Annie P, MD, MSW

Quick takes: Death toll from USAID cuts, withdrawal of chikungunya vaccine, funding for updated Ebola vaccine A model that tracks the impact of USAID funding cuts estimates that more than 760,000 people have died as a result of those cuts since January 2025.

“Terminated USAID funding has also resulted in more than 164,000 additional child deaths from pneumonia, 125,000 additional child deaths from diarrhea, 70,000 additional adult and child deaths from malaria, and 48,000 additional adult and child deaths from tuberculosis.”

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

but now who will protect us from nothing

We must not let AI ‘pull the doctor out of the visit’ for low-income patients | Leah Goodridge and Oni Blackstock - Australia News Beep In southern California, where rates of homelessness are among the highest in the nation, a private company, Akido Labs, is running clinics for unhoused

We must not let AI ‘pull the doctor out of the visit’ for low-income patients | Leah Goodridge and Oni Blackstock

https://www.newsbeep.com/au/438322/

In southern California, where rates of homelessness are among the highest in the nation, a private company, Akido…

three men in suits and ties are standing in a hallway clapping Alt: Gif of former UNC basketball coach Roy Williams shimmying into the locker room

We deserve good things!

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

HHS terminates thousands of grants for substance use, mental health worth billions The Department of Health and Human Services told grantees funding their projects was no longer aligned with agency priorities.

I cannot overstate these very simple facts: This administration hates you. Almost every decision made serves to worsen human suffering.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

DeSantis Puts Tens of Thousands of Lives at Risk by Gutting Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program “Floridians living with HIV will suffer,” warns AIDS United in a statement that also lays out five actions the state must take right now.

Shame! DeSantis's cuts to Ryan White will push 16,000 Floridians living with HIV off of health care coverage.

www.poz.com/blog/desanti...

Witness Says Victim Was ‘Obviously Scared’ Before Fatal ICE Shooting The victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave," Emily Heller told HuffPost.

A mother, a Minnesotan, a US citizen was killed today by ICE.

The video shows my friend & fellow physician being denied trying to give her care. ICE allowed her to die without help…

This is a god damn travesty and injustice happening on our streets…

#MedSky

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...

It’s a war crime to prevent someone from rendering medical aid to an enemy combatant in war. I would hope it would be illegal for federal troops to prevent someone from rendering medical aid to a civilian in a public place. But it is also illegal to execute civilians without due process.

Had the holiest of New Year’s Day good luck meals: a Celsius and hospital chicken fingers.

Hours Before Expected Release, Rikers Detainee Dies After Apparent Seizure Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year.

A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.

This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...

It’s now clear that information on U.S. government websites can no longer be trusted.

It’s both heartbreaking and infuriating to see how quickly this administration has undermined science, public health, and the credibility of our scientific institutions.

I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

compare is my local, it's walkable for me (not the charlotte one) and this is awesome

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

I don't understand why they need a socialist solution when they could surely qualify for many loans with Silicon Valley Bank.

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

There are no ethical billionaires! Do some of them engage in “philanthropy?” Sure. But social needs should not be dependent on billionaires whims as to what to fund. Absolutely disgusting, disgraceful individuals.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Population-Level Effectiveness and Herd Protection 17 Years After HPV Vaccine This cross-sectional study investigates population-level effectiveness and herd protection in the first 17 years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescent girls and young women at ...

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

CDC chief ‘targeted’ for refusing to ‘rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives’, lawyers say – as it happened This liveblog is now closed

What’s happening at CDC is horrifying and unethical. Forcing out a director who refused to rubber-stamp reckless policies, followed by the resignation of four top leaders, is nothing less than a political assault on science and public health. Lives are at stake.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Is unpasteurized milk safe to feed my family? Let me check with a guy who has foodborne parasites in his brain and wants everyone to die.

"I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot" sounds like a line Sufjan Stevens would write for his Ohio album before deciding to abandon the project

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion. Here’s how we did it.

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...

Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.

“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.