Callie Klotz

global health comms + advocacy at @GHS, @nyuniversity alum, frequently making pots, cat lady on the side. utahn in nyc. views are mine alone

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

There is no credible justification for this.

Trump administration terminating a broad swath of HIV vaccine research.

“This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research,” one scientist said. https://t.co/wmIkvExf4T

[Matthew Herper @matthewherper]

The entire STAT staff is updating this story about layoffs at HHS. There will be a lot of info.

But the short version is this: a lot of the people who would keep drugs safe and effective, to protect patients in trials, and to fight bird flu and future pandemics are gone -- even though it seems the scientists in charge of directly reviewing new medicines are mostly protected at FDA.

Per Robert Califf: "[The FDA] as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.”

https://t.co/BMrVUhlqvK

[Natasha Loder @natashaloder]

So @DOGE terminates lease on FDA quality lab in St. Louis and 29 other sites. This is a major concern for drug safety in America. 🦶🔫

Here's why:

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Sometimes vaccine efficacy is subtle

Sometimes it isn't

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

PEPFAR is one of the most popular, bipartisan US foreign aid programs. The State Department says it has saved 25million lives, but there isn't much public, independent verification. Last week I invited some friends to a weekend hackatjon to see if PEPFAR's numbers held up.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

Per @darbysaxbe, from a program officer at the National Science Foundation, federal grants can now be pulled for containing any of these keywords. Absurd and dangerous

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The US spends a small amount of its GDP on foreign aid compared to other major economies. Dismantling USAID won’t help Americans — it’s just cruel & reckless political theatrics.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

Fom @rachelbnfield and me:

Fact-checking Elon's claims about USAID

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries. There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

Whether or not you care about foreign aid, you should be very worried about what DOGE is doing to @USAID right now.

Breaching highly classified systems and unlawfully attempting to unilaterally dissolve an independent federal agency.

This is a test run.

🧵

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

My article on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions of lives: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.”

USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
https://t.co/P7FpwQU47C

[Callie Klotz @CallieKlotz]

I too would love European policies to come to the US

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ainsley Earhardt makes a case for RFK Jr: "When you go to Europe, the food is delicious. It's so fresh. And you don't gain weight if you eat a big bowl of pasta. So we want that to come here to America."

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

So look - on the "Gaza condoms" thing.

USAID procures condoms for around $0.05 apiece.

$50m would be ONE BILLION condoms.

What's going is here is NOT a billion condoms for Gaza.

What's going on is that the bros at DOGE apparently can't read govt spreadsheets.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Never thought I would see the day when Tony Fauci, a lifelong public servant who built NIAID into the global standard for supporting infectious disease research under both parties' rule, would require a preemptive pardon to protect him from political persecution. Yet here we are.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Vaccines did this, btw

[Garnet Henderson garnethenderson.com on Bluesky @garnethenderson]

A new report out today from @PregnancyJust finds that, in the first year after Dobbs, 210 pregnant people faced criminal charges related to pregnancy, birth, or pregnancy loss.

This is the largest single-year number ever, and almost certainly still an undercount.

[Callie Klotz @CallieKlotz]

#COP28 negotiations for dummies. More of this!

[Romain Ioualalen @Rlalen]

Sitting in tonight's the GST negotiations on fossil fuel phase out #COP28.

Here is what countries are saying, using normal human language, a thread 👇

[Callie Klotz @CallieKlotz]

This year at #UNGA78, there is unprecedented attention on the world’s deadliest infectious disease - not COVID, but tuberculosis.

Today I’m here at the #TBIS to hear from the world’s TB leaders on how we can drive forward innovation to finally #EndTB once and for all.

[IFPMA @IFPMA]

Every year, more than 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis, resulting in 1.6 million deaths. That’s why we’re constantly working on new treatments to slow the spread of #TB. #AlwaysInnovating https://t.co/edIdQNBYqw