Trump administration junks committee on preventing infections in hospitals The dismantling of HICPAC creates a situation where updates of standards for best practices will have to be undertaken at the state or local level, or possibly at the level of the individual facility....

#Trump #RFKJr #Dismantle #Hospital #Infections #Monitors
#HHS #HealthandHumanServices #Dismantles #HICPAC
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Several professional societies were not pleased with the disbanding of #HICPAC, citing its role as a critical asset to the nation’s public health infrastructure, saying it will "jeopardize decades of progress in preventing healthcare-associated infections"
www.idsociety.org/news--public... #Medsky

Trump administration shuts down federal advisory committee on infection prevention

Trump shuts down #HICPAC, advisory group formed in 1991 to prevent the spread of IDs
www.cidrap.umn.edu/healthcare-a...
Members have expertise in IDs, infection prevention and control, healthcare epidemiology, nursing, public health, and other areas of health and medicine #IDsky #Medsky

The Disbanding of HICPAC is Part of a Larger, Dangerous Pattern of Undermining Health Protections In a deeply troubling move for public health and biomedical science, the Trump administration has quietly dismantled the Healthcare Infection Control

Gotta love when a global biodefense news aggregator has a headline like this... I am going to sleep well tonight (in my plastic bubble)... #hicpac

globalbiodefense.com/2025/05/07/t...

With the #CDC #HICPAC gone, and the head of HHS disavowing germ theory, does anyone else hear the intro music from World War Z starting to play softly?

Glad Elon couldn't "found" a time machine company from someone, or they'd be sending a T-800 back to kill Ignaz Semmelweis. #EHBT

Republican witch doctor #Rfkjr

Mass Murdering and disabling Americans, making disease greatly murderous again for mother Russia 🇷🇺 and China 🇨🇳

Call your Congress people, protest #RepublicanEugenics at their fundraisers
#hicpac

Every Republican President wrecks the economy & breaks programs that benefit the masses, forcing the next Democratic President to spend half his term fixing what Republicans broke.

Trump is deliberately destroying America so thoroughly that it can never be repaired & Americans will die.

#HICPAC

Translation: They thought the Black Plague was overblown, and thought they'd do a modern reenactment.

#CDC #HICPAC #usaBecameInfectionCentral

⚠️ The future of HICPAC is uncertain — and that puts patient safety at risk.

📖 Read more via @medpagetoday: bit.ly/4aQWl7L
#InfectionPrevention #HICPAC #SHEASpring2025 #PublicHealth

Trump admin considers shutting down some CDC expert panels HHS tells CDC leaders it is “recommending termination” of the discretionary advisory committees.

Insanity: Trump admin considers shutting down some #CDC expert panels - Politico- incl CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on #HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD, #HICPAC, #OccupationalHealth, #preparedness. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

HICPAC Roster Current roster for the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).

Enabling eugenics under a false flag of presenting themselves as protectors of safety and shit.

Fck you. I truly hope you going to get the worst of what you people deserve.

#HICPAC #CDC #medsky #politics #news #disability #healthcare #health #workingclass

Perhaps tell #CDC, @massgenbrigham.bsky.social, other Boston hospitals and #HICPAC. I can't seem to help them understand the need for airborne precautions. Thx.

CDC infection control body rejects the science on airborne transmission HICPAC continues to stonewall efforts to evolve infection control guidance to match updated information about COVID and other common viruses.

CDC infection control body rejects the science on airborne transmission.. #HICPAC continues to stonewall efforts to evolve infection control guidance to match updated information about #COVID and other common #viruses
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social
#immunocompromised
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...

That paper is part of why #HICPAC should not be (or have been) stacked with those anti-mask authors as members--Erica Shenoy, Sharon Wright, Shira Doron, Hilary Babcock, etc.

Interesting that Erica Shenoy, Chief of Infection Control at Mass General Brigham and member of #hicpac, has been one of the most outspoken opponents of mask and N95 respirator use of all HICPAC members.

