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'Devastating.' NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia (Jon Cohen/Science)
https://www.science.org/content/article/devasting-nih-cancels-future-funding-plans-hiv-vaccine-consortia
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p7#a250531p7

Bobby Brainworm cancels research on Bird flu vaccine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/hhs-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-funding/

The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.
Officials from the H.I.V. division of the National Institutes of Health delivered the news on Friday to the program’s two leaders, at Duke University and the Scripps Research Institute.
Both teams were collaborating with numerous other research partners.
The work was broadly applicable to a wide range of treatm…

Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V. research and programs to prevent the disease.

If you need any more proof that they are about the elimination of any alternative lifestyles—here you go. This is absolutely disgusting behaviour by the administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html

Effect of Vaccine Dose Intervals: Considering Immunity Levels, Vaccine Efficacy, and Strain Variants for Disease Control Strategy
Samiran Ghosh, Malay Banerjee, Amit K Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21132

Effect of Vaccine Dose Intervals: Considering Immunity Levels, Vaccine Efficacy, and Strain Variants for Disease Control Strategy
In this study, we present an immuno-epidemic model to understand mitigation options during an epidemic break. The model incorporates comorbidity and multiple-vaccine doses through a system of coupled integro-differential equations to analyze the epidemic rate and intensity from a knowledge of the basic reproduction number and time-distributed rate functions. Our modeling results show that the interval between vaccine doses is a key control parameter that can be tuned to significantly influence …

In today's episode, CIDRAP Director Dr. Michael Osterholm discusses the latest federal actions on vaccine policy, reports on a new COVID variant sweeping Asia, and gives an update on measles cases across North America. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/episode-184-fools-gold-reframing-science

I’ve treated kids with gunshot wounds, vaccine-preventable infections and chronic diseases..
I’m Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews and today I’m launching my campaign for U.S. Senate. 
I’ve been a doctor for almost 20 years. I’m no stranger to tough fights. 
But honestly, I never thought about running for office. But with MAGA chaos in the White House, I’m fed up and I’m taking a stand to stop the BS.
I’m taking on Senator Lindsey Graham, the posterboy for Washington corrupt…

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Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely countered Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.
The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old, -- but added a new condition.
Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor…

CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

I forget. What do you call it when a single political appointee overturns an established, disciplined, scientific process because he's smarter than everyone else combined? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vac…

U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children.

Viewpoint: Making key COVID vaccine decisions without input, transparency is a public disservice:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/viewpoint-making-key-covid-vaccine-decisions-without-input-transparency-public-disservice

Moderna pulls licensing submission for combo flu-COVID vaccine: Too bad. It was a great idea.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/moderna-pulls-licensing-submission-combo-flu-covid-vaccine

Et l'autre côté de l'Atlantique, on se prépare Š la prochaine pandémie en suprimant les vaccins. https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/moderna-flu-vaccine-development-cancelled-by-hhs-mrna-platform-offers-speedy-pandemic-response/

FDA significantly limits COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Well, #COVID19 IS gone! Isn't it??
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/fda-significantly-limits-covid-19-vaccine-recommendations

Look, all I'm saying is, this Kennedy psychopath is trying to kill our children. I feel like self-defense rules apply. Isn't it time for a new HHS Secretary anyway?
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-tr…

New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots
Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy. Companies that want to market their vaccines to those Americans will need to conduct large, new studies, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. It’s a major shift in FDA’s approach to updating vaccines that protect against the virus. It comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his appointees continue to scrutinize the use of vaccines for a numbe…

Five years to the day COVID was declared a pandemic this is where we're at: the world's richest country has signed an order to pull out of WHO, dismantled USAID and millions for vaccines, life-saving treatments for HIV/AIDS, TB, and infectious disease, overturned women's rights to safe procedures - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
#COVID

Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

Trends in Cervical Precancers Identified Through Population-Based Surveillance — Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project, Five Sites, United States, 2008–2022
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7406a4.htm

Trends in Cervical Precancers Identified ...
This report describes decreases in cervical precancer incidence among women ages 20-24 years.

Last boost, related #uspol take:
"Here's RFK's plan:
1. Claim vaccines cause autism
2. Push vaccine skepticism, lower vax rates
3. Create autism registry - people avoid getting a diagnosis to stay off it
4. Point to the decrease in autism diagnoses as "proof" vaccines cause autism"
via a screenshot of a tweet by a Skyler Johnson @Skylerfo…

Combo flu-COVID vaccine shows good immune response, safety in older adults:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/combo-flu-covid-vaccine-shows-good-immune-response-safety-older-adults

RFK Jr. (coughs): "I'm sorry."
"No problem. I'm fully vaccinated."
*EOD*
#humor #vaccine #rfk

RFK Jr. (coughs): "I'm sorry."
"No problem. I'm fully vaccinated."
*EOD*
#humor #vaccine #rfk