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Jenny Peelen Thomas

@drjen4kids.bsky.social
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Pediatrician and Breastfeeding Medicine doc in Milwaukee.

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Jennifer Chen, MD FAAP @drjenchen4kids.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
#AAP2026 #Breastfeeding Myths @drjen4kids.bsky.social + Dr. Todd Wolynn - re: toxins, they're in the environment, but still more in formula than breastmilk so risk of BF still < benefits (for most babies) - radiation: most things are safe eg contrast, refer to ABM protocol 31 www.bfmed.org/protocols
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Learned Something New Today Ribbon Award
Alt: Learned Something New Today Ribbon Award
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.” Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📢Our National Academies Consensus Report on Breastfeeding in the U.S. is out! As co-author, I believe we should invest in policies & systems that enable & support breastfeeding so that all who desire to breastfeed can do so for as long as they wish. Report ⬇️ www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...
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Jenny Peelen Thomas @drjen4kids.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Step by step into more and more dangerous times, that will disproportionately hurt kids.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Secretary Kennedy, a lawyer and political appointee with no medical experience, is carrying out some of the duties of the director of the CDC that for 70 years has been led by someone with a medical degree. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Who's in charge? CDC's leadership 'crisis' apparent amid new COVID-19 vaccine guidance
The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding health threats, is without a clear leader.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 31/05/2025
🧵New from me: MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD infoepi.substack.com/p/maha-plag...
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MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD
The report maintains a veneer of inquiry, but its structure and many of its claims closely mirror those of a document produced under RFK Jr.'s leadership at another organization.
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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Grant Cancellation Web Form

WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP?

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. If you had multiple awards terminated, please fill out a separate form for each award. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you to leave your contact information if you are open to having a confidential conversation with Committee staff. Please find our confidentiality policies at the following link – any information you share will be treated with these protections, regardless of your current affiliation with any current or former funding agency: https://democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whistleblower
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Jenny Peelen Thomas @drjen4kids.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is a metanalysis that shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection at any time during pregnancy increases the risk of maternal death, severe maternal morbidities and neonatal morbidity.
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Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis
Introduction Despite a growing body of research on the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, there is continued controversy given heterogeneity in the quality and design of published studies...
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Jenny Peelen Thomas @drjen4kids.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week: CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569 Texas: 481 (+59) New Mexico: 54 (+6) Oklahoma: 10 Kansas: 24 (+1) HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14) Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%. New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases. DEATHS: 3 (+1)
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
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Jenny Peelen Thomas @drjen4kids.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
That didn’t take long.
apnews.com
Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state's top health official says
The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination.” That's according to a Thursday memo written by the state’s top health official and obtained by The Associated Press.
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Jenny Peelen Thomas @drjen4kids.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
When measles did not have a vaccine, those who cared for kids with measles observed that kids were “sickly” after recovering from the disease. We know now that is because measles causes “immune amnesia” and destroys memory immunoglobulins. It wipes out previous antibodies.
hsph.harvard.edu
Measles can wipe out immune system memory, increase vulnerability to other infections | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Measles, in and of itself a severe and sometimes deadly disease, can also cause lasting harm to the immune system and leave people vulnerable to other serious
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Jenny Peelen Thomas @drjen4kids.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
How things change if we have Hemophilus Influenza type B (Hib) again. You need those of us who practiced medicine in a year that started with a 19 to tell you what Hib disease was like. It causes bacterial meningitis, which can be deadly. Kids who survived were at risk for seizures and hearing loss🧵
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