Know what actually destroys families?

Children dying of vaccine preventable diseases.

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39% of KIDS

80% of KIDS in poverty.

41% of BIRTHS

Medicaid is Pro Children Being ALIVE.

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

Major news:

Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5pm, sources say.

Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go." Others may follow.

This is an attack on our ability to detect outbreaks.

More, with quotes from CDC officials:
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No Trainees … No Future

Anyone with vaccine skepticism should tour our PICU. We have multiple unvaccinated patients currently on ECMO secondary only to flu.

It is really bad.

2/ Effects will ripple.
🖤 Much uncertainty for the future of science in the USA.
🖤 America will fall behind quickly in discovery & international competitiveness.
🖤 It’s going to hit universities hard!
🖤 Impact will be greatest on early career researchers

This is very concerning. We have spent decades trying to assure minoritized populations are included in research. This is necessary to assure the studied population reflects those we would be treating in real life.

If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this

“We found that a single iron infusion in the third trimester can achieve what oral iron tablets taken every day during a pregnancy cannot.”
#ReproSky #ObGynSky 🧪
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As a pediatric hematologist oncologist I’d like to remind y’all that federal funding for ALL childhood cancers combined is only 4% of overall cancer research funding.

CHILDREN with CANCER.

Who deserve every single chance they can get yet are shown over and over how little our society cares.

These children will always be young and their loved ones forever devastated. They should have voted this year and gone off to college.

If something affected ~40% of men & was associated with fatigue, poor sleep, anxiety, depression, decreased cognition, hair loss, and so much more

We would

>screen for it
>believe and diagnose patients
>have better treatments

But if it’s women & children…
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