Eric Meyerowitz
@ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social
Bronxite, ID physician: HIV, STI prevention & treatment, NTM, HTLV-1, COVID-19, vaccines. Resist kings, bullies, and Nazis. He/him
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I am glad to see large media outlets reporting on this. Hopefully it shames the researchers into not continuing with the planned study or at minimum making sure ALL children in the study receive the birth dose of the HepB vaccine.
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CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns
Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I am glad to see large media outlets reporting on this. Hopefully it shames the researchers into not continuing with the planned study or at minimum making sure ALL children in the study receive the birth dose of the HepB vaccine.
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Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
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There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
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IDSA has selected Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FIDSA, as its next chief executive officer, effective Jan. 12, 2026.
Learn more: bit.ly/4pHt2nF
Learn more: bit.ly/4pHt2nF
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
IDSA has selected Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FIDSA, as its next chief executive officer, effective Jan. 12, 2026.
Learn more: bit.ly/4pHt2nF
Learn more: bit.ly/4pHt2nF
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Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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This is an important article by @katherinejwu.com on the destruction of infectious disease research - and the man behind it.
As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity
While NIH director Jay Bhattacharya focuses on podcasting, his second in command is dramatically remaking the agency.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is an important article by @katherinejwu.com on the destruction of infectious disease research - and the man behind it.
As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
Its not that Makary has come to scientifically reasoned conclusions about these issues (HIV, COVID, vaccines), it’s that his brain is completely reprogrammed to see only conspiracy theories where science itself is the antagonist. He is unable to change his views based on scientific evidence
NEW: On a podcast last month, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary:
- said HIV “very likely came from a lab.”
- said Lyme disease came from a lab—“a high degree of probability.”
- said the so-called “Montauk
Monster”—a bloated, dead raccoon carcass—was proof “mad scientists” were doing experiments.
- said HIV “very likely came from a lab.”
- said Lyme disease came from a lab—“a high degree of probability.”
- said the so-called “Montauk
Monster”—a bloated, dead raccoon carcass—was proof “mad scientists” were doing experiments.
FDA Commissioner: HIV “May Very Well Have Come From a Lab”
During a recent podcast appearance, Dr. Marty Makary promoted lab origin conspiracy theories involving HIV, Lyme disease, and one dead raccoon.
www.importantcontext.news
December 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Its not that Makary has come to scientifically reasoned conclusions about these issues (HIV, COVID, vaccines), it’s that his brain is completely reprogrammed to see only conspiracy theories where science itself is the antagonist. He is unable to change his views based on scientific evidence
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It won’t change votes much. But the gutting of USAID might be the most consequential policy of the second Trump administration simply in terms of people who died, who went without food or medicine
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It won’t change votes much. But the gutting of USAID might be the most consequential policy of the second Trump administration simply in terms of people who died, who went without food or medicine
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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I can't imagine an IRB approving this study.
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I can't imagine an IRB approving this study.
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AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Jeanne Marrazzo, the former head of the U.S. NIAID, has sued the federal government, which fired her on 26 September.
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
Fired NIH institute head sues Trump administration
Jeanne Marrazzo says she lost her job because she spoke out against risky public-health policies
www.science.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Jeanne Marrazzo, the former head of the U.S. NIAID, has sued the federal government, which fired her on 26 September.
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
Her suit claims it did so in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint she filed against the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/48HUI5X
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You know the "quack Miranda warning?" The text that must be placed on labels of supplements to indicate that the FDA has not evaluated any of it?
Well, it's on its way out, further blurring the lines between drugs & nonsense in the US.
h/t @builduprdns.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/food/informa...
Well, it's on its way out, further blurring the lines between drugs & nonsense in the US.
h/t @builduprdns.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/food/informa...
Letter to the Dietary Supplement Industry on the DSHEA Disclaimer
Letter to the Dietary Supplement Industry on the DSHEA Disclaimer
www.fda.gov
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You know the "quack Miranda warning?" The text that must be placed on labels of supplements to indicate that the FDA has not evaluated any of it?
Well, it's on its way out, further blurring the lines between drugs & nonsense in the US.
h/t @builduprdns.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/food/informa...
Well, it's on its way out, further blurring the lines between drugs & nonsense in the US.
h/t @builduprdns.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/food/informa...
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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"When I said in February that they were going to cast a wide net for deportations, I had no idea how bad it would be. This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous."
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Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies
The president’s immigration policy is “beyond inhumane.”
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December 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"When I said in February that they were going to cast a wide net for deportations, I had no idea how bad it would be. This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous."
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Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
www.inquirer.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
It’s very important & relevant that doctors continue to make clear that standard of care has not changed & that we continue to recommend vaccines to our patients
We need a loud & exciting education campaign to reshare the good news about vaccines & fight back against all the lies & disinformation
We need a loud & exciting education campaign to reshare the good news about vaccines & fight back against all the lies & disinformation
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s very important & relevant that doctors continue to make clear that standard of care has not changed & that we continue to recommend vaccines to our patients
We need a loud & exciting education campaign to reshare the good news about vaccines & fight back against all the lies & disinformation
We need a loud & exciting education campaign to reshare the good news about vaccines & fight back against all the lies & disinformation
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
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1/ Aaron Siri is presenting to ACIP right now. He's not a vaccine scientist. He's a plaintiff's attorney whose firm profits from vaccine-injury litigation, RFK Jr.'s personal lawyer, and someone who helped vet HHS leadership. He's now advising the committee that sets U.S. vaccine policy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
1/ Aaron Siri is presenting to ACIP right now. He's not a vaccine scientist. He's a plaintiff's attorney whose firm profits from vaccine-injury litigation, RFK Jr.'s personal lawyer, and someone who helped vet HHS leadership. He's now advising the committee that sets U.S. vaccine policy.
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BREAKING: U.S. vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth.
US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth
A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
BREAKING: U.S. vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth.
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This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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Baby boy born to brain-dead Georgia mother remains hospitalized nearly 6 months later, family says
Adriana Smith's pregnancy made national headlines when she was declared brain dead but placed on life support to let her fetus grow. Now her family is sharing an update on the condition of her infant ...
www.cbsnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...