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hubelin.bsky.social
@hubelin.bsky.social
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Infectious disease NP, runner (26.2 x 5), triathlete (140.6 x 3, 70.3 x 12), dual citizen 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, parents from 🇹🇼
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hubelin.bsky.social
Interesting that potus got flu and covid booster despite what narrative they, especially RFK Jr, is pushing. Source @kaitlancollins.bsky.social from threads.
October 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
hubelin.bsky.social
Fantastic article on why Hep B vaccine is recommended for kids and reason for schedule.
September 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
RFK. Jr erodes trust in vaccines - under his leadership:
- Largest measles outbreak in 30yrs, 3 deaths
- Largest pertussis outbreak - 2 deaths
- A fake study led by a discredited crank to link vaccines to autism
- Ending covid vaccine recs for children & pregnant people
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
Opinion | RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines
We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.
www.wsj.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
hubelin.bsky.social
Heart continues to break with all this. I don’t understand anyone who can justify any of this.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · May 29
THREAD 🧵

Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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benzipperer.org
Conditioning Medicaid and health care services on work is cruel, counterproductive, and defeats the whole purpose of having insurance

Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
A Sankey diagram by Taylor Maggiacomo from the linked column by Matt Bruenig that shows the distribution of age and employment status of Medicaid recipients in 2022. In particular it shows that only 3% of Medicaid recipients were working age but not working long term
May 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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glaucomflecken.bsky.social
On my way to Sydney where I’ll be giving a talk called “Dr. Glaucomflecken’s Really Fun & Incredibly Uplifting Guide to US Healthcare.”

The takeaway message: do the opposite of the thing that we’re doing.
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.
Peter Marks, MD, PhD Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20903 March 28, 2025 Sara Brenner, MD, MPH Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20903 Dear Dr. Brenner: It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from FDA and retire from federal service as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research effective April 5, 2025. I leave behind a staff of professionals who are undoubtedly the most devoted to protecting and promoting the public health of any group of people that I have encountered during my four decades working in the public and private sectors. I have always done my best to advocate for their well-being and I would ask that you do the same during this very difficult time during which their critical importance to the safety and security of our nation may be underappreciated. Over the past years I have been involved in enhancing the safety of our nation's blood supply, in advancing the field of cell and gene therapy, and in responding to public health emergencies. In the last of these, during the COVID-19 pandemic I had the privilege of watching the vision that I conceived for Operation Warp Speed in March 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Robert Kadlec become a reality under the leadership of HHS Secretary Azar and President Trump due to the unwavering commitment of public servants at FDA and elsewhere across the government. At FDA, the tireless efforts of staff across the agency resulted in remarkably expediting the development of vaccines against the virus, meeting the standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness expected by the American public. The vaccines undoubtedly markedly reduced morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the United States and elsewhere. Many of these same individuals applied learnings from the pandemic during a flawless response helping… ongoing multistate measles outbreak that is particularly severe in Texas reminds us of what happens when confidence in well-established science underlying public health and well-being is undermined. Measles, which killed more than 100,000 unvaccinated children last year in Africa and Asia owing to pneumonitis and encephalitis caused by the virus, had been eliminated from our shores. The two-dose measles, mumps, rubella vaccine regimen (MMR) using over the past decades has a remarkably favorable benefit-risk profile. The MMR vaccine is 97% or more effective in preventing measles following the two-dose series, and its safety has been remarkably well studied. Though rarely followed by a single fever-related seizure, or very rarely by allergic reactions or blood clotting disorders, the vaccine very simply does not cause autism, nor is it associated with encephalitis or death. It does, however, protect against a potential devasting consequence of prior measles infection, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), which is an untreatable, relentlessly progressive neurologic disorder leading to death in about 1 in 10,000 individuals infected with measles. Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation's health, safety. and security. In the years following the pandemic, at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research we have applied the same unwavering commitment to public health priorities to the development of cell and gene therapies to address both hereditary and acquired rare diseases. During my tenure as Center Director we have approved 22 gene therapies, including the first gene therapy ever to be approved in the United States. However, we know that we must do better to expedite the development of treatments for those individual suffering from any one of the thousan…
March 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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helenbranswell.bsky.social
Feels like people are putting a lot of faith in the fact that pandemics are rare events, often — though not always — with multiple decades between them.
Nature doesn't work on a schedule. We assume it does at our peril. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Well, they lied. Obviously.
March 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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artcandee.bsky.social
This is what gaslighting looks like.
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
They didn't even pick a controversial person WITH a medical license, but one who previously got in trouble for practicing medicine without one www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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germhuntermd.bsky.social
Our patients persecuted; colleagues and public health institutions under attack. Our field needs to rise up & fight back

Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist

Viewpoint by @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social & me

OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist
The second Trump administration has released a torrent of executive policies hostile to public health, science, and marginalized populations. We outline th
academic.oup.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.

From Around the Horn:
March 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
hubelin.bsky.social
Ugh, clarithromycin, steroids, cod liver oil, vitamin A and D are the new ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

#MAHA is just junk science from snake oil sales men.
March 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
hubelin.bsky.social
WTF, is this #MAHA?
March 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
hubelin.bsky.social
🇨🇦! #NotThe51stState
Also F espn for using miracle. Canada is not Russia.
February 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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meganranney.bsky.social
In Rhode Island -

NIH FUNDING:
$256M

JOBS SUPPORTED:
2212

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$502M

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
In 2003, HIV/AIDS was devastating Africa. There was almost no access to treatment, babies were being born with HIV at alarming rates, & life expectancy was plummeting.
PEPFAR, the largest-ever U.S. investment in fighting a single disease, saved over 25M lives. But its future is now uncertain.
A 🧵
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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charlesgaba.com
📣 Links to archived versions of every FDAgov website page available pre-purge:

acasignups.net/25/02/06/lin...
Links to archived versions of every FDA.gov page available pre-purge
As a follow-up to my index of links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available prior to the Musk/Trump purge, I (with the help of others) have created a similar index of direct links to the ...
acasignups.net
February 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Imagine going to your doctor and being told the treatment plan for whatever ails you has to align with an executive order of the President.This is where we are headed.
The banner now adorning the CDC website pages on various treatment guidelines is most sinister.
February 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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cclaremdmph.bsky.social
I was afraid to check myself but yes CDC STI guidelines are gone which is what I used for all of my career #obskyn #obgynsky
a group of south park characters sitting on a sidewalk with the caption i don t know what we 're gonna do
Alt: a group of south park characters sitting on a sidewalk with the caption i don t know what we 're gonna do
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February 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
hubelin.bsky.social
WTF
krutikakuppalli.bsky.social Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · Feb 1
🚨 If you think this administration isn't attacking science & vaccines, think again. They’ve now scrubbed all ACIP slides.

First, they erase the data. Then, manipulate it to fit their narrative—this time, undermining vaccine safety. We’ve seen this playbook before. #ScienceMatters #VaccinesSaveLives
February 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
hubelin.bsky.social
So true.
prchovanec.bsky.social Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · Jan 28
Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.
January 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM