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Miriam Lewis Sabin
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The Lancet’s North American Senior Executive Editor. Based in the Big 🍎. Former proud CDC & EIS, WHO, UNAIDS & GLOBAL FUND.Views are my own.
Continued dismantling of science and public health in the US.

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.
The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.
open.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There is an intermediate solution. We go back down the steps to the comedy clubs, as #LennyBruce did. Say whatever you want #JimmyKimmel and comedians everywhere. Publish your stand-up recordings on alternative media. Arrests may come, but protesters will support you. There is no alternative.
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
‘Nuff said. #ACIP
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#LIGO experiment is the best of what it means to be human. We must continue to understand the universe and the awesome forces that control our destiny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/s...
Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
THIS NEEDS TO BE READ NOW. I completely missed this very important piece in @nejm.org in 2024 explaining from some of my favorite vaccine and vaccine safety experts what is needed to improve safety systems and public trust. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Funding Postauthorization Vaccine-Safety Science | NEJM
The slow speed of science contributes to public concern about vaccines and reduced immunization coverage. Postauthorization safety research requires timely funding linked to the introduction of new .....
www.nejm.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Miriam Lewis Sabin
Remarkable progress has been made in the response against HIV.

However, this progress is now at risk of destabilisation.

A new letter introduces the Kigali Call to Action, offering a roadmap for revitalising the global response against HIV: tinyurl.com/2sxwja37
July 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The US Agency for International Development (#USAID) funding has had a crucial role in improving global health.

A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years.

Explore the research ▶️ tinyurl.com/2w2nkvv3
July 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reposted by Miriam Lewis Sabin
marco rubio announces that usaid, which began under president kennedy in 1961, has officially ceased operations

foreign assistance now to be run by state dept

lancet medical journal projecting 14 million more deaths in next 5 years with aid restrictions (from world's most vulnerable populations)
July 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Statement
www.gavi.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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What a dictator would say.
Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. 

Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines 

Trump: The bar is what I think it is.
June 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...
Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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On the home page of the MAHA Institute, you can read its now infamous, utterly kooky, very dangerous “MAHA Report,” authored by Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, RFK Jr, Linda McMahon, Stephen Miller, & others 😬

Only the best people are leading MAHA—antisemites, anti-vaxxers, germ theory deniers 😨
With deep pockets and a pipeline to the administration, the MAHA Institute aims to reshape everything from agriculture to vaccine policy. It's new director believes that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is real, that Germ theory is fake, and that 9/11 was an Inside Job.

irehr.org/2025/06/05/m...
Make America Hate Again ⋆ IREHR
Leland Lehrman, the new director of the MAHA Institute has a history of promoting antisemitic conspiracies and anti-science quackery.
irehr.org
June 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
2nd line playing at the ceremony for these returned souls today. Leipzig University did the right thing. I hope others follow. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger”
an $18 Billion cut
Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...
May 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Ligo is one of the best examples of what it means to be human too. 😔
Doing the one hand clapping experiment…🤦
NSF budget would close down one of LIGO's sites. This would be, to put it lightly, a catastrophe for gravitational wave astronomy.

"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
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May 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM