Jake Scott, MD

Infectious diseases doctor, Clinical Assoc. Prof @StanfordDeptMed | @cidrap writer | views mine | no conflicts of interest

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

bombs Iran 9 days later

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

There is nothing more important than PEACE.

[(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi]

One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters: Kennedy did not let the federal process examine the evidence. He went with his anti-vaccine bias. The AAP is doing a more serious review, explains @jakescottMD in @CIDRAP https://t.co/M7tPCgnRBn

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

CIDRAP Op-Ed: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters

A decision on whether to recommend just 1 dose needs to rest on solid evidence.

Full Op-Ed by @jakescottMD: https://t.co/tVt7jxnZu7

📷: Heather Hazzan / Self magazine

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

My new @CIDRAP piece:

One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters.

The evidence for one dose is strong in girls; uncertainties remain, especially in boys. The biggest problem is still the kids who never get a 1st dose.

https://t.co/HrNRipa867

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

@PaulSaxMD A bot can answer a question but can't always say whether it's the right question.

[Greg Folkers 🇺🇦☮️🇺🇸 @greg_folkers]

CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations.

You have 4 days to weigh in.

by Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD @CIDRAP

https://t.co/tBnOxM7xIt

[Michael Osterholm PhD, MPH @mtosterholm]

Parents and clinicians need to trust that vaccine recommendations are grounded in a comprehensive and transparent review of the best available science. Our job is to look carefully at the evidence – wherever it leads – and make that evidence accessible.

Full press release ⬇️

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in.

The people with the most to say, the pediatricians, pharmacists, & obstetric nurses, are the ones least likely to know they can say it.

Op-Ed by @jakescottMD: https://t.co/IupDiwN6r1

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

@HHSGov is taking public comments on how it labels childhood vaccine recommendations. It closes Sunday. Most of the people with something to say don't know they can.

I wrote about it for @CIDRAP. Please share.

https://t.co/JMxqhfnoor

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

@nirav_maine @han_francis Totally agree https://t.co/i93ln3wkbp

[MikeSka MD @Mikeska]

@JeromeAdamsMD No one should be dying with, from, next to, in the room with, next door, in another zip code, or in the same state with measles. Why? Because we have a safe, extremely effective measles vaccine.

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Think you have a penicillin allergy? You probably don’t

Although 10% of Americans believe they have a penicillin allergy, less than 1% are truly allergic to the antibiotic. Being inaccurately labeled can be risky for your health.

Read more: https://t.co/ZoHGe14sfb

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

@greenhousemd https://t.co/gZtEsSCbdw

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

@vitorborin_ Great book, and by one of my mentors, Dr. Trowbridge.

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

NEW: Pa health workers fighting the largest ongoing measles outbreak in US are using a behind-the-scenes strategy: giving vaccines around a family’s kitchen table. Literally meeting ppl where they are. Me + @rachel_roubein
https://t.co/7E0bOWeXVA

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

She didn’t die of microcephaly. She died of measlesand measles was preventable. Preventable has never meant the person would live forever. It means the thing that killed them didn’t have to. A hospice patient who dies of a hospital-acquired infection died of a preventable infection, and we count it.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The vaccine doesn’t treat microcephaly. It prevents measles, which is what killed her. She was 6 weeks old - too young to be vaccinated. The people around her weren’t. That’s the point.

[PA Manufacturers @PAManufacturers]

@jakescottMD Would a measles vaccine have saved a patient from Amish lethal microcephaly?
https://t.co/kcse7CxFqL

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The lowest bar in public health is saying that vaccine-preventable deaths should not happen. It costs nothing. Every HHS Secretary before this one could say it without a lawyer in the room. Kennedy has had nine days, a coroner’s confirmation, and the death of a 6-week-old, and the closest he’s come is arguing about which column she goes in.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Nine days ago RFK Jr. said Pennsylvania's measles deaths may have been "altogether fabricated." Yesterday Reuters reported he asked the CDC director to pull them from the national count, and she did. This morning the Lancaster County coroner, the same one Kennedy has been citing, confirmed a 6-week-old girl died of measles. Kennedy's own post acknowledges the coroner "publicly stated that measles caused" her death.

His response is that she had a genetic condition and that infants with it "typically live only about six months."

She was six weeks old, too young for MMR, so her protection was the people around her. That is the entire case for MMR, and he's citing it to explain why the CDC death count still says zero.

He's also now pointing to NCHS death records, which can take months. The CDC measles count has always come from state reports, not NCHS records. Last year's deaths in Texas and New Mexico were counted that way. The rules changed for one state after he picked a fight with its governor.

We're past 3,100 measles cases this year, the most since 1991. Pennsylvania has 577. A baby who couldn't be vaccinated died of a disease we eliminated in 2000, and the HHS Secretary is arguing about whether she counts.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

The facts emerging now demonstrate why CDC waited for the evidence rather than allowing political grandstanding to dictate its reporting. Governor Shapiro, by contrast, politicized these two tragic deaths before the underlying causes had been established.

The Lancaster County Coroner has now publicly stated that measles caused only the second infant’s death and has also publicly stated that the infant had Amish lethal microcephaly, a rare genetic condition in which infants typically live only about six months, received palliative care continuously from birth, and died at approximately two months of age. The Coroner continues to state publicly that the first infant died from a lacerated spleen, not measles.

The National Center for Health Statistics does not currently have any death records from 2026 that indicate measles is the underlying cause but will update as it receives and reviews submitted records. CDC will continue to update its reporting as additional information becomes available and relevant reviews are completed.

[DrDemetre @dr_demetre]

Excellent analysis of the distortion by the zombie CDC animated by HHS and “your health secretary.” Not my secretary.