The irony

Do back issues of Guns and Ammo count? Because I suspect that’s all the history Pete has ever read.

That is perfect.

Indeed, and the answer is there in your comment.

Tweet from Hegseth that says The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Public health got started largely in the
military for a reason, Hegseth.

Remember the 1918 flu pandemic.

Remember Walter Reed’s work on yellow fever.

Remember George Washington ordering his troops to be inoculated against smallpox.

Great to have someone who can do epidemiology in his head without having to collect any annoying data running HHS

I think it’s more than presumed.

🙌🏼 Just got mine last week as well.

RFK Jr. Won’t Commit to Following New CDC Nominee’s Vaccine Guidance Erica Schwartz, a former US deputy surgeon general, is supportive of vaccines.

On @kavehmd.bsky.social’s podcast, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and I both said that Dr. Erica Schwartz is a great pick for CDC Director, but her ability to do her job hinges on one thing:

RFK Jr. needs to STFU and get the hell out of her way.

Well, he refuses to commit to that.

I hate him so much.

As an immigrant, the MMR vaccine is required for immigration, and my vaccine records were part of my required immigration physical. I actually had to get a booster (not that I minded).

every medical expert who warned this would happen:

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That claim is false - it's because of vaccine disinformation, much of it coming from him.

For example, the ongoing measles outbreaks in the US are connected and hence _specifically_ not from people traveling into the country. We know this, because, data 👇.

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RFK Jr. blaming immigrants for infectious disease outbreaks is a belief shared by many whom he installed in leadership roles at HHS.

Yes. I noted this when watching the ACIP meeting as well.

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🎯 I have mentioned a few times in the past that I think he has more power in his hands to kill more Americans than any other cabinet member.

Usually people don’t even know who the HHS Secretary is. It’s not good that everyone does this time.

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Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.

What!??! I missed this! Amazing!

Is the HHS Still a Dumpster Fire? Podcast Episode · The House of Pod · April 21 · 58m

You can listen here:

“May the Schwartz be with you”.

I borrowed from Spaceballs to deliver my assessment of Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination for CDC Director on Dr. Kaveh Hoda’s podcast @kavehmd.bsky.social.

She’s phenomenal. And that’s why we’re all suspicious.

Oh no he definitely did that in the hearing too

He is a racist, a white supremacist, and a eugenicist.

If only we had a button that would tase RFK Jr. every time he lies in a congressional hearing.

We could charge for a chance to push the button and pay for 100 years of single-payer healthcare.

What a great project. I’m so sorry to hear this.

Don’t be fooled by RFK Jr.’s ‘real food’ lectures. Making America healthy is much more complex OPINION: Lecturing folks struggling to “eat real food” while cutting SNAP benefits and other forms of food assistance feels like a sick joke.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to lecture Americans about the need to eat real food…but for many Americans, it’s advice divorced from reality and helps mask an assault on public health by RFK Jr. and the Trump administration”.

My friend @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy and I in our OpEd, out today.

Thanks again, it was great! Happy to chat again if anything else bad happens at HHS (lol).

Loose Ends in the Epidemiology of the 1918 Pandemic: Explaining the Extreme Mortality Risk in Young Adults Abstract. In the century since the 1918 influenza pandemic, insights have been sought to explain the pandemic’s signature pattern of high death rates in yo

Maybe academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

Maybe not www.science.org/content/arti...

I lean toward maybe.