Charles F Brummitt
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Charles F Brummitt
@cb2mke.bsky.social
Retired Infectious Disease physician. Husband, father, grandfather.
Sifting and winnowing in the Badger tradition.
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Thank you Sec'y Johnson for keeping the evidence in WI's vaccine messaging, unlike RFK Jr's CDC. There is no link between vaccines and autism; 24 studies over more than 2 decades have not shown a link. The Wakefield study purporting a link was retracted for fraud.
Wisconsin health agency says CDC linking vaccines with autism is false
DHS Secretary Kirsten Johnson said the message promotes false information that is not only irresponsible, but dangerous to public safety.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
As the leading per-capita consumer, and a leading producer, the US should lead the charge. RFK Jr?
Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response
The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in human diets is harming global public health. However, policy responses are still emerging—much like tobacco control efforts decades ago—indicating the need ...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted by Charles F Brummitt
Our servicemembers take an oath to defend the Constitution–not any one person or political party.
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
CDC 1946-2025: R.I.P.
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Thanks, Paul. You expose RFK Jr. and his mendacity better than anyone I know. Now a dirge for the CDC.
CDC 1946-2025: R.I.P.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now weaponized the CDC website to promote his anti-vaccine views
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November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Zoonotic Escherichia coli and urinary tract infections in Southern California | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Some (Beef producers) would have you believe that human infections such as UTI's have nothing to do with meat exposure/consumption. Read on...it's rather common.
Zoonotic Escherichia coli and urinary tract infections in Southern California | mBio
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide and are primarily caused by Escherichia coli. While E. coli is known to colonize both humans and food-producing...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 JN.1-adapted vaccines vs COVID-19 hospitalisation and death: a Danish, nationwide study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine reduced hospitaliztions in those over 65 by 70%. Update yours, seniors.
Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 JN.1-adapted vaccines against COVID-19-associated hospitalisation and death: a Danish, nationwide, register-based, cohort study
Both JN.1-adapted vaccines offered high levels of sustained protection for 4 months against hospitalisation and death. These findings support continued use of regularly updated variant-adapted mRNA va...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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WI is one of only two states who do not offer Medicaid benefits for a year postpartum (we're 2 months), when maternal health is often in need of care. This was backed by a majority including Repubs and Speaker Vos prevented a vote. Shame on him. Pro-life, Robin?
Speaker Robin Vos thwarts procedural move to force vote on expanding Medicaid for new mothers
Despite many of their members backing the bill, Republicans thwarted a procedural effort by Democrats to expand Medicaid coverage for new mothers.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
The scope of the abandonment of preparedness is outlined. Trump, RFK Jr, Jay Battacharya and M Makary are supremely confident of their leadership and decisions. That's scary.
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic
A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn
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November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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How corrupt has Pam Bondi made DOJ in 10 months? Read what those who experienced it. It's staggering. Voters with a conscience need to do what many fired lawyers did- stand up to the violators of the Constitution.
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The toll is staggering and likely a significant underestimate. The trauma to survivors is profound.
Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza
On July 31, 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMH) in Gaza released a list of named people directly killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023.1 The list had 60 199 decedents with their reported age, se...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This story, (8/24), remains apropos as Trump keeps claiming: 300,000 killed from Fentanyl every year . In fact, drug overdoses killed ~110,000 in 2023 and fell by > 20% to 80,400 in 2024; opioids accounted for ~60% or ~48,000. All tragic, but POTUS, tell the truth.
Trump Drastically Inflates Annual Fentanyl Death Numbers - KFF Health News
The former president’s claim of 300,000 annual opioid deaths contradicts government statistics.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Only 23% of WI residents vaccinated thus far. Now is the time to get it.
In 2023-24 CDC est. the vaccine in the US averted ~10million illnesses, 118,000 hosp stays and 7900 deaths (across all age groups). Anyone 6mo or older eligible. It's safe and available.
Immunizations: Influenza Vaccine Data
Related PagesImmunization Data HomeImmunization Program HomeDHS Influenza WebpageCOVID-19 Vaccine DataInfluenza, also called the flu, affects people differently and can lead to seri
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November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The US is not far behind Canada. Vaccine skepticism crosses borders-as do the viruses! Measles will be endemic in the Americas until nearly all realize that vaccination against measles protects the recipient (and community) from potentially devastating illness.
Canada loses measles elimination status after record year of outbreaks
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November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Definitely something to know and ask if you have risk factors. Awareness, recognition, then action can prevent serious downstream complications.
“How Many of You Have Heard of MASLD?”
This Medical News article discusses the relatively unknown condition called metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, which is thought to affect approximately a third of adul...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Why would a pardon be needed if there was no crime? At least it doesn't affect WI's prosecution of efforts to overturn WI's election. Let justice in the Badger state rolldown like water; may those who attempted the steal, see the flood of consequences.
Trump pardons Wisconsin Republicans named in efforts to overturn 2020, but state prosecutions aren't affected
President Donald Trump has pardoned Wisconsin Republicans who participated in a scheme he created to try to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Nov 10-21 in Brazil, the US, under Trump's direction, is notably absent. We know Trump relishes cruelty and revenge towards those he loathes; this is global cruelty from our nation by POTUS. Generational suffering will follow from MAGA doctrine. American exceptualism.
US Will Not Send High-Level Representatives to COP30
The move reflects the US's anti-climate stance, as the country retreats from international climate commitments.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Pulitzer winner (2013), a powerful, important read. Thurgood Marshall as a legal giant in his work for the NAACP legal defense fund, and Jim Crow USA at its most murderous and cruel. Knowing our history is needed to improve it. Is it on Clarence's bookshelf?
Devil in the Grove
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November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

The BBB was at least a $117 billion gift to the 1% in 2026. That wasn't enough, so Trump's accolytes are doling out much more, likely illegally, as no such congressional approval for most.
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Cord Blood Appetite Hormones and Early-Life Growth and Childhood Adiposity url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Fascinating. Clearly a need for further study as to the mechanisms and determinants of appetite hormone fluctuations in pregnancy.
Cord Blood Appetite Hormones and Early-Life Growth and Childhood Adiposity
This cohort study of children in the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort explores the associations of a set of anorexigenic cord blood appetite hormone levels with postnatal growth, body mass index growth traject...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Illuminating the Risks of Nighttime Light for Cardiovascular Health url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

something to contemplate, just not at night, under a light...
Illuminating the Risks of Nighttime Light for Cardiovascular Health
In his treatise, Airs, Waters, and Places,1 Hippocrates, the father of medicine, emphasized sunlight—alongside other environmental factors such as temperature and the water supply—as a key determinant...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/... ~4 fold rise in Pertussis (Whooping cough) cases in Texas in 2025-- Louisiana seeing rise in cases as well as 2 deaths from pertussis. The Tdap vaccine should be given during pregnancy and DTaP for infants starting at 2 months as newborns and infants at risk.
Health Alert: Increase in Pertussis Cases in Texas | Texas DSHS
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November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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The attempt to engage the military against Trump's perceived foes, be they political, domestic or foreign is on. Hegseth is preparing the ground by removing those who might speak truth or follow their oaths. As the POTUS gets pushback, he will double down on this.
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Go Zohran, Go NYC! Not since Lincoln in his Cooper Union speech (165 yrs ago), has an "unknown" politician captivated New Yorkers with his rhetoric.
May your prose match your poetry, Mr Mayor.
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech after being elected NYC mayor
Mayor-elect centered affordability and the working people of the city in his speech while emphasizing: ‘Hope is alive’
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Ron sure knows how to pirouette to the Dear Leader's whims.
In 2022, ending the filibuster was a "naked power grab" per Ron. Now it's the most reasonable thing for a Republican Senate wanting to eat its cruel cake and end the shutdown w/out negotiating with Dems.
Ron Johnson reverses stance on ending Senate filibuster rule
Ron Johnson's reversal came just after President Trump called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as a way to end the government shutdown
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November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Former Sec of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, on the doubtful legality of "drug cartel" killings; the push by Trump/Hegseth to weaken the military's brass' ability to refuse an illegal order. Adm Alvin Holsey resigned; did he believe refusal meant court martial?
Opinion | Whom Will Our Military Be Ordered to Execute Next?
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November 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM