Fantastic news! Long Covid research grants restored due to the efforts of advocates all over the country.

Never let anyone silence you or convince you that your voice doesn’t matter.

We all have power, and even those of us who are disabled can make a difference in our own way.

Speak up, demand accountability and work together. Change is possible!

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/update-recover-long-covid-pathobiology-grants-restored/

#uspoli #longcovid #nhs #hhs #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #chronicillness #disability

#RFKJr is claiming that the best protection against #measles is the breast milk of a woman whose blood is untainted by #vaccines.

No, really.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899636733693554878

#CDC #NIH #RFK #MAHA #antivax #antivaxxers #vaccine #HHS #FDA

Judge orders DOGE member to testify
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/158555627/judge-orders-doge-member-to-testify

"Judge John Bates ruled last week that a member of #DOGE must testify in a case challenging the group’s access at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Departments of #Labor and #Health and Human Services...

#Musk has repeatedly called for Bates to be impeached"

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Lawsuit #Judge #Law #CFPB #HHS #Government #News #US #USA

"On Friday night, employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—about 80,000 of them—received an email offering them a buyout of up to $25,000 if they resign and giving them a deadline of March 14 to respond. Also as of Friday, nearly 230 cases of measles have been confirmed in Texas and New Mexico, and two people have died."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Musk #Trump #RFKJr #chaos #destruction #HHS #measles
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2025

Update. "RFK Jr. issues rule barring public comment on #HHS rulemaking"
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5170090-rfk-jr-hhs-public-comment-rulemaking-ends/

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department’s rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the public’s involvement in crafting his department’s rules…After assuming office, Kennedy had vowed to usher in “radical transparency” at the HHS…Lawrence O. Gostin, faculty director of O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center…speculated that Kennedy was rescinding public comments in order to quickly “ram through” radical changes to health care, public health and scientific research in the U.S."

#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

AYFKM???

As #Measles Spreads, #RFKJr Embraces *Remedies* Like Cod Liver Oil

In an interview, the #HHS secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination.

#Trump #idiocracy #AntiVax #PublicHealth #health #medicine #science #vaccines #GetVaccinated #USpol

They are trying to kill us

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/health/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=54E4B1A7-F808-4C42-91E3-F37197A0AB6C

🧵 reportedly, #Trump going to blame #Biden [shocker 🙄] for inflation, including egg prices specifically. The price of a dozen #eggs in US cities hit a record $4.95 in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as millions of hens have been slaughtered in the hopes of containing a bird flu outbreak.

Not for nothing, #Musk fired the folks working on #BirdFlu & Trump has an #antivaxxer, #RFKJr, in charge of the #HHS.

New York confirms two cases of measles as RFK Jr does an about face on vaccinations.

After spending years spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric and lies, he’s now tacitly recommending the MMR in the wake of the first child death of measles in a decade.

More outbreaks will continue to happen until people start vaccinating their kids again.

Measles is incredibly contagious, and it’s airborne. The average person goes on to infect approximately 9 others.

The disease was all but eradicated thanks to vaccination, and it’s on the rise again because of people like RFK Jr

The kids need us to protect them. They need the adults to make smart choices.

Also, wear a respirator! It’ll help protect from measles, covid, flu and more.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-reports-two-confirmed-cases-of-measles/6171176/

#measles #rfkjr #publichealth #airborne #wearamask #vaccines #hhs #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover

RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now.

This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.

Just a few days ago he was minimizing the outbreak by saying it was “normal” and recommending vitamin A.

What changed? Not going to lie… my initial thought was “it must be really bad if RFK Jr is pushing the vaccine”

Please folks, get your boosters. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Protect your health & the health of those around you.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-vaccine

#rfkjr #vaccines #measles #uspoli #hhs #publichealth #texas #wearamask #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #disability

The little dictator -

#RFKjr issues rule barring public comment on #HHS rulemaking

Public comments on rulemaking are probably the only way agencies can know how to adjust rules to avoid unintended &/or undesirable consequences.

But apparently Kennedy thinks he's God. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5170090-rfk-jr-hhs-public-comment-rulemaking-ends/

More on this from Axios:
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/28/rfk-kills-public-comment-health-policy

#Health

Update. An editorial in #JAMA and the #JAMANetwork.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830748?guestAccessKey=47e4b56b-8f69-4ff3-a26e-3a66a88b2c67&linkId=753250407

