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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Statement: CIDRAP stands behind public health officials after attack on CDC -from the CIDRAP Leadership We declare our unwavering support of the CDC and all public health agencies and their steadfast dedication to improve the health of all people www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 09/08/2025

"Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he's talking about, but, in fact, he doesn't," Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Wednesday.

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I am quoted in this article. Time to stop the anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric that is putting public health workers at risk.

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I am quoted in this article. As a former MMWR Editor-in-Chief, I am concerned about what public health issues we are not hearing about during this MMWR slowdown.

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

RFK Jr. has stated that the measles vaccination routinely causes deaths, which is not true. The truth is that measles vaccination has prevented more than 60 million deaths globally. Vaccinating your children not only protects them, but also entire communities.

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m happy to share this video where I am interviewed by the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health about the critical role of CDC’s MMWR. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRx...

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AJPH 03/2025: "What Is Public Health: The Role of the MMWR

YouTube video by American Public Health Association

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Blossom Damania @damania.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

NIH funding creates medicines, jobs and economic growth

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Our paper released yesterday: The ongoing existing and potential threats to the health of the US population underscore the reality that we cannot afford a cessation of data-driven updates from our country’s lead public health agency. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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The Consequences of Silencing the “Voice of CDC” | NEJM

For more than 60 years, the MMWR has published life-saving information on U.S. public health crises. The Trump administration’s pause on health communications has disrupted that essential mission.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Oh, hell yeah www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cover of The Lancet: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake.
Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m pleased that MMWR was published this week but disappointed that the articles about H5N1 were excluded from the issue. I am quoted here - we need this information! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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CDC scientific report resumes publication after unprecedented pause

But three studies about bird flu remain on hold even as the outbreak spreads.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Cancer researchers said grants were on hold. Health briefings were abruptly canceled. The CDC’s famed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report didn’t publish as scheduled. Our look at the sweeping consequences of the Trump admin’s “pause” of health communications. with @lenasun.bsky.social + pals

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Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications

The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Important thread on the importance of NIH research

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Sonja Rasmussen @srasmussen7690.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I am quoted in this article about the publication of MMWR being on pause. It is concerning that information relevant to the public’s health is not able to be distributed. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication

MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

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Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Threatening to shut down the government is a reckless and destructive tactic. Just the risk causes huge wastes of time for our government because workers have to set aside their usual work to prepare for a shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/us/polit……

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Trump, Egged On by Musk, Condemns Spending Deal, Raising Fears of Government Shutdown

The president-elect weighed in against the huge spending package after Elon Musk had spent the day warning Republicans not to support it. The blowup left the compromise on life support.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Situation just gets worse and worse and worse. Trump’s CDC pick wouldn’t let go of false theory vaccines cause autism wapo.st/4iACoi0 "...record of promoting the disproven link btw vaccines & autism in the face of OVERWHELMING scientific evidence attesting to the safety & efficacy of vaccines..."

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Trump’s CDC pick wouldn’t let go of false theory vaccines cause autism

Dave Weldon’s long record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism raises concerns among some public health experts about his ability to run the CDC.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

So many deeply concerning issues with the MAGA picks for health & science leadership. Near the top – and not emphasized enough – is their consistently demonstrated inability to understand how science works. Anti-science zealots to run science? Dark Age 2.0.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm

See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

77 Nobel Prize winners are calling on the United States Senate to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination. It's imperative the Senators take note and vote NO.

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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Nobody could have predicted this. "Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found..." Medsky www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals

Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found

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JAMA @jama.com · 28/11/2024

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/4i9ghPC

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New: Recordings from private autism conferences show Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vilifying & conspiracy theorizing about agencies he's set to lead. Videos show RFK Jr comparing CDC vaccine programs to "Nazi death camps" & calling for researchers to be jailed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have two gut check questions that I ask myself while reporting: How do I know something is true? and What if I’m wrong? I feel like we’re about to see the consequences of people in power being wrong about vaccines.

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