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Trump commutes former Rep. George Santos' prison sentence The former New York congressman had been sentenced to seven years in prison. In a social media post, Trump said his commutation would release Santos from prison "immediately."

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law

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The Death of Public Health Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

“CDC experts actively responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed 43 people were RIFed in the middle of their deployment.” rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read!

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care - KFF Health News Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are generally ineligible for federally funded health care programs. Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable C...

Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans’ tax and spending law take effect. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I’m 100% sure that’s actually not the question to be asking

Come spend the midnight hour with @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social. We have some great presentations from Africa and Asia, as we head into the second half of our 24 hour livestream to Save AIDS Research! saveaidsresearch.org.

“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

"Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders."

Opinion | Now Is Not the Time for Surrender

And let's say it, @jamellebouie.net was there at the beginning saying this. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

It’s been a while since I’ve been in school, but isn’t war something that countries usually declare on OTHER countries, not cities within their own country? How do you win a war on yourself?

A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled.

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This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X)
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CDC Director Susan Monarez is ousted as senior leaders exit agency Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been ousted after just a month on the job.

The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage
cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.

Great analysis of Macedo and Lee's "In Covid's Wake," revealing it to be cherry-picked storytelling that is often disconnected from evidence. Their institutional affiliation doesn’t make any of their arguments more true 🎁

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5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling.

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The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6 “In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
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I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6 “In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

Postdoc position is still open! Definitely reach out if you’re keen on tracking pathogen evolution and spread (especially using wastewater 😎)!

This is really reporting 'inside' the response to the devastating Mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone.

Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones.

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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.

Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say

The shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, which killed a police officer, followed the spread of false information around Covid vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say.

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"Vought & his cronies are shitting bureaucratic nukes & wiping their asses with the Constitution. This Executive Order is egregiously unlawful. It is a flagrant attempt to kill scientific research & education & exact economic ruin in service of corruption & the erosion of democratic norms."

It’s been quite a while… but we’re glad to report our San Diego wastewater dashboard is back up and running!

Real-time, multi-pathogen wastewater genomic surveillance with Freyja 2 Case-based infectious disease surveillance is fundamental to public health, but is resource-intensive, logistically complex, and prone to sampling bias. Wastewater testing and sequencing have increasi...

@kevinlibuit.bsky.social & @curtiskapsak.bsky.social were two of the co-authors on a new paper on Freyja 2 — a bioinformatics tool for real-time, multi-pathogen wastewater surveillance.

Read about it here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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