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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As the situation in Russia unfolds, separating fact from fear matters. So does remembering that infectious diseases know no borders—and neither should our commitment to protecting public health.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Get your flu shot now. Don’t wait until flu season is in full swing. And as we discussed this morning, know your options. Also, consider keeping a few at-home COVID/flu combination tests on hand. Many are available online for under $10 and may be HSA/FSA eligible.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The reports of severe pneumonia and death are serious and warrant full transparency from Russia about the cause. But right now, there’s no evidence this poses a significant threat to the U.S. public. We should stay vigilant and follow the facts as they emerge.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The claim that pediatricians vaccinate children for profit is not only false—the economics are often the opposite. They vaccinate because they’ve devoted their careers to protecting children Turning that commitment into an accusation of profiteering is an especially vile lie.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flu vaccines come in different formulations. Who should get the higher-dose option? We answer a few common questions about respiratory viruses as the time to get your annual vaccines has arrived.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Proud to stand with the clinicians confronting Pennsylvania’s escalating measles outbreak. While federal rhetoric shifts attention elsewhere, they are caring for the patients living with the consequences. Their voices, their stories, and the suffering they’re witnessing deserve the spotlight.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Want the truth about measles? Listen to the doctors treating it. Voices breaking as they describe suffering that did not have to happen. More than 165 hospitalizations and rising. Their testimonials are the clearest answers to the fed’s rhetoric.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grateful to the Washington State Medical Association for the invitation to keynote its annual meeting. At a difficult moment for American medicine, defending our profession matters. And if we want a healthcare system worthy of our patients, clinicians must lead the way forward. @wsmaceo.bsky.social

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the ground at the epicenter of the measles outbreak, the clinicians doing the lifesaving work told us who they’re relying on: their colleagues, local health departments and state officials. Just as revealing was who they didn’t mention.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The questions posed to Dr Heidi Overton yesterday aren’t sources of great confusion. Is mail-order Mifepristone safe? Yes. Is an IUD a form of abortion? Clearly No. Does MMR need to be split into 3 for safety reasons? No. If you can’t answer those 3 questions clearly…

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Behind the rhetoric around measles are real patients, families and clinicians carrying the consequences. This week, I traveled to rural Pennsylvania to hear directly from doctors at the center of an unprecedented outbreak Their stories deserve to cut through the noise—and remind us what’s at stake

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This isn’t just about NIH grants. It’s about whose health gets studied—and whose gets ignored. Defund research on women and minority communities. Weaken the safety net. Politicize which science gets funded. Different policies. Same consequence: the people who already have the least lose the most.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Artificial intelligence can help us detect disease earlier, sharpen a clinician’s differential diagnosis, and identify promising drugs faster. The real measure of progress is whether it helps us deliver better medicine—while preserving the human connection so core to great care

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Leaders who fear accountability try to silence the voices that provide it. A free press doesn’t exist to make those in power comfortable. We won’t stop asking hard questions or speaking plainly—especially when the health of the American people is at stake.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We live in a world where the incumbent HHS Secretary delivers a keynote at a conference that attacks the polio vaccine and where our incoming surgeon general owns stock in tobacco companies and sells “herbals.” This is deeply abnormal. Save our ship. @nicollewallace.bsky.social

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“MAHA” says environmental exposures are driving chronic disease. So why is the EPA of the same administration weakening protections against some of the best-documented environmental health risks? Yet again, California stepping into the void of federal leadership.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

GLP-1s offer real hope for children with severe obesity—but risks remain, and more long-term research is essential. Appreciated discussing the promise and unanswered questions with AlexTabet for @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social this morning.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A note/scribble from our four-year-old before he went to school and I left for the airport this morning Childhood is a golden blink—the moments that matter rarely announce themselves. Fatherhood keeps reminding me to be present enough to notice despite all the pulls that take you away.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In a modern healthcare system, coverage should belong to the individual, not the job—portable, durable, and secure through every career and life transition.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Medical freedom? It’s the freedom to see a doctor without going broke. To breathe clean air and drink safe water. To live free from toxins we can actually prove are harmful. To have a world-class NIH discovering tomorrow’s cures. To make informed decisions based on evidence, not ideology.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kids are back in school. Colder weather is coming. And the grifters and grandstanders are louder than ever. What’s missing is the one thing families actually need: clear, credible health guidance. Here’s what you need to know to keep your family safe this fall.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The CDC has gone quiet. National health leadership is nonexistent. So here’s what they should do: give you clear, practical, science-based guidance to protect your family. As respiratory virus season begins and our kids head back to school, here’s what you need to know.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Medical freedom” isn’t stripping health coverage from millions, gutting the protections that keep our air and water safe, or abruptly ending hundreds of clinical trials for future cures. That isn’t freedom. It is cruelty disguised as principle. @aliciamenendez.bsky.social

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When you take an oath to medicine, you don’t get to suspend it because your political boss wants a different answer.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In all but very rare cases, splenic rupture has an identifiable cause: infection, cancer, inflammation, or trauma. A child lost their life. While it’s important to have the facts clearly delineated, it’s equally important to be respectful to the family who’s had a profound loss

