Infection diseases doctor | Stanford Clinical Associate Professor Focused on vaccines, data transparency, and antimicrobial stewardship. Views my own.
Something bad happening after a vaccine and a vaccine causing something bad are two different claims. Separating them is most of the work. My new op-ed in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap-op-ed...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harmwww.cidrap.umn.edu
CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harm The right response is to investigate it: fund the work, design the study so that it can come out either way, and wait for the answer. https://bit.ly/4vLFdSQ @jakescottmd.bsky.social
"There is no vaccine injury that improves and then kills a child overnight. And certainly not two children in the same night.” Excellent reporting on the Idaho twins case by Michelle Smith. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com
Idaho mom charged with murder says vaccines killed her twins. Doctors say it’s not possibleChildren’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr, still stands by Andrea Shaw after her indictmentwww.theguardian.com
this is one of the clearest and most soberly written pieces on "chronic lyme" that exists. if you feel confused on the distinction between this and Lyme disease, this is the only thing to read. jail for doctors who prey on "chronic lyme" patients www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't therewww.cidrap.umn.edu
Read this. “Believing a patient is not the same as agreeing with what she has been told. The cruelest thing I could do is nod along with a wrong diagnosis because it is the kind thing to say, and let her spend the next several years, and her health, chasing a cure for a disease she does not have.”
Jake Scott, MDLyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there. Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/bWJh50ZjgW8
Lyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't therewww.cidrap.umn.edu“The old assignment was to figure out how to use vaccines well. The new one, in plain terms, is to build the case against them.” Great piece in @cidrap.bsky.social by @lizszabo.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
New ACIP charter could allow RFK Jr. to further restrict vaccine access, critics saywww.cidrap.umn.eduThe US has effectively lost its measles elimination status. The virus has spread across the country for over a year, driven by falling vaccination rates. The official call comes in November. But it’s not a lost cause. We’ve done it before, and it’s winnable. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...
U.S. may have lost a ‘crown jewel’ of public health, experts sayThe U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. But experts now say ongoing outbreaks have probably ended one of the nation’s biggest public health successes, which relied heavily on immunization.www.sfchronicle.com
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says After a top FDA official claimed the COVID vaccine killed at least 10 US kids, the actual report noted only 2 as even "probable." Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/TfMY50Z4Vjb
FDA's then-vaccine chief said the agency would acknowledge COVID vaccines had killed at least 10 American children. The analysis behind that claim was kept private for six months. It's now public & doesn't say what he said it said. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually sayswww.cidrap.umn.edu
After having consulted the #DRC & #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR. My statement: bit.ly/4wGGiwX
The CDC is weighing an ICD-10 code for a COVID vaccine injury syndrome with no case definition. Codifying an undefined condition doesn't help injured patients. It produces the appearance of medical recognition without the science behind it. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
CDC to Weigh Adding Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Medical CodesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is gathering feedback on a proposal that would create a medical code to track adverse effects from the Covid-19 vaccine.news.bloomberglaw.com
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the FDA tried to bury studies showing vaccines are safe? Because political leaders did not like the results of carefully controlled studies using large data sets and valid methods, explains @jakescottmd.bsky.social in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the FDA tried to bury studies showing vaccines are safewww.cidrap.umn.edu