Reposted by Emily Souder
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Reposted by Emily Souder
The head of HHS said he’d preserve ACIP. Then he fired the entire committee.
Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Why the Sudden Firing of ACIP Members Should Put Every Clinician on High Alert
There are certain irrefutable verities when, like me, you’re an infectious diseases specialist married to a pediatrician. Here are our top two, which are deeply interrelated: Infectious deaths in chil...
blogs.jwatch.org
June 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The head of HHS said he’d preserve ACIP. Then he fired the entire committee.
Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Reposted by Emily Souder
Secretary Kennedy’s allegations about the integrity of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices are completely unfounded and will have a significant negative impact on Americans of all ages.
Our statement: bit.ly/3SGaDcb
Our statement: bit.ly/3SGaDcb
June 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Secretary Kennedy’s allegations about the integrity of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices are completely unfounded and will have a significant negative impact on Americans of all ages.
Our statement: bit.ly/3SGaDcb
Our statement: bit.ly/3SGaDcb
Reposted by Emily Souder
Ontario’s large #measles outbreak claims the life of a child. If you let measles spread, preventable harms will happen. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Infant who contracted measles virus before birth is 1st recorded death in current Ontario outbreak | CBC News
Ontario's Ministry of Health has announced the first recorded death of a measles patient from the outbreak that started in October. The newborn contracted the virus before birth from the mother, the c...
www.cbc.ca
June 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ontario’s large #measles outbreak claims the life of a child. If you let measles spread, preventable harms will happen. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Reposted by Emily Souder
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Emily Souder
March 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Emily Souder
The ACIP plays a crucial role in protecting childhood & adult health by developing vaccination recommendations based on scientific evidence. This article is a great resource for more information on why SHEA encourages timely rescheduling of the ACIP’s meeting.
Former chairs of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on the panel’s role
Six former chairs of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices explain how the committee works — and why it’s so important.
buff.ly
March 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The ACIP plays a crucial role in protecting childhood & adult health by developing vaccination recommendations based on scientific evidence. This article is a great resource for more information on why SHEA encourages timely rescheduling of the ACIP’s meeting.
Reposted by Emily Souder
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart
My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...
blogs.jwatch.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Reposted by Emily Souder
The Texas measles outbreak has reported its first death.
This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people
A person who was hospitalized with measles has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first since the outbreak began late last month.
apnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Texas measles outbreak has reported its first death.
This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
Reposted by Emily Souder
Reposted by Emily Souder
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
Reposted by Emily Souder
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." - RFK Sr.
📣 Medical editors call for #action against the decisions being taken in the #USA undermining #medicine and #science, and international #coordination to preserve what has been built across borders.
#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #Episky #publichealth #vaccines
www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...
#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #Episky #publichealth #vaccines
www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...
From medical editors: A call to the global infectious diseases and clinical microbiology community
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.Robert F. Kennedy, Senior
www.cmi-comms.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." - RFK Sr.
Reposted by Emily Souder
From @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
If you haven’t yet seen this short video, you must.
Absolutely essential framing to understand and respond to this moment.
youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s
If you haven’t yet seen this short video, you must.
Absolutely essential framing to understand and respond to this moment.
youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
From @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
If you haven’t yet seen this short video, you must.
Absolutely essential framing to understand and respond to this moment.
youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s
If you haven’t yet seen this short video, you must.
Absolutely essential framing to understand and respond to this moment.
youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s
Reposted by Emily Souder
STI Treatment Guidelines are down, for now go to nnptc.org where our group has housed STI and HIV PrEP guidelines #HIVSky #STISky #IDSky
nnptc
nnptc.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Emily Souder
My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.”
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Behind the Chaotic Attempt to Freeze Federal Assistance
The potential for devastation is made plain by another order, concerning the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D.
www.newyorker.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.”
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Reposted by Emily Souder
All 100 senator should read Paul Offit's commentary on RFK jr. RFK jr's wild, fact free claims about vaccines don't reflect healthy skepticism, or concern for patients, they are the ramblings and outright lies of a man who is a professional anti-vaxxer. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic.
My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
All 100 senator should read Paul Offit's commentary on RFK jr. RFK jr's wild, fact free claims about vaccines don't reflect healthy skepticism, or concern for patients, they are the ramblings and outright lies of a man who is a professional anti-vaxxer. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
Reposted by Emily Souder
The kind of meme that should go viral.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesWork
December 16, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The kind of meme that should go viral.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesWork