Reposted by Hilary Babcockpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026“By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.”nytimes.comC.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Mpox 20364196
Reposted by Hilary BabcockJAMA @jama.com · 22/12/2025#COVID19 vaccination before or during pregnancy was associated with lower risks of hospitalization, ICU admission, and preterm birth among those infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Canada. ja.ma/3Y53PYo 095
Reposted by Hilary BabcockWHO @who.int · 11/12/2025New analysis from a WHO global expert committee on vaccine safety has found that, based on available evidence, no causal link exists between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The conclusion reaffirms WHO’s position that childhood vaccines do not cause autism. www.who.int/news/item/11...who.intWHO expert group’s new analysis reaffirms there is no link between vaccines and autismNew analysis from a WHO global expert committee on vaccine safety has found that, based on available evidence, no causal link exists between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The conclusio... 416588
Reposted by Hilary BabcockAMA @ama-assn.org · 05/12/2025Today’s action to weaken the birth-dose recommendation for the Hepatitis B vaccine disregards data supporting the effectiveness of the Hepatitis B vaccine, and creates confusion for parents about how best to protect their newborns. Full statement: spr.ly/633227f3XE 211352
Reposted by Hilary BabcockJake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025#ACIP just voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation. There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale. We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2 510257
Reposted by Hilary BabcockDarcy Wooten (she/her) @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Very honored and proud to be a small piece of this important commentary: missouriindependent.com/2025/12/05/w...missouriindependent.comWhy America Is losing the fight against preventable disease • Missouri IndependentThis past summer a young mother purchased raw milk for her family after seeing it promoted online. Tragically, she not only lost her 20-week pregnancy, her young son required hospitalization and surge... 042
Reposted by Hilary BabcockPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵 23462912852
Reposted by Hilary BabcockAPHA @apha.org · 04/09/2025New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya 211205456
Reposted by Hilary BabcockASM @asm.org · 04/09/2025As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...asm.orgJoint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy ResignationThe American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 12728338
Reposted by Hilary BabcockTom Sandora, MD MPH @tomsandora.bsky.social · 04/09/2025This is vital for the health of our nation and the future of our children.idsociety.orgJoint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation 073
Reposted by Hilary BabcockIDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Our statement: bit.ly/45LeJHi 6340184
Reposted by Hilary BabcockPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/08/2025“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”nytimes.comPediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding 11717491073
Reposted by Hilary BabcockThe American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 26/06/2025An update from Dr. Sean O’Leary on this morning’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting: 616263
Reposted by Hilary BabcockBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025American College of Physicians sounding the alarm: "What should have been a rigorous, evidence-based discussion on the national vaccine schedule instead appeared to be a predetermined exercise orchestrated to undermine the well-established safety and efficacy of vaccines" 218985
Reposted by Hilary BabcockMegan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 26/06/2025“Immunizations work, they are very effective and safe, and they save lives. Vaccines are among the most rigorously studied and effective tools in public health.” Kudos to AAFP, AAP, ACOG, ACP, IDSA for this. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/v...statnews.comWe will not stay silent on vaccines, say leaders of five major U.S. medical associations“We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities,” write the presidents of the AAFP, AAP, ACP, ACOG, and IDSA. 11421183
Reposted by Hilary BabcockIlan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong by @jakescottmd.bsky.social (congrats Jake - keep it up!) theconversation.com/im-a-physici...theconversation.comI’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrongThe health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death. 512562
Reposted by Hilary BabcockMallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 26/06/2025In the ACIP meeting, Phyllis Arthur (VP for infectious diseases and diagnostic policy at BIO) just asked CDC to repost this document that was taken down. Robert Malone (ACIP member) said it was not authorized by secretary. Chair, Kulldorff, said committee has received and read the document. 33715
Reposted by Hilary BabcockEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025and that could affect vaccine accessibility). NAPNAP representative asks that the CDC's pre-buttal document originally posted could be reposted. The answer apparently is "no." Such radical transparency. 183
Reposted by Hilary BabcockEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not... 7425144
Reposted by Hilary BabcockAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...politico.comRFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effortKennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit. 38566523255
Reposted by Hilary BabcockBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Since 2000, GAVI has distributed 1.1 Billion vaccine doses to children around the world and averted 18.8 million deaths as a direct result of this effort. To cut U.S. funding for this incredible effort is to promote childhood deaths. www.reuters.com/business/hea...reuters.comUS to stop financial support of global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary saysHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said on Wednesday that the U.S. government will no longer contribute to Gavi, accusing the group that helps buy vaccines for the world's poorest children of ignoring safety, without providing evidence. 16304106
