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Jeff Brock

@idpharmd.bsky.social
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ID clinical pharmacist with interest in allergy/immunology that likes to get outside and explore

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RFK Jr’s COVID vaccine rollback will kill people—including kids. Read my latest: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jrs-co... Unlike RFK Jr., my citations are not only real, they are relevant and rigorous data.
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RFK Jr's COVID-19 vaccine rollback will kill people — including kids.
Revoking vaccine guidance is a public health failure with deadly, costly, and avoidable consequences.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#medsky #episky 🧪 #pedsky #idsky Here's why HHS's demand for all new vaccines to be approved by placebo-controlled trials is actually profoundly unethical and jeopardizes all vaccines requiring rapid updates to cover pathogens that evolve quickly open.substack.com/pub/deplatfo...
HHS and FDA Demand Unethical Vaccine Studies
RFK Jr's. HHS is attempting to demand placebo-controlled trials in cases where it's not ethically appropriate.

The Washington Post recently broke the story that HHS, under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will be demanding that all new vaccines complete placebo-controlled trials before licensure. HHS’s comments therein note that Kennedy is not anti-vaccine, but rather “pro-safety”- a bald-faced lie that insults everyone’s intelligence. Similarly, FDA Commissioner Makary seems to be pushing for Novavax to conduct a randomized efficacy trial of their COVID-19 vaccine under the claims that it is a novel product because it has changed the strain of the spike protein it uses (it is not a novel product under existing regulatory framework and simply by common sense). I understand that headlines on this question have sparked confusion (e.g., “RFK Jr. will order placebo testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts”) and it may not be immediately clear why the health experts are alarmed. Here’s my best attempt to explain:
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Jeff Brock @idpharmd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Iowa could pass legislation making administration of mRNA vaccines a misdemeanor with a $500 fine for each occurrence. Amended bill is calling for manufacturers to wave indemnity against law suits. It’s passed subcommittee- we must fight this #idsky www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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Iowa bill asks vaccine manufacturers to waive indemnity against injury lawsuits
The Iowa Senate bill alters a proposal that would have penalized administering gene-based vaccines including the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," said Georges Benjamin, MD, publisher of AJPH 👏👏👏 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship
— "We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles"

by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today
February 4, 2025
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Bradley Langford @brxad.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Antibiotic stewardship programs need dedicated funding to be effective. Hospital ASPs with funding & resources use less fluoroquinolones, anti-pseudomonal agents, and clindamycin. 🆕 in @ashejournal.bsky.social 📰 doi.org/10.1017/ash.... #IDSky
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Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Long-acting injectables are poised to change the landscape of HIV prevention, allowing people to go months in between doses of PrEP. In the era of lenacapavir and cabotegravir, does the world still need an HIV vaccine? I asked around and got one answer. #HIVSky #IDSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...
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Does the world still need an HIV vaccine? Experts say yes
Fifteen years ago, an HIV vaccine trial conducted in Thailand and sponsored by the U.S. Army found something no other HIV vaccine trial ever had: a regimen that seemed to work.
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Also by @annamerlan.bsky.social, How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism, in MIT Technology Review. Really relevant today with the RFKjr nomination. www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1...
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How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism
Widespread distrust of our public health system is reviving long-debunked ideas on HIV and AIDS—and energizing a broad movement that questions the foundations of disease prevention.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We are truly failing our children by not protecting them 😔 Measles cases rose to more than 10 million in 2023! www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Measles cases rose to more than 10 million in 2023, WHO and CDC say
The surge in the preventable disease was driven by “inadequate immunization coverage,” the agencies said.
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Dr Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Very nice breakdown of the excellent BALANCE trial which showed that 7!days iv therapy for most blood stream infections is just as good as 14 (which means it's better because you save a week of pointless IV therapy)
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
LANCET STUDY: "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year... ..vaccination accounted for 40% of observed decline in global infant mortality." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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