting that RFK Jr., Bhattacharya, Makary and Prasad are working to “restore trust” in public health.

The data clearly show that after one year of being in power, trust in public health is plummeting, not increasing.

I find it *extremely* disturbing that Jay Bhattacharya—who campaigned for RFK Jr during RFK’s Presidential run—is repositioning the NIH to be the research arm of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine, anti-science MAHA movement😨

HHS wasn't worried about South Carolina's measles outbreak. It's now enormous. “CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December.

New from me: Last month I asked HHS about South Carolina's measles outbreak. They brushed me off, saying they weren't "concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak."

A month later, it's the biggest since measles was declared eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight.

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The medical community is united against RFK Jr's new vaccine schedule.

We've pulled this out of our paywall so more people can read it

Scary disease. Glad to hear the outbreak is over.

How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era A notorious event in 1984 divided New Yorkers in ways that feel extremely familiar four decades later.

Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years

Refusing to take a side is taking a side. Appeasement and false equivalency aid and abet fascism.

America’s “Immigration Enforcement” Is Killing Us, and Healthcare Cuts Are Paying for It ICE is murdering people in the streets and detention centers, and they're pillaging your healthcare to pay for it.

ICE is murdering people in the streets and its detention centers, and they're pillaging your healthcare to pay for it.

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Weak shit.

“Donald Trump’s masked marauders murdered another U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Saturday, a senseless killing in a senseless war playing out in broad daylight on America’s streets," writes The Inquirer Editorial Board. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

Nurses Continue to Lead in Honesty and Ethics Ratings Nurses still rank highest for ethics, yet Americans' ratings of most professions remain historically weak and declining.

Reminder that nurses are the most trusted and respected profession in the US, topping rankings for honesty and ethics.

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A nurse. A 37-year-old man who devoted his time to healing the sick and the injured, who came outside in the cold to protect his neighbors, gunned down in the street by bloodthirsty blackshirts

How is anyone in public health supposed to plan when RFK continually unilaterally cuts funding, restores it, pauses it, etc.?

Maybe that's the point. A little chaos to shake up the system and make it easier for our anti-vax head of healthcare to remake the system in his unscientific vision.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Brick wall with metal panel covered in leftover glue.

The state of history in this country...

Panel from the Presidents House in Philadelphia that discussed people enslaved by George Washington.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.