Scott Krugman
@drscottk.medsky.social
Pediatrician, educator, administrator, dad and brewer. Speaking up for children who have no voice. Skeets are my own and not advice. #vaccineswork #safesleep #OreoMedSky #PedSky
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It’s not just pediatricians who are dealing with this. I wrote about my experience when it comes to trying to get patients vaccines
It’s not only difficult but it is causing a rift in the patient-doctor relationship
www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
It’s not only difficult but it is causing a rift in the patient-doctor relationship
www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
www.statnews.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It’s not just pediatricians who are dealing with this. I wrote about my experience when it comes to trying to get patients vaccines
It’s not only difficult but it is causing a rift in the patient-doctor relationship
www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
It’s not only difficult but it is causing a rift in the patient-doctor relationship
www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
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The nearly 80-year-old law that could hamper RFK Jr.’s drive to remake the childhood vaccine schedule. I wrote this for CIDRAP News as an explainer for the general public and public health folks, who may not be familiar with the legal issues involved.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
The nearly 80-year-old law that could hamper RFK Jr.’s drive to remake vaccine schedule
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The nearly 80-year-old law that could hamper RFK Jr.’s drive to remake the childhood vaccine schedule. I wrote this for CIDRAP News as an explainer for the general public and public health folks, who may not be familiar with the legal issues involved.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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BREAKING:
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
BREAKING:
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
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We dodged a vaccine disaster (for now): HHS gave up limiting vaccine access for U.S. citizens - for now. And a quick virus weather report before the break., by @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
We dodged a vaccine disaster (for now). And a quick virus weather report before the break.
The Dose (December 22)
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December 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
We dodged a vaccine disaster (for now): HHS gave up limiting vaccine access for U.S. citizens - for now. And a quick virus weather report before the break., by @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Check out Ryan’s latest article in the @bostonglobe.com - if you can’t access it I’ll post it when it comes out on @insideclimatenews.org
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/21/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/21/s...
Folk songs about climate change? Yup, people in Maine are listening. - The Boston Globe
Singing about climate change can be a tough sell. But it seems to be working with the group GoldenOak gaining a following.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Check out Ryan’s latest article in the @bostonglobe.com - if you can’t access it I’ll post it when it comes out on @insideclimatenews.org
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/21/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/21/s...
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Another excellent article fr @melodyschreiber.com on the glaringly unethical trial RFK Jr is funding of #Hepatitis B vaccine in babies in Guinea-Bissau. This cld make #Tuskegee pale in comparison. Grt comments @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social, @gavinyamey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Another excellent article fr @melodyschreiber.com on the glaringly unethical trial RFK Jr is funding of #Hepatitis B vaccine in babies in Guinea-Bissau. This cld make #Tuskegee pale in comparison. Grt comments @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social, @gavinyamey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How many parents can afford to miss 10 days of work while their child has chickenpox? Do we really want hospitals full of infants with rotavirus diarrhea again? Is this really making America healthy again? I think not.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...
Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).
Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).
December 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
How many parents can afford to miss 10 days of work while their child has chickenpox? Do we really want hospitals full of infants with rotavirus diarrhea again? Is this really making America healthy again? I think not.
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The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
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How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
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December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
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What Should You Do About H3N2 Flu? There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot, by @angierasmussen.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-you-s...
What You Should Do About H3N2 Flu
There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
What Should You Do About H3N2 Flu? There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot, by @angierasmussen.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-you-s...
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On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
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 4:31 PM
On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
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There was so much about this meeting that bothered me, but this was particularly appalling.
The rhetoric consistently othered immigrants, particularly those from Asia, spoke about them as though they were not part of the US population, and then went overtly polemical.
The rhetoric consistently othered immigrants, particularly those from Asia, spoke about them as though they were not part of the US population, and then went overtly polemical.
Racially charged language on mothers, babies taints vaccine advisory meeting
by @LizSzabo
Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
by @LizSzabo
Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There was so much about this meeting that bothered me, but this was particularly appalling.
The rhetoric consistently othered immigrants, particularly those from Asia, spoke about them as though they were not part of the US population, and then went overtly polemical.
The rhetoric consistently othered immigrants, particularly those from Asia, spoke about them as though they were not part of the US population, and then went overtly polemical.