I still can't believe they have turned hospitals and healthcare facilities into COVID gas chambers. Sure, high risk immunocompromised are getting hit hardest, but everyone is getting hit hard. Giving ppl covid and long covid is not healthcare. Wear #n95!
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

#HICPAC #CDC

RE Role of public comments for CDC and HICPAC.
#science #chronicillness #CovidConscious #CDC #HICPAC #masks #respirators #occupationalhealth #NIOSH @nationalnurses.bsky.social #PeoplesCDC #COVID #COVIDAware

I continue to be dismayed that there is no apparent substantive response by CDC or HICPAC...

The text in these 3 attachments is in the thread.

RE Masks vs Respirators Discussion at CDC HICPAC Meeting on Infection Control Practices, Nov 14-15, 2024. A long thread about 1 point.
#science #chronicillness #CovidConscious #CDC #HICPAC #masks #respirators #occupationalhealth #NIOSH @nationalnurses.bsky.social #PeoplesCDC #COVID #COVIDAware

CDC Weighs Lowering Infection Protections Even More The CDC's HICPAC advisory committee seems intent on rolling back infection control precautions in healthcare settings, despite evidence that what they propose is wrong.

Excellent discussion by @drjudystone.bsky.social on #HICPAC role in infection control regs www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

..." #HICPAC opposed giving healthcare workers the voluntary right to wear #95 +
#respirators beyond the minimum requirement"

CDC Weighs Lowering Infection Protections Even More The CDC's HICPAC advisory committee seems intent on rolling back infection control precautions in healthcare settings, despite evidence that what they propose is wrong.

My latest: CDC's #HICPAC fails again--Weighs Lowering Infection Protections Even More via @forbes
With thanks for perspective from @nynurses Lisa Baum, NYSNANurses undefined, Peg Seminario, Amanda Finley Diggs, those who testified at the meeting
#Covid #LongCovid #Respirators #Masks

CDC HICPAC Considers New Airborne Pathogen Guidelines Amid Growing Concerns The CDC HICPAC discussed updates to airborne pathogen guidelines, emphasizing the need for masks in health care. Despite risks, the committee resisted universal masking, highlighting other mitigation ...

#CDC asking #HICPAC about #n95 respirators and not having a member of #NIOSH voting in on it makes it hard NOT to think this was just a charade of intentional corruption with profits from big hospitals dictating the outcome instead of science, and patients and staff health and safety.

HICPAC Meeting Summaries The Need for Infection Control Policies in Healthcare Facilities in Response to the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic Last Updated November 15th 2024 This document is meant to give background on the moveme...

I have a living Google doc of summaries on #HICPAC and #CDC and #InfectionControl guidelines drafts, links to it and articles written about it here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CDC Advisors Defend Infection Control Draft Guidance HICPAC supports surgical masks for airborne pathogens, sick workers returning after 3 days

MedPage made a good summary of the #HICPAC meeting, and my public comment was quoted in it too! (For the record I said PAPRs not coppers).
#HAI #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUpN95 #longCovid #covid19
www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...

Not with that attitude! #HICPAC

Was looking to see if anyone else here watched the #HICPAC meeting and votes this week.
Bad move. There’s several passionate, mis or under-informed, albeit well-meaning people posting about #N95 and masking judgements.
Search with caution.

Im so sad and mad at #HICPAC they voted all wrong today even after 2 days of heartfelt, angry, pleading, demanding, professional, patient, every kind of public comment. We did our part. They did not do theirs. RIP #PublicHealth cause of death: #covid and #longcovid .
www.youtube.com/live/rnf2gWX...

Regarding that bullshit #HICPAC vote, I wrote a quick call script in case anyone wants to complain to the HHS Inspector General. I can share their direct line too. Hit me up in my DMs! #COVID #InfectiousDisease #Epidemiology

This comment is a failure of public health. #HICPAC must stop imagining patient feelings & start reading letters to HICPAC from actual patients & providers who don't want to catch Covid or other airborne pathogens in healthcare youtube.com/clip/UgkxY4r... /1

Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) HICPAC is a federal advisory committee that provides advice and guidance on infection control and st

3/4 basically #HICPAC plans on denying us safe healthcare access... they are planning on calling surgical masks equivalent to #respirators, not giving a stated recommendation to allow workers to voluntarily wear respirator masks, not making source control with respirator masks standard...