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Jesus, we are such a broken country. https://www.newsweek.com/police-believe-cdc-shooter-thought-covid-vaccine-made-him-sick-report-2111117

A New 'Nanoparticle Vaccine' Prevented Cancer In Mice, Study Says https://www.404media.co/a-new-nanoparticle-vaccine-prevented-cancer-in-mice-study-says/

Flu and covid shots accomplished (assuming no one's trying to run another of these https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/utah-doctor-and-co-defendants-charged-for-running-a-covid-19-vaccine-sch…

Utah Doctor And Co-Defendants Charged For Running A COVID-19 Vaccine Scheme To Defraud The Government And CDC

NHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:

COVID-19 vaccine
NHS information about the COVID-19 vaccine, including what the vaccine helps protect against, who should have it and when, how to get it and side effects.

Voters Broadly Trust Vaccines, Do Not Approve of Florida Eliminating Its Vaccine Mandate
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/9/9/voters-broadly-trust-vaccines-do-not-approve-of-florida-eliminating-its-vaccine-mandate

CDC upheaval triggers global concern amid ongoing US vaccine policy debate:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc-upheaval-triggers-global-concern-amid-ongoing-us-vaccine-policy-debate

Several days after announcing the state had joined in the West Coast Health Alliance – to set vaccine policy with Oregon, California, and Hawaii – Washington state announced that anyone over six months of age – including pregnant people – can receive a COVID vaccine without a prescription
https://

Confused about your eligibility for the Covid shot? In Washington state, you’re covered
Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

Na, meint Ihr die Stiko liest das irgendwann? @… https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-study-f…

New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Wait... In Florida-speak, wouldn't that mean vaccines were a GOOD thing? 😏
Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate
…

Frankly, I’m gutted it’s not a new Impreza, after all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cly3g701eplo

The STI that's back and all you need to know
Gonorrhoea rates are on the rise, but there is a vaccine that's being rolled out.

US Family Physician Group Recommends COVID-19 Vaccines, Contrasting Federal Policy | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/vaccine/2025/09/08/id/1225583/

Before I go on the hunt, is it possible to get the latest #covid vaccine in BC?
Or is it that dumb invite system they’ve had for years?

An analysis of government subsidy policies in vaccine supply chain: Innovation, Production, or Consumption?
Ran Gu, Enhui Ding, Shigui Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03661 https:…

An analysis of government subsidy policies in vaccine supply chain: Innovation, Production, or Consumption?
Vaccines play a crucial role in the prevention and control of infectious diseases. However, the vaccine supply chain faces numerous challenges that hinder its efficiency. To address these challenges and enhance public health outcomes, many governments provide subsidies to support the vaccine supply chain. This study analyzes a government-subsidized, three-tier vaccine supply chain within a continuous-time differential game framework. The model incorporates dynamic system equations that account …

I got my COVID and my Flu shots for free, today. No problem for an old guy in Colorado.
#Vaccine #AntiKennedy #AntiOrangeFace

Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates
Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday announced plans to end all state vaccine mandates,
including for children to attend schools,
which would make it the first state to completely withdraw from a practice credited with boosting vaccination rates and controlling the spread of infectious diseases.

Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so
Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.

An alliance for Cascadia's health
This week, reacting to the meltdown of the CDC under HHS leader and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the governors of three west coast states – Washington, Oregon, and California – announced the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance that will center their vaccine and other public health policies on science rather than politics. Hawaii announced this week it will also join the alliance.

An alliance for Cascadia's health
This week, reacting to the meltdown of the CDC under HHS leader and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the governors of three west coast states – Washington, Oregon, and California – announced the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance that will center their vaccine and other public health policies on

Equivalence by coupling for heterogeneous SIS models*
Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Delmas (CERMICS), Dylan Dronnier (CERMICS), Pierre-Andr\'e Zitt (LAMA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04898

Equivalence by coupling for heterogeneous SIS models*
We consider the optimal allocation of (perfect) vaccine in an heterogeneous SIS model. Using a coupling approach, we explain how different models for the heterogeneity of the population lead to the same Pareto frontier in the cost/loss valuation of the vaccinations strategies. This covers in particular the elementary continuous representation of discrete models and the measure preserving transformation which appears in graphon theory.

By “accusing powerful people of doing things in secret for their own benefit, against the common good,”
RFK Jr is trafficking in conspiracy theories,
according to Joseph E. Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who studies the phenomenon.
Having a top government official contradicting science is
“a serious, serious problem,”
Professor Uscinkski said,
“because the hope is that,
in a free society,
you develop expertise and me…

RFK Jr., Rejecting Vaccine Data, Fuels Distrust of Public Health Agencies
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.

AAFP contradicts FDA on COVID-19 vaccine guidelines
https://thehill.com/homenews/5493603-aafp-recommends-covid-vaccines/

State of New Mexico Dept. of Health issues order maximizing availability of the COVID vaccine, in defiance of the the idiot running the HHS.
Fellow Californians: Scream at your state reps to do the same!
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmdoh-issue

NMDOH issues health order to maximize COVID-19 vaccine access
The order comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccine formulas, but with new limits on who could qualify for them.

