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News: The CDC vaccine committee is set to vote on thimerosal in influenza vaccines. Vote revives and elevates a longstanding anti-vaccine conspiracy theory.

A grand unified theory on what the hell is going on with the CDC's power vacuum.

Will RFK’s new ACIP re-vote on vaccines the prior committee approved in April?

Jetelina & Faust on RFK Jr.'s sudden removal of all seventeen voting members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee.

Alert: RFK Jr. entirely vacates CDC's expert vaccine panel.

Behind the scenes: Our new JAMA Pediatrics study on state firearm laws and pediatric mortality.

EMTALA and abortion. What's real, what's rumor, and what you need to know. In the Doctor’s Lounge with Dr. Dara Kass and Prof. Elizabeth Sepper.

Preview: EMTALA and abortion. What you need to know. Live in The Doctor's Lounge, with guests Dr. Dara Kass and Professor Elizabeth Sepper.

New: Trump’s cuts to NIH-funded US medical and scientific research now totals $3.8 billion.

Gounder and Faust: Defending science, research, public health, and our international colleagues.

HHS visibility ≠ transparency. The legal processes for national vaccine policy have been usurped. This week in public hell—um, health. May 30, 2025.

Survivor contestant and ER physician Dr. Kishan Patel joins the Doctor's Lounge.

RFK Jr. quietly signed off on some narrow CDC vaccine recommendations, but left RSV and new meningitis shots in limbo.

My unplanned conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Harvard and science versus the Trump administration.

This week in public hell—um, health. May 23, 2025.

The FDA’s new approach to COVID vaccines.

The Attack on Medicaid: Live Q&A tomorrow, May 20, 10:30am ET with Wendell Potter.

Music & Medicine: The Longwood Chorus Spring Concert is this afternoon. Join us in person or online!

Breaking: RFK Jr. says Matthew Buzzelli, a lawyer with no public health experience, is the Acting CDC Director.

Doctor’s Lounge: With guest Dr. Craig Spencer

Preview: Live in The Doctor's Lounge, with guest Dr. Craig Spencer.

How many kills does DOGE have? How many scientific breakthroughs have been stifled by President Trump's administration?

Scoop: "Randomized controlled trials are not always necessary," new FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad says to staff.

Some love for the newsletter.

Eleven public health experts on the first 100 Days of the Trump administration.

This week in public hell—umm, health.

The First 100 Days: Health, Medicine, and Science Under Attack...From Within.

Inside the FDA: Inheriting turmoil, new commissioner addresses morale, faces important tests, and says there will be no reorganization at the agency.

Doctor’s Lounge with guest Dr. Megan Ranney.

Exclusive: In conversation with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary.

Preview: Live in The Doctor's Lounge, with guest Dr. Megan Ranney.

This week in the Trump administration’s "adventures" in public health.

What that leaked HHS reorganization document actually is—and what to expect next.

New: A 64-page HHS restructuring proposal outlines sweeping cuts to US public health.

Scoop: Leaked PDF outlines major HHS restructuring proposal (authenticity now confirmed). "The safety nets are being blown up right and left."

Doctor’s Lounge with guest Dr. Céline Gounder and Dr. Jeremy Faust.

Get up, stand up. A day to be proud at Harvard.

Doctor's Lounge: Dr. Céline Gounder on [gestures everywhere] "all of this."

Why that "negative effectiveness" flu vaccine study on Fox News really, really sucks.

A moment of levity.

NIH ends dreaded weekly bullet-point email mandate.

Doctor’s Lounge: Measles and more, with Dr. Jeremy Faust and guest Dr. Michael Mina.

Scoop: CDC has no Acting Director, sources confirm.

HHS "reductions to absurdity," one week on.

Dr. Atul Gawande updates Senators on the destruction of USAID: "They dismantled the US’s largest civilian force advancing global stability, peace, economic growth, and survival."

“Fired by DOGE: A live Q&A with a CDC employee targeted by ‘Reduction In Force’ cuts”

HHS cuts: the method was the madness.

The calm before the chainsaw at HHS.

Patient Safety Network abruptly cut by Trump administration.

Respected NIH official put on leave, and it's pretty obvious why.

Scoop: HHS Office of Long Covid Research and Practice to close this week.

Scoop: New HHS telework policy leaked.

Trump’s telework ban kicks in today at the FDA: Staff returns to too few parking spots, too few desks—oh, and some lingering Legionella concerns"

The one question that can make or break a resident's chance at matching here.

Trump's Acting NIH Director appoints himself as acting head of the office that controls external grant funding. So, that's fun.

BREAKING: Physicians and ACLU sue HHS, RFK Jr. over "gender ideology" censorship in patient safety forum.

Doctor's Lounge: Public health under siege. The legal battles shaping the future of US medicine, public health, and science.

Copy, paste, tweak, submit. How CDC and other HHS employees are powering through the Trump administration's pointless weekly "What I did last week" emails.

Doctors' Lounge: Public health under siege–The legal battles shaping the future of US medicine and science.

Trump administration cuts disability research. Plus, other under-the-radar stories, and more.

The NIH is having a weird one.

