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normaamy.bsky.social
@normaamy.bsky.social
MPH student @ CUNY SPH-Community Health & Social Sciences-Mom of 2 Cana-Ricans 🇵🇷🇨🇦 #T1D #Insulin4All
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“Experts credit the universal dose with the near elimination of hepatitis B in babies—from about 16,000 cases per year to fewer than 20.“ 🧪🛟
“Without data to support their decision & defying warnings from doctors, medical associations, & public-health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth”
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Alright, pals: ACIP meeting is beginning.

Here is the link to the livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/LpthhPB...

The updated agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

And the prebunk from TEC/Your Local Epidemiologist:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Anticipated votes:
www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - December 4, 2025 - Day 1 of 2
YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This is terrible

Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain
Blame declining confidence, a lack of convenience and rising complacency
www.economist.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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🗣️📖COVID-19 oral history archives capture lived experiences of the pandemic. A new study by #CUNYSPH’s Emma Tsui, J. Robin Moon, Riki H.S. Eijima & colleagues shows how these archives can guide more equitable public health solutions.
🔗 cunysph.me/4mbpec1
COVID-19 oral history archives offer roadmap for equitable public health solutions - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
A new study highlights a transformative resource for public health: the unprecedented wave of COVID-19 oral history archives collected since the start of the pandemic. Authors Associate Professor…
cunysph.me
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The effects of orphanhood and lack of parental care on child vaccination: analyses of 189 cross-sectional UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys from 82 countries, 2005–2022 - eClinicalMedicine www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
The effects of orphanhood and lack of parental care on child vaccination: analyses of 189 cross-sectional UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys from 82 countries, 2005–2022
To better support children at risk and uphold their rights, vaccination programmes should prioritise service delivery to orphans and children lacking parental care.
www.thelancet.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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In a major victory for public health — led by APHA — a federal judge has ruled that some of the NIH grant terminations by the Trump administration are "void and illegal." www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...
Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”
www.statnews.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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If the US stops fluoridating water, in 5 yrs American children would suffer an additional 25.4 million cavities, with an added cost of $9.8B, and loss of 2.9 million quality-adjusted life years, disproportionately borne by children currently on public health insurance or who lack insurance entirely.
Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water Systems
This cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates a large sample of US children to determine the associations of fluoridation cessation with oral health and national dental care costs.
jamanetwork.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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RFK Jr proposing self monitoring as an essential step before getting to use a GLP-1 medications, particularly emphasizing CGMs - which have zero data that they produce effective long-term weight loss let alone reduce chronic disease events like heart attacks. 😵‍💫

thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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"These findings suggest that restrictive abortion policies may be reversing decades of progress in reducing infant deaths in the U.S.,” says Alison Gemmill, associate professor in @hopkinspfrh.bsky.social and the infant-death study’s co-lead author.
Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Researchers estimate 22,180 more live births and 478 more infant deaths than expected across 14 states, including Texas, that banned abortion between September 2021 and August 2022.
publichealth.jhu.edu
February 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.

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canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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🧪 🛟 In this Epi Explained: Bias & Error in Research. Bias skews results systematically, while random error occurs by chance. Learn the differences between common understanding and domain specific meanings of Bias and Error. Link: https://buff.ly/3OaYslp #EpiSky #MedSky #EduSky #Bias #Errors
Epi Explained: Understanding Biases and Errors in Epidemiology -
ALT: An oil painting of a horse carried hearse, with several mourners including a little girl behind it, with a snowy, muddy land.
buff.ly
December 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM