***this is most certainly a QA testing failure, LOL. Waymo failed to imagine someone might deliberately crawl into the trunk of a Waymo. 🤔

Many health care providers—including doctors, medical societies, city and state health departments, and regional health alliances—are rejecting unscientific vaccine recommendations from ACIP, and instead will continue following guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago will continue to recommend hepatitis B vaccines to newborns within 24 hours of delivery – when immunization will protect the largest proportion of infants – as recommended by the Chicago and Illinois health departments, said Larry K. Kociolek, MD, MSCI.

“The pediatric vaccine schedule currently adopted in the US is based on decades of research, extensive real-world experience, and vetting by well-trained and unbiased medical and public health experts,” Kociolek told CIDRAP News.

ACIP’s decision to vaccinate only babies deemed to be at “high risk” for hepatitis B flies in the face of evidence, said Ravi Jhaveri, MD, head of infectious diseases at Lurie Children’s Hospital.

The hepatitis B vaccine is “safe, exceptionally effective, and one of the great success stories in modern public health,” said Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, MS, a neonatologist at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, who said he will not change how he practices because of the ACIP vote.

“For the first time in my career, I am deeply concerned that I cannot fully rely on the CDC’s recommendations,” Patrick said. “My duty is to my patients, and I will continue to lean on my training and the best available evidence.

In defiance of Kennedy and the agency he is remaking in his image, the West Coast Health Alliance, Northeast Public Health Collaborative and Governors Public Health Alliance also rejected the ACIP’s proposal.

In MA you have until 12/23 for January coverage. In CA, MD, NV, NJ, NM, RI & VA, you have until 12/31 for January coverage.

In every state except ID you’ll have until 1/15 or later to enroll (or switch plans) for coverage starting February 1st.

Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks, according to an NBC News tally.

Three members of Congress that Trump accused of sedition, meanwhile, have filed complaints against him with the U.S. Capitol Police.
Criminally charged threats and attacks against members of Congress jumped more than 600% during Trump’s first term compared to President Barack Obama’s second term

Law enforcement has not identified the sources of the new wave of threats, but many of Trump’s targets say the president provoked them with over-the-top accusations of criminality on the part of Democrats and betrayal on the part of his fellow Republicans.