Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s intense responses shocked during a recent Senate hearing as he confronted Senator Patty Murray over HHS staffing and funding cuts. His claims of her "destruction" of American health sparked further contention, despite her attempts to steer the conversation back. Bipartisan concerns regarding HHS rollbacks surfaced, especially relating to workforce reductions at NIOSH. For a deeper look, read the full article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senator-forced-to-step-in-after-rfk-jr-loses-his-cool-in-senate-hearing/ Kudos to the author for an engaging write-up! #HHS #SenateHearing #RobertFKennedyJr #PattyMurray #NIOSH #BipartisanConcerns
#hhs
Under the watchful eye of the fascist anti-vaxx regime, covid boosters are going to be restricted to those 65 and over or with “preconditions”.
Everyone needs the right to access Covid vaccines.
It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling. And the vaccines are an important tool to keep folks out of hospital.
There’s three days left to have your say!
These folk respond to force & mass public outcry, so make your voice heard!
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001
#uspoli #fascism #fda #hhs #vaccines #covidisnotover #longcovid
"Some of the National Institutes of Health's top brain scientists received layoff notices last month, weeks before Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified to Congress that no working scientists had been cut from his department...multiple sources familiar with the situation say their layoff notices have not been revoked."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-claims-no-working-scientists-fired-nih-cuts/
#healthcare #biomedical #research #NIH #HHS #FDA #CDC #NIOSH #PublicHealth #labor #work
"What’s truly outrageous is that Biden’s small-handed & even smaller-minded successor -in doing the exact opposite of his huckster pitch to “Make America Great Again” has launched the equivalent of a🚨neutron bomb toward Biden’s “moonshot” that'd devastate the entire US infrastructure that’s seeking to end cancer as we know it."
Defunding cancer research should be another impeachable offense, but...
#Republicans #Trump #PublicHealth #Cancer #Research #HHS #NIH #NSF #USPol https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/cancer-research-cuts-trump-biden-gallego-slotkin-cryptocurrency-20250520.html
The FDA outlines stricter Covid vaccine booster approval standards for healthy ppl -recommended different standards of evidence for approval based on patients’ risk of getting severely sick from Covid.
#FDA wants to see new clinical trials showing Covid shots are still safe before approving them for healthy adults & children -a costly new requirement for pharma companies -could potentially🚨LIMIT WHO GETS NEW JABS EACH YEAR.
#HHS #PublicHealth #Covid #Vaccinations #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/fda-stricter-covid-vaccine-approval.html
"They’re always so close."
-K Kingsley
"The guy who pushed hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 (despite little evidence of its effectiveness) was named to serve in a top PANDEMIC PREVENTION role at HHS.
Nothing Makes America Healthy Again quite like a leader who ignores scientific evidence for ineffective treatments."
-P Citizen
Now we've an anti-vaxxer heading HHS. Republican leaders in govt favor sickness, suffering & death over #publichealth.
#Vaccinations #Covid #HHS #FDA #Health #USPol
…#HHS Secretary #RFKJr is a #vaccine skeptic, who has long sown doubts about the safety & efficacy of the shots.
Makary & Prasad have been critical in the past of the approval process & the evidence supporting the necessity of annual #COVID-19 shots for many Americans. They said the US policy has been more aggressive than policies followed in Europe, Mexico & Canada.
#FDA Commissioner Marty Makary & *top* US #vaccines regulator Vinay Prasad said based on data from tests that measure immune response in patients, they anticipate that the FDA will be able to approve the boosters for adults over the age of 65 years.
It would also be available for everyone over the age of 6 months w/one or more risk factors that put them at high risk for severe #COVID19 outcomes, they said in a piece published in NEJM on Tues.
One way to whittle down the population, bring back #COVID & let it #mutate!
The FDA plans to require new clinical trials for approval of annual COVID-19 boosters for healthy Americans under 65, effectively limiting their availability this fall to older adults & those with a higher risk of developing severe illness.
