Robert Smith, Ph.D
@docroberts.bsky.social
Molecular Biologist, World Health Organization (WHO), Genomics and Emerging Pathogens, Geneva
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Coming soon: food insecurity for 70 million more Americans—including the working poor! Because in the U.S., a full-time job gets you stress, debt, and now a front-row seat to hunger. But hey, the stock market’s fine, so who cares, right?
May 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Coming soon: food insecurity for 70 million more Americans—including the working poor! Because in the U.S., a full-time job gets you stress, debt, and now a front-row seat to hunger. But hey, the stock market’s fine, so who cares, right?
Great news! Medicaid and SNAP cuts mean millions get to experience the thrill of untreated illness and empty cupboards. Who needs healthcare or food when you’ve got bootstraps and a GoFundMe? God bless America, where survival is a luxury.
May 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Great news! Medicaid and SNAP cuts mean millions get to experience the thrill of untreated illness and empty cupboards. Who needs healthcare or food when you’ve got bootstraps and a GoFundMe? God bless America, where survival is a luxury.
Ah yes, the American dream—
Congress just announced yet another round of “freedom-enhancing” cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Because nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like letting working families choose between groceries and insulin.
Land of the free, home of the chronically uninsured.
Congress just announced yet another round of “freedom-enhancing” cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Because nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like letting working families choose between groceries and insulin.
Land of the free, home of the chronically uninsured.
May 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ah yes, the American dream—
Congress just announced yet another round of “freedom-enhancing” cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Because nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like letting working families choose between groceries and insulin.
Land of the free, home of the chronically uninsured.
Congress just announced yet another round of “freedom-enhancing” cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Because nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like letting working families choose between groceries and insulin.
Land of the free, home of the chronically uninsured.
3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say
April 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say
Breaking! Measles outbreak in West Texas… pardon me.. RFK, Jr. has entered the chat…
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February 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Breaking! Measles outbreak in West Texas… pardon me.. RFK, Jr. has entered the chat…
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These are the best among us—the brilliant minds who have devoted their lives to public service— being discarded like chaff.
Thank you for your unwavering dedication.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
Thank you for your unwavering dedication.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
www.statnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
These are the best among us—the brilliant minds who have devoted their lives to public service— being discarded like chaff.
Thank you for your unwavering dedication.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
Thank you for your unwavering dedication.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
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The pointless destruction of the scientific and medical research system open.substack.com/pub/stevensa...
The pointless destruction of the world's leading scientific and medical research system
No one benefits from this
open.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The pointless destruction of the scientific and medical research system open.substack.com/pub/stevensa...
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February 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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🧪Arghhh! I think I can safely say that the Trump Administration doesn't give a rat's a$$ about our health!
www.cbsnews.com/news/thousan...
www.cbsnews.com/news/thousan...
Thousands of probationary federal health agency workers fired by letter this weekend. Here's what it said.
The move comes amid a government-wide effort to cut probationary workers by the Department of Government Efficiency task force led by billionaire Elon Musk.
www.cbsnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🧪Arghhh! I think I can safely say that the Trump Administration doesn't give a rat's a$$ about our health!
www.cbsnews.com/news/thousan...
www.cbsnews.com/news/thousan...
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The Dep't of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies, including the FDA and CDC.
Those laid off included people who evaluate the safety of medical devices.
@rachelcohrs.bsky.social @bloomberg.com
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Those laid off included people who evaluate the safety of medical devices.
@rachelcohrs.bsky.social @bloomberg.com
Gift link:
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US Health Department Layoffs Expand to Medicare, FDA
The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, ...
www.bloomberg.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
First virus of the year, achieved. I’m a terrible patient and already over it (blaming my son for this one). The worst—zero stars, do not recommend. Also, I’m running a full metagenomic sequencing panel because I’m going to identify the little bastard and obliterate it.
January 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
First virus of the year, achieved. I’m a terrible patient and already over it (blaming my son for this one). The worst—zero stars, do not recommend. Also, I’m running a full metagenomic sequencing panel because I’m going to identify the little bastard and obliterate it.
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The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is currently stacked with academic experts well versed in the science of vaccines. A new secretary of Health and Human Services could rapidly change that, Katherine J. Wu writes.
How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail
Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against disease.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is currently stacked with academic experts well versed in the science of vaccines. A new secretary of Health and Human Services could rapidly change that, Katherine J. Wu writes.
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Today would have marked 52 years of Roe as the law of the land. But Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with anti-abortion extremists to get it overturned.
This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.
We must keep fighting for women’s rights.
This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.
We must keep fighting for women’s rights.
January 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Today would have marked 52 years of Roe as the law of the land. But Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with anti-abortion extremists to get it overturned.
This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.
We must keep fighting for women’s rights.
This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.
We must keep fighting for women’s rights.