"Some authors of scientific works in process have had to remove their names from publications for these publications to proceed; others have chosen to pause or withdraw their publications. While some of these actions are directly related to the executive order to #HHS employees to cease communications, many have been undertaken preemptively by authors who are not subject to the order but are presumably fearful of the challenges of communicating complex findings in this current environment. Some authors are engaging in anticipatory compliance by scrubbing from their manuscripts words they fear may be deemed, in the moment, politically unacceptable…We remain steadfast in our guidance to authors and readers across the JAMA Network journals and endorse and adhere to the standards set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [#ICMJE]…We will act flexibly, where appropriate, to ensure that censoring efforts will not silence the integrity of the scientific process or clear communication of scientific information important for health."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #ScholComm #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, Doctors for America filed a #lawsuit today [Feb 4] against the Office of Personnel Management (#OPM), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (#FDA), and the Department of Health & Human Services (#HHS) for the removal of a broad range of #health-related data and other information used by health professionals and researchers from publicly accessible government websites."
https://www.citizen.org/news/doctors-for-america-sues-over-removal-of-health-information-from-hhs-cdc-fda-websites/

#Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

An unvaccinated child died of measles today, the first such death in almost ten years in the United States.

The FDA just cancelled an advisory meeting to discuss next season’s flu shots, mere days after a CDC vaccine advisory meeting was also cancelled.

RFK Jr is anti vaccine and anti science. His appointment to the head of HHS will have devastating consequences.

If you’re not up to date on your boosters, get them now.

If you’re unsure, talk with your doctor.

No matter what happens, remember that a well fitted mask like an N95 can provide excellent protection against airborne viruses and bacteria.

It’s time to mask up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-cancels-meeting-select-flu-strains-seasons-shots-rcna193931

#uspoli #hhs #cdc #fda #rfkjr #measles #h5n1 #vaccines #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #n95

Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health WKRs: #TrumpMusk HHS cuts are far-reaching. The# of WRKs let go: unclear —snr officials said as many as 5,200 might receive term. notices *now expected to be somewhat lower.

There may have been some reprieves -reported that the Indian Health SVC was in line for big cuts -not yet materialized. Members of the EIS program -had been warned Fri they were to be fired -by midday Mon none had received term. letters.

#USPol #HHS #DOGE
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/trump-layoffs-hhs-impact-on-health-safety-cdc-fda-cms/

I know it's unkind to judge a person by their appearance but having the head of #HHS look so ill is a huge red flag. If this is what Make America Healthy Again looks like, I'll take a hard pass.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-just-kneecapped-cdc-213212470.html

#RFK
#USPol

This is how it is done - and should be - all day and night every day and night - Sen. #AngelaAlsobrooks, the first #Black U.S. #senator in #Maryland history [she won against #trump supported #hogan], dragged Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s history of racist #pseudoscience to the fore during his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday. #HHS #congress #discrimination #hatred #science #publichealth https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/rfk-jr-alsobrooks-confirmation-hearing-vaccines-black-people-rcna190207

"Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who was thought to be open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, now says the nominee is in serious trouble after his rocky confirmation hearing.

“I don’t think it went well for him today. I don’t think that was a good one,” he said after Kennedy sparred with Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee over his past statements and stance on vaccines."

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5114271-fetterman-rfk-jr-nomination-hearing/

#healthcare #HHS #USpol

On this #HolocaustMemorialDay, it shouldn't be hard to connect the dots between #RFKJR's offer to #Samoa and Nazi experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

"The whole story behind RFK Jr. & #Samoa's #measles crisis has never been reported. He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids.

'I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.' "

#TrumpCabinet #HHS #CDC

More in the 🧵: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1882817972412273104.html

What the Hell Is Going on at #NIH?
#Scientists sound the alarm about #Trump unprecedented “Big Brother” research #crackdown. “pause” goes beyond grant reviews - part of larger #blackout on #research at #NIH, across federal govt. Trump admin paused all external comms—”health advisories, weekly #scientific reports, updates to websites, social media posts” at #HHS, which includes the NIH, #FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC). https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/donald-trump-hhs-nih-cancer-research-pause-crackdown-grant-funding-delays-cancellations-communications/ #medicine #healthcare

In 48 hours Trump has basically created an information blackout where public health is concerned.

This is damaging not only to Americans, but people around the world. Viruses and other public health threats don’t care about borders. They don’t care about politics. They simply require a host.

He withdrew from the World Health Organization

Rescinded an executive order making Covid testing & vaccine access easier

Prohibited CDC, FDA and NIH from providing public health updates

Signed an order that states non profits and advocacy organizations can’t call out misinformation because it violates “freedom of speech”

These actions combined with his chokehold on many of the largest social media apps will lead to a catastrophic groundswell of misinformation.

When public health stops functioning, people die. These decisions will cost lives.

Please stay aware. Pay attention. Push back if you can. Support independent journalists who are working hard to get the accurate information out to as many people as possible.

#uspoli #publichealth #hhs #cdc #nih #fda #disabilityrights #ableism

Question: How will appointing #RFK Jr. to Health and Human Services & Matt #Gaetz as #AttorneyGeneral help bring down the price of eggs?

Answer:
HA! It was never about the price of eggs! It was about not voting for a woman and sticking it to the libs.

#HHS #DOJ #