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Phoebe Lu

@phoebelu.bsky.social
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Infectious disease epidemiologist & modeler, views are my own.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 10/02/2026
The Trump administration is planning to terminate $600M of CDC grants to CA, CO, MN, and IL. We're publishing the full list. They are using vulnerable communities as a weapon to dismantle public health, targeting partisan enemies, and manipulating media. 🧵 1/5 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
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Matt Coates @m-coates.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
How well do electronic health records and health insurance claims capture COVID-19 vaccine doses in the US? And how does measurement error impact estimates of vaccine safety and effectiveness in studies using these data sources? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Assessing the Use of Medical Insurance Claims and Electronic Health Records to Measure COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy - Drug Safety
Introduction The safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy are commonly assessed using administrative health records, which may misclassify vaccine exposures. Objective The aim...
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The West Coast Health Alliance, @capublichealth.bsky.social , and Leading National Medical Organizations Continue to Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...
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Onyi Arah, MD, DSc, PhD @oacarah.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Every week is worse than the previous one
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/08/2025
1/5 🧵 Once again, this admin makes us all sick to our stomachs - This time... literally. 😷💩 CDC had to drastically cut back FoodNet surveillance because of funding cuts. Deadly outbreaks from Listeria, Campylobacter & others are now harder to spot, putting millions at risk.
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The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses
As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A Half-Century of Prevention — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | NEJM
In 1964, after a vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis began, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was created to advise the U.S. government on vaccinati...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/06/2025
Why should *everyone* be concerned that all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices were fired at the same time? Because it's a slippery slope to losing our choice to protect our children and our families 💉 are one of the best tools to prevent disease. We need them available
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Onyi Arah, MD, DSc, PhD @oacarah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Access to #healthcare (insurance) should NOT require employment #humanrights
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I always knew the “vaccines cause autism” crowd used sketchy science. But this is the second time I’ve looked into a super popular analysis, only to discover that they didn’t even have the data they claim to have. Now I’m curious how much of this “research” is just straight up lies.
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Christ on a Stick @harriettethecat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
No meat inspection No milk inspection No keeping track of child/domestic abuse No keeping track of women dying in childbirth No funding of head start No childhood cancer research No vaccines No affordable housing Minimum wage 7.25 LETS HAVE A BABY!
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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
RFK Jr. says he’ll know what causes autism by September. Someone should tell him NIH—his own department—already funds $300 million per year in autism research, yielding hundreds of studies. Autism has been studied for decades and he’s claiming he will know the cause in 4 months?
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The 👏 point 👏 of 👏 vaccination 👏 is 👏 that 👏 we 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 to 👏 urgently 👏 treat 👏 severely 👏 ill 👏 children
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Why do we like vaccines and water systems so much? It used to be 50/50 whether your kid lived to be an adult. With 4 kids, 94% chance they wouldn't all make it. Fun times. Maybe let's not do that again. We don't have magic cures for diseases like measles. We have vaccines.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/04/2025
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive. Goodnight friends. Get some rest. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/03/2025
This week trump canceled billions of dollars of COVID-19 funds sent via CDC to health departments, stating, “the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic…” Funds were not being wasted. That is a lie. #factcheckfriday
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Natalie Linton @nlintonepi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I'm funded by one of the COVID-19 era grants used for pandemic preparedness they are working to pull back. Part of what I do is develop methods to continue to track COVID-19, These methods are leveraged for other diseases and will be invaluable to have ready for next pandemic. calcat.covid19.ca.gov
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Trump administration says it will pull back billions in Covid funding from local health departments
Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for state and local public health departments and
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Onyi Arah, MD, DSc, PhD @oacarah.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Irreversible damage being done to science
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