Doctors Lounge. What’s the deal with those so-called transgender mice Trump called out? With Dr. Jeremy Faust and guest Dr. Liz Marnik.

No, President Trump, they’re not “transgender mice." (But they're not "transgenic" mice either, as some scientists claimed.)

Scoop: Some CDC probationary employees have been reinstated. "We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused."

Vaccination in the Crosshairs. Live Q&A today, March 12 P.M. ET with Dr. Paul Offit.

CDC scientists freed to publish again—under new Trump-appointed CDC Chief of Staff, a lawyer with no science background.

New: Trump-controlled NIH begins targeted purge of LGBTQ+ research.

Measles vaccines are the new cool thing in Texas. Plus, the future of USAID may be determined today, updates on H5N1 vaccines, and some good news from the CDC.

SCOTUS issues its first ruling on USAID funding, granting Trump admin a temporary stay until Friday. That's when things may get real...

Scoop: FDA vaccine meeting abruptly canceled. Meeting was to determine 2025-2026 influenza vaccine composition.

H5N1 update. Live Q&A today, February 26, 1 p.m. ET with Dr. Nahid Bhadelia.

Terminated CDC and USAID workers head to Capitol Hill. (And other updates.)

USAID update, with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust.

Scoop: Acting NIH director tells employees to ignore Musk-directed OPM "justify your existence" email.

HHS employees' reactions to Trump administration's bizarre Saturday "What You Accomplished" email.

NIH grant delays: Bureaucratic slowdown or more intentional obstruction? Plus, CDC postpones vaccine meeting and cancels a PR campaign—what does it all mean?

What it's like to get fired from the CDC by DOGE. "It’s scary. I am a single mother of two kids."

Egg on their faces: Musk-Trump operatives scramble after “accidental” firing of H5N1 responders.

Updates on the Musk-Trump attack on US public health and biomedical science dominance.

Sunday catch-up with Katie Couric and The House of Pod (ft. Prop).

Scoop: 950 Indian Health Service employees laid off.

News: Half of CDC "disease detectives" terminated. DOGE takes aim at US disease surveillance.

RFK Jr. confirmed to lead HHS. Louisiana immediately ends mass vaccination campaigns. Plus, analysis of the new "Make American Healthy Again" Commission, and other updates.

Did Republicans just propose cutting Medicaid by $880 billion? Not yet. (The alternative isn’t great either.)

Defending US health: Who's stepping up—and who's MIA?

Updates on the CDC, NIH, and other US health programs, with Jeremy Faust and Jessica Yellin.

DEI critic Professor Jeffrey Flier decries Trump administration cancel culture. They've "taken an atomic bomb to the notion." Plus, insights on the sudden NIH cuts.

Censorship at the CDC continues. But false rumors and exaggerations could make things worse.

"The greatest thing we ever did as a species." Dr. Perri Klass on 20th-century pediatric public health.

NIH caps "indirect research costs" at 15%, potentially surrendering decades of US dominance in medical research.

Scoop: HHS employees told that remote work is over for most. Rollout begins February 24, Friday email says.

Trump's new pandemic czar actually believes in science and research. Yay.

DEVELOPING: As DOGE reportedly descends on CDC, one employee tried to accept deferred resignation—but doesn’t even know if it worked.

Some scientific and medical journal editors vow to resist new government censorship. Will they stand strong?

BREAKING NEWS: Indian Health Service employees protected from Trump administration threat of mass firings.

Live Q&A today, February 4, 11 a.m. ET, with American Public Health Association Executive Director Dr. Georges C. Benjamin

Scoop: CDC employees respond to Trump resignation offer: "It's an insult to public servants." Some consider unionizing.

Censorship at the CDC. Your questions answered.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Massive censorship escalation at CDC. Trump Administration now choosing the public health data you can see.

Uganda confirms a new Ebola outbreak. The CDC cannot help; Details on CDC censorship emerge; The NSF bends to Trump's fiat, despite reversal.

Day 10 of the Trump administration's war on US public health in review. Trump retreats on federal grant freeze, puts DEI-related programs in the crosshairs.

Trump Administration suffers first setback in its war on US public health. Federal grants for scientific and medical research must continue for now.

Updates on Trump's public health choke hold. A scorched Earth approach ensues.

Theory versus reality: The mayhem Trump's first week *did* and *did not* cause in public health.

Live impromptu chat with Dr. Atul Gawande.

Public Health Blitzkrieg Day 5: Trump pauses global HIV funding. Fauci stripped of security. Oddly normal interim directors named at FDA and NIH.

Updates on the attack on US public health from within (January 23-24, 2025).

Public health under attack from within.

US to withdraw from the WHO. Here's what the Trump Administration should do instead.

My first week on social media in China.

Suspected Marburg outbreak reported. This time in Tanzania.

Covid, Flu, RSV hotspots report, January 13th, 2025.

Field notes: An unusual way to use a stethoscope.

US fluoride levels safe almost everywhere, study finds.

How likely is a bird flu pandemic right now?

First bird flu death in US confirmed.

AI has an antiquated view on gender and medicine.

An update on the critically ill in Canadian teen with H5N1. Death narrowly averted.

A milestone for Inside Medicine!