How do leaders communicate effectively during times of crisis?
On the 🆕 episode of #InfectiousIDeas, @AsaHutchinson shares insights from leading Arkansas through public health emergencies and discusses the importance of transparency, preparedness, and public confidence.
Listen here: https://t.co/jsK69aIBUF
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers. He is presenting as if an expert on childhood vaccines. The ACIP is totally discredited. They are not protecting children.
https://t.co/aGX2bVyO3r
Big news from America’s Health Insurers:
Health plans will continue to cover all vaccines that were ACIP recommended as of September 1, 2025, including updated formulations of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, with no cost-sharing through end of 2026
https://t.co/8LWpa9QfI9
Further, "we can only trust people who do theatrical debates" is not a good substitute to "we should support people who have actual expertise."
Theater is not how science works, and I expect @MartinKulldorff knows that. He just wants to deflect from the committee's weaknesses.
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians across the country. … Let's be perfectly clear, this bill will cause devastating impacts to children. And while children only represent 22% of our population, they represent 100% of the future”. - @AmerAcadPeds President Dr. Susan Kressly
RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. @FoxNews might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵
More than 98% of families in this country choose to vaccinate their young children. But now, vaccine policy is being shaped by the small, extreme minority that doesn’t. This decision doesn’t reflect, protect or support families.
None of this should be surprising. RFK Jr. will do everything he can to make sure that all vaccines are no longer mandated and to make vaccines less available, less affordable and more feared. This is only the beginning.
The removal of all ACIP members threatens vaccine policy, public trust, and lives. Read Vaccinate Your Family’s response: https://t.co/glARBgGE47
#VaccinesWork#ACIP
As an ER doctor, I treat people when other systems fail. Now, we're watching those systems get dismantled on purpose: 20,000 jobs slashed at HHS. Vaccine and prevention programs gutted. And Congressional Republicans voting to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks. 1/10
The CDC has literally been gutted today.
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
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Children are 22% of the US population but 100% of the future! When kids aren’t cared for, when they lack food, security, healthcare, etc, we WEAKEN the future of the country. We must invest in kids! #AAPadvocacy
Inspiring Stories of Impact in Vaccinology ... women leaders sharing stories about a career that can be as fulfilling as it is impactful
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