Thank you, John Oliver, for bringing attention to the devastating cuts to Health and Human Services (HHS), including the tragic cuts to the NIH, which has been until now a world model for how to cure and treat disease.
RFK, blood is on your hands for letting this happen on your watch.
The latest #PublicHealthMalpractice under #RFKJr: The #CDC is no longer distributing timely information about disease outbreaks. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5387723/cdc-communications-cuts-social-media-public-health
"Robert Kennedy’s mouthpieces claim that COVID boosters must be withheld from the majority of Americans because so many Americans are skeptical of vaccines—when that skepticism has been caused in large part by their boss’s conspiracy theories.
It’s the arsonist disbanding the Fire Department and justifying it by saying, 'Look how many buildings are burning!'”
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #science #vaccines
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-arsonists-just-outlawed-firehoses
https://www.europesays.com/uk/120166/ Shakira fans FLIP OUT over spread of highly infectious disease that’s ‘potentially deadly’ at her concert #dailymail #Health #NewJersey #NewMexico #RFKJr. #Shakira #tvshowbiz #UK #UnitedKingdom
Clever choice or coincidence?
Associated Press features a photo from the World Health Assembly capturing the precise moment when the subtitles on RFK Jr.'s video statement reads: "cooperation from a straitjacket."
Indeed.
"We really need to stop thinking of Republican leaders as people we can win over with logic or shame, and we really need to stop thinking of Republican voters as people who will choose science, facts, their own lived experience, or even the safety of their children over their allegiance to a political party and communications apparatus that has curdled their brains."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #science #vaccines
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https://www.findinggravity.net/p/anti-science-trump-regime-moves-to
As a reminder, the #Trump Administration in general and #RFKjr in particular want to kill you all.
#COVID #Trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/updated-covid-vaccines-fall-may-jeopardy-rfk-jrs-new-rules-rcna204242
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/health/bird-flu-cases-us
This is the first piece in front page media that I’ve seen just ..barely.. insinuating that #rfkjr and #Trump are lying about bird flu statistics.
"The US Food and Drug Administration is changing the way it approves #Covid19 vaccines for Americans — a move that will limit future vaccines to older Americans and people at higher risk of serious Covid-19 infection."
This is going to kill people. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/health/covid-vaccine-fda-changes
#RFKJr wants to punish poor people rather than help them buy healthy food. https://progressive.org/op-eds/boost-snap-to-make-healthy-eating-easier-das-20250519/
…#HHS Secretary #RFKJr is a #vaccine skeptic, who has long sown doubts about the safety & efficacy of the shots.
Makary & Prasad have been critical in the past of the approval process & the evidence supporting the necessity of annual #COVID-19 shots for many Americans. They said the US policy has been more aggressive than policies followed in Europe, Mexico & Canada.
But for *healthy* people ages 6 months to 64 years, the #FDA expects it would need randomized, controlled trials for drugmakers to get approval for annual shots. Prasad & Makary said that saline could be used as placebo in those trials.
#Vaccine makers have argued that because #COVID #vaccines have been changed annually to match the circulating #strain of the #virus, new placebo-controlled trials will delay availability of the shots until after their usefulness has passed.
#FDA Commissioner Marty Makary & *top* US #vaccines regulator Vinay Prasad said based on data from tests that measure immune response in patients, they anticipate that the FDA will be able to approve the boosters for adults over the age of 65 years.
It would also be available for everyone over the age of 6 months w/one or more risk factors that put them at high risk for severe #COVID19 outcomes, they said in a piece published in NEJM on Tues.
One way to whittle down the population, bring back #COVID & let it #mutate!
The FDA plans to require new clinical trials for approval of annual COVID-19 boosters for healthy Americans under 65, effectively limiting their availability this fall to older adults & those with a higher risk of developing severe illness.
#PublicHealth #HHS #Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #medicine
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-sets-new-covid-booster-guidelines-requiring-trials-approvals-healthy-adults-2025-05-20/
"RFK Jr demands healthier school meals as Trump cancels program that funded them. I'm old enough to remember the outrage when Michelle Obama tried doing that, too. I'll sit back & wait for it to come."
-L Abravanel
Trump admin cuts programs funding local food for school meals. #RFKJr criticizes school nutrition programs, but nearly 30% of Tucson families rely on food aid, like in many US cities.
#Hypocrisy #Cruelty #FoodScarcity #Austerity #TrumpRegime #Poverty #USPol https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/rfk-jr-calls-healthier-school-meals-trump-cancels-program-that-funded-them-2025-05-20/
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged not to upend U.S. vaccine system, but big changes are underway.
@AssociatedPress reports: "The Food and Drug Administration will soon 'unleash a massive framework' for how vaccines are tested and approved, according to Commissioner Marty Makary."
"Kennedy's fabrications about autism, mercury, and other topics recall the misguided work of eugenicist Henry Goddard. Goodard was the director of research at New Jersey's Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Girls and Boys... Goddard concluded that intelligence, sanity, and morality were hereditary, and every effort should be undertaken to keep the "feeble-minded" from procreating to eliminate them from the breeding pool."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-eugenics
#RFKJr #eugenics