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starting to think this MAHA thing is not entirely in good faith
The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
starting to think this MAHA thing is not entirely in good faith
Kids should have the right to grow up free of dying from preventable diseases and preventable causes. Policy makers need to start with this frame and not the one that protects guns and treating children like property. #childrights
December 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Kids should have the right to grow up free of dying from preventable diseases and preventable causes. Policy makers need to start with this frame and not the one that protects guns and treating children like property. #childrights
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As we remember the Sandy Hook shooting today, as I reflect on how we have failed our children by failing to do more since then, as I sit here thinking about my daughter Jaime & all victims of gun violence, my only question is when will this country have had enough?
www.wmur.com/article/brow...
www.wmur.com/article/brow...
Video: Students huddle together in library after fatal shooting at Brown University
The video was captured during a shelter-in-place order that followed the shooting, which killed two students and injured nine others.
www.wmur.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As we remember the Sandy Hook shooting today, as I reflect on how we have failed our children by failing to do more since then, as I sit here thinking about my daughter Jaime & all victims of gun violence, my only question is when will this country have had enough?
www.wmur.com/article/brow...
www.wmur.com/article/brow...
Things students should do finals week:
Studying
Midnight breakfast
Packing up to go home
Things students shouldn’t be doing:
Sheltering in place
Placing tourniquets
CPR on their classmates
#gunsense laws need to be passed now.
Studying
Midnight breakfast
Packing up to go home
Things students shouldn’t be doing:
Sheltering in place
Placing tourniquets
CPR on their classmates
#gunsense laws need to be passed now.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Things students should do finals week:
Studying
Midnight breakfast
Packing up to go home
Things students shouldn’t be doing:
Sheltering in place
Placing tourniquets
CPR on their classmates
#gunsense laws need to be passed now.
Studying
Midnight breakfast
Packing up to go home
Things students shouldn’t be doing:
Sheltering in place
Placing tourniquets
CPR on their classmates
#gunsense laws need to be passed now.
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Essential reading 👇👇👇
Tonight, I’m published in MSNBC—sorry, MS Now.
In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment.
www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment.
www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
Opinion | The FDA’s anti-vax turn came out of the right-wing backlash to the Covid pandemic
Walker Bragman: The Food and Drug Administration — like other HHS agencies overseen by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — is no longer moored to evidence-based reality.
www.ms.now
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Essential reading 👇👇👇
My son is at Brown. Thank goodness he is safe but likely more than 20 dead. Maybe someday we will do something to prevent this.
Brown University says there's an active shooter on campus. Emergency scanner says multiple victims, but unclear how many.
Video footage viewed by the Brown Daily Herald "depicted several individuals lying on the ground near the Sciences Library appearing to be assisted by police."
Video footage viewed by the Brown Daily Herald "depicted several individuals lying on the ground near the Sciences Library appearing to be assisted by police."
Active shooter on campus, Department of Public Safety reports
The alert and call was sent to students immediately by DPS following the incident, urging students to hide, run or evacuate until further notice.
www.browndailyherald.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My son is at Brown. Thank goodness he is safe but likely more than 20 dead. Maybe someday we will do something to prevent this.
In case you were wondering if politicizing public health was a bad idea.
One of @pewresearch.org's "striking findings" from 2025 is relevant again as measles cases rise:
Republican support for requiring public school kids to get the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine has fallen sharply: 52% support it today, down from 79% in 2019.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Republican support for requiring public school kids to get the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine has fallen sharply: 52% support it today, down from 79% in 2019.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In case you were wondering if politicizing public health was a bad idea.
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
It’s almost like #vaccineswork
MMWR: Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children in the United States — VISION, August 29, 2024–September 2, 2025
Stephanie A. Irving et al
bit.ly/48ylQnV
Stephanie A. Irving et al
bit.ly/48ylQnV
Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children...
This report describes COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among children ages 9 months to 17 years.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s almost like #vaccineswork
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Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. Mr. Siri is not looking at the total data and misunderstands or misrepresents much of what he does address. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot... via @jakescottmd.bsky.social
Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several.
He's auditing regulatory paperwork, not science.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. Mr. Siri is not looking at the total data and misunderstands or misrepresents much of what he does address. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot... via @jakescottmd.bsky.social