Will Walters

Health Care Attorney @ebglaw. Arsenal. Jokes. Alum @gwhealthlaw

[Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT]

SCOOP: A cache of internal emails, obtained by @nytimes, shows how CDC leaders struggled to adjust to life under RFK Jr. Late-night demands; color-coded spreadsheets; a mad dash to the National Archives for 28 boxes of historical records.

https://t.co/ukpsl4vKdw

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

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

Being criticized is part and parcel of being a public servant. Secretary Kennedy can certainly correct any errors if he can, but a personal attack on the journalist just shows his weakness.

If he cannot deal with criticism with dignity, being a public servant is not for him.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Hundreds of people are dead. Little girls are dead. Six Americans are dead. Others are risking their lives. Millions across the Middle East are terrified.

It's not a video game. It's not a meme. It's not another chance to troll the libs. It's fucking war.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

This is patently false, and easy to see through once you understand what the “4 days” actually refers to.

Clinical trials distinguish between minor expected reactions (sore arm, mild fever) and serious adverse events (hospitalization, death). The 4-day window is for the former—participants log predictable inflammatory responses on diary cards for a few days because there’s no biological reason a sore arm would start three weeks later.

Serious adverse events were monitored for six months. Unsolicited adverse events for 30 days. A death on day 5 would be recorded, reported to the FDA, and investigated—it falls squarely within both windows.

And the efficacy trials required following participants for 12-24 months to see if they developed hepatitis B. You can’t track whether someone gets infected for two years while failing to notice they died.

Kennedy is conflating the sore-arm diary card with the entire safety surveillance period. He’s been corrected on this repeatedly.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The association has been one of the harshest critics of Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s changes to federal vaccine policy.
https://t.co/pYFrX4PRDP

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and ⁦@pw_cunningham⁩ https://t.co/nX2dfQ2623

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Trump got a Covid booster from his doctor and then fired a dozens of doctors and scientists who were working to keep the rest of us healthy and alive

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

The justices are back on the bench on Monday with arguments in a dispute over a group's objection to the HHS task force that determines which preventive services, such as the HIV prevention drugs known as PrEP, must be covered by the Affordable Care Act.
https://t.co/KJL0YeGteV

[Stephanie Armour @StephArmour1]

Resignation letter of Peter Marks from FDA’s director for the center for biological evaluation and research

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, top U.S. vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wants “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.���

https://t.co/YNeypomftf

[Christina Jewett @By_CJewett]

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, said he plans to create a vaccine injury agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a NewsNation interview Thursday night. He said the plan is a priority for him and will help bring “gold-standard science” to the federal government.

Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the study of vaccine injuries has long been a high priority. “I fear this is a way to emphasize vaccine injuries in a way that’s completely disproportionate to what the real risk is,” he said.

https://t.co/nItiUUCa6y

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a 2021 book wrote that Americans had been "misled ... into believing that measles is a deadly disease."

He said measles outbreaks had been "fabricated" to push people towards vaccines.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

On the right, that page tonight

[Epstein Becker Green @ebglaw]

The FDA's authorization of FluMist for at-home use opens a new era in vaccine access. Attorneys @RichardHughesIV & @WP_Walters, alongside Sara Devaraj, discuss future considerations for self-administered products, in @Health_Affairs. #FDA #HealthCare

https://t.co/wpWb80abMU

[Epstein Becker Green @ebglaw]

Should anti-obesity medications be considered preventive health care? Attorneys @WP_Walters and @RichardHughesIV highlight the effectiveness of GLP-1s and the prospects for savings and coverage, in an article for @Health_Affairs.

#HealthCare #Pharma

https://t.co/4IIJZHHKc4

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

In their new Forefront article, @WP_Walters and @richardhughesiv from @ebglaw argue that the US Preventive Services Task Force should provide a recommendation for GLP-1s as a preventive service for those living with obesity. https://t.co/UjyMdk7rGW

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

🎶 We’ve got Super Mik Arteta 🎶

[Will Walters @WP_Walters]

@coopdeville_ 1) Everyone loves everyone named Gabi. They're all excellent week in week out. A player searching for form needs support to get there. 2) This is an interesting thread. https://t.co/kDCdmyWgJ4

[EBL @EBL2017]

It's important to acknowledge that elite football clubs judge their players based on specific metrics.

A coach creates a system & subsequent roles within it. Data metrics are then created for those roles to assess players 'in-house'.

Havertz is a prime example of this.

THREAD!