Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
@vax-4-them.bsky.social
Vaccinologist, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Consultant, Previously Vaccine Center Director and Chief of Infectious Diseases & Immunology
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Interesting----> www.wsj.com/opinion/oper...
Opinion | Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer
Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double.
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Interesting----> www.wsj.com/opinion/oper...
Mosquito-Borne Illness Rarely Seen in U.S. Is Suspected on Long Island www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
Mosquito-Borne Illness Rarely Seen in U.S. Is Suspected on Long Island
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Mosquito-Borne Illness Rarely Seen in U.S. Is Suspected on Long Island www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...
Why is it critical to establish community immunity through vaccination of every eligible child? To protect the vulnerable —->https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/12/los-angeles-measles-complication-vaccination-sspe/
L.A. County child dies of rare measles complication years after infection
The child contracted measles before being old enough to vaccinate, officials said — adding that the case highlights the importance of community immunity.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Why is it critical to establish community immunity through vaccination of every eligible child? To protect the vulnerable —->https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/12/los-angeles-measles-complication-vaccination-sspe/
#5 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates your communities will lose immunity. Naïve (unvaccinated) children will suffer, miss school, incur medical expenses. Parents will miss work to care for sick kids. The immense cost-effectiveness of vaccines will be lost. Florida: don’t be naïve, be protected.
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#5 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates your communities will lose immunity. Naïve (unvaccinated) children will suffer, miss school, incur medical expenses. Parents will miss work to care for sick kids. The immense cost-effectiveness of vaccines will be lost. Florida: don’t be naïve, be protected.
#4 Dear FL, Imagine: Without vaccine mandates, vacationers and retirees will decide to stop visiting and retiring in contagious Florida. Your economic metrics will fall as your infectious disease rates rise. Florida: please don’t put naïve kids and the vulnerable at risk. Be vaccine-experienced.
September 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#4 Dear FL, Imagine: Without vaccine mandates, vacationers and retirees will decide to stop visiting and retiring in contagious Florida. Your economic metrics will fall as your infectious disease rates rise. Florida: please don’t put naïve kids and the vulnerable at risk. Be vaccine-experienced.
Dear Alabama - please do not copy Florida,which is considering putting children’s lives at risk for political gain—->FloridaRFK Jr. allies claim momentum as Florida targets vaccines: ‘Fight is coming’
September 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dear Alabama - please do not copy Florida,which is considering putting children’s lives at risk for political gain—->FloridaRFK Jr. allies claim momentum as Florida targets vaccines: ‘Fight is coming’
#3 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates and herd immunity, retirees in FL, with aging immune systems, will be at increased risk for disease and death from surging vaccine-preventable diseases. Our states’ older adults will no longer want to retire in dangerous FL. Don't be naive. Love, NY, NJ & CT
September 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#3 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates and herd immunity, retirees in FL, with aging immune systems, will be at increased risk for disease and death from surging vaccine-preventable diseases. Our states’ older adults will no longer want to retire in dangerous FL. Don't be naive. Love, NY, NJ & CT
#3 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates and herd immunity, retirees in FL, with aging immune systems, will be at increased risk for disease and death from surging vaccine-preventable diseases. Our states’ older adults will no longer want to retire in dangerous FL. Love, NY, NJ & CT
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
September 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#3 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates and herd immunity, retirees in FL, with aging immune systems, will be at increased risk for disease and death from surging vaccine-preventable diseases. Our states’ older adults will no longer want to retire in dangerous FL. Love, NY, NJ & CT
Reposted by Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
The #mpox Emergency Committee met yesterday and advised me that in its view, the situation no longer represents an international health emergency. I have accepted that advice.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The #mpox Emergency Committee met yesterday and advised me that in its view, the situation no longer represents an international health emergency. I have accepted that advice.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
Lifting the emergency declaration does not mean the threat is over, nor that our response will stop.
Reposted by Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
September 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
Reposted by Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
“People need to know the story of what went down” internally at NIH, Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of NIAID, told STAT. "The story needed to be told.”
Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...
Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...
Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations
Whistleblower complaints by two former top NIH officials offer their inside accounts of the Trump administration’s targeting of vaccine science
www.statnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“People need to know the story of what went down” internally at NIH, Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of NIAID, told STAT. "The story needed to be told.”
Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...
Via @aniloza.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
September 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#2 Dear FL, Without vaccine mandates, your vaccination rates will fall below the herd immunity thresholds for diseases. For example, measles is so highly contagious that 95% of people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. FL vacations will become dangerous for us. Love, GA, AL, TN, LA, TX, NY
Reposted by Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
I really hope that FLORIDA does not do this. In the prevaccination era 1% of children would die of what are now vaccine-preventable diseases. In other words, 40,000 US children saved PER YEAR out of 4M birth cohort.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I really hope that FLORIDA does not do this. In the prevaccination era 1% of children would die of what are now vaccine-preventable diseases. In other words, 40,000 US children saved PER YEAR out of 4M birth cohort.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Reposted by Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
#1
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
Dear Florida,
Please do not do this.
Do not be naïve.
There are good reasons we vaccinate children.
Think of this:
We would not send a group of new and untrained firefighters to battle against a blaze.
Why would we send our children out into the world with untrained (naïve) immune systems?
I really hope that FLORIDA does not do this. In the prevaccination era 1% of children would die of what are now vaccine-preventable diseases. In other words, 40,000 US children saved PER YEAR out of 4M birth cohort.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I really hope that FLORIDA does not do this. In the prevaccination era 1% of children would die of what are now vaccine-preventable diseases. In other words, 40,000 US children saved PER YEAR out of 4M birth cohort.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
It is a sad day when our US health agency removes access to an effective vaccine with an excellent ratio of benefits to harms---->https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/fda-revokes-emergency-use-of-covid-19-vaccines-00530626
FDA revokes emergency use of Covid-19 vaccines
The decision could make it difficult for young healthy children to get a Covid-19 shot.
www.politico.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It is a sad day when our US health agency removes access to an effective vaccine with an excellent ratio of benefits to harms---->https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/fda-revokes-emergency-use-of-covid-19-vaccines-00530626
Thank you Dr Monarez for standing up for evidence-based medicine and expert advice—->CDC director ousted after RFK Jr. pushed her to change vaccine policy
August 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thank you Dr Monarez for standing up for evidence-based medicine and expert advice—->CDC director ousted after RFK Jr. pushed her to change vaccine policy
Reposted by Mark J Mulligan, MD, FIDSA
New Jersey scientists are testing mosquitoes after a resident may have contracted malaria locally, which health officials said would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state.
New Malaria Case Prompts Testing of Mosquitoes in New Jersey
A Morris County resident may have contracted the illness locally, which would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state.
nyti.ms
August 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
New Jersey scientists are testing mosquitoes after a resident may have contracted malaria locally, which health officials said would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state.
In my opinion, this action is a mistake based on distorted views and unnecessarily limits use of a very exciting platform to protect health —->https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/12/nih-mrna-vaccines-jay-bhattacharya/
Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In my opinion, this action is a mistake based on distorted views and unnecessarily limits use of a very exciting platform to protect health —->https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/12/nih-mrna-vaccines-jay-bhattacharya/
Fascinating, genetic approaches to combat a threat to One Health —->Gene Editing and Fly Factories: The Fight Against a Flesh-Eating Pest www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
Gene Editing and Fly Factories: The Fight Against a Flesh-Eating Pest
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Fascinating, genetic approaches to combat a threat to One Health —->Gene Editing and Fly Factories: The Fight Against a Flesh-Eating Pest www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
This is truly terrible——> www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is truly terrible——> www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...