The covid revisionist historians don’t want you to remember who actually had the power and authority to order lockdowns 6 years ago.
They’ll blast me for supposedly endorsing what Ron DeSantis actually did 6 years ago.
Remember the unvaccinated boy who contracted tetanus in 2017, hospitalized for months at a cost of almost $1M? The boy who was a patient of (former) antivax doctor Paul Thomas?
He's not the only recent case. 4 kids, unvax'd, none received immunoglobulin when symptoms developed. Those poor kids.
CNN asks Makary: Should HHS reconsider its decision to cancel half a billion dollars' worth of federal funding for mRNA vaccine projects?
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Healthbeat: Most Americans believe vaccines are safe and effective
bit.ly/4907Hzr
@healthbeat.org
by Jay Varma
Nature: ‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread
by Edward Chen @nature.com
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The Nation: We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification
by Gregg Gonsalves @thenation.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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For FY25, success rates for Ks, Ts, and Fs were all down compared to FY24. We won't have success rates for FY26 until next year.
**But overall, success rates for nearly all types of grants are at 30 year lows**
NIH Data Book has more stats:
medRxiv: Opposing and antagonizing effects of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection and recombinant zoster vaccination on the risk of late-onset Alzheimer disease
Carly M. Rose et al bit.ly/4u41F9n
CIDRAP Op-Ed: When you get what you wish for: How anti-vax advocacy is making Big Pharma bigger
by Jess Steier, DrPh @cidrap.bsky.social
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HIV treatment reduces accelerated biological ageing by nearly four years, landmark study shows
Swiss HIV Cohort Study
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CNN: After a year of turmoil, cancer researchers see promising signs for mRNA vaccines
By Caleb Hellerman @cnn.com
cnn.it/41J5qoA
Historians can grasp the trajectory of the pandemic by reading the @wsj opinion page and knowing the exact opposite happened every time.
Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
USC Today: NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya gets candid about academic freedom at USC Open Dialogue Project event
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"...You have to allow conversations to happen that people don't want to have happen"
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say what
Eurosurveillance: Clinical and economic benefits of seasonal COVID-19 vaccination in Germany: results from the ROUTINE-COV19 Study, 9/2022 to 3/2024
Andrea Schmetz et al @eurosurveillance.org
Substantial clinical and economic benefit with COVID vaccination in Germany
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Wpost: Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year
By Carolyn Y. Johnson , Lydia Sidhom and Susan Svrluga
NIH @washingtonpost.com @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social et al
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wapo.st/42lB6Ak
NEW at @thebulwark.com
I wrote about the well-credentialed, highly regarded doctor Trump just picked to run CDC
And what it says — and doesn’t say — about the future of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccination crusade www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
Bhattacharya killing one of the most promising technologies in a generation for improving health, treating disease, & preventing mass death from pandemics was unforgivable; this will be his legacy
I was interviewed about his lies about mRNA vaccines here: www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/e...
STAT: Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread/ Baldy worded poll
by David Higgins @statnews.com @davidhiggins.bsky.social
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NYT: New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V.
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By Apoorva Mandavilli @nytimes.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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CNN: ‘We just need someone who’s not crazy’: Inside the White House decision to nominate Erica Schwartz as CDC director
By Adam Cancryn , Sarah Owermohle @cnn.com @adamcancryn.bsky.social @owermohle.bsky.social
cnn.it/48XKCNR
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's letter: FY 2027 budget
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NYT: Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92
By Richard Sandomir
nyti.ms/4e18Mut
what a great great lady
Maternal RSV vaccination cuts infant hospitalization risk by over 80%, major UKHSA study finds
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Newsday: Rising vaccine skepticism worries scientists — and Long Island parents of kids with cancer
by David Olson @davidolson11.bsky.social @newsday.bsky.social
Vaccinate. It's not only about you
bit.ly/48U3iOq
Takeaway from a dizzying week of RFK Jr. testimony: Kennedy appears to have changed his tune on vaccine policy. Will that mean a shift in policy, or is he just "a wolf in sheep's clothing?"
w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social @by-cjewett.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
NEW: The front-runner to become the nation’s next vaccine chief has called the mRNA COVID shots “experimental genetic technology,” compared the pandemic response to Iranian rule, and branded pandemic awareness a “COVIDian religion.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/fda-vaccin...
Telegraph: Humans may already have some immunity to H5N1 bird flu, study suggests
by Maeve Cullinan @telegraph.co.uk @maevecullinan.bsky.social
bit.ly/3OMsQX5
bioRxiv: Infection of the bovine mammary gland by avian H5N1 subclade 2.3.4.4b influenza viruses
Rebecca A Ross et al
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