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Jake Scott, MD

@jakescottmd.bsky.social
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Infection diseases doctor | Stanford Clinical Associate Professor Focused on vaccines, data transparency, and antimicrobial stewardship. Views my own.

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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As WV lawyers fight against RFK Jr. ally Aaron Siri, Sec Kennedy promises to "be helpful" to legal allies aiming to take down vaccination laws. Interviews w/ over 70 sources/internal HHS emails, memos, texts, meeting records. @jakescottmd.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social @vinguptamd.bsky.social /2
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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE @rollingstone.com months-long reporting project: On The Front Lines of the Vaccine Wars. Inside a West Virginia courtroom battle, one of US' most effective vaccine laws hangs in balance: “Potentially as earth shaking as reversal of Roe [v. Wade].” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1
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On the Front Line of the Vaccine Wars
West Virginia has had a “halo” of protection, thanks to a compulsory-vaccine law. But lawyer Aaron Siri has brought a lawsuit that could change things
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Important reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com on Aaron Siri’s efforts to undermine childhood vaccination & his extraordinary influence inside HHS. I spoke w/ her about how he misrepresents the clinical trial evidence. Well worth reading www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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On the Front Line of the Vaccine Wars
West Virginia has had a “halo” of protection, thanks to a compulsory-vaccine law. But lawyer Aaron Siri has brought a lawsuit that could change things
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters A decision on whether to recommend just 1 dose needs to rest on solid evidence. Full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: bit.ly/4hXLkj6 📷: Heather Hazzan / Self magazine
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters. The evidence for one dose is strong in girls; uncertainties remain, especially in boys. The biggest problem is still the kids who never get a 1st dose. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in. by Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/4ixhfYw
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in. The people with the most to say, the pediatricians, pharmacists, & obstetric nurses, are the ones least likely to know they can say it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: bit.ly/4xDZsTu
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HHSGov is taking public comments on how it labels childhood vaccine recommendations. It closes Sunday. Most of the people with something to say don't know they can. I wrote about it for @cidrap.bsky.social. Please share. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: ‘Died with, not from’ was a COVID problem. It’s the wrong framework for measles. A Lancaster County family lost a newborn and then heard the HHS secretary suggest their child's death might have been invented. They deserve better. @jakescottmd.bsky.social Op-Ed: bit.ly/4xB0dx3
Illustration showing an orange measles virus highly magnified
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pennsylvania reported two measles deaths. RFK Jr. called them possibly fabricated. CDC pulled them from the count. I wrote for @cidrap.bsky.social on why “died with, not from” doesn’t work for measles. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: ‘Died with, not from’ was a real COVID problem. It’s the wrong framework for measles.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Exclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate. Stellar reporting by @bymichellersmith.com based on documents obtained by @theguardian.com and @apnews.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
The Associated Press and The Guardian have obtained documents that contradict statements made by current Health Secretary Robert F.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lots of lies being spread by RFK Jr about the MMR vaccine, even as the US struggles to contain the worst measles outbreak in decades. I go into depth about MMR myths in this @cidrap.bsky.social piece. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Measles, misinformation, and what's actually in the MMR vaccine
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: What a package insert actually says, & how it was turned against vaccines One approach to sowing mistrust in vaccines is to read a package insert aloud & present every event it lists as a proven harm, which is highly misleading. bit.ly/3SdVMsV @jakescottmd.bsky.social
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i get it. i have to take breaks from it, and maybe engaging on X doesn't make a difference. i don't know. just seems pretty dire right now.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
yeah
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I have to say: I wish more folks on this site were still on X to help fight all the rampant lies about vaccines. I know Musk is terrible and the site can be hellacious, but still.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"If you set out to write a policy that confuses people, it would look a lot like this one." Excellent reporting by @willgottsegen.com @theatlantic.com on the vaccine executive order. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump’s Latest Vaccine Order Is Making Things More Confusing
Americans have been stuck in a state of vaccine whiplash.
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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“This is one of the most studied interventions that we do in pregnancy" quoting Dr. Hughes in this article. The TL;DR version is that vaccines don't cause miscarriages. And there's robust data supporting that statement. #MedSky + #ObGynSky. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/w...
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Covid Vaccines Are Not Linked to Miscarriage. Here’s How We Know. (Gift Article)
Prominent Republicans and others have falsely claimed this week that the shots are linked, despite years of data showing they are safe.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Monday’s vaccine executive order rests on one document, an HHS assessment saying America should vaccinate like Denmark. I wrote in December about why that fails. Copying Denmark’s endpoint while ignoring what makes it work strips protections kids need. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...
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Why Adopting Denmark’s Vaccine Schedule Would Be Dangerous for American Children
The comparison driving HHS policy is methodologically flawed and ignores fundamental differences in healthcare systems, disease burden, and public health philosophy.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us "There is no measles-only vaccine available in the United States... Coverage falls when vaccination gets harder, not only when people refuse it" @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us
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Stanford Medicine, Infectious Diseases @stanford-med-id.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dr. Jake Scott (@jakescottmd.bsky.social) writes that splitting the MMR shot into three separate injections does not lower the vaccine dose count under the administration's own counting method. It just triples the number of shots a child gets. Full op-ed: tr.ee/vaccineexecu...
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@citizencohn.bsky.social is a very sharp writer, and I always enjoy our conversations. We talked about the vaccine executive order for his latest, which follows it from the Oval Office to the pediatrician's office. Worth reading: @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/vaccine-li...
