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Helen Newland

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ID pharmacist at BJC Health System. Tacos are life. #IDTwitter refugee #IDSky

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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Someone please sedate me until this pathetic ACIP meeting is over
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's the most wonderful time of the year- time for SIDP's Annual Giving Campaign where you can contribute to our research/scholarship fund! Everyone who donates will be entered into a drawing for a prize, 10 total! Friends of SIDP can also donate & win prizes! Donate here: sidp.org/Donate/
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“Every system reproduces the priorities of those who built it-unless we make deliberate choices to design differently” @matih-id.bsky.social #SIDP2025 #IDWeek2025
Dr. Davis presenting at SIDP
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“Whose trust are we earning and whose voices are missing from our systems?” - @matih-id.bsky.social on equity-based leadership #SIDP2025 @sidpharm.bsky.social
Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis presenting at the SIDP meeting
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Saying they disgraced themselves is such an understatement. They effectively trashed whatever reputation they have among serious scientific colleagues. Beyond the absurdity of what they were saying, they explicitly lied about what multiple studies found.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
ACIP just reversed the VFC vote from MMRV yesterday, denying coverage to uninsured or underinsured children whose parents want to use MMRV. Yes, yesterday’s result was strange. But this is not better. It’s also another indication that this committee doesn’t know what it’s doing.
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thebioprof.bsky.social @thebioprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Blackburn quoting the vaccine packet. Standard anti-vaccination talking points. Anecdotes about her mother. COVID vaccine led to lung cancer in her town? This is just wild fishing from someone who knows nothing about epidemiology. Anecdotes are NOT data. #acip
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wow the ACIP vote to require a prescription for COVID vaccine just barely failed by a tie breaker. Half of this committee has no idea the disparities that would create and the burden on physicians.
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Simone Popperl @simonepopperl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
ACIP member Retseff Levi, a professor of operations management at MIT, is finally reading the text of the votes. This is the first time the public has seen what the committee is going to vote on.
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Jenn Kauffman @jennaudrey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
At ACIP meeting they’re discussing covid and need for the vaccine for infants. RESP-NET Director emphasizes that 0-6mos covid hospitalization rates are similar to 65+.
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Simone Popperl @simonepopperl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
More than three hours into today's ACIP meeting. Lots of discussion around COVID-19 vaccines. But we still have absolutely no idea what (if anything) they'll be voting on related to COVID.
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I hope there are exploding balloons with the Covid vaccine recs falling out like a gender reveal #ACIP so exciting!
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a group of people are standing around a balloon with a question mark on it .
Alt: a group of people are popping a balloon to explode confetti for a gender reveal
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Kelly @kirwinged.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"Dr. Jason Goldman, president of the American College of Physicians and a non-voting ACIP liaison member," voiced his concerns, "the second vote “actually revealed the truth that you do not have the data or evidence to challenge the current standing and that there is...no associated harm.”
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In chaotic start to meeting, CDC vaccine advisers delay hepatitis B vaccine vote, cast new MMRV vaccine vote | CNN
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 11-1 to delay a vote on changes to a newborn hepatitis B shot. It was a surprise twist after a lengthy discussion on hepatit...
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Jason Goldman is absolutely an MVP liaison member.
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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Robert Malone tried to poke a hole in CDC's COVID epi presentation by claiming that tests are not sensitive- or specific-enough to accurately diagnose, eg all the data is flawed. A CDC rep noted tests have 90% in both and are FDA-approved. #ACIP #IDSky #Medsky
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dr Malone attempting a “gotcha” question to invalidate entire hospitalization data set that backfires spectacularly when FDA lab SME reports the FDA-approves COVID tests being used have sensitivity/specificity >90% #ACIP
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Retsef Levi continues to demonstrate his complete lack of knowledge about epidemiology and public health. He says ACIP will now focus on “Personalized risk-benefit analyses vs. 'safe & effective”. Personalized risk-benefit is the very important role of healthcare providers, not ACIP.
