Mike Barry

Mike Barry is a husband, the father of two children, a reform minded criminal prosecutor and a truster of The Process.

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

Happy to live in a state where adult leaders who understand how medicine works and respect intelligence, experience and expertise are trying to run things responsibly. Remember when this is what we expected of leaders?

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

Let's set the record straight because @RobertKennedyJr’s post is inaccurate and misleading and he is making claims that have been debunked repeatedly by actual scientists and doctors.

Secretary Kennedy called me yesterday morning to ask whether Pennsylvania needed any additional support to respond to the measles outbreak. I told him I appreciated the call but that our Administration and the Pennsylvania Department of Health had all the resources we needed to respond, including existing support from professional staff at the CDC and HHS. 

I told him what would be most helpful is if he would join me in encouraging people to get vaccinated and stop spreading misinformation. He then launched into a tirade — talking about fetal tissue and blaming the previous Administration for this problem. He even told me it would be better if we went back to “natural measles.”

Unfortunately at a time where I needed the top “health expert” in the nation to responsibly work with us to deal with this outbreak, he instead chose to go down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and false claims.

To his claim about fetal tissue, that has been thoroughly discredited time after time by real doctors and trusted medical institutions like CHOP. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics has an entire webpage devoted to this.

They write: “Vaccines do not contain fetal cells. Some vaccines involve growing viruses in human cell cultures originally developed from two aborted fetuses in the 1960s. These cell lines are still going, so no new aborted fetuses are ever needed. Purification processes filter the vaccine during production, and no fetal tissue remains.”  

But my conversation with him proved what many of us already knew: 

Secretary Kennedy’s actions to dismantle public health agencies and his language that undermines confidence in vetted medical guidance are contributing to these kinds of outbreaks. 

Just a few years ago, Secretary Kennedy was in Lancaster downplaying the severity of measles and saying that the cure was “chicken soup and vitamin A.”

Before he held his current position, measles was virtually eliminated in the United States. As recently as 2024, there were only 285 cases of measles across the entire country over 12 months. This year, in just 8 months, there are nearly 400 cases of measles across 29 counties in Pennsylvania alone — and nearly 3,000 cases across the country. 

In Pennsylvania, 70 people who have tested positive for measles have been hospitalized this year — and yesterday, our @PAHealthDept announced that two Pennsylvanians who tested positive for measles have died.

According to doctors and medical experts, the MMR vaccine is the best way to protect yourself, your kids, and your community against measles. But we have seen vaccination rates decline on RFK’s watch. 

The correlation is clear: Secretary Kennedy has stoked confusion amongst parents and others — and the result has been less protection from measles and more cases.

As a dad, all I want is to protect our four kids. I know that’s how every parent feels. Parents have the right to make their own decisions about how to keep their kids safe and sort through the noise to figure out which information to trust. 

So what I’d ask of every parent in Pennsylvania: take any information you get about vaccines and talk to a trusted health care provider about it before you make your decision.

The most important conversation that needs to take place now is one that should happen offline, in the real world, between parents, their trusted health care providers, and other medical experts.

[Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid]

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Sixers vs Grizzlies Postgame https://t.co/jjcB7PEVpF

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@denizselman33 Cure Auto level

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@SheaSerrano Paths of Glory
The Wind Rises
Apocalypse Now
Three Kings
Black Hawk Down

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@InSessionFilm 1. The Matrix
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. The Insider
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley
5. Office Space
6. The 6th Sense
7. Election
8. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
9. Topsy-Turvey
10. Three Kings

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@SixersAdam If Watford is a minimum and Yabu is gone, does that mean a MLE slot is available? Any bigs worth it? Moe Wagner? Larry Nance Jr?

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@JustinPugh @Eagles @Giants Step 1. Get used to losing. Step 2, make plans for watching the Birds in the Super Bowl. Step 3, work on your Saquon Barkley excuses…

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@heremotherturin Killers of the Flower Moon
Tar
Oppenheimer
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Fabelmans

[Kevin J. Bethel @PPDCommish]

Grateful to @kschwarb12 and the @Phillies for inviting Officer Jaime Roman's family to last night's game. As Officer Roman continues to fight for his life after being shot in the line of duty in June, your support means the world. Huge thanks to Kyle Schwarber, who went...

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@PeterAGreiner @sixers @dmorey Happy Birthday Pete 🤞🏻

[Holy Ghost Prep @HolyGhostPrep]

.@HolyGhostPrep's baseball team rallied from a 6-3 deficit to defeat Danville, 8-6 in PIAA Class 4A semifinal game. The Firebirds will face Indiana HS in the state title game on Thursday. Amazing comeback & best of luck in the state title game! #ThinkPlayoffMagic #ThinkGhost

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@timecaptales Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster. Hundreds die from silica poisoning.

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@lildickytweets @MNightShyamalan @MeekMill @david_adelman BUY UP THE TICKETS!!!

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@JanuaryMovie Burn After Reading

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@jamesregan1 @MOConnor_NBA They really could’ve used Drummond

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

Hearing Bruce talk, and then sing, about his mothers’ influence on him during Bruce on Broadway was probably the best moment of live music I have ever seen. So sorry for his loss, RIP Adele. I highly recommend this video if you have never understood why people love Bruce.

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

Theres no better tribute to the @springsteen matriarch Adele Springsteen then Bruce’s talking about her before going into the song written especially for her, The Wish from Springsteen on Broadway.

Thank you Adele for sharing your son with all of us. 🙏🏼 #Springsteen

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@BobbyAllyn Century of the Self was in my head for a long time.

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@RealMattCarey I get your point (and you are right) I just think using Oubre to make a point about Giddey associates Oubre with something much worse than is fair and, more my concern, makes the Giddey allegations seem like a media dust up rather than a very serious felony allegation.

[Mike Barry @MBarry76ers]

@RealMattCarey At best (worst) Oubre lied about how he got hurt, and it is unclear if that’s even the case. These are rape allegations. Do you really think the two things should be discussed as equivalent?