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Katelyn K. Jetelina

Founder and Editor at Your Local Epidemiologist

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  • 1 week ago | yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com | Katelyn K. Jetelina

    Next week (June 25-26), ACIP—the external committee that sets vaccine policy in the U.S.—meets. Normally, these meetings barely make headlines. They happen three times a year and are usually a routine part of the bureaucratic process determining who gets vaccines and how they’re made available. But these aren’t normal times.

  • 1 week ago | yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com | Katelyn K. Jetelina

    Hello from Africa! I’m here for a TEDTalk Summit focused on the intersection of a warming climate and health. Nothing quite like international perspectives, the cross-pollination of ideas, and the beauty of wildlife to recalibrate a bit. Back in the U.S. health science world, some glimmers of hope are peeking through the cracks. Also, Covid in Europe may mean us soon, new sobering data in light of Pride Month, and, yes, they are back: sunscreen falsehoods on social media.

  • 2 weeks ago | yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com | Katelyn K. Jetelina

    It’s been… a week. Sometimes I’m left feeling like I’m bailing buckets of water out of an ocean. So I’m going to keep this short. As you may have heard, RFK Jr. has already revealed eight names for the new ACIP committee. As mentioned earlier, there was a spectrum of possibilities on who these names would be, going from “best case” to “worst case.” Let’s say there are some major red flags.

  • 2 weeks ago | yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com | Katelyn K. Jetelina

    Well. He did it. In an unprecedented and deeply alarming move, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every single member of the nation’s vaccine policy committee—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—and announced plans to handpick their replacements. In other words, someone with an established track record of ignoring reality made the unilateral, ideological decision to gut one of the most trusted and effective pillars of America’s vaccine infrastructure.

  • 2 weeks ago | yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com | Katelyn K. Jetelina |Jeremy Samuel Faust

    In an unprecedented and deeply alarming move, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every single member of the nation’s vaccine policy committee—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—and announced plans to handpick their replacements. Yesterday, at the spur of the moment, I was asked by my friend and colleague Dr. Jeremy Faust, author of Inside Medicine, if we could discuss it on Substack Live.

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