Ryan Kubat

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

Those fired include the staff of the MMWR, our major source of information on outbreaks and guidelines, EIS, our disease investigators, and many experts. We are not equipped AT ALL to handle another outbreak or at this rate, any infectious disease…

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Screenshot of Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated 9/26/25, 9:45 AM. The post reads: ‘Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITIS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT’

We have a vaccine schedule built on decades of rigorous research by actual medical experts. Trump’s counter-proposal? Trust his gut. What could possibly go wrong when the president cosplays as a pediatrician?

He’s putting real children at risk from diseases we know how to prevent for no reason.

Checking on on ACIP; "at what point should low uptake factor into out decisions" (from one of the new ACIP members working hard to drive that COVID vaccination rate lower. Self-fulfilling prophecy)

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

RFK Jr. needs to step down now. He is systematically and aggressively making us less safe and more ill pushing aside any brave professional that refuses to go along with his nonsense.

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As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi

A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of tuberculosis, causing death or disability in around half of those affected. There are no up-to-date international guidelines defining its optimal mana...

A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis

Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium

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Dalbavancin for Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia This clinical trial compares the efficacy and safety of dalbavancin vs standard therapy for completion of treatment of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in hospitalized patients.

Happy DOTS Day, to those who celebrate. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

Lack of Association Between Histoplasma Urine Antigen Values and Clinical Response in Persons without HIV AbstractBackground. Histoplasma urine antigen detection, a valuable diagnostic tool, is often used to monitor response to antifungal therapy, but persisten

Lack of Association Between Histoplasma Urine Antigen Values and Clinical Response in Persons without HIV

Marisa Miceli and colleagues

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When you strip away humanity

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.

We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Watching what I can of the ACIP meeting; currently on COVID in kids; yes, kids still getting hospitalized. 1 in 4 end up in ICU. Most are unvaccinated, deaths are rare but are occurring (23 since 2023). Yes, that is far more than the deaths from COVID vaccines (zero) #factsmatter

RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

RFK Jr has fired everyone on CDC ACIP. He says "The public must know that unbiased science—evaluated through a transparent process & insulated from conflicts of interest—guides the recommendations of our health agencies."

👉 That's what we had and he just nuked it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

New moment of “WTF”:

-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”

😳😳😳

An Uproar at the NIH Jay Bhattacharya, the the agency’s director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test that.

More resistance from within the NIH
Gift article
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Today more than ever I think it is important to remind ourselves that #ElonMusk led indiscriminate cuts which have resulted in the estimated deaths of over 300,000 people globally to date. 2/3rds of these are children!!!
He is still very much a villain.
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist.

W/ @emilykennard.bsky.social:

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Prasad and Makary’s terrible opinion piece from 5/20 in the NEJM

Table from that Prasad and Makary article with “pregnancy and recent pregnancy” listed as an “underlying medical condition that increases a person’s risk of severe COVID-19”

HHS secretary Kennedy announcing that Covid vaccine is no longer recommended for pregnant women, including a lie that it is “good science”

Last week Prasad and Makary announced their new plan to make COVID boosters not available for those without high-risk conditions.

Even they recognized pregnancy as a high risk condition.

Today their boss said nope, no COVID vaccines for pregnant people. Another decision that will kill people

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I don’t think I have the stamina to watch all of RFK’s BS to congress today. Suffice it to say that from the bits I’ve seen he:
-still has no clue on measles
-still lies about vaccines
-has no interest in learning what his agency does
-is still the most unqualified public health leader in US history