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Dan Freedman, DO

@dfreedman7.bsky.social
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Child neurologist & epilepsy fellowship APD at Dell Med. Interests: epilepsy, FND, medical education, history & vaccines. Personal account, views my own.

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Child Neurology Society @childneurosoc.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Doctors who care for children’s brains know this: Childhood vaccines save lives. They significantly reduce serious illness and death in children and help protect entire communities. 🔗 Read our full statement: ow.ly/qU4O50XSeSm
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
End Wokeness, who made a false accusation by “just asking questions”, is purportedly Jack Posobiec. Jack had ~60k followers during Pizzagate. How many millions does he have on his main acct now? How many times has he lied since? Keeping score requires shame to work as a moderating norm.
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Amy G Dala, MD @amygdalamd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Glad the UK has come around to this. The US has seen a dramatic decrease in mortality related to chickenpox since vaccination began in 1995. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS
All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. will likely be called to testify before Senator Cassidy's HELP committee on May 14th.
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An Open Letter to Senator William Cassidy (R, La)
RFK Jr. is scheduled to testify in front of Senator Cassidy’s HELP Committee on May 14. Here is the letter I sent to him on May 1, 2025.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines. Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids. Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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How Kennedy is already weakening America's childhood vaccine system
The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... "They were small and could not hope for help. And no help came." W.H. Auden
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Senator Cassidy: Please Save Our Children!
RFK Jr.’s reign of terror on vaccines is just beginning. The recent death of a six-year-old from measles is a glimpse of what lies ahead.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Huge loss. Peter Marks' approvals for gene therapy led to a revolution in medicine. Children with a terrible disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) used to die of respiratory failure early in life before they could walk. Now these kids live, breathe, & most walk. 1/
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause. “Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” 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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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sort of bleakly funny that RFK of all people is rumored to have said Weldon “wasn’t ready” www.axios.com/2025/03/13/w...
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Scoop: White House pulls CDC director nomination
The nomination will be withdrawn the same day he was scheduled to testify at a confirmation hearing.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
About Weldon: he wasn't just an anti-vaxx sympathizer—he was an important ally to the movement before Kennedy. The most interesting is how he helped anti-vaxx researchers access CDC vaccine data—a move that provided some of the earliest (and sloppiest) anti-vaxx science.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No one: Dave Weldon: The story of me being pushed out of CDC begins with my deep affinity for Andrew Wakefield.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Remembering a lot of people saying stuff like “I don’t agree with RFK Jr. on everything but at least he’s going to do something about the food that’s making us sick”
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
lol this could’ve been copy from a Vaccinate California social media post circa 2015, following the Disneyland measles outbreak, when this pest of a man showed up in CA to rail ab how MMR was causing autism. Welcome to the team, Bobby! The antivaxxers must be losing their minds. “THEY” got to him!
Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
1. #CDC was finally allowed to issue a statement on the Texas #measles outbreak, though it wasn't sent to the press distribution list or posted on its homepage. They tweeted it in the other place at 8:29 pm EST. Communication by whisper. www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
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CDC Statement on Measles Outbreak
CDC is in close communication with Texas health authorities over the recent measles outbreak.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected. Measles will spread if we give it the chance. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...
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New measles cases tied to N.J. patient who visited 3 health facilities
The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed an initial measles case on Feb. 14 in an unvaccinated individual, and by Feb. 20, two additional cases were identified in people who had close contact wit...
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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 28/02/2025
RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles
Contrary to what the health secretary says, the outbreak of disease in Texas is, in fact, unusual.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In contrast to RFK's nonexistent response, his antivaccine nonprofit has claimed that measles is healthy & the vaccine caused this outbreak, despite the overwhelming # of unvaccinated kids that have been infected & genotyping showing the outbreak is caused by a wild type virus
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social
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As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids
At least 124 people, mostly babies, children and teens, have been infected. Eighteen people have been hospitalized.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
On the morning of the first reported measles death in a decade, HHS Secretary Kennedy-founded anti-vaccine org Children's Health Defense hosts disgraced scientist Andrew Wakefield. He's urging parents to let their kids catch measles "naturally."
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Texas measles outbreak has reported its first death. This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
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First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people
A person who was hospitalized with measles has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first since the outbreak began late last month.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
After the first measles death of a child HHS Secretary Kennedy seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual," and the 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they couldn't breathe. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. Measles vaccine shedding is an antivaccine lie that has been used for years. The measles vaccine does not cause measles outbreaks. It stops them.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Update for the purveyors of this most recent conspiracy theory: Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-m...
