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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday. Both were unvaccinated. These are the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health abcnews.com/Health/2-peo...
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What's the story with vaccine studies and placebo? Glad you asked!
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Combination vaccines are recommended by health authorities worldwide to reduce the number of jabs given to children while still offering protection from preventable diseases. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“The Trump administration has moved to end funding for HIV vaccine research, where the cuts will shutter two major HIV vaccine research efforts that were first funded by the NIH in 2012 at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Scripps Research Institute." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump administration ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, scientists and officials say
"This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research," one scientist said.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.” This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 02/06/2025
"The false citations in the MAHA Commission report are an example of how even pieces of Kennedy's health care agenda with broader appeal are being carried out 'in a way that is unserious,' said Chris Meekins, a managing dir. at Raymond James and health official in the 1st Trump administration." 🛟😷
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RFK Jr.'s frenzied first months send health industry scrambling
The nation's top health official is becoming known for abrupt policy pronouncements based on limited or sketchy evidence.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Once viewed as the path out of the pandemic, mRNA vaccines are now being vilified — & not just by fringe figures. The attack on this important platform could render the US far more vulnerable in the next pandemic & trailing China in the field of scientific advances. www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/m...
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mRNA, once lauded as a scientific marvel, is now a government target
The sharp turnaround on mRNA vaccines shows the unprecedented rise of anti-vaccine activists to power
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Full vaccination against COVID-19 protects recipients from serious cardiovascular disease linked to COVID-19, according to a new study in the European Heart Journal. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu....
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our partners @ModernMedicaid are urging all U.S. Representatives to oppose devastating funding cuts to Medicaid and rejct provisions that would lead to historic coverage loss. Read their latest letter here: bit.ly/3Zu4tPU #MedicaidMatters
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Modern Medicaid Alliance Opposes Medicaid Policies in House Reconciliation Bill - Modern Medicaid Alliance
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Modern Medicaid Alliance (MMA) sent a letter to House leaders expressing strong opposition to the policies in the current reconciliation bill that would cut upwards of $7...
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Len Courland @infectiousjk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We are at a point where such a tracker is practical. None of this is normal or okay.
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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#Science is the eventual cure for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and almost every other disease. Trump’s MAGA & RFK Jr’s MAHA doesn’t want you and your family to have that cure.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
These people really want kids sick. Hepatitis B is not just a “sexually transmitted and IV drug user disease” like Means claims here. If she had ever completed medical training she might know that up to 40% of HepB infections are actually acquired in childhood & kill thousands of Americans per year.
(Tweet with Clip of Casey Means on the Tucker Carlson Show)
Meet your new Surgeon General... Casey Means
Why are Newborns Given Erythromycin and
Hepatitis B Shots?
• Within hours or when a child is born, a child is subjected to pharmaceutical intervention
— a new newborns eyes are smeared with Erythromycin Ointment
- a newborn Show more
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“In 6 months, 2 babies in Louisiana have died of pertussis, the disease commonly known as whooping cough. Washington state also announced its 1st confirmed death from pertussis in more than a decade. Idaho and South Dakota each reported deaths this year www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/h...
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‘Not just measles’: Whooping cough cases are soaring as vaccine rates decline | CNN
Doctors, researchers and public health experts warn that the measles outbreak, which has grown to more than 600 cases, may just be the beginning. They say outbreaks of preventable diseases could get m...
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took charge of the HHS, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting publicly to discuss the nation's vaccine policies." www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK Jr. set to start
For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 21/03/2025
I, a pediatrician that has never received a dime for vaccinating children, got MMR today. My children will be receiving HPV vaccines (as well as the full immunization schedule) as soon as they’re eligible. Any good pediatrician will tell you the same story about what they do for their families.
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Registered nurse Melody Butler, the director of @nurseswhovax, joins the @27east editors to discuss what people can do to protect themselves and their families from various communicable diseases that are of growing concern. www.27east.com/southampton-...
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Measles, Bird Flu and COVID Concerns – and What To Know About Vaccines | 27Speaks Podcast
Registered nurse Melody Butler joins the editors to discuss what people can do to protect themselves and their families.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🚨This is dangerous. RFK Jr. canceled the FDA’s VRBPAC meeting—the committee that selects flu strains for the annual vaccine. WHO makes recommendations, but without US participation, we lose critical expertise. I worked at WHO & know how vital these meetings are. Delays = shortages = lives at risk.