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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
In June, an ACIP member said that 250 pediatric flu deaths were no big deal. Maybe today we will find out that a handful of hepatitis B related cancers, transplants, and deaths are also not a big deal to them either. Welcome to the new public health. We are aligned to a manifesto, not science.
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The anticipated votes for COVID vaccine are still not posted. #ACIP “rAdicaL tRanSpArency”
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dr Kulldorf won’t answer Dr Goldman’s (ACP) request to share what process is going to be used to make recommendations since not using the EtR framework and grading process anymore. Absolutely ridiculous. We deserve answers. #ACIP
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As of 8am CDC's ACIP website does not have the proposed vote language for today's COVID vaccine recommendation posted. How is the public able to engage and provide informed comments? I testified before Senator Cassidy and @sanders.senate.gov on Wednesday- this is not radical transparency.
cdc.gov
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
ACIP develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control disease in the United States.
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS @jessicamalaty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
EtR (evidence to Recommendations) is gone. We're now forming vaccine policy based on vibes and public opinion. Mallone admits they are making a decision not based on a safety signal...but on trust? There is no reason to defer the Hep B birth dose except to advance the anti-vaccine agenda.
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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cause, effect and consequences This is where RFK, Jr. is taking us: The 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa followed a drop in vax rates that was encouraged by RFK, Jr. More than one in 150 babies age 6 to 11 months died from the measles during the outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They were totally confused about what they were voting for.
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Andrew Pavia @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Special thanks to the @CDC scientists for great presentations, excellent scientific reviews, and enormous patience in the face of an enormously challenging and upsetting day at what used to be the ACIP
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Sloppy, unprepared, and incompetent. They don’t even understand VFC or CHIP or know what their votes mean. Complete amateur hour. God bless the CDC scientists who have to endure this #ACIP
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
These people have no idea what they’re doing #ACIP
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After reviewing the ACIP presentations that were made available online and listening to public comments, ACIP has no scientific grounds whatsoever to make the changes to the vaccine schedule that they are proposing. The truth of RFK Jr.’s ACIP will be fully revealed in the next few minutes.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The non-expert ACIP members decide there is no problem in testing mothers for hepatitis B and that any lack of information can be fixed in the hospital. These people don't seem to have much knowledge of how birth or hospitals work in the U.S. or Hep B. Really, this is painful.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This literally isn't even within ACIP's purview
Hepatitis B vaccine - Vote #1

All pregnant women should be tested for hepatitis B infection.
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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Another first in my ~20 years of watching ACIP meetings: committee members asking questions to CDC subject-matter experts as if they were attorneys cross-examining witnesses. Asking questions to which they have their own answers ready, no matter how CDC responds.
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Did you know we have a research mini-series available for learners of all types? Great series for new researches and students/residents that are just getting started! You can register here: sidp.org/sidpec
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📣 ICYMI We have big news! @mad-id.bsky.social and SIDP are teaming up for an annual meeting! This meeting will bring innovation and science (and BCIDP credit!) in ID pharmacotherapy, be accessible for all, and create a welcoming space to form life-long connections. Save the date: May 14-17, 2026.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It’s only July and measles cases in the U.S. are already higher than in any year since 1992. When public health programs are cut and vaccination rates decline, more children get sick and die. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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The US is having its worst year for measles in more than three decades
Measles cases in the U.S. are at their highest in more than three decades. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. has 1,288 cases since the beginning of the year.
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Check out a new series in Clinical Infectious Diseases: Clinical Dilemmas in Infectious Diseases📑 This section features clinical problem-solving exercises presented by a discussant unpacking treatment decisions as the case unfolds. 🧵1/2
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Antimicrobial Stewardship team has entered the villa ✨ #stewardship #meme
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If you don’t already, consider following @voices4vaccines.bsky.social. Their content, like that below, is phenomenal.
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This was fire. Well done and thank you @drdadsays.bsky.social #ACIP
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Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D. @repkimschrier.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It is clear that RFK Jr.'s handpicked new appointees to #ACIP are a danger to families and children across America. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule
The move could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States.
