Jason Gallagher
@jgpharmd.bsky.social
ID pharmacy professor who'd rather be biking. Author of Antibiotics Simplified. Editor-in-Chief of Contagion. Marching band parent.
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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
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Jealous that @mmpharmd.bsky.social has written an ID editorial that references The Fate of Ophelia multiple times
Keep it 💯
Keep it 💯
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Jealous that @mmpharmd.bsky.social has written an ID editorial that references The Fate of Ophelia multiple times
Keep it 💯
Keep it 💯
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This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
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It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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#ACIP just voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation.
There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale.
We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2
There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale.
We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2
A panel that advises #CDC on vaccine policy votes to do away with the recommendation all babies should be vaccinated against #hepatitisB at birth. "We are doing harm," said panel member Cody Meissner, who voted against this #ACIP recommendation. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#ACIP just voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation.
There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale.
We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2
There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale.
We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2
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The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.
Defend Public Health is speaking out about the ACIP meeting calling it an epidemiological crime scene.
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
ACIP Meeting Turns into “Epidemiological Crime Scene” | Defend Public Health
Health experts with Defend Public Health expressed shock at the flood of antivaxxer disinformation that dominated the first day of the December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practi...
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.
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HOT OFF THE PRESSES: RFK Jr. told me he personally instructed CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines don't cause autism. He acknowledged that large-scale studies of MMR vaccine and thimerosal show no link. But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
HOT OFF THE PRESSES: RFK Jr. told me he personally instructed CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines don't cause autism. He acknowledged that large-scale studies of MMR vaccine and thimerosal show no link. But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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First story from our new writer, Laine Bergeson!
RSV vaccine highly effective against hospital admission in older adults, study suggests
82% effective against any RSV-related illness & 87% effective against severe RSV
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
Pic: Whispyhistory/Wikimedia Cmmns
RSV vaccine highly effective against hospital admission in older adults, study suggests
82% effective against any RSV-related illness & 87% effective against severe RSV
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
Pic: Whispyhistory/Wikimedia Cmmns
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
First story from our new writer, Laine Bergeson!
RSV vaccine highly effective against hospital admission in older adults, study suggests
82% effective against any RSV-related illness & 87% effective against severe RSV
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
Pic: Whispyhistory/Wikimedia Cmmns
RSV vaccine highly effective against hospital admission in older adults, study suggests
82% effective against any RSV-related illness & 87% effective against severe RSV
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
Pic: Whispyhistory/Wikimedia Cmmns
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many people have been saying
As predicted, they’re going after the entire childhood vaccination schedule (second slide, from WaPo).
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
many people have been saying
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Unbelievable.
Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing,' Parents Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing,' Parents Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing,' Parents Say
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee is legally allowed to work in the United States.
blockclubchicago.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Unbelievable.
Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing,' Parents Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing,' Parents Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
I'd bet solid money that cefazolin is the #1 most-avoided drug do to fear of drug allergy, and it almost never needs to be avoided in penicillin-allergy. Et tu, @pharmermeg.bsky.social ?
Preventive non–beta-lactam antibiotics linked to higher risk of surgical-site infections
In nearly 350,000 Swiss patients, use of non–beta-lactams before surgery was associated with a nearly two-fold increase in SSI risk compared with beta-lactams.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
In nearly 350,000 Swiss patients, use of non–beta-lactams before surgery was associated with a nearly two-fold increase in SSI risk compared with beta-lactams.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'd bet solid money that cefazolin is the #1 most-avoided drug do to fear of drug allergy, and it almost never needs to be avoided in penicillin-allergy. Et tu, @pharmermeg.bsky.social ?
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Thank you, @cidrap.bsky.social, for covering our new @nejm.org review of Covid-19, RSV, and influenza immunizations.
Check it out: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/meta-analysis-covid-rsv-flu-vaccines-fall-provides-sea-data-showing-efficacy-safety
Check it out: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/meta-analysis-covid-rsv-flu-vaccines-fall-provides-sea-data-showing-efficacy-safety
Meta-analysis of COVID, RSV, flu vaccines for fall provides 'sea of data' showing efficacy, safety
cidrap.umn.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Thank you, @cidrap.bsky.social, for covering our new @nejm.org review of Covid-19, RSV, and influenza immunizations.
Check it out: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/meta-analysis-covid-rsv-flu-vaccines-fall-provides-sea-data-showing-efficacy-safety
Check it out: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/meta-analysis-covid-rsv-flu-vaccines-fall-provides-sea-data-showing-efficacy-safety
Just for a second, imagine what the world could be like if Gilead just gave this drug away at cost. Lives would be saved, economies would be improved, and they'd be heroes.
"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed | News24
South Africa has become the first African country – and our medicines regulator the third worldwide – to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN), that could bring an en...
www.news24.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Just for a second, imagine what the world could be like if Gilead just gave this drug away at cost. Lives would be saved, economies would be improved, and they'd be heroes.
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NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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$40b to bailout Milei enriches zillionaire hedge fund managers who advise Scott Bessent. Trump admits this: " 'We don’t have to do it,' he said...'It’s not going to make a big difference for our country.' " Compare this w/USAID's FY24 humanitarian aid budget: ~$14.5b, or ~3 dictator bailouts.
"humanitarianism is being turned into its opposite. Instead of feeding starving children, some foreign aid will reward hedge funds. And refugee status may go not to the world’s neediest, but to some of the world’s whitest" @nickkristof.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
$40b to bailout Milei enriches zillionaire hedge fund managers who advise Scott Bessent. Trump admits this: " 'We don’t have to do it,' he said...'It’s not going to make a big difference for our country.' " Compare this w/USAID's FY24 humanitarian aid budget: ~$14.5b, or ~3 dictator bailouts.
My extra-credit "Show me an error that you caught AI making" idea is either a smashing success at illuminating the weaknesses in LLMs or instead illuminated that students are good at prompting AI to say stupid things. I'm going to hope for the first. #IDSky #academiclife
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My extra-credit "Show me an error that you caught AI making" idea is either a smashing success at illuminating the weaknesses in LLMs or instead illuminated that students are good at prompting AI to say stupid things. I'm going to hope for the first. #IDSky #academiclife
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There is more evidence that #shingles vaccination significantly decreases the risk for heart disease, dementia and death among people aged 50 years or older with herpes zoster infection, according to data presented at #IDWeek2025.
💉 #IDSky
🥼 #MedSky
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
💉 #IDSky
🥼 #MedSky
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
Shingles vaccination lowers risk for heart disease, dementia, death
ATLANTA — There is more evidence that shingles vaccination significantly decreases the risk for heart disease, dementia and death among people aged 50 years or older with herpes zoster infection...
www.healio.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There is more evidence that #shingles vaccination significantly decreases the risk for heart disease, dementia and death among people aged 50 years or older with herpes zoster infection, according to data presented at #IDWeek2025.
💉 #IDSky
🥼 #MedSky
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
💉 #IDSky
🥼 #MedSky
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
Talk about a timely highlight of the importance of NIH #idweek @idweek.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Talk about a timely highlight of the importance of NIH #idweek @idweek.bsky.social
