ID physicians andrewpaviamd.bsky.social and Helen Y. Chu, MD, FIDSA, discuss last week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the confusion it has caused around vaccine recommendations and the potential impacts.

Watch the press briefing: https://bit.ly/4mz9Jum

Today’s ACIP meeting promoted false claims and misguided information about vaccines. AAP will continue stepping up and working with our local, state and federal partners to make sure every child in every community continues to have access to immunizations.
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As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi

This week's ACIP meeting was full of the same intentionally misleading fearmongering that causes vaccine hesitancy. Children and families deserve better — public health information grounded in science.

PIDS partnered with @sheaepi.bsky.social and @idsainfo.bsky.social journals on Scientific Integrity Under Threat. JPIDS EiC: "We at JPIDS look forward to continuing to be the home for high-quality research in all aspects of peds ID from domestic and global authors." academic.oup.com/jpids/articl...

He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication
Egregious.
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This is brilliant and a must-read for everyone - thanks @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social and @germhuntermd.bsky.social for writing this!

Absolutely real and happening all over the country - National medicine and science global leadership is at risk of being guttered

This is YOUR future, your kid’s health.

…that includes you, GOP congress… you hold “all the cards” as someone recently said

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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.

Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

ID physicians stand up for science to protect our patients. #IDStandsUpForScience

In honor of tomorrow's #StandUpForScience rallies, share the reason why you stand up for science with the hashtag #IDStandsUpForScience.