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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Each child death is an immense tragedy. Dr. Sean O’Leary highlights declining flu vaccination rates are contributing to the highest rate of child flu deaths in 15 years. “There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but A big one is that fewer children are getting flu shots.”

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CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years

More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

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Nathan Lo @nathanlo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Sec. Kennedy, you're incorrect. This *is* an unusual year for measles. This year has already passed 8 out of the past 15 years' *annual* counts. And we are only 2.5 months into 2025. Rather than falsehoods, you should publicly state support for MMR. Today marks the first measles death in 10 years.

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Stéphane Helleringer @shelleringer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa

To determine the effects of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Bendavid and coauthors conducted analyses of adult mortality using person-level data from the Demographic and He...

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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities. Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article)

Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 12/02/2025

"If groups and individuals impacted by [Trump's] proposed closures follow the playbook used by those who thwarted Nixon’s attempt to shutter [the Office of Economic Opportunity], Trump and Musk probably will run into the same fate," writes LaRochelle in this @time.com OpEd. Learn more. ⤵️

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Whitney Robinson @whitneyepi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sharing this in case anyone has more info

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I proudly support the University of Michigan's stated core values.

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Sarah Burgard @burgards.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

thank you @karagavin.bsky.social for this beautifully written piece that can help scientists like us explain what is really at stake and why so many of us do what we do and #GoBlue

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Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

An excellent resource on the economic impact of NIH funding in the U.S. with an interactive link for state specific information here: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

According to the article, some of the trials abruptly put on hold:

• malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique
• treatment for cholera in Bangladesh
• a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi
• tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa
• nutritional support for children in
Ethiopia
• early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia
• ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan
• an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Critical and moving story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social, children, teenagers, adults all over the world, left in the lurch, abandoned by the reckless abandonment of USAID clinical trials.

Quote from Dr. Sharon Hillier, a professor of reproductive infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh, was until this week director of a five-year, $125 million trial funded by U.S.A.I.D. to test the safety and efficacy of six new H.I.V. prevention products - the quote explains that we have betrayed the trust of ministries, agencies, and of women in these trials.

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Hilary Wething @hilwething.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result

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Topics - EPI Library

The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

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‘Gender Ideology’ Ban is Already Harming Health, Experts Say (Gift Article)

Documents purged from government websites include guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive
Language English
Item Size 98.5G
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

With a new R01, @emilytreleaven.bsky.social will leverage multi-generational data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study #CVFS to reveal the effects of persistent disadvantage on young children's health. #UmichResearch #EpiSky #HealthEquity psc.isr.umich.edu/news/multi-g...

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Now online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jenna Nobles @jnobles.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Dynamite program with an incredible group of scholars each year. Please share and encourage students to apply. 2023 cohort will be coming to #PAA2024 @popassocamerica.bsky.social

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