Lauren Weber

RT @ddiamond: The White House has embraced the lab-leak theory as the "true" origin of the pandemic, launching new page to replace covid we…

The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly one-third cut in discretionary spending by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a preliminary budget document obtained by The Washington Post. @washingtonpost

LenaSun @bylenasun

SCOOP: Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts. Our story. w ⁦@Carolynyjohnson⁩ ⁦@rachel_roubein⁩ ⁦@LaurenWeberHP⁩ ⁦@JoelAchenbach⁩ https://t.co/zHDvoG5lgj

RFK Jr. announces new studies to find potential environmental causes of autism, saying they could be coming from “our air, our water, our medicines, our food.” https://t.co/Bt5aTjCPnF https://t.co/ru0DoKSEFR

“If you’re smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you expect society to pay when you get sick?” RFK Jr. asked in a CBS news interview yesterday. He said something similar for those who choose to “eat donuts all day” My latest @washingtonpost https://t.co/eUdbjImZie

RT @sarahkliff: Medicare spending on bandages made out of dried placenta skyrocketed to $10 billion last year, our new @nytimes story finds…

Trump has faced measles before. The difference this time is RFK Jr. The CDC has been muzzled, messaging has been muddled, and public health funding has been slashed. Me, @bylenasun @rachel_roubein @FenitN @washingtonpost https://t.co/atLsAgRRZ8

“Top health officials” As @rachel_roubein @bylenasun @FenitN and I wrote last month: “Kennedy’s statements on vaccines stand in stark contrast to prior health officials’ promotions of the shot amid outbreaks, including during President Donald Trump’s first term.”

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy

Not publicly known if the child was vaccinated, but almost certainly not. Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. No benefit to getting measles. Top health officials should say so unequivocally b/4 another child dies. https://t.co/iUbcspUlNn

Cementing his turn from daytime TV star to D.C. bureaucrat, Dr. Oz leveraged his physician bona fides to waltz through the confirmation process and helm the agency that regulates health insurance for millions of Americans. My latest @washingtonpost https://t.co/dzddnIbbfB

RT @jrovner: On this week's #WTHealth podcast: All about the HHS purge, with @SarahKarlin, @LaurenWeberHP, and @rachelcohrs. Plus Cory Book…

Were you laid off from a federal health agency today? DM or message me on signal. In the meantime, read our story below as well as our coverage of the fired health workers told to contact a dead employee for discrimination complaints https://t.co/sa4GN59gzt

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Senior leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were put on administrative leave and offered reassignment to remote locations at the Indian Health Service as other employees began receiving layoff notices. https://t.co/FHLPYtHude

RT @ddiamond: At HHS headquarters, the video of RFK Jr’s speech is playing on a loop on monitors around the building, an employee told The…

RT @bylenasun: @CDCgov is pulling $11.4 billion in covid funding from state and local health departments. Health officials are scrambling t…

RT @bylenasun: SCOOP: A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims on the links betw vaccines and autism has been tapped by the fed…

Oz would lead an agency that could directly influence how much money hospitals - & companies like ZorroRX that he co-founded - make from the federal drug pricing program, entangling him in a potential conflict of interest My latest w/ @caitlinsgilbert https://t.co/KG09TXePgv