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks to vaccines, more children grow up to adulthood than at any time in human history. The U.S. has helped build and sustain the global health programs that made this possible. We can't stop now. Visit shotatlife.org/petition to raise your voice for #HealthForAll.
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Ask Congress to Fully Fund Global Immunization Programs
There has never been a better time to advocate for vaccines to protect global health. Fill out this petition to request your members of Congress ensure that children around the world have access to li...
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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Measles is between 2 and 10 times more contagious than COVID. This is not going to end well and will be a darkly appropriate backdrop for the absurd installation of RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Officials on alert after Texas measles outbreak spreads to metropolitan area
Measles cases have also spread to neighboring New Mexico, sickening primarily children and teenagers
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The @shotatlife.bsky.social Keynote address by @rameshferris.bsky.social polio survivor shared 2024 progress in eradicating polio and explains the vital need to continue efforts to #EndPolioNow. #vaccinesforall
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We have had highly effective vaccines against measles since 1963. That is 62 years! Allowing a measles outbreak to spread unchecked as though this is a new and unknown infection is a choice. A cruel and morally bankrupt choice that harms innocent children. #Measles #Texas
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Len Courland @infectiousjk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We’re going to need more n95s.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Typically, in a #measles outbreak, the CDC would issue a Health Advisory Notice to inform the public & guide protective measures. But the current political climate has muted their response. Without clear, timely information, the measles outbreak in Texas risks spreading within the state & to others.
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#NursesWhoVax members are en route from all over the country to DC for the annual @shotatlife.bsky.social summit. 💚 #MakeYourVoiceHeard #PublicHealthSavesLives #VaccinesForAll
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Antiviral Treatments for COVID-19 & Flu: How They Work and Why They Matter hosted by Alliance for Aging Research (AAR) & Champions for Vaccine Education, Equity and Progress (CVEEP) Date: Feb 20 • 11:00 am www.eventbrite.com/e/antiviral-...
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Antiviral Treatments for COVID-19 & Flu: How They Work and Why They Matter
Join AAR and CVEEP for a conversation on antiviral treatments and their importance in the fight against infectious respiratory disease.
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is a 5 alarm fire. For many reasons, but esp because HHS may pull vaccines (even temporary is an issue) by requiring removal of certain ingredients or banning certain production processes. We are about to lose access to life-saving medications. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
One of the most unique—and most dangerous—features of measles is its ability to reset the immune systems of infected patients. During the acute phase of infection, measles induces immune suppression through a process called immune amnesia. TLDR; Patients lose immunity hx asm.org/articles/201....
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Measles and Immune Amnesia | ASM.org
Measles is much more serious than a rash and fever: it also causes immune amnesia and leaves patients especially vulnerable to secondary infection.
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Indiana Immunization Coalition @vaccinatein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 You can keep your kids healthy by protecting them against vaccine-preventable diseases. Tweens need shots to protect against meningitis, HPV, tetanus/diphtheria, the flu, and COVID. Contact your healthcare provider to find out what vaccines they need to grow and thrive.
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sciencefriends.bsky.social @sciencefriends.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Please call US Senators today to #stopRFK w substack.com/home/post/p-... @safecommco.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @senatorshelton.bsky.social @drandrealove.bsky.social @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social @senatefinance.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social @momsrising.bsky.social
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is what Trump’s cruelty and chaos has unleashed.
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We're running out of time to stop RFK Jr.'s nomination: 📞Call your Senators 📝Submit a written comment to the Finance Committee 📧Send an email to your Senators asking them to oppose RFK Jr.’s confirmation to Health & Human Services. www.safecommunitiescoalition.org/rfkaction
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Contact Our Senators — SAFE Communities Coalition
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nurses have a dire warning for Legislators: Do not confirm RFK Jr. to HHS. He lacks any health care background, education, or budgetary experience. Don’t be misled by his promise to “Make America Healthy Again;” his proposed policies risk doing the exact opposite. www.cleveland.com/opinion/2024...
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RFK Jr. is hazardous to your health: Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills
Unproven plans, conspiracies, and untested ideas have no place in the United States health care system. You may think nurses' voices are silent, but rest assured — they are loud, clear, and unwavering...
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nurseswhovax.bsky.social @nurseswhovax.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The CDC and World Health Organization said there was a 20% increase in global measles cases last year, driven by decreases in vaccination. Data showed about 107,500 deaths, mostly in young children, which the agencies called "unacceptable" from a preventable disease. www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
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Measles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023
Measles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023
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