Can air purifiers prevent flu and COVID-19 in nursing homes? Only if they’re used properly. What the study really finds, critics say, is: "If you look strictly at the data, the conclusion is a small HEPA filter that's turned off doesn't work.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/can...
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Liz Szabo
Профиль VivelyShe/her. Award-winning health and science journalist. Investigative reporter at CIDRAP News. LizSzabo.30 on Signal. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/all-news
Dozens of States Tried to Roll Back Vaccine Laws. Here’s How They Fared. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Key Senate panel backs Trump’s picks for CDC, pandemic preparedness www.statnews.com/2026/07/30/s... via @statnews.com
Uthmeier has launched several investigations since he was appointed by DeSantis in February 2025, from suing health organizations over the state’s ban on transgender treatments for children to recruiting rules used by the NFL. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Tony Fauci has helped save millions and millions of lives. He was the architect of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which is credited with saving 26 million people. Fauci put together the infrastructure that gave us a vaccine in 11 months. www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...
Home care is so much better than institutional care. It’s also cheaper, for people whose chief concern is financial.
Julia MétrauxRFK Jr. and Oz attacked California for its Medicaid home care, citing growth as proof of fraud. For @motherjones.com, I reported on how the growth isn't proof of fraud, and growth of participants is proof the program is more accessible than in other states. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Leadership Shakeup at CDC's Ebola Response Team www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
“You are charged with setting federal vaccine policy and regulating vaccine manufacturers, including Merck, even as your family and former employer may financially benefit from actions you take as Secretary,” the senators' letter states. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Some administration officials view Kennedy as the “ideas guy” at HHS while Klomp is empowered to run every corner of the department on behalf of the secretary and the president, people familiar with the matter said.
Liz Essley WhyteNEW At a lunch at his northern Virginia golf course in May, president Trump told his health secretary RFK Jr. that he had the yips. Our look inside Trump's push to get Kennedy to do more on vaccines: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Yet another study finding no evidence that the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine (MMR) causes autism. How many do we need? www.ovid.com/10.1097/INF....
My favorite Fauci photo: When he hugged nurse Nina Pham in October 2014, to celebrate her recovery from Ebola and prove it was safe to touch survivors.
CIDRAPFauci invokes Fifth Amendment during congressional hearing The nation's former top infectious disease expert refused to answer questions from Sen. Rand Paul & others who accused him of misleading the country on COVID https://bit.ly/4fDF7GK 📷: Andrew Propp/NIH/Wikimedia Commons