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Appreciate @drdemetre.bsky.social perspective on hate and anti public health rhetoric. We need to intervene and prevent it as we do diseases. Very timely as it has been almost one year since Officer David Rose died protecting the CDC community www.advocate.com/opinion/hate...

This measles resurgence was foreseeable but not inevitable: "...resurgence of measles in the U.S. reflects failures in leadership," say Sarah Despres and Rachel Walensky. www.ms.now/opinion/meas...

My thoughts "Career scientists should not be politicized or persecuted because of a difference of opinion or because science evolves. I'm concerned about the toll this is having on career scientists being able to serve the public" @firedbutfighting.bsky.social www.ms.now/ms-now/watch...

Thank you @velshi.com @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social for the conversation on record measles cases, our declining readiness for global health threats, and why science matters. When public health works, we rarely see what it prevents. When it is weakened, the consequences become painfully visible.

The U.S. is facing a major outbreak of the foodborne disease cyclosporiasis. @drdebhoury.bsky.social, the former chief medical officer at the CDC, says funding cuts to the public health agency have “left our country hampered in being able to detect and respond to these outbreaks.”

1/3 Yesterday, we at CDC/HHS received this newsletter from RFK Jr. 🧠🪱 From it, you’d have no idea that CDC and our partners are dealing with Ebola, measles, and a major multistate Cyclospora outbreak.

First person vaccinated during trial of new Ebola jab | New Straits Times www.nst.com.my/world/world/...

@drdebhoury.bsky.social makes a key point here i wish more understood CDC was already spread thin before this term due to big cuts/congressional clawbacks the past four years. and before *that* it was consistently underfunded by congress. now we are seeing the crises compound…

“It’s certainly mind-blowingly hypocritical for the nation’s most prominent advocate of quote-unquote medical freedom to now be abusing his public health authority to jail American citizens,” said Jonathan Slifkin, 30, a birder from New York. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h... @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

On 7/28, I look forward to speaking at the @nationalacademies.org series on how data can support situational awareness and inform medical and public health emergency decision-making. Learn lessons from past emergencies and how information supports coordinated response across sectors: bit.ly/4eOqznb

Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy: a deep dive into the Secretary's work to bring back preventable diseases and undermine vaccines. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Thankful for an alma mater like @tulanesphtm.bsky.social @tulanemedicine.bsky.social where I learned how to care for patients and communities and to never compromise on doing what is right for them. My @facethenation.bsky.social interview in the link below on what it was like at CDC my last year

OMB needs to hear from scientists, engineers, educators, students and others who can explain how the proposed rule on federal grantmaking would have devastating effects on their communities and the nation. Here's how to format an impactful comment & critical steps to take to make your voice heard ⤵️

I read Into the Woodchipper recently and it was also eerily similar

Great interview from @drdebhoury.bsky.social on @facethenation.bsky.social. So much of what she describes at CDC mirrors what we saw at NIH. Worth a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ncm...

Face The Nation: Former CDC official describes "pure chaos" as RFK Jr. sought to transform health agency and take over vaccine panel cbsn.ws/4vMoLlX @drdebhoury.bsky.social video cbsn.ws/4wuWGjd

Former CDC chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry describes pure chaos under HHS Secretary RFK Jr., including the removal of all 17 ACIP vaccine panel members. She says she resigned to protect scientific integrity and warns of irreparable harm.

Dr. Debra Houry, who resigned in protest from the health agency, said the spread of misinformation impacted lives.

Yes, healthy young men can die from the flu. Air Force confirms first death in Lackland flu outbreak, which has sickened 284 Aif Force troops, Rep. Castro says. While most healthy young adults recover, flu can prevent them from fulfilling their duties for up to a week www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...