Reposted by Hilary BabcockKrutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The #ACIP has long been made up of independent experts—leaders in medicine, public health, and immunology—chosen for their knowledge, not politics. Firing them all and bypassing this process to push an agenda doesn’t build #vaccine confidence. It undermines it and is dangerous. #VaccinesWork 0228
Reposted by Hilary BabcockCongresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 05/06/2025The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. 14956671537
Reposted by Hilary BabcockBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new... 702612802
Reposted by Hilary BabcockPaul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 29/05/2025open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. has now put healthy young children at risk. He should step down as head of HHS. Enough.open.substack.comRFK Jr.’s War on ChildrenIgnoring CDC data, RFK Jr. tweeted that the government will no longer recommend Covid vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. 27627
Reposted by Hilary BabcockDr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Steven J. Fleischman, MD, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in a statement, “The science has not changed. It is very clear that #COVID infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability." @acog.org 221056387
Reposted by Hilary BabcockEli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 25/05/2025“Again” media.newyorker.com/photos/59095... 0399
Reposted by Hilary BabcockAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u... 13282842572
Reposted by Hilary BabcockSociety for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) @sheaepi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025SHEA strongly urges CDC through HHS to reinstate HICPAC to preserve a resilient, coordinated, and science-driven public health infrastructure. Read our full statement: 🔗 shea-online.org/importance-o... 01411
Reposted by Hilary BabcockIDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Disbanding CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) jeopardizes decades of progress in preventing healthcare-associated infections. IDSA, APIC, SHEA and PIDS comment on President Trump's decision to terminate the HICPAC: bit.ly/4m1jpyV 03018
Reposted by Hilary BabcockJenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Obvs, but they are talking about girls and dolls instead of, like, consumers and cars to make it seem silly & weak to be concerned about higher prices, previously a major plank of Trump’s campaign. Sexism is so handy! 16018
Reposted by Hilary BabcockKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Phenomenal thread: 323861
Reposted by Hilary BabcockAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal 677392268580
Reposted by Hilary BabcockCarl 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...wsj.comExclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science StanceDr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments. 208104393925
Reposted by Hilary BabcockKrutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Before the #measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, 400–500 people—mostly children—died yearly from measles in the U.S. The data in the table below speaks for itself: the measles vaccine saves lives. It’s the best way to protect yourself and others. #VaccinesWork #Measles 02510
Reposted by Hilary Babcockjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2025in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it. 219147053395
Reposted by Hilary BabcockChris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 21/02/2025Web archive of Childhood and Adult vaccine recommendations from the CDC. Just in case. web.archive.org/web/20250122...web.archive.orgImmunization SchedulesMake sure your patients stay up to date on recommended vaccines using these schedules. 8279117
Reposted by Hilary BabcockNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I think Alzheimer’s is bad, and we should work on prevention, treatments and ideally cures. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel. 261213265
Reposted by Hilary BabcockJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/02/2025A new Missouri bill would create a registry of pregnant women "at risk for seeking an abortion." If that wasn’t bad enough, the bill would also give people interested in adopting access to this registry of pregnant women. More in the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/missouri-b...jessica.substack.comMissouri Bill Would Create Registry of Pregnant Women "At Risk" of Having An Abortion2.18.25 33432186
Reposted by Hilary BabcockTom Sandora, MD MPH @tomsandora.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Another terrible decision. We are in the midst of the worst flu season since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. It’s not too late to get a flu vaccine to reduce severity of illness if you do get the flu.npr.orgTrump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaignAs flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women. 062
Reposted by Hilary BabcockAmy G Dala, MD @amygdalamd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Things 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 401689516
Reposted by Hilary BabcockRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis. 10424721278
Reposted by Hilary BabcockIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.thebaltimorebanner.comMaryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD orderStrict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month. 27467672486
Reposted by Hilary BabcockKrutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 15/02/2025🚨 Measles outbreak in Texas: 48 cases reported in the last 3 weeks, with 13 hospitalizations - all unvaccinated or unknown vax status. Measles is highly contagious (R₀: 12-18) and can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis, and death. 💉 Vaccination is crucial! www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/... 02014
Reposted by Hilary BabcockPatrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Facts. Gone due to vaccines. We are now 2+ generations of children largely spared the dread of meningitis due to Haemophilus influenzae type B; Streptococcus pneumoniae; and (increasingly) Neisseria meningitidis. These are dreaded conditions that stalked the nightmares of parents. 58929
Reposted by Hilary BabcockMonica Verduzco-Gutierrez @mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Measles are red, When you can't breathe, you're blue, Vaccines save lives— They’ll protect me and you! 03813