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’m laughing at the #ACIP members with vague calls for “more studies” without mentioning anything specific, because the NIH has been gutted and we have the most anti-science/anti-research administration ever and the head of HHS is… checks notes… a lawyer. Good luck with that.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Lyn Redwood just did something that a legitimate scientist would not. She presented a wholly one-sided blast of alarmist slides about thimerosal, ignoring the wealth of data showing its safety as a preservative. She used language designed for an emotional reaction.
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Same! Absolutely amazing comments! Bright lights in the darkness. So many pediatricians not taking the BS #ACIP
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Helen Newland @helennewland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
First public commenter from naturopathic pediatrician 🔥🔥🔥. Calls out #ACIP members’ conflicts of interest not disclosed—making 💰💰💰 in selling supplements claiming to “protect from flu, COVID” and earning millions in settlements in lawsuits. Well done and thank you.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
An update from Dr. Sean O’Leary on this morning’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting:
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
No one on Kennedy's vaccine advisory committee is an expert in immunology and BOY does it show
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Here are the recommendations proposed:
Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Recommendations, 2025-26
- Annual influenza vaccination remains recommended for those aged ≥6 months who do not have contraindications
• As previously,
- No preferential recommendations are made with the exception that high-dose inactivated, recombinant, and adjuvanted inactivated influenza vaccines are preferentially recommended for persons aged ≥65 years when available
- Recipients should receive an age-appropriate influenza vaccine (one approved for their age), with the exception that solid organ transplant recipients aged ≥18 years who are taking immunosuppressive medications regimens may receive either high-dose or adjuvanted inactivated vaccines (without preference over other appropriate influenza vaccines)
• Recommendations concerning timing, vaccine selection, and contraindications and precautions remain the same as previously
MMWR 2024;73(RR-5):1-25.
Recommendations for 2025-26: Updates
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• The 2025-26 recommendations include three updates, all of which reflect recent FDA approvals:
- Influenza vaccine composition for the 2025-26 season
- FluMist (live attenuated influenza vaccine, trivalent; LAIV3) for self- or caregiver administration
- Change in age indication for Flublok (recombinant influenza vaccine, trivalent;
RIV3) from ≥18 years to ≥9 years
10U.S. Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-26 Influenza Season
• All influenza vaccines marketed in the United States for the 2025-26 season will be trivalent
• U.S. influenza vaccine composition for 2025-26 includes an update to the influenza A(H3N2) component:
- An A/Victoria/4897/2022 (H1N1)pdmog-like virus for egg-based vaccines or an A/Wisconsin/67/2022 (H1N1)pdmog-like virus for cell and recombinant vaccines;
- An A/Croatia/Y10136RV/2023 (H3N2)-like virus for egg-based vaccines or an A/District of Columbia/27/2023 (H3N2)-like virus for cell and recombinant vaccines;
- A B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus
Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season | FDA
FluMist (LAIV3) for Self- or Caregiver Administration
• Approved by FDA in September 20247 presented to ACIP in April 2025
• Anticipated to be available for the 2025-26 influenza season
• Consumers will be able to order FluMist for delivery for eligible recipients
- Screening for eligibility performed by central pharmacy, based on ACIP criteria
- Approved for self-administration for persons aged ≥18 years, or by a caregiver aged ≥18 years for recipients aged 2 through 17 years
• LAIV will continue to be available for administration by healthcare providers as previously
• No changes made to recommendations regarding appropriate populations, contraindications, or precautions
1. https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/flumist
Approval of Flublok (RIV3) for Persons Aged 9 through 17
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• Approved by FDA in March 20251
• Previously approved for 218 years; new age indication is ≥9 years
• Information has been updated in the Table of available U.S. influenza vaccines for 2025-26
1. https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/flublok
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Tom Talbot @trtalbot.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Having to make them in this backdrop where misstatements are countered calmly and expertly kinda deflates their stances. Kudos to the CDC professionals who remained calm despite questions that showed, while some members are scientists, that doesn’t mean you understand all science.
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🧵2/2 Stay educated on vaccine fact vs fiction & learn what you can do to safely receive indicated vaccines!
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