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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
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Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

everything feels like it's on fire...

Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

The @fda.gov’s top vaccine official has been pushed out, @wsj.com reports. “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,” Dr. Peter Marks wrote in a resignation letter.

see, this plane got measles and was perfectly fine

Of all federal spending, only 6% goes to federal employees. So we are gutting institutional knowledge and firing people who have dedicated their lives to serve their country and saving nothing.

All EIS officers cut?!? dark days ahead... we will by flying blind

#CDC has confirmed #H5N1 #birdflu in a child in San Fransisco whose source of infection hasn't been determined. The child had fever & conjunctivitis, but has since recovered. Info not yet available on the genotype of the virus, which should help point to a source (ie wild birds or cows).

India confirms first HMPV cases amid surge in China India confirmed its first cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infections in children, with a total of seven cases reported as of Tuesday. The cases were reported in Bengaluru, Nagpur, Tamil Nadu …

Why is the media reporting hMPV infections like they're a novel virus?

#idsky

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I guess everybody eats when it comes to contract incentives! #billsmafia

How many games has Josh sat out the 4th quarter bc of blowouts? #billsmafia

Dr. Thomas O'Brien -- Expert in Antimicrobial Resistance and Giant in His Field (Literally) Dr. Thomas (Tom) O’Brien was born in January 1929, in between the discovery of penicillin (September 1928) and the publication of the findings in a medical journal (May 1929). As noted by his longtime...

I had no idea that Conan O'Brien's dad was in ID.
My condolences to the O'Brien family for the loss of both Dr. O'Brien and his wife Ruth.
#idsky

serious H5N1 illness associated with exposure to backyard poultry flock. #idsky

What’s start! Dion had no one to block on that last TD 😂
#billsmafia

Again I ask you…. Who’s covering Nacua?!

Um who’s covering Nacua?!

tired: earthquake twitter
wired: tsunami bluesky

Double dip feels like a huge advantage. Any stats on how often teams take advantage?

Sucks… such a good player

Let James Cook!!!

The taxonomy of bacteria is frequently improved as our understanding of their phylogeny increases. What is the correct way to refer to the bacteria we casually call “enteric Gram-negative bacilli” ? Read the comic to find out

Enterobacteriaceae? Enterobacterales?
What Should We Call Enteric Gram-Negative Bacilli? A Micro-Comic Strip #idsky #medsky #microsky
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Bruce! Are there rocks ahead?

Thurman Thomas on the Dolphins in 2000!

whoa... heads-up folks
#idsky

woohoo! I told you this place had a Reading Rainbow vibe... and it's not just the butterfly in the sky...
#bydhttmwfi

#USDA has confirmed highly pathogenic #birdflu in a backyard flock in Hawaii, on Oahu. Its press release doesn't say which virus; both H5 & H7 viruses can be high path. Given the HI's health dept announced last week it had found #H5 in wastewater, I'm betting that. health.hawaii.gov/news/newsroo...

Romo said RAC? Is it YAC? Either way Shakir is a _AC-master

HIMBO!!!
#billsmafia

What a win for Stanford!

And now Go Bills!