Dr. Monarez’s lawyers, Mark S. Zaid & Abbe Lowell, asserted in a statement earlier Wednesday that Dr. Monarez’s situation was symbolic of larger issues.

“It is about the systematic dismantling of #PublicHealth institutions, the silencing of experts, & the dangerous politicization of #science,” Mr. Zaid & Mr. Lowell wrote. “The attack on Dr. Monarez is a warning to every American: Our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.”

#Trump#RFKJr #vaccines #medicine

Dr. Monarez’s firing, along with the resignations of 4 of the #CDC’s top leaders, will undoubtedly throw the nation’s #PublicHealth agency into further turmoil after a tumultuous month in which agency employees were laid off & a gunman fired a barrage of bullets at the Atlanta headquarters, killing a policeman & terrifying employees.

#Trump#RFKJr #vaccines #science #medicine

Dr. #SusanMonarez, an #InfectiousDisease researcher, was sworn in just a month ago by #RFKJr, but had clashed with him over #vaccine policy…. 4 other high-profile #CDC officials quit en masse, apparently in frustration over vaccine #policy & RFKJr’s leadership.

Because Dr. Monarez had been confirmed by the #Senate — previous CDC directors were not subject to such confirmation — she served at the pleasure of the Trump. RFKJr most likely did not have the authority to dismiss her.

#medicine

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

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

“root causes”

I hate linking to The Hill, but here we go:

RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September

No, he fucking won’t. He literally shut down actual studies working on such things, because as with all fundamentalist-approach cardboard science, anything he does is driven by producing the answer he wants, not any answer that’s actually real.

So given all that, here’re a few key lies about “causes” I think we can expect:

• “Overvaccination,” which isn’t a thing; it’s just a wedge to start rolling back vaccination in favour of “wellness” horseshit and pseudoscience that doesn’t fucking work;
• High-fructose corn syrup, which in its most common formulation – for those who don’t remember – is chemically identical to honey. There’s literally not a way to tell filtered honey apart from 55/45 HFCS. This is also why filtered honey is fucking awful; once you filter out the water and the pollen remnants you don’t have any flavour other than sweetness.

  (This may be substituted out for artificial colours and/or flavours, he’s got bugaboos about those too.)

  And finally:

• Hormone-based contraception.

Yeah. I think there’s a pretty good chance they’ll go there. I can’t be sure – this is all speculation, I assure you – but it’s been floated around in christofascism on and off for a while. Not as strongly as other lies about “the pill” (christ they’re so old) causing breast cancer (again: a lie), and being an abortifacient (again: a lie). So why not here? Why not go for it?

It has the added bonus of blaming the woman, which is another thing they always want to do.

Maybe I’ll be wrong. Maybe they won’t. But he used one word in particular that makes me think I’m right. That word is “interventions,” as in “interventions” that cause autism. That’s a word I’ve heard plenty of times before when fundamentalists talk about birth control, and also by the new age crowd that merged in with them, calling hormonal birth control an “unnatural intervention.” In other words, both upstream forks of his anti-vax “wellness” following have a history of using that word to describe hormonal birth control.

And here it is again. That word. “Intervention.”

Really could be a coincidence; really, genuinely could. That word is used by a lot of actual medical people for good and real medical treatments; it’s not one of their own made-up words.

But … they really do have a history of using it that way. And the orange fuckfash muttered on about “a drug or something” as the intervention at work, so… yeah.

I’m smelling an attack on birth control.

They’ve really been wanting to go at it, and given the increased… severity in tone… that we’re seeing out of the fascists, it feels like they’re slamming the metaphorical pedal to the metaphorical metal, and they might just go ahead and go for it.

Stock up on your meds, folks. Clock’s ticking.

#fascism #medicine #politics #science #uspol #uspolitics

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

US regulators approved updated #COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — & removed 1 of the 2 #vaccines available for young #children.

#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax#ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #law #regulation
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-covid-shots-fda-kennedy-pfizer-children-9ce19908ae7afb354732aa162fd28532?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-27-Breaking+News

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

“root causes”

I hate linking to The Hill, but here we go:

RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September

No, he fucking won’t. He literally shut down actual studies working on such things, because as with all fundamentalist-approach cardboard science, anything he does is driven by producing the answer he wants, not any answer that’s actually real.

So given all that, here’re a few key lies about “causes” I think we can expect:

• “Overvaccination,” which isn’t a thing; it’s just a wedge to start rolling back vaccination in favour of “wellness” horseshit and pseudoscience that doesn’t fucking work;
• High-fructose corn syrup, which in its most common formulation – for those who don’t remember – is chemically identical to honey. There’s literally not a way to tell filtered honey apart from 55/45 HFCS. This is also why filtered honey is fucking awful; once you filter out the water and the pollen remnants you don’t have any flavour other than sweetness.

  (This may be substituted out for artificial colours and/or flavours, he’s got bugaboos about those too.)

  And finally:

• Hormone-based contraception.

Yeah. I think there’s a pretty good chance they’ll go there. I can’t be sure – this is all speculation, I assure you – but it’s been floated around in christofascism on and off for a while. Not as strongly as other lies about “the pill” (christ they’re so old) causing breast cancer (again: a lie), and being an abortifacient (again: a lie). So why not here? Why not go for it?

It has the added bonus of blaming the woman, which is another thing they always want to do.

Maybe I’ll be wrong. Maybe they won’t. But he used one word in particular that makes me think I’m right. That word is “interventions,” as in “interventions” that cause autism. That’s a word I’ve heard plenty of times before when fundamentalists talk about birth control, and also by the new age crowd that merged in with them, calling hormonal birth control an “unnatural intervention.” In other words, both upstream forks of his anti-vax “wellness” following have a history of using that word to describe hormonal birth control.

And here it is again. That word. “Intervention.”

Really could be a coincidence; really, genuinely could. That word is used by a lot of actual medical people for good and real medical treatments; it’s not one of their own made-up words.

But … they really do have a history of using it that way. And the orange fuckfash muttered on about “a drug or something” as the intervention at work, so… yeah.

I’m smelling an attack on birth control.

They’ve really been wanting to go at it, and given the increased… severity in tone… that we’re seeing out of the fascists, it feels like they’re slamming the metaphorical pedal to the metaphorical metal, and they might just go ahead and go for it.

Stock up on your meds, folks. Clock’s ticking.

#fascism #medicine #politics #science #uspol #uspolitics