#PublicHealth #HHS #Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #medicine
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-sets-new-covid-booster-guidelines-requiring-trials-approvals-healthy-adults-2025-05-20/
More bad news of the #Trump #MAHA #HHS #DOGE impact on US science and NIH funding.
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Nearly HALF of all children in the U.S. died by the age of 5 in the early 1800s. By the early 2000s, it was less than 1%.
What changed?
Scientific progress! Vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization, chlorinated water, and the data to support regulations that would keep adulterants, pollutants and Germs out of the food and water supplies.
Now all of that is changing, thanks largely to the anti-science agenda of Trump and RFK Jr., as well as some trends that began before their tenure.
TB, which killed nearly 1 in 7 people in the U.S., is now relatively rare, thanks to antibiotics and screening. Though it's also making a comeback, with some multi-drug resistant strains. The WHO estimates that drug resistant super bugs could kill 10 million people a year by 2050 if urgent action isn't taken, something that is much less likely to happen in the US, with the slashing of science and research funding under Trump. However the problem precedes both Trump and RFK, stemming from years of overuse and misuse of antibiotics, primarily in animal agriculture, but also due to doctors misprescribing them for viral infections and due to patients not completing their course of treatment.
Smallpox, which killed 80% of all children it infected, no longer exists, thanks to vaccines. However, measles was gone, too, until antivax hysteria over the past 20 years caused many parents to forego vaccinations for their kids. Consequently, we're now seeing an uptick in measles, mumps, rubella and pertussis. As well as polio in many parts of the world.
Pasteurization kills many germs that spread through milk, including diphtheria, typhoid, E coli, salmonella, listeria, etc. It also kills bird flu. But many Americans, including RFKJr., keep pushing the false notion that raw milk is safer and healthier. Pasteurization, named for the scientist Louis Pasteur (who, incidently, had dyslexia and dysgraphia), is believed to have saved millions of lives, not only by keeping milk free of deadly pathogens, but also by extending its shelf life, thus providing greater access to this nutrient-rich food for children.
Federal regulations and monitoring have reduced the amount of adulterants, toxins and pollutants in the food and water supply, significantly reducing mortality. In the 1800s, tens of thousands died from cholera in the US, including Presidents Polk & Taylor, due mostly to fecal contamination of the water supply. Though water-chlorination is not currently under attack by RFK, he is calling for an end to fluoridation, which has helped keep millions of low income kids from getting cavities and losing their teeth. And RFK has been bragging about swimming with his grandkids in contaminated rivers, as if to condition us to embrace further deregulation and attacks on public health.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/
#publichealth #children #vaccines #antibiotics #nutrition #hhs #RFKJr #antivax #Maha #mortality
"A federal judge on Friday indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from pulling back more than $11 billion in public health funding from state and local health departments."
Harvard University @harvard.edu is being affected by #Trump #MAHA #HHS #Defunding policies. Whats the Immediate operational damage? 1. Research “bloodbath.” More than 350 grants at Harvard Medical School alone were cancelled in a single wave, forcing labs to draft shutdown plans and lay-off staff.
Thanks to the current US president and the Republican majority in the senate, the uniquely terrible RFK Jr., (antivaxxer and germ theory denialist, conspiracy theorist, and grifter) is still in charge of and actively working against the mission of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services.
"Their approach to immunization policy is less extreme, more engaged with evidence, and more academic than Kennedy’s. And precisely because these officials’ perspectives carry a sheen of legitimacy that most of the secretary’s usual allies lack, they could be more effective than Kennedy at undermining America’s protections against disease."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/hhs-anti-vax/682831/
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #covid #antivax #HHS #FDA #CDC #NIH #CBER #ACIP
From CNN.com: Cracks emerge in MAHA-MAGA alliance as RFK Jr. builds out his team of health ‘renegades’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/politics/rfk-jr-renegades-friction-maha-maga?cid=ios_app
Leaked! Department of Health and Human Services executive strategy session exposed! #polycrisis #hhs #dhhs
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