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Corey Watts

@coreywatts.bsky.social
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Infectious diseases physician

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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated…In the weeks since…only about 40% of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine” (Gift link)
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“Referring to one of the passengers being brought back to the U.S. for observation, Health and Human Services tweeted about a “mildly positive” PCR test, phrasing that reflects either an incomplete grasp of the science or a struggle to communicate clearly when clarity matters most.”
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
For comparison, here is an update from European CDC. 100% data and evidence-based recommendations. 0% braggadocio. www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Vaccine Integrity Project at @cidrap.bsky.social published a comprehensive review of evidence related to HPV vaccines. The findings continue to strongly support the safety, effectiveness of US-approved HPV vaccines & are consistent w/ Cochrane findings vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/hpv-evidence...
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HPV Evidence Review | Vaccine Integrity Project
CIDRAP provides advice, information and analysis on the prevention, control and treatment of targeted infectious diseases and in public health preparedness.
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 20/04/2026
I've been in training full time for the past 12 years. I need one of these grants to start my academic career. The current administration could support my research for the next millennium with a small fraction of what they have stolen from the American people.
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I am not sure I can handle transparency this radical.
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Eric Meyerowitz @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Glad to have been a part of this effort: “These findings underscore the enduring value of immunization against respiratory viruses as a cornerstone of preventive care and support the feasibility of maintaining rigorous, evidence-based guidance during periods of institutional disruption.”
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Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026 | NEJM
Changes in the vaccine advisory process in the United States have disrupted immunization guidance, which reinforces the need for independent evidence review to inform decisions regarding immunizati...
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This could be a career epitaph. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
Article: “As Ms. Loomer’s campaign escalated, the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the F.D.A., had privately defended Dr. Prasad, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Kennedy’s support, they said, stemmed in part from Dr. Prasad’s role overseeing vaccines. During his brief tenure at the F.D.A. Dr. Prasad had already limited the use of Covid shots and had amped up warnings about a rare cardiac side effect of the inoculations.”
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Have Drs. Bhattacharya and Makary, part of the commission for this report, commented on their fake citations?
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations:
“No, that’s false. There’s going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money’s going.”

“I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you’re like, actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about. … Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that’s not true.”

“We’re working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn’t be reporting rumors. I know there’s leaks all over here, but the leaks don’t actually reflect what’s happening. Don’t write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse. Like it spreads panic.”

Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Remember when RFK claimed single antigen vaccines don’t work for respiratory viruses? Perhaps he got that from Michael Memoli, the flu vaccine researcher & COVID vaccine dissenter, and now Trump hatchet man—and main man of the “new” vaccine initiative. 2022 flashback: www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Infuriating. They are starting with their conclusions and splitting absurd hairs between the COVID and flu vaccines. It’s worked for “more than 80 years” for flu, so…it’s too dangerous for COVID? The antivaxx/COVID contrarian synthesis. It doesn’t make sense and it leaves us all more vulnerable.
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Lancet joins The American Public Health Association and @drsforamerica.bsky.social in calling for RFK Jr‘s resignation. Good. More!
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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.
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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it. doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...
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Statement - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Unfit to Serve as HHS Secretary
STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. DFA General -
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m a union member. Did Elon Musk steal my data?
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
RFK denies measles as the cause of these deaths. Slips in the false assertion that MMR immunity “fades very quickly.” BUT when pinned down he does say he “encourages” people to get MMR vaccine. It’s clear he is doing the opposite on the ground. But keeping up the pressure is good!
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
this is not what law says about fda approvals work . it has nothing to do with priorities of govt.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A week ago, the Trump administration laid off thousands of people at HHS and its agencies. The cuts were so deep, and touched so much, we're still learning about the impacts. Here are a couple stories that have stood out to me. 1) @levfacher.bsky.social on the gutting of a pain-research office.
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Unique pain research office eliminated in HHS purge
Pain is the most costly chronic health problem in the U.S. In latest RIFs at NIH, an entire division devoted to pain research was closed down.
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This child became ill with measles many weeks into the outbreak. There was plenty of time to have become vaccinated if our nation’s top health official, whose organization has invested heavily on the ground in the area, were focused on ending the outbreak instead of fanning the flames.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My comments with @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/h...
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Anti-vaccine sentiments may derail vaccines already awaiting FDA approval, experts fear | CNN
Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiments within federal and state governments may derail emerging and cutting-edge vaccines that are now awaiting regulatory approval...
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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In the same post, however, he deliberately added a falsehood In fact, he edited a falsehood IN to his post AFTER posting it His edited post included 'the growth rates for news cases and hospitalizations [from measles] has flattened" Sounds nice But that just isn't true
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The transfers of senior HHS officials from to IHS were deliberately insulting. “But while Native leaders expected such moves from Mr. Trump, many say they feel betrayed by Mr. Kennedy.” RFK Jr and fellow HHS appointees seem to have been chosen to attack Trump’s enemies, not serve people.
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This implies that over half of the children in this outbreak were treated by these two men. - What organization do these men work for? - Were either of the children who died treated by them? - Do they provide vaccines for these children and their families and neighbors?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/04/2025
NIH slashes overheads, fires directors and staff, freezes funds, halts trials, interrupts research, stalls grant review, and terminates 100s of grants on infectious disease, vaccines, mRNA, DEI, LGBTQ health. NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
A lot of the things you just talked about in the outside, in the scientific community, I think part of it stems from the fact that so much of the scientific community is on the left and they didn’t vote for President Trump. And so almost any change made is going to end up causing, you know, anxiety.
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Nicole Lieberman, PhD @nicolelieberman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I work with this group. They are indispensable and need to be reinstated immediately.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/04/2025
“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
Dr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
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Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
On Peter Marks’ firing, @matthewherper.bsky.social has the common sense read. RFK has not even pretended to excuse the firing with any of the various potential good-faith criticisms of Marks. All the evidence is that it’s just what it appears to be: Part of his antivaccine, anti-science agenda.
Article quote: “But does anyone believe that is why Marks is out of a job? RFK Jr. has not been stressing the need for tighter approval standards. Instead, he and his department seem to have been largely focused on vaccines — postponing advisory committee meetings, defunding studies that might lead to new vaccines, even planning a study to re-explore autism and vaccines and, apparently, hiring a widely known vaccine critic to help advance that study. Meanwhile, billions of dollars have been cut from the grants paid to academic scientists, setting the entire U.S. research apparatus into chaos. Kennedy, meanwhile, has faced a large measles outbreak by seeming anything but enthusiastic about the measles vaccine, one of the safest and most effective medical products in existence.”
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/03/2025
As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
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For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill (Gift Article)
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our patients persecuted; colleagues and public health institutions under attack. Our field needs to rise up & fight back Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist Viewpoint by @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social & me OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
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Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist
The second Trump administration has released a torrent of executive policies hostile to public health, science, and marginalized populations. We outline th
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Corey Watts @coreywatts.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I can barely stomach reading this @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social story. This is the work of RFK Jr’s Children’s Health Defense. Selling lies that left this child vulnerable, then exploiting her parents to further their cruel work. He’s made this government policy. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
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