@by-cjewett.bsky.social
Journalist covering the F.D.A. for The New York Times. Loves: The outdoors, a juicy investigation, spicy food & my most of all, my boys.
NEW: The same day Pres. Trump announced a link b/t Tylenol & autism, Aaron Siri, Kennedy's former campaign lawyer, petitioned the FDA to add a warning.
He told me that he did not know if his office, which sought clients, had any against makers of Tylenol.
Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s close ally has raised ethical concerns by leading legal efforts on vaccines, fluoride and Tylenol.
His vaccine efforts are largely funded by a nonprofit led by a man who said in July that polio "is like having a cold."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...
He grew up in Brooklyn. He was a track & field Olympian and an educator.
He was born in Guyana and
ICE apparently wants to send him back:
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
“.. My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,” Mr. Park said. “I don’t think I would go there again to work.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...
NEW: Approval of an old generic to treat autism symptoms upended the FDA's usual process. Some experts worry that the limits of the drug will get lost in the hype.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
NEW: Will everyone need a prescription to get a Covid vaccine? Kennedy's newly-formed vaccine committee is going to vote on this very soon.
About 90% of people got those shots at a pharmacy -- with no vaccine. This is very likely to limit access. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/_9ChY9S...
SCOOP: FDA sent a warning letter to obesity drug seller Hims & Hers, saying that their website made "false or misleading" claims about its compounded drugs.
w/ @rebecca robbins & @dani blum
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/s...
NEW: The F.D.A. is reviewing about two dozen reports of deaths in young people after vaccination to present to an influential CDC panel that could limit access to the shots.
Through '23, about 1,800 children died from the virus.
w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/h...
@SecKennedy is due to testify before Senate Finance now. As @sherylnyt.bsky.social writes:
"Trump memorably said he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.” Now the secretary is expected to face questions from lawmakers who suggest he may have gone a little too wild."
Follow LIVE updates here:
A top House committee released more than 33,000 pages of records on Tuesday that the Justice Department had turned over last month in connection with its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, as Republican leaders toiled to tamp down pressure in their ranks for more transparency.
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A key member of Trump 1.0 Covid team re: the CDC news:
“I think this is quite a negative and potentially catastrophic step for the country,” said Adm. Brett Giroir.
“I don’t know who’s in charge, honestly, and that’s frightening because the No. 1 thing you need is somebody in charge,” he added.
BREAKING (AGAIN): The White House said it has fired CDC director Susan Monarez, who clashed with
@seckennedy.govpeeps.us over vaccine policy. Confirmed by the Senate, she had refused to resign unless the WH fired her.
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
BREAKING: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired, per her lawyers.
via @sherylnyt.bsky.social + @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
NEW: He called Covid vaccines "the most failing medical product in the history of medical products."
Now he's running a C.D.C. task force reviewing them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...
The only place industry COI does *not* pervade medicine, it would seem, is on vaccine advisory panels!
New in @jama.com today, great work by @profgenkanter.bsky.social
cc @mdaware.org @by-cjewett.bsky.social @charlesornstein.bsky.social @joho.bsky.social
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Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.
09.08.2025 20:08 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A neighbor told NYT about the shooter: “He very deeply believed that vaccines had hurt him,” Ms. Hoalst said, “and that they were hurting other people.”
...Mr. White would launch into unrelenting monologues about it on her front porch, describing a vast and confusing conspiracy.
A 33-year-old ex-Marine police officer was shot at the CDC by someone who believed he was hurt by the Covid vaccine. The policeman was a father of two with another baby on the way --->
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
ICYMI: A pressure campaign by Laura Loomer + Rick Santorum leaning on the White House = the ouster of Dr. Vinay Prasad at the FDA.
Santorum reposted articles complaining that he was anti-innovation because he rejected some drugs (that he/his team deemed subpar) .
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
After a pressure campaign by Laura Loomer, Dr. Vinay Prasad is out at FDA. Sec. Kennedy tried to defend him -- based in part on his work on vaccines -- but it wasn't enough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
Smart work (as always) by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social:
"According to meeting recordings, internal communications reviewed by MSNBC and three sources familiar with the situation, Burns has become a central figure in subverting vaccine policy under Kennedy."
www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
NEW: F.D.A. asked a company to stop shipping a drug to some patients today after the deaths of two teens and a 51-year-old patient with rare muscle diseases.
The company refused.
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...
I’m afraid to read this 😢😥🫣😥
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NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.
The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
"Kansans created Food for Peace, for 70 years a font of rural income and pride. Now at least one grain broker is trying to sell grain that once fed the world as dog food."
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies talkingpointsmemo.com/news/congres...
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...Dr. Prasad filed a “center director override memo,” a document signed on rare instances...
Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for HHS, disputed the account. “The idea that Dr. Prasad ‘overruled’ F.D.A. scientists is a distortion of the facts,” Mr. Nixon wrote in an email.
