Dr Elizabeth Murray
@drelizabethmurray.bsky.social
Peds EM/CAP physician. Director, Child Health & Safety Communications for my hospital. Parenting is hard, having the facts can help.
What radicalized me?
Do you mean today? Yesterday? Last week? 15 minutes ago?
Do you mean today? Yesterday? Last week? 15 minutes ago?
January 24, 2026 at 10:14 PM
What radicalized me?
Do you mean today? Yesterday? Last week? 15 minutes ago?
Do you mean today? Yesterday? Last week? 15 minutes ago?
If I was a tech bro and wanted to teach my AI software facial recognition, I’d start a trend where people post old pictures of themselves compared to new ones. Maybe, from 2016 and now. 🤷🏼
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 AM
If I was a tech bro and wanted to teach my AI software facial recognition, I’d start a trend where people post old pictures of themselves compared to new ones. Maybe, from 2016 and now. 🤷🏼
Curious how much this is costing the govt in legal fees? All this performative nonsense coming out of the administration is definitely neither free nor fiscally responsible.
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Curious how much this is costing the govt in legal fees? All this performative nonsense coming out of the administration is definitely neither free nor fiscally responsible.
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South Carolina has reported 99 new measles cases in the past 3 days.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
South Carolina measles outbreak grows by nearly 100, spreads to North Carolina and Ohio
State health officials in South Carolina have confirmed 99 new cases of measles since Tuesday. The state health department says the post-holiday surge had been expected, given travel and family gather...
apnews.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
South Carolina has reported 99 new measles cases in the past 3 days.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
They forgot to tell the AI to actually turn the pyramid onto its base so it was a stable foundation instead of a teeter totter.
Also, it will be great to see funding for SNAP go up now so people can afford these foods.
Oh, that’s right, they cut the funding.
Also, it will be great to see funding for SNAP go up now so people can afford these foods.
Oh, that’s right, they cut the funding.
January 8, 2026 at 12:52 AM
They forgot to tell the AI to actually turn the pyramid onto its base so it was a stable foundation instead of a teeter totter.
Also, it will be great to see funding for SNAP go up now so people can afford these foods.
Oh, that’s right, they cut the funding.
Also, it will be great to see funding for SNAP go up now so people can afford these foods.
Oh, that’s right, they cut the funding.
MAHA going to be feeling lots of things when they start to need to present vaccine cards for international travel.
January 7, 2026 at 1:29 AM
MAHA going to be feeling lots of things when they start to need to present vaccine cards for international travel.
Ever need to get some vaccines before traveling? The CDC knows there are different disease risks in different countries. Trying to be Denmark doesn’t help Americans, unless we can adopt their healthcare coverage and parental leave programs.
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Ever need to get some vaccines before traveling? The CDC knows there are different disease risks in different countries. Trying to be Denmark doesn’t help Americans, unless we can adopt their healthcare coverage and parental leave programs.
Seems on brand😂.
Remember, these are the people claiming expertise.
Remember, these are the people claiming expertise.
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 6, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Seems on brand😂.
Remember, these are the people claiming expertise.
Remember, these are the people claiming expertise.
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Possible measles exposure at two major US airports: Boston and Denver. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... via @nbcnews.com
Possible measles exposure at two major US airports
Warnings tonight about exposure to the measles for travelers going through Boston and Denver. It comes as cases rise in South Carolina and all at a time when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is mak...
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Possible measles exposure at two major US airports: Boston and Denver. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... via @nbcnews.com
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Doctors aren’t ”hurt or offended” offended by people who choose not to vaccinate. Most of us understand the science and the contents of the #vaccines and how herd immunity works, so we get frustrated at all the disinformation from people in gov who will dictate how we may care for patients.
December 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Doctors aren’t ”hurt or offended” offended by people who choose not to vaccinate. Most of us understand the science and the contents of the #vaccines and how herd immunity works, so we get frustrated at all the disinformation from people in gov who will dictate how we may care for patients.
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"Officials are urging doctors to vaccinate their patients and provide flu antivirals after deaths among children reached record highs and as a concerning mutation of the virus circulates in the US."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
CDC officials urge US flu vaccination after record child deaths last year
Americans told ‘time to get vaccinated is now’ as concerning mutation of influenza virus circulates in US
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Officials are urging doctors to vaccinate their patients and provide flu antivirals after deaths among children reached record highs and as a concerning mutation of the virus circulates in the US."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
Feeling that we’ve reached “everyone loves access to toilets” as the only common denominator everyone can agree upon.
December 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Feeling that we’ve reached “everyone loves access to toilets” as the only common denominator everyone can agree upon.
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This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
www.notus.org/health-scien...
CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines
The study prompted swift outcry from scientists in the U.S. who say it’s “unethical.”
www.notus.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Kind of wild that leadership so interested in “America first!” “America is the best!” wants so desperately to copy other countries. Can we follow their gun laws too?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
HHS planning to overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots, source says | CNN
The US Department of Health and Human Services is planning to overhaul the schedule of recommended vaccines for children in the US, a person familiar with the plans told CNN on Thursday.
www.cnn.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Kind of wild that leadership so interested in “America first!” “America is the best!” wants so desperately to copy other countries. Can we follow their gun laws too?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...
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How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust: the proposed new trial in Guinea-Bissau will cause harm and is not justified, open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj... by Dr. BK Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust: the proposed new trial in Guinea-Bissau will cause harm and is not justified, open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj... by Dr. BK Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social
I’ll say it again, Oprah owes us all a big apology
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’ll say it again, Oprah owes us all a big apology
Would love for him to provide data on how often these procedures are happening in children.
(Spoiler: it’s zero)
(Spoiler: it’s zero)
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Would love for him to provide data on how often these procedures are happening in children.
(Spoiler: it’s zero)
(Spoiler: it’s zero)
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“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Oh. Oh wow. If this non-competitive grant for a placebo controlled single blind RCT really is going directly to Christine Stabell Benn (and/or her research partner & husband Peter Aaby, i.e., the Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau), this would be yet another rather huge red flag.
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Oh. Oh wow. If this non-competitive grant for a placebo controlled single blind RCT really is going directly to Christine Stabell Benn (and/or her research partner & husband Peter Aaby, i.e., the Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau), this would be yet another rather huge red flag.
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💬 Viewpoint: The newly constituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has departed from established, evidence-based guideline development standards, raising concerns about transparency and credibility.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
💬 Viewpoint: The newly constituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has departed from established, evidence-based guideline development standards, raising concerns about transparency and credibility.
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The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
I teach scientists to work with the media. Lesson 1: the mic is always on and there is no true off the record. Mind boggling that senior government officials would try to pass this off as a legitimate excuse.
CNN suggests Susie Wiles might not have known she was on the record 😆
December 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I teach scientists to work with the media. Lesson 1: the mic is always on and there is no true off the record. Mind boggling that senior government officials would try to pass this off as a legitimate excuse.
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We are closing out tonight with a link to enjoy the legendary table read of The Princess Bride.
As long as we stick together we will find our way out of The Pit of Despair.
🖤RIP Rob and Michelle
As long as we stick together we will find our way out of The Pit of Despair.
🖤RIP Rob and Michelle
Princess Bride reunion and table read
YouTube video by CoG
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December 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We are closing out tonight with a link to enjoy the legendary table read of The Princess Bride.
As long as we stick together we will find our way out of The Pit of Despair.
🖤RIP Rob and Michelle
As long as we stick together we will find our way out of The Pit of Despair.
🖤RIP Rob and Michelle