New in @cidrap.bsky.social: amid the worst measles outbreak in 30+ years, the HHS Secretary said on national TV that MMR contains "millions of particles from aborted fetal tissue." It doesn't. What the manufacturing and regulatory record show. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Measles, misinformation, & what's actually in the MMR vaccine
RFK Jr. has said the MMR vaccine contains "millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments." It does not.
Full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/n39O50YKoOP
I’m hearing that the rank and file of MAHA is trying to distance itself from the anti-vaccine movement.
But they can’t.
RFK Jr. has spent the past two decades focusing on destroying vaccines. When you promote the man you are promoting the anti-vaccine message.
Period.
Really well done piece from @jessicanix.bsky.social and @rachelcohrs.bsky.social on Kennedy’s political retreat and what it means for the MAHA agenda. The legal and political walls are real. So is the damage that was done on the way through. Worth reading. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Great reporting by @whatsitlike.me on BA.3.2, a new SARS-CoV-2 variant now detected in 29 states. It has substantial mutations and WHO has it flagged, but no data showing increased severity.
Worth watching, not catastrophizing. @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
RFK Jr.’s anti-vax attorney buddy Aaron Siri had disgraced ACIP members Robert Malone and Retsef Levi on his podcast today and I took one for the team and listened.
This is going to be a series of posts of things I found to be interesting for one reason or another.
The man whose main paper was debunked by Israel’s health ministry, required corrections, and has been called misleading by a dozen+ scientists is now lecturing about statistical rigor. His study couldn’t even distinguish between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Thank you!
@jakescottmd.bsky.social connects the dots perfectly in this must-read @cidrap.bsky.social op-ed. It's hard to focus on any single issue with this ongoing barrage of insanity and illegality, but what's happening at HHS/CDC needs to stay on everyone's short list of important issues.
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The report that proves the point—ACIP, COVID vaccines, and predetermined conclusion
by Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/40D9lmf
Why did rates of pneumococcal disease fall in older people in the early 2000s?
“Nobody vaccinated those grandparents,” said @jakescottmd.bsky.social, a clinical associate professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University. Thanks to a vaccine, “the children around them stopped carrying it.”
Vaccines don't just protect the person who receives them. @helenbranswell.bsky.social does brilliant work breaking down the knock-on benefits we've quietly taken for granted and stand to lose. @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/v...
A leaked government report on COVID vaccine safety reveals what happens when federal health policy is built around predetermined conclusions rather than evidence. My latest for @cidrap.bsky.social:
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
It doesn’t matter what Surgeon General nominee Casey Means says now.
The fact that during her confirmation hearing she was unable to give a complete and unambiguous recommendation for the MMR vaccine is immediately and irrevocably disqualifying.
Especially in the midst the U.S. measles outbreak.
Retsef Levi's research has been called misleading by experts. Israel's health ministry debunked his main paper and a top official said he "didn't seem to care" when confronted with his errors. Now he's leading ACIP's COVID vaccine review. @skirchy.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
SCOOP: A key federal vaccine panel has abandoned an attack on covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some GOP warn that any more changes to vaccine policy could damage midterm prospects. Me + @rachelroubein.bsky.com
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Shared clinical decision-making was carefully designed for genuine uncertainty in vaccine policy.
What's happened to the childhood vaccine schedule over the past year is something different.
New piece: open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real but is now resolved. ACIP's March agenda pretends otherwise, from @jakescottmd.bsky.social.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
PAHO scheduled an April review of whether the US should lose its measles elimination status for the first time since 2000. HHS asked to push it to November, to analyze more data. 🧐
1,100 cases in 8 weeks. November is an interesting choice.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real but is now resolved. ACIP's March agenda pretends otherwise. via @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
Yes. This is an important study.
My latest @cidrap.bsky.social op-ed: The mRNA COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real. The system caught it. Since 2022, no updated formulation has triggered a significant myocarditis signal.
ACIP's March agenda is premised on a risk its own data say has resolved
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real but is now resolved. ACIP's March agenda pretends otherwise. by Jake Scott, MD
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EXCLUSIVE: In my latest @rollingstone.com investigation, new documents/20+ sources reveal a controversial vaccine study's unusual path to CDC approval, and irregularities in the only ethics review done, in Guinea-Bissau: rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1 🧵👇
"Ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge"
everything they do is a fraud. a sham.
Didn’t think this story could have gotten any worse. But I keep forgetting there is no floor when it comes to MAHA. Just a bottomless pit.
I didn’t think my jaw could drop any lower. I was wrong.
FINALLY, finally, the University of Southern Denmark says it will investigate the proposed RFK Jr-funded trial that its researchers want to conduct in Guinea Bissau—a deeply unethical trial that lacks equipoise and puts babies at risk
Took them forever to get there
They committed outright fraud to get this study approved. My god.