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Philip Ross

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Do unto/expect for others what you want them to do unto/expect from you.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"First do not harm" is not a suggestion it is a core feature of the job. If you can't check your biases at the door when you provide healthcare, find another job. Calling ICE on a patient is some disgusting behavior. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE
NIH officials called immigration authorities after scrutinizing the patient’s identification presented to security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
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Philip Ross @philross29.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RFK Jr is truly dangerous.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
He must love infections and cancer. A short list of what’s been achieved or is in active development with this tech: – Seasonal flu (Phase 3) – RSV (FDA-approved, 2024) – CMV (Phase 3) – HIV (early trials) – Rapid-response design for emerging pathogens www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
So RFK Jr. has pulled funding for mRNA vaccines, because HE doesn't believe in them. Meanwhile the U.S. is suddenly a 3rd world country begging for help when the next pandemic hits & Europe asks if we’d like fries with our pleas for help. But hey RFK Jr. sure showed Big Pharma, right?
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WHO @who.int · 06/08/2025
Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination. #HealthForAll
Illustration of a woman standing in a lit doorway, casting a long shadow down a dark hallway. Text on the image reads: 'Restricting access to safe abortion drives women and girls to unsafe procedures.'
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
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Bonky @shesbonky.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
WHO update on Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India. So far 4 cases have been reported with two deaths. This is the latest spillover of Nipah into human populations. There is no vaccine or antivirals for the infection. Fatality ranges from 50-100%. www.who.int/emergencies/...
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Nipah Virus Infection - India
Between 17 May and 12 July 2025, the Information and Public Relations Department, Government of Kerala informed through a series of official press releases about four confirmed cases, including two de...
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/08/2025
Welp. Via @kff.org: 70% of Democrats definitely/probably WILL get the COVID booster shot 78% of Republicans definitely/probably WON'T get the COVID booster shot
If an updated COVID-19 vaccine is available to you this fall, do you think you will definitely get, probably get, probably not get, or definitely not get it?

Democrats: 70% definitely/probably will
Republicans: 78% definitely/probably WON'T.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/08/2025
Reposting this one more time: acasignups.net/23/04/04/mar...
COVID deaths per 100K residents from May 2021 - March 2022 by vaccination statusCOVID deaths per 100K residents from May 2021 - March 2022 by Trump 2020 vote percent
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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Laura Weiss @lauralew105.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!! “Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
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Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2025
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants. RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The pancreatic cancer vaccine trials have been so promising, this would have been a literal life saver for so many and now its gone. I cant tell you how heart breaking this is. Horror after horror with this administration.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
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Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
UPDATE: Our living database now includes 1,267 controlled vaccine trials - 501 with inert (mostly saline) placebos - involving 9.36 million participants. And MANY more studies to add. Grateful to the incredible team making it possible. 🙏
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Does HHS remember this CDC study? It showed that vaccinated adults during the Delta surge (Oct-Nov 2021) were 53 times less likely to die than those who were unvaccinated. These were observations from real outcomes, and are just the tip of the data iceberg. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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COVID-19 Incidence and Death Rates Among Unvaccinated ...
This report describes COVID-19 incidence rate ratios for unvaccinated versus fully vaccinated persons with and without booster vaccine doses during the emergence of the Omicron variant.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
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RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million In Funding For Vaccine Development
The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
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Audrey John MD PhD @odomjohnlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
Kaplan Meier curve showing efficacy of mRNA vaccine against COVID-19
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Virtually zero legacy media coverage of this statement. A couple of stories, that’s about it. The lies and insane statements have become completely normalized and are largely ignored now by Big Media.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The fact that nobody around him has told him this isn’t how numbers work shows you how afraid of him everyone who works for him is.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Up to 1845, half of everyone born was dead by age 35. There were no chemicals in their food then, the air & seas were clean, animals were not fed any weird stuff. Today the average life expectancy has nearly doubled thanks to science, to medicines, to vaccines
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The recent discussion of DOJ “burn bags” should be a warning to everyone calling for the release of the Epstein files: They may no longer exist. This is, after all, a very ham-fisted cover-up.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
PepFar was initiated in 2003 by George Bush & Dr Fauci to get HIV meds to HIV+ people throughout the world Since then it has saved some 26 million ppl. ButTrump shut it down inJan- killing 60,000 people so far.God knows how many babies are being born positive, sick and no meds
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/08/2025
I just need one member of the media to ask Trump how much a $500 drug would cost after a 1500% discount.
