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Greg Folkers
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Dear Bill Cassidy,

You see the harm that RFK, Jr. is doing and you continue to do nothing but describe your outrage. At what point do you become complicit?

You voted to confirm him. Maybe it’s time you hold yourself accountable and remove him.

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Cassidy rips RFK Jr. vaccine schedule change, says it’s ‘based on no scientific input’
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who cast a critical vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, on Monday blasted the reduction of the childhood immun…
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January 6, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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RFK Jr. is about to launch a dangerously unethical experiment in West Africa.
RFK Jr.’s Tuskegee Experiment
RFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty
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January 6, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Make America Denmark Today! With Angie Rasmussen, Jessica Malaty Rivera, and Saskia Popescu

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Make America Denmark Today! With Angie Rasmussen, Jessica Malaty Rivera, and Saskia Popescu
Just three immunization-loving American scientists expressing professional concern and moral contempt for the European Country-ization of the US childhood vaccine schedule
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January 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Atlantic: Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon

By Katherine J. Wu @theatlantic.com

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Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon
A leading vaccine expert on what the country’s newly overhauled immunization schedule means for children
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January 6, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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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
Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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It's not a dick measuring contest, nor should it be. But who's more badass - Hegseth or Kelly?
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"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."
The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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And as these headlines show, antivaccine disinformation is pro-school closures.
January 6, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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JAMA Intern Med: Estimated Burden of COVID-19 Illnesses, Medical Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the US From October 2022 to September 2024

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January 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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CDC Acts on Presidential Memorandum to Update Childhood Immunization Schedule

Sadly we'll see an inevitable increase in sickness and death due to vaccine-preventable disease.

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January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Front Immunol: T cell immunity to seasonal Influenza A and H5N1 viruses in laboratory workers receiving annual seasonal Influenza vaccines Joel Sop et al

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January 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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High pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in Antarctica: Multiple Introductions and the First Confirmed Infection of Ice-Dependent Seals
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Jane L. Younger et al

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January 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Pulse, Uganda: UNDA Approves Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention Injection / lenacapavir

by Mzee Asingwire

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January 5, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure

Susan Weiner et al

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January 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine: Vaccine hesitancy: Where are we heading?

by Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD

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January 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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William E. Paul Lecture 1/7/2026 -- Yasmin Belkaid: Immune Control of Host Physiology

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January 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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JAMA: COVID-19 in Pregnancy Linked With Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Early Childhood

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COVID-19 in Pregnancy Linked With Neurodevelopmental Disorders
This Medical News article discusses new research indicating that children whose mothers had COVID-19 during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder by age 3 years...
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January 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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MHRA approves zapomeran (Kostaive) mRNA COVID-19 vaccine / self-amplifying messenger RNA from Arcturus
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January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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America forgets how deadly hepatitis B is. Taiwan offers lessons

by Y. Tony Yang

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January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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NIH videocast 1/6/2026: Demystifying Medicine—Pandemics on the Horizon: Are We Ready for the Next Global Threat?

Jeff Taubenberger and Arturo Casadevall

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Past Demystifying Medicine lectures: bit.ly/45petgq
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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CIDRAP: Review of 200 novel human viruses over a century a reminder that pathogen emergence isn’t rare

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January 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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JID: A BEACON for novel disease threats: Leveraging AI for informal event-based outbreak surveillance

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January 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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The Guardian view on mRNA vaccines: they are the future – with or without Donald Trump

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January 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Hartford Courant: Opinion: Vaccines quite literally created the world we live in. Remember that in 2026  

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Opinion: Vaccines quite literally created the world we live in. Remember that in 2026
The total number of lives saved since the first vaccines is mindboggling, well over a billion globally and perhaps two billion or more.
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January 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Derek Lowe letting loose to start the year...speaking truth and committing to work hard to make this better.

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There’s plenty of blood to go around, though. I have often stated my belief that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has it on his hands after his actions during a measles epidemic in Samoa, and now he will get a chance to replicate that disaster on a grander scale, as befits his self-image. Kennedy, our HHS secretary, believes that the 1918 flu pandemic and the 1980s rise of HIB somehow happened because of vaccine research. Marty Makary, our head of the FDA, believes that Lyme disease is an escape biowarfare agent. Jay Bhattacharya, among other things, believes that he is fit to lead the NIH. We are being governed by grinning idiots and sociopaths, and any assessment of our situation in 2026 has to take that as a precondition.
January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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medRxiv: Costs associated with increasing numbers of Medicare beneficiaries with HIV aged 65 years and older from 2026 to 2035

Emily P Hyle et al

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January 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM