Maggie Fox
@maggiefox.bsky.social
Journalist. Health, science, tech in plain English and in context. Truth is not liberal bias. Facts matter, but stories stick. maggie.34 on Signal maggiefox.com
https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/maggie-fox/
onehealthtrust.org podcast host
https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/maggie-fox/
onehealthtrust.org podcast host
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
One of the most upsetting parts about covering the start of the Covid pandemic was having to report on all the perfectly healthy younger people whose first symptom - very first symptom - was dropping dead of a stroke.
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
One of the most upsetting parts about covering the start of the Covid pandemic was having to report on all the perfectly healthy younger people whose first symptom - very first symptom - was dropping dead of a stroke.
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I just had my concern for the influenza season level up. New viruses to humans are always bad.
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n...
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n...
H5N5 Avian influenza confirmed in Grays Harbor County resident
For immediate release: November 14, 2025 (25-138) First detection of this strain in a human, risk to the public remains low Contact: DOH Communications
doh.wa.gov
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I just had my concern for the influenza season level up. New viruses to humans are always bad.
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n...
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n...
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It is a small trip off the NIH campus in order to post this, but I have a bike and the weather is excellent!
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It is a small trip off the NIH campus in order to post this, but I have a bike and the weather is excellent!
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Some of the Canadian A(H5N5) viruses
birds and mammals possessed the PB2-E627K
Ferrets inoculated with A(H5N5) viruses showed rapid, severe disease onset, with some evidence of direct contact transmission.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
birds and mammals possessed the PB2-E627K
Ferrets inoculated with A(H5N5) viruses showed rapid, severe disease onset, with some evidence of direct contact transmission.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Multiple transatlantic incursions of highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus into North America and spillover to mammals
Erdelyan et al. reveal that seabirds likely facilitated the spread of A(H5N5) viruses
from Europe to Canada. All viral segments were Eurasian. Hemagglutinin contained substitutions
not present in Cana...
www.cell.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Some of the Canadian A(H5N5) viruses
birds and mammals possessed the PB2-E627K
Ferrets inoculated with A(H5N5) viruses showed rapid, severe disease onset, with some evidence of direct contact transmission.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
birds and mammals possessed the PB2-E627K
Ferrets inoculated with A(H5N5) viruses showed rapid, severe disease onset, with some evidence of direct contact transmission.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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CDC FluView is back, and our fears look like reality.
50.8% of circulating H3N2 viruses belong to the 2a.3a.1-K subclade, which have 2 mutations in a very important antigenic site. Our own 2025-2026 vaccine immunogenicity data will be posted in the next couple of weeks.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
50.8% of circulating H3N2 viruses belong to the 2a.3a.1-K subclade, which have 2 mutations in a very important antigenic site. Our own 2025-2026 vaccine immunogenicity data will be posted in the next couple of weeks.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
Weekly US Influenza Surveillance Report: Key Updates for Week 45, ending November 8, 2025
Seasonal influenza activity is low.
www.cdc.gov
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
CDC FluView is back, and our fears look like reality.
50.8% of circulating H3N2 viruses belong to the 2a.3a.1-K subclade, which have 2 mutations in a very important antigenic site. Our own 2025-2026 vaccine immunogenicity data will be posted in the next couple of weeks.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
50.8% of circulating H3N2 viruses belong to the 2a.3a.1-K subclade, which have 2 mutations in a very important antigenic site. Our own 2025-2026 vaccine immunogenicity data will be posted in the next couple of weeks.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
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The NYT tends to have this kind of pull on the Hill. Important story. Especially since if you look at the top of Makary's X profile, he has a check mark next to "modernizing infant formula."
#Medsky #pediatrics #obstetrics #babyformula #foodsafety #FDA
#Medsky #pediatrics #obstetrics #babyformula #foodsafety #FDA
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The NYT tends to have this kind of pull on the Hill. Important story. Especially since if you look at the top of Makary's X profile, he has a check mark next to "modernizing infant formula."
#Medsky #pediatrics #obstetrics #babyformula #foodsafety #FDA
#Medsky #pediatrics #obstetrics #babyformula #foodsafety #FDA
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Stand Up For Science Condemns Retaliation Against Bethesda Declaration Whistleblower Jenna Norton
“an attempt to silence the many federal workers who are speaking out about the harms this administration is causing the American people”
@standupforscience.bsky.social
“an attempt to silence the many federal workers who are speaking out about the harms this administration is causing the American people”
@standupforscience.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Stand Up For Science Condemns Retaliation Against Bethesda Declaration Whistleblower Jenna Norton
“an attempt to silence the many federal workers who are speaking out about the harms this administration is causing the American people”
@standupforscience.bsky.social
“an attempt to silence the many federal workers who are speaking out about the harms this administration is causing the American people”
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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A new approach to pandemic preparedness:
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook
The old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.
www.city-journal.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A new approach to pandemic preparedness:
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics
2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic
3️⃣ Go to the gym
Simple - 🤷♂️.
www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...
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“What was needed, Dr. Camp realized, was a simple pharmaceutical product… Companies feared liability and boycotts… Dr. Camp felt that the pharmaceutical industry, as she put it, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“What was needed, Dr. Camp realized, was a simple pharmaceutical product… Companies feared liability and boycotts… Dr. Camp felt that the pharmaceutical industry, as she put it, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
We chatted with Marcela Uhart at @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social about this a few months back - listen to her here onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p... #onehealth @onehealthtrust.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We chatted with Marcela Uhart at @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social about this a few months back - listen to her here onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p... #onehealth @onehealthtrust.bsky.social
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"She believd the 🍊admin's deep funding & staffng cuts have creatd a situation inside NIH tht's far worse than the public realizes. 'I feel like I have ths front row seat 2 the destruction of our democracy. We're seeing it in real time w/a prez who's asking us 2 do thngs that are illegal & harmful.'"
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL
She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.
n.pr
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"She believd the 🍊admin's deep funding & staffng cuts have creatd a situation inside NIH tht's far worse than the public realizes. 'I feel like I have ths front row seat 2 the destruction of our democracy. We're seeing it in real time w/a prez who's asking us 2 do thngs that are illegal & harmful.'"
Yes, #Climatechange is getting worse and governments are just giving in. But there is good news. Dr. Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi of the @lshtm.bsky.social and the @lancetcountdown.bsky.social chats about it in the One World, #OneHealth podcast @onehealthtrust.bsky.social onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p...
Who can fight climate change if governments aren't doing enough?
In this podcast, Dr. Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi tells us about who can fight climate change if governments won't step up.
onehealthtrust.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yes, #Climatechange is getting worse and governments are just giving in. But there is good news. Dr. Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi of the @lshtm.bsky.social and the @lancetcountdown.bsky.social chats about it in the One World, #OneHealth podcast @onehealthtrust.bsky.social onehealthtrust.org/news-media/p...
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NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Oh. Read every word of this.
When people hear about such events, they are often quick to name this as "abuse." But back in the olden times, we had no words for such things, and you cannot protect yourself from something you cannot name.
On Watching Battle of the Sexes — What A Shrink Thinks
From 2017: It took me a week or so of nudging: “Hey, you wanna go see Battle of the Sexes with me hon?” “Nah, not really… can’t we just rent Wonder Woman again?” I really wanted at least one o...
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oh. Read every word of this.
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NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
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This is chilling.
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says
The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions when deciding whether to grant visas to immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is chilling.
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New rule:
All executive emails will be publicly posted and mocked for their grammar and writing.
"If you can't use commas correctly, we don't trust your strategic decisions."
The number of lawyers I've known who have to re-edit every email into passable English is considerable.
All executive emails will be publicly posted and mocked for their grammar and writing.
"If you can't use commas correctly, we don't trust your strategic decisions."
The number of lawyers I've known who have to re-edit every email into passable English is considerable.
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New rule:
All executive emails will be publicly posted and mocked for their grammar and writing.
"If you can't use commas correctly, we don't trust your strategic decisions."
The number of lawyers I've known who have to re-edit every email into passable English is considerable.
All executive emails will be publicly posted and mocked for their grammar and writing.
"If you can't use commas correctly, we don't trust your strategic decisions."
The number of lawyers I've known who have to re-edit every email into passable English is considerable.
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Almost two-thirds of states say they face at least a “50-50” chance of a Medicaid budget shortfall in FY 2026 as they anticipate increased Medicaid spending and tighter fiscal conditions.
Learn more in our report: https://on.kff.org/4oJnA3e
Learn more in our report: https://on.kff.org/4oJnA3e
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Almost two-thirds of states say they face at least a “50-50” chance of a Medicaid budget shortfall in FY 2026 as they anticipate increased Medicaid spending and tighter fiscal conditions.
Learn more in our report: https://on.kff.org/4oJnA3e
Learn more in our report: https://on.kff.org/4oJnA3e
Contaminated infant formula is really bad. @jnaleccia.bsky.social is paying attention. apnews.com/article/byhe...
A baby formula recall linked to an infant botulism outbreak is expanding. Here's what to know
ByHeart, which makes organic infant formula, has recalled all of its products sold throughout the U.S. amid a growing outbreak of infant botulism.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Contaminated infant formula is really bad. @jnaleccia.bsky.social is paying attention. apnews.com/article/byhe...
RAPE. Words do matter. If they were under the age of consent, it's called statutory rape. I fought for years at various news outlets, always with male writers who tried to use phrases such as "had sex with a 5-year-old" or "12-year-old" or the like. It's not "having sex." It's rape.
Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
RAPE. Words do matter. If they were under the age of consent, it's called statutory rape. I fought for years at various news outlets, always with male writers who tried to use phrases such as "had sex with a 5-year-old" or "12-year-old" or the like. It's not "having sex." It's rape.
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Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
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That was back when medical schools still taught OBGYN med students that the uterus was “useless and disposable” when not pregnant.
Pretty sure that dangerously inaccurate assumption applied to the entire female body. Most especially the brain.
Pretty sure that dangerously inaccurate assumption applied to the entire female body. Most especially the brain.
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
That was back when medical schools still taught OBGYN med students that the uterus was “useless and disposable” when not pregnant.
Pretty sure that dangerously inaccurate assumption applied to the entire female body. Most especially the brain.
Pretty sure that dangerously inaccurate assumption applied to the entire female body. Most especially the brain.
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Even if all the Democrats had voted no the vote would have been 216-215 in favor.
When I covered the House, leadership would sometimes release members to vote no when their vote wouldn't affect the outcome.
When I covered the House, leadership would sometimes release members to vote no when their vote wouldn't affect the outcome.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Even if all the Democrats had voted no the vote would have been 216-215 in favor.
When I covered the House, leadership would sometimes release members to vote no when their vote wouldn't affect the outcome.
When I covered the House, leadership would sometimes release members to vote no when their vote wouldn't affect the outcome.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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