Jess
@jesssr.bsky.social
Public health, emerging infections. Will work for sushi. Personal account.
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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
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.
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus.
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Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus.
Staffers are sheltering in place. Little else is known.
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Breaking: Gunfire hits CDC campus.
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Media is not reporting that shots have hit three CDC buildings.
Report: bullets hit building 21 and reportedly 24 and 16 at CDC
Also…. WHY is the news not reporting about bullets hitting CDC as well?
Also…. WHY is the news not reporting about bullets hitting CDC as well?
August 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Media is not reporting that shots have hit three CDC buildings.
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MIRACLE MEDICINE: Take a peanut-based paste packed with 500 calories and 13 grams of protein. Store it in a 92-gram foil pouch with no added water or refrigeration required, and saving a life, it turns out, literally costs peanuts: just 71 cents a serving. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/whats-...
What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans
Packed with calories and protein, the same magic mixture has successfully treated famine for decades—but due to funding cuts it's now in short supply.
www.wired.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
MIRACLE MEDICINE: Take a peanut-based paste packed with 500 calories and 13 grams of protein. Store it in a 92-gram foil pouch with no added water or refrigeration required, and saving a life, it turns out, literally costs peanuts: just 71 cents a serving. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/whats-...
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Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
July 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
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There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
July 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3
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June 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3
apnews.com/article/nih-...
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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
May 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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Masks work.
Lockdowns work.
Vaccines work.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Ivermectin is for parasite-infested horses.
Pass it on.
Lockdowns work.
Vaccines work.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Ivermectin is for parasite-infested horses.
Pass it on.
April 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Masks work.
Lockdowns work.
Vaccines work.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Ivermectin is for parasite-infested horses.
Pass it on.
Lockdowns work.
Vaccines work.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Ivermectin is for parasite-infested horses.
Pass it on.
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Handily, scientific papers are available describing exactly this. In this work from 2021, the cost of a measles outbreak with just 72 cases cost the state of Washington $3.4 million. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Handily, scientific papers are available describing exactly this. In this work from 2021, the cost of a measles outbreak with just 72 cases cost the state of Washington $3.4 million. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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This is Scott – a CDC researcher working to help screen coal miners for black lung.
His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.
His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.
April 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is Scott – a CDC researcher working to help screen coal miners for black lung.
His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.
His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.
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NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
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Wow. Inspiring story full of heroes (including #UCSF’s Joe DeRisi and #FDA’s Heather Stone) and true pathogenic villains. Reported by the incomparable Michael Lewis.
Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat
Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Children's Health Defense (CHD), founded by HHS Secretary RFK Jr, has created an imposter webpage that closely mimics a CDC webpage on Autism and Vaccines. It is nefariously seeding disinformation by presenting a seemingly balanced argument on the science supporting and refuting autism and vaccines.
March 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Children's Health Defense (CHD), founded by HHS Secretary RFK Jr, has created an imposter webpage that closely mimics a CDC webpage on Autism and Vaccines. It is nefariously seeding disinformation by presenting a seemingly balanced argument on the science supporting and refuting autism and vaccines.
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🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone.
infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
March 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone.
infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"I’ll make much more money staying in my medical practice.”
That's what it's all about, amirite? Public service is for peasants!
That's what it's all about, amirite? Public service is for peasants!
“Mr. Kennedy is “very upset” at the decision to withdraw Dr. Weldon for consideration as C.D.C. director, Dr. Weldon said.
“I’m going to get on an airplane at 11 o’clock and I’m going to go home and I’m going to see patients on Monday… I’ll make much more money staying in my medical practice.”
“I’m going to get on an airplane at 11 o’clock and I’m going to go home and I’m going to see patients on Monday… I’ll make much more money staying in my medical practice.”
White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director
Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"I’ll make much more money staying in my medical practice.”
That's what it's all about, amirite? Public service is for peasants!
That's what it's all about, amirite? Public service is for peasants!
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Why basic research matters and defunding and firing scientists will cost us.
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
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Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
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March 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Why basic research matters and defunding and firing scientists will cost us.
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
A 🧵👇
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
A 🧵👇
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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This is so important in a field heavily informed by epidemiology, whose methods allow us, consciously and unconsciously, to decontextualise and depoliticise ‘drivers’ of disease.
10 years ago, when I began teaching global health, my courses were mostly the 'blue pill' version
Slowly but surely, it has become reddish
Every year brings more improvement & reflection
@shashikalb.bsky.social & @ananyatb.bsky.social have been great co-teachers
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Slowly but surely, it has become reddish
Every year brings more improvement & reflection
@shashikalb.bsky.social & @ananyatb.bsky.social have been great co-teachers
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
February 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This is so important in a field heavily informed by epidemiology, whose methods allow us, consciously and unconsciously, to decontextualise and depoliticise ‘drivers’ of disease.
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.