New #CDC Director Is Fired, #Trump White House Says

#SusanMonarez was said to have refused to adopt #Health Secretary #RFKJr.’s stance on #vaccination policy.

The White House said late Wednesday that it had fired Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, after a tense confrontation in which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to remove her from her position & she refused to resign.

#science #medicine #vaccines#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/health/cdc-monarez-kennedy-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"It's worse than tobacco smoke. It's worse than child and maternal malnutrition. It's worse than road accidents. It's worse than HIV-AIDS, worse than anything in terms of losses."

According to the report, Canada's catastrophic 2023 wildfire season drove a more than 50 percent rise in particulate levels compared to 2022, while the United States saw a 20 percent increase

https://www.barrons.com/news/climate-driven-wildfires-reversing-pollution-progress-in-n-america-study-0652af33

#health#USA#US#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Today, Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was ousted from her role as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just weeks after being confirmed. Now, at least four other senior top officials have quit, including the agency's chief medical officer, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and director of the Office of Public Health Data. Here's more from NBC.

https://flip.it/NgSb8F

#USPolitics#TrumpAdministration#CDC#Health#Medicine#SusanMonarez#RobertFKennedyJr#RFK#HHS

The U.S. FDA has approved COVID-19 shots for fall, but with new restrictions that make affect what insurers cover. Here's more from NBC.

https://flip.it/AGRH6z

#USNews#Health#Science#Medicine#COVID19#Covid#Vaccination

Today, Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was ousted from her role as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just weeks after being confirmed. Now, at least four other senior top officials have quit, including the agency's chief medical officer, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and director of the Office of Public Health Data. Here's more from NBC.

https://flip.it/NgSb8F

#USPolitics#TrumpAdministration#CDC#Health#Medicine#SusanMonarez#RobertFKennedyJr#RFK#HHS

Pretty sure the vast majority of people don’t want to get sick regardless of their party affiliation. 🤔 #health #news

"The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of RFK Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist who has repeatedly claimed in the face of scientific consensus that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, told the Daily Beast that Kennedy’s stance is shared by “influential” members of trump’s family."

Ideology trumps science.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/
#Politics#Health
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Additionally, Pfizer’s #vaccine will no longer be available for any child underage 5, after the #FDA said it was revoking the shot’s emergency authorization for that age group.
Parents will still be able to seek out shots from rival drugmaker #Moderna, the other
maker of #mRNA #vaccines, which has full FDA approval for #children as young as 6 months. But the company’s Spikevax vaccine is only approved for children w/at least one serious #health problem.

#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax #science #medicine

The new shots from Pfizer, Moderna & Novavax are approved for all #seniors. But the #FDA narrowed their use for younger #adults & #children to those with at least 1 high-risk #health condition, such as #asthma or #obesity. That presents new barriers to access for millions of Americans who’d have to prove their risk -- & millions more who may want to get vaccinated & suddenly no longer qualify.

#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax#ConspiracyTheories #vaccines #science #medicine #law #regulation

What to know about New World screwworm after 1st human case detected in the U.S. since the 1960s.

@abc reports: https://flip.it/d0MITy

#Disease#Medicine#NewWorldScrewworm#Science#Health

Pretty sure the vast majority of people don’t want to get sick regardless of their party affiliation. 🤔 #health #news

Flesh-eating bacteria cases are rising. Climate change is to blame, say scientists

Once largely confined to the Gulf Coast, cases have surged along the East Coast, with an 800% increase from 1988 to 2018

This isn’t going to be the only pathogen that increases in the face of climate change,” Noble said. “It’s just one example, but one we can really learn from

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/flesh-eating-bacteria-climate-change

#health#USA#US#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate #environment #climate

This isn’t going to be the only pathogen that increases in the face of climate change,” Noble said. “It’s just one example, but one we can really learn from

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/flesh-eating-bacteria-climate-change

#health#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

"The #CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses

As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight"

A question:

If there is a divergence in the desire to center medical #science in their #health decisions between the left and the right in this demented country

then #RFKJr will kill some on the left with this bullshit

but how many will he kill on the right?

🤪

Fucking genius

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/rcna227089

"The #CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses

As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight"

A question:

If there is a divergence in the desire to center medical #science in their #health decisions between the left and the right in this demented country

then #RFKJr will kill some on the left with this bullshit

but how many will he kill on the right?

🤪

Fucking genius

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/rcna227089

A federal judge in #Maine declined on Monday to block the #government from stripping #Medicaid #funding from one of Maine’s largest #abortion providers, finding that to do so would override “the will of the people as expressed by Congress.”

At issue is a provision of the tax & spending bill Congress passed in July that would deny abortion providers Medicaid funding even for #health services other than performing abortions.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/maine-judge-abortion-funding-blocked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released with
Methane in Super-Emitter Events

When oil and gas infrastructure leaks the potent greenhouse gas methane, it also releases toxic air contaminants that have escaped notice, until now

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082025/methane-risk-map-tracks-toxic-air-pollutants/

#health#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Why Climate Change Is the Next Frontier for Women’s

Climate change isn’t just an environmental issue – it’s rapidly becoming one of the biggest threats to women’s health worldwide. And while most healthcare leaders are still treating sustainability as a side project, the smartest women’s health innovators are recognizing that climate resilience isn’t optional anymore. It’s the foundation of future-ready healthcare

https://femtechinsider.com/why-climate-change-is-the-next-frontier-for-womens-health-innovation/

#health #women#ClimateChange #environment #climate