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
5/ Our NEJM review last fall: no association between covid vaccination in pregnancy and miscarriage, stillbirth, or birth defects. Different countries, designs, and groups, one answer. Five years in, the consistency is the finding. doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...
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Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026 | NEJM
Changes in the vaccine advisory process in the United States have disrupted immunization guidance, which reinforces the need for independent evidence review to inform decisions regarding immunizati...
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
4/ Boosters, studied separately: no increased risk of miscarriage after a third mRNA dose in early pregnancy (aOR 0.94), consistent across manufacturers and windows. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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COVID-19 Booster in Early Pregnancy and Surveillance for Spontaneous Abortion
This cross-sectional study assesses whether COVID-19 booster vaccination of pregnant people is associated with spontaneous abortion.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
3/ The strictest test: a 2025 Vaccine Safety Datalink study in which all 296 miscarriages were physician-confirmed. No association with vaccination (aOR 0.85), regardless of dose, manufacturer, or timing. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40311142
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination and Spontaneous Abortion - PubMed
There was no observed association between COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy and spontaneous abortion. Findings support the safety of COVID-19 vaccination in early pregnancy.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
2/ Scotland linked its national records: 18,780 women vaccinated from 6 weeks preconception to 20 weeks gestation, matched to unvaccinated controls. No association with miscarriage (aOR 1.02) or ectopic pregnancy. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36253471
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A population-based matched cohort study of early pregnancy outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection - PubMed
Data on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in early pregnancy are limited. We conducted a national, population-based, matched cohort study assessing associations between COVID-19 vaccination and miscarri...
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1/ Covid vaccines and miscarriage has been studied repeatedly, at national scale. Here's that evidence, one study per post. The CDC's came first: vaccinated women miscarried at the same rate as everyone else, about 1 in 8. NEJM, Sept 2021. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Receipt of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion | NEJM
In this updated analysis from the CDC v-safe pregnancy registry, the cumulative risk of pregnancy loss at 6 to less than 20 weeks of gestation after receipt of Covid-19 vaccination soon after ...
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
3/ The order can't actually change the schedule. What it can do is pressure states, which is where vaccine policy is really made. I wrote about it for @us.theconversation.com: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Executive order on vaccines bypasses an evidence-based process that has kept kids safe
The most important thing for parents to know is that the order does not change which vaccines are available to children and is not based on any new data about vaccine safety.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
2/ The order is candid about why. Section 1 says the administration's earlier changes were "delayed due to litigation," which is one way of describing a federal court blocking them in March. The workaround is a presidential signature and a new name.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1/ Trump's executive order on childhood vaccines came Monday. Since ACIP was created in 1964, every change to that schedule has come from the same process: evidence review, risk-benefit analysis, public votes, revision when safety monitoring caught a problem. This one came from the Oval Office.
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Julie Parsonnet @julieparsonnet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What a completely unnecessary mess. #vaccines #publichealth
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us President Trump said nothing bad can happen. Bad things have already happened, and more are coming. Full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: bit.ly/4ht8QEY 📷: Wellcome / Wikimedia Commons
Back of woman with measles
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: this executive order makes vaccinating a child harder in every direction at once, and cites no trial, no safety signal, and no dataset for doing it. It arrives in the worst measles year since 1991, as school starts. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Something bad happening after a vaccine and a vaccine causing something bad are two different claims. Separating them is most of the work. My new op-ed in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap-op-ed...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harm
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harm The right response is to investigate it: fund the work, design the study so that it can come out either way, and wait for the answer. bit.ly/4vLFdSQ @jakescottmd.bsky.social
Nurse pulling up vaccine in syringe
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"There is no vaccine injury that improves and then kills a child overnight. And certainly not two children in the same night.” Excellent reporting on the Idaho twins case by Michelle Smith. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com
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Idaho mom charged with murder says vaccines killed her twins. Doctors say it’s not possible
Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr, still stands by Andrea Shaw after her indictment
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thanks so much
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
this is one of the clearest and most soberly written pieces on "chronic lyme" that exists. if you feel confused on the distinction between this and Lyme disease, this is the only thing to read. jail for doctors who prey on "chronic lyme" patients www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you! We’ll correct it.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you!
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Awesome. It’s one of my favorite pieces of ID trivia.
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Read this. “Believing a patient is not the same as agreeing with what she has been told. The cruelest thing I could do is nod along with a wrong diagnosis because it is the kind thing to say, and let her spend the next several years, and her health, chasing a cure for a disease she does not have.”
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there. Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/bWJh50ZjgW8
Doctor showing compassion
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Lyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“The old assignment was to figure out how to use vaccines well. The new one, in plain terms, is to build the case against them.” Great piece in @cidrap.bsky.social by @lizszabo.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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New ACIP charter could allow RFK Jr. to further restrict vaccine access, critics say
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The US has effectively lost its measles elimination status. The virus has spread across the country for over a year, driven by falling vaccination rates. The official call comes in November. But it’s not a lost cause. We’ve done it before, and it’s winnable. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...
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U.S. may have lost a ‘crown jewel’ of public health, experts say
The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. But experts now say ongoing outbreaks have probably ended one of the nation’s biggest public health successes, which relied heavily on immunization.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says by Jake Scott @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/49nzhqS
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says After a top FDA official claimed the COVID vaccine killed at least 10 US kids, the actual report noted only 2 as even "probable." Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/TfMY50Z4Vjb
Gloved hand drawing a vaccine from a vial into a syringe against a blurred background.
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