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Anti-vaccine movement falsely blames measles shots for Texas outbreak
The disproven claims about the Texas measles cases echo misinformation spread by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about a 2019 outbreak in Samoa.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you don't follow @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social, you should. She has been covering the antivaccine movement for years and has seen this all before.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
1st: vaccines work 2nd: social media companies developed their OG vaccine policies in response to *outbreaks like this* in Samoa & Bklyn. Not COVID! They boosted good info. They labeled false claims. That got redefined as “censorship” by ppl who profit from lies. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
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Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People (Gift Article)
Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
NEW: RFK Jr. said a new study linked vaccines to autism in his confirmation hearing. We found that the study's author had a hard time getting it published. Then he got help from Andrew Wakefield, who is famous for the first debunked study linking the the two. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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Behind Kennedy’s Vow to ‘Follow the Science’ on Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited a disputed study from a close network of fellow vaccine skeptics during his confirmation hearings. His critics say it is part of a pattern that raises concerns about whose ...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Well that’s interesting www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...
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Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Seeing many false claims about immigration as the source of measles outbreaks. Here are some facts: 1) the west Texas outbreak started in a county with 1 of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the state 2) the Americas are the only WHO region that is free of endemic measles
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The MAHA EO is out. Kennedy’s pet theories are in it, in euphemism form.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
(xiv) other members of my Administration invited to participate, at the discretion of the Chair and the Executive Director.
Sec. 4. Fighting Childhood Chronic Disease. The initial mission of the Commission shall be to advise and assist the President on how best to exercise his authority to address the childhood chronic disease crisis. Therefore, the Commission shall:
(a) study the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism; Code for vaccines and 5G
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
There is one major difference between the US & the many countries that have better health outcomes than us. It isn't glyphosate, red dye, seed oils, 5G, or vaccines. Those countries have all those things too but they have one thing we don't--access to care.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A reminder of all the harm Kennedy could, and likely will, do in the HHS secretary role. Of all the confirmations, this one is going to have the most noticeable impacts on people's daily lives. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “a genuine catastrophe.”
As health and human services secretary, the “damage he could do is near infinite.”
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... Why does RFK Jr. believe so many weird things? One reason.
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Understanding RFK Jr.
If you want to know why RFK Jr. believes so many weird things, just read his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. Four pages explain everything.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There are a few medical reasons (wound infections, carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness) for a child to need hyperbaric therapy, the rest is not evidence-based & potentially dangerous. This tragedy should have been prevented.
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Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Samoa's director general of health says RFK Jr's comments on the 2019 measles outbreak are a "complete lie". Appointing him is a "disaster for public health in the world" #medsky #nursesky www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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RFK Jr's comments on deadly measles outbreak 'a complete lie' - Samoa's director-general of health
"It was obvious these people died from measles," Alec Ekeroma told RNZ.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree? RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained-- SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ... SANDERS: That is a very troubling response
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Cassidy now explaining that HBV vaccination on the first day of life is critical because at that age people are exceptionally high risk for developing chronic hepatitis B infection which leads to liver cancer (figures say 90+% chance if infected in the first year of life). In many cases, HBV...
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Rand Paul, a physician, is voicing his support of RFK Jr while casting doubt on the need for vaccinating babies against Hep B. These are exactly the bogus talking points we can expect to hear over the next 4 years if RFK is confirmed. I covered hep B here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-willful-...
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The willful blindness of RFK Jr’s supporters | Science-Based Medicine
Shrug, move on and never admit you were wrong
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
(Another) Weird day. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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RFK Jr. tries (again) to distance himself from the anti-vaccine movement
Kennedy's statements at Wednesday's hearing bore little resemblance to the years of documented stances he took on vaccines. That dissonance did little to blunt the excitement in the anti-vaccine movem...
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Monday 1/27/25 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day and I've lost count of how many times RFK Jr has compared vaccines to the Holocaust
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Ironic to hear a man that denies HIV as the cause of AIDS claim to support a program that provides millions of people with HIV meds
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If the falconry boot fits...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New from me and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social: during his confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a distorted picture of why he went to Samoa, insisting it had nothing to do with vaccines and everything with creating a "medical informatics" system www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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During his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. distorts his infamous Samoa visit
No, his actions in the run up to a deadly outbreak weren't all about "medical informatics."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thanks so much @artcap.bsky.social for writing this. “The other event that comes to mind when I see Kennedy trying to cement his nomination is the six months I spent in the polio ward at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1956… Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine would arrive a few weeks after I became ill.”
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From polio to COVID: Why Kennedy is unfit for HHS - The Boston Globe
As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I wrote a blog post about physicians that support RFK Jr sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-willful-...
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The willful blindness of RFK Jr’s supporters | Science-Based Medicine
Shrug, move on and never admit you were wrong
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Good lord: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr. secretly recorded second wife during divorce and acknowledged being “polygamous”
One recording might have violated state law. It was part of a messy saga that ended with her suicide.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
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Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In the 1950s, 2 US docs (Sabin & Salk) created the polio vaccines supported by FDR's nonprofit. This American innovation has pushed polio to the brink of eradication thanks to the WHO using 10% of its annual budget on polio eradication. By withdrawing from WHO we jeopardize this American success.
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Dan Freedman, DO @dfreedman7.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Withdrawing from the WHO is a mistake. Playing politics with global health will hurt many poor people in other countries. But make no mistake, the diseases we let spread in other countries by limiting the WHOs effectiveness will eventually make their way to us.
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