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Genuine healthcare leaders don’t wait for someone to die before deciding a disease matters Pneumonia matters. Encephalitis matters. Hospitalizations matter. A child struggling to breathe matters 170 hospitalizations, 3000 cases. No matter the spin, an abject failure for the world’s richest nation

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At the federal level, an abysmal abdication of leadership on health. In California, @governor.ca.gov is showing what public leadership can still accomplish: free emergency albuterol in public schools—and a glimpse of what a better future can look like.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nearly 3,000 measles cases. Hundreds hospitalized. Behind every number are real people who deserve respect and sensitivity. Medicine is humbling and empathy is a requirement. Humility and empathy — traits sorely lacking in our nation’s top health leaders.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

EPA effectively gone. Biomedical innovation handicapped, NIH a shell of itself. Medicaid slashed, subsides gone, millions more without insurance. No actual “food” policy beyond slogans. Their “approach” to chronic disease is as feeble and dangerous as their “handling” of measles

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

60 million people are estimated to have undiagnosed high blood pressure in the United States. That is not acceptable. We must do better. Undiagnosed high BP is a future avoidable stroke or heart attack. Don’t wait, get screened today.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was across from the Governor. He wasn’t bragging. He had conviction on what he deemed was moral and just. @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The new FDA pick is an ideologue and the archetypal “clinician” for this administration —> personal politics ahead of people and public health. Kennedy needs a complaint FDA commish to do his bidding. Cassidy already knows her views, let’s hope his last act is the right one.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Amid so much national distraction, a reminder of what government can still do: See a problem. Solve it. Make life better. California is putting free emergency albuterol in 10,000 public schools. I spoke with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social about leadership — and helping kids breathe easier.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We have the national exclusive on a hopeful, inspiring healthcare announcement tomorrow out of California. 720am EDT on MS NoW. At a time when we need all the hope in the world. Hope to see you there.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’re weakening childhood immunity at the same time we’re hollowing out the hospitals children depend on. Serious leadership would recognize the danger. Distraction politics ignores it.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Executive orders should clarify priorities and compel action. This one does neither. It maximizes public confusion while producing zero meaningful action. —- Thank you @jenpsaki.bsky.social @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social for always spotlighting these vital issues.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

No pharmaceutical company will spend the billions required to appease this President’s incoherent call to split the MMR vaccine into three on a whim. In 2 years, the EO expires. And it has no teeth. This is theater at a time when people need real substantive leadership.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This administration continues to insult the intelligence of the people it is supposed to serve Outright lies and rehashing of long disproven “hypotheses.” There is no middle ground here. No compromise approach The human toll from this utter nonsense is already clear to see. Criminal negligence

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Grateful for the opportunity to spend time in Kigali this week. The Genocide Memorial is a profound reminder of where hatred can lead. The Rwanda of today is an equally powerful reminder of what resolve, reconciliation, and hope can build.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another disastrous RFK Jr. interview. Another insult to the intelligence of the people he serves. Americans deserve a Health Secretary who treats the public with honesty, not contempt. The lies are never-ending. We will keep holding him accountable.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Back-to-school is just weeks away. If you have questions about whether your family is protected against measles, now is the time to ask. And, as always, talk to your healthcare provider.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It is easier to subpoena yesterday than to solve today’s urgent problems. @stephruhle.bsky.social

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It is easier to subpoena yesterday than to solve today’s urgent problems. @stephruhle.bsky.social

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Confusion can be as dangerous as contamination. With multiple potential Cyclospora outbreaks and awful messaging from the top, people deserve facts—not guesswork. We broke down what we know, what’s still uncertain, what foods warrant caution, and how to protect yourself and your family.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Peptides may hold real promise. But promise isn’t proof. Before millions inject a new therapy, we need rigorous clinical trials, FDA review, manufacturing standards, and long-term safety data—not influencer testimonials or clever marketing. Hype shouldn’t set the standard.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Coffee, evidence, and a little good news. ☕ Great discussion with @Britt Miller on @ms.now about what we know—and what we don’t—about coffee and our health.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The most dangerous words in public health are, “It’s not that bad.” Minimizing outbreaks while dismantling the teams that detect and investigate them isn’t leadership—it’s negligence. @aliciamenendez.bsky.social

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The greatest responsibility in medicine isn’t simply treating illness—it’s earning enough trust that people feel confident in your word. I’m grateful to @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for today’s conversation and to everyone who continues to place that trust in me. I’ll keep working to deserve it.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The air millions of Americans breathe has changed. Wildfire smoke is reaching farther, lasting longer, and exposing more families than at any point in recent memory. Treating that as anything other than a national challenge isn’t leadership. It’s a decision with generational consequences.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Cyclospora isn’t just another summer stomach bug. It’s a reminder that foodborne outbreaks require strong public health surveillance, rapid communication, and informed consumers. Here are practical steps you can take to protect yourself and your family

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