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Joel Bervell @joelbervell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
On March 27, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” (a misnomer indeed) targeting Smithsonian exhibits that focus on race. It’s a chilling move—framing historical truth as dangerous ideology is how authoritarian narratives take root.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Great work, John Roberts. You’ve played a key role in wrecking our beloved country.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Our @AFTHealthcare members have been sounding the alarm: RFK, Jr. is leading a breakdown of the public’s trust in science and public health and leaving millions of Americans without access to the vaccines or healthcare they need to stay healthy. www.wired.com/story/states...
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States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines
As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A modified herpesvirus (HSV-1), RP1, is showing promise as an oncolytic immunotherapy for advanced melanoma. In a phase II trial (n=140), intratumoral injection of RP1 led to tumor shrinkage in over 30% of patients who had previously failed other treatments. www.newscientist.com/article/2487...
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Herpes virus could soon be approved to treat severe skin cancer
A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
So many disease conditions track back to chronic viral infections.A new study from Northwestern found human pegivirus (HPgV), a normally harmless, blood-borne virus in the brains of 50% of Parkinson’s disease patients tested. It was absent in healthy controls. #MedSky insight.jci.org/articles/vie...
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
RFK Jr's handpicked panel has reversed longstanding recommendations on flu vaccines because of a long-debunked claims about the preservative thimerosal. This piece by @tarahaelle.bsky.social explains why the mercury in thimerosal isn't dangerous the way mercury in, for example, tuna is. 🧪 (1/2)
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What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don’t Contain Mercury Anymore
Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s how we know it is safe and why we still use it in some vaccines given to ad...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi
Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.
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Philip Ross @philross29.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Vaccine evidence share.newsbreak.com/drz84x44
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I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong - NewsBreak
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
More vaccines = less death RFK complaining about progress and never mentioning vaccines cutting infant death almost in half from 10.4 (1986) to 5.5 (today) per 1000 live births is ridiculous
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵
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Politico @politico.com · 10/06/2025
Last night, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly dismissed all 17 members of the federal vaccine advisory committee. “It’s a massive story in terms of the implications of where this may be going,” Jack Blanchard says on #playbookpod, “Everyone knows RFK Jr.’s stance on vaccines.” 🎧 ow.ly/GJCP50W6UzG
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Have you ever seen a baby have a seizure from meningitis?  I have.
Have you seen a baby die from whooping cough?  I have.
Have you seen a baby intubated with epiglottis?  I have.
Thanks to RFK jr, you may soon see these things as well, as the US wipes away decades of medical progress.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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Nature @nature.com · 10/06/2025
This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is the roster of ACIP committee fired yesterday. Bios included - highly qualified and vetted scientists and physicians. Worth saving this before it gets taken down for comparison with those who will be selected to replace them. We are going backwards at speed. www.cdc.gov/acip/members...
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ACIP Membership Roster
See the ACIP membership roster.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Grace Schara was a 19-year old with Down Syndrome who was hospitalized and died of COVID19. She was not vaccinated because her mother said “she believes the COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon and young vaccinated men, once vaccinated, became sterile”. Her parents are now suing the hospital.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Somehow in the tsunami of horrible daily news I missed that The Regime tried to end Job Corps. Job Corps is everything Republicans claim they want: placing young people who’ve faced challenges in job training and then jobs, and providing basic needs such as shelter for them.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Whooping cough inflicts terrible suffering on young children. I tell new parents to make it a requirement for friends and family visiting a new born, to get a TDAP booster at a minimum or delay visiting until the baby is at least 2months and has received their first pertussis vaccine dose.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
What do these people think is going on that’s not a COVID infection when a child who was previously healthy suddenly becomes sick enough to need to be hospitalized and they test positive for COVID? What are these children being hospitalized for?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈
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