Christina Jewett

RFK Jr. is seeking to change how vaccines are approved, calling into question whether Covid boosters will be out in the fall. In '23-'24, they were credited w preventing 68,000 hospitalizations, mostly in older/immunocompromised people --> w/ @SherylNYT GIFT:

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NEW: A viewer of RFK Jr.'s 100-day interview with Dr. Phil asked how he'd advise new parents on vaccines. Kennedy urged them to "do your own research" after a long speech casting doubt on the safety of vaccines and displaying a lack of understanding about what the FDA does. w/

NEW: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents of newborns to “do your own research” before vaccinating their infants during a televised interview in which he also suggested the measles shot was unsafe and repeatedly made false statements that cast doubt on the

RT @ByMikeBaker: A new Times/Sienna poll finds that 21% of Republicans (and 10% of all voters) think the president should be able to send *…

NEW: Some food scientists at labs and FOIA staff are expected to get their jobs back. Other scientists remain on the sidelines, despite Makary's claim that none had been fired. https://t.co/BTKXvN1RY0

RT @SherylNYT: The day before RFK Jr. and other Trump administration officials announced they are banning certain food dyes, the National C…

RT @charlesornstein: When a firefighter dies on duty, a small team of federal workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and id…

Experts agree that environmental exposures are driving some increases in autism. But figuring the causes - from air pollution to maternal infections to PFAS - by September? One expert called it 'ludicrous': Gift - https://t.co/HRWHwiSl62

--> Via The Atlantic: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the father of a child who died of measles: “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy’s funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me. “I actually asked him

NEW: SCOTUS overrules lower court order to bring back 16,000 probationary staffers from the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the Agriculture, Energy, Veterans Affairs and Interior Departments. @adamliptak reports: https://t.co/19iWBKyr2D

RT @ByMikeBaker: The disparity has grown even further. New federal data shows that the United States now has: • 41,550 journalists • 280,59…

NEW: https://t.co/PlxGwMyBFb “They are breaching their trust obligation to Indian tribes by all of the scams that they’re doing,” said Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary and congresswoman, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe and a Democratic candidate for governor

NEW: An 8-year-old girl in West Texas has died of measles. https://t.co/3qCsOlssGw

RT @WarHistoryProf: This is the post I never wanted to have to make. Earlier today, news arrived that my position as a history professor f…

RT @SarahKarlin: This is now outside paywall...

Who lost their jobs at the FDA? ☑️ The people who determined if a costly drug was ready to be a generic ☑️ The people talking to overseas drug safety regulators to get ahead of foodborne illness & deaths ☑️ The people who were exploring why meat in cat food appeared to carry