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Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Junior to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/

Temporal Exposure Dependence Bias in Vaccine Efficacy Trials
Hiroyasu Ando, A. James O'Malley, Akihiro Nishi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03476 https://a…

Temporal Exposure Dependence Bias in Vaccine Efficacy Trials
Using time-to-event methods such as Cox proportional hazards models, it is well established that unmeasured heterogeneity in exposure or infection risk can lead to downward bias in point estimates of the per-contact vaccine efficacy (VE) in infectious disease trials. In this study, we explore an unreported source of bias-arising from temporally correlated exposure status-that is typically unmeasured and overlooked in standard analyses. Although this form of bias can plausibly affect a wide rang…

✅ flu vaccine
✅ covid vaccine
✅ driver attempts to run me down in a crosswalk
✅ Yellow breakfast

Woohoo just got my Covid vaccine at CVS in Pasadena! A little bit of anxiety weight has lifted

Woohoo just got my Covid vaccine at CVS in Pasadena! A little bit of anxiety weight has lifted

"Koala comeback: new national park and vaccine offer hope for Australia’s iconic marsupial"
#Australia #Koalas #Animals

Koala comeback: new national park and vaccine offer hope for Australia’s iconic marsupial | The Optimist Daily
With a massive new protected area and a breakthrough vaccine, conservationists are fighting to save koalas from extinction.

"Saying I'm anti-vaccine is like saying I'm anti-medicine," Kennedy said
Yes, Mr. Kennedy. Yes, it would be. And it would be true. "Anti-medicine" is a great and fitting way to describe you.
https://www.

CVS has the 2025-2026 COVID vaccine available in NJ. When making the appointment you self-verify that you have an allowed condition.
#CVS #NJ #COVID19

Corr, what a anti-vaccine conspiracy pillock. #totp

Ugh. Bullshit on top of bullshit. I’m going to need an MD degree just to read medicine labels. https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/anti-vaccine-groups-melt-down-over-reports-rfk-jr-to-link-autism-to-tylenol/

Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol
“THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group retweeted.

TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction
Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Zhengming Ding, Samuel J. Landry, Ramgopal R. Mettu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04377 https://…

TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction
T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is a central component of adaptive immunity, with implications for vaccine design, cancer immunotherapy, and autoimmune disease. While recent advances in machine learning have improved prediction of TCR-pMHC binding, the most effective approaches are black-box transformer models that cannot provide a rationale for predictions. Post-hoc explanation methods can provide insight with respect to the input but do not explicitly model b…

Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access
“Vaccines are among the most powerful tools in modern medicine; they have indisputably saved millions of lives,” Dr. Sejal Hathi, head of the Oregon Health Authority, said in the announcement. “But when guidance about their use becomes inconsistent or politicized, it undermines public trust at precisely the moment we need it most...”

Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access
The states Democratic governors offered few specifics Wednesday as to how they hope the Western Health Alliance could influence which vaccines will be available in their states.

Just like the United States basically outlasted the USSR, the CCP must just be dying laughing as we dismantle ourselves.
It's not enough that we have existential challenges to face in the future, let's also bring back problems from the past.
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115151

Large, reputable studies have found no link between autism and the measles vaccine, the vaccine preservative thimerosal, or simultaneous doses of vaccines. 
Alongside Kennedy's causes of autism report, HHS is expected to announce large grant awards to academic researchers as part of the NIH’s autism data science initiative. -- The NIH called for proposals for those studies in May. 
NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and…

Somehow I missed this 2024 Reuters report on how the first Trump administration ordered the US military to carry out a psyop campaign that spread disinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
In particular, the campaign falsely claimed that the Chinese vaccine ChinaVac is unsafe/haram or ineffective. It also doubted the usefulness of face masks. As a result, lots of people died.

CDC recommends covid vaccine with new eligibility rules - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/iq4vd

Helpful guide for #NYC for getting a #Covid booster. The current state of things is.. confusing.
https://www.

What to Know About Getting a COVID Vaccine in New York This Fall
The confusion around guidelines is making things tough for pharmacists and patients alike.

RFKJr and one of his ACIP picks, Robert Malone,
appear to be getting ready to restrict the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) immunizations
(nirsevimab and clesrovimab)
saying there is a vast cover up of vaccine safety data.
"You talk a lot about how unsafe it is to vaccinate children.
Do you know how unsafe it is to not vaccinate them?"

"Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?
After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual conference today in Birmingham. DeSmog has been banned from the event, which will be packed full of climate science deniers, anti-vaccine activists, and dark money lobby groups. One agenda item […]

Quality of decisions made by CDC vaccine advisers has nose-dived, former voting members say: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-vaccines/quality-decisions-made-cdc-vaccine-advisers-has-nose-dived-former-voting

Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/inside-the-marketplace-for-vaccine-medical-exemptions/

RFK To States: Comply With Jesus Vaccine Exemptions - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/rfk-warns-state-to-comply-with-jesus-vax-exemptions/

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:
-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040
How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.
You will note USA is not on this list.
https://…

The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,”
one of Robert F. Kennedy 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 Donald Trump’s family.
Like Kennedy himself, no Trum…

Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics. • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/10/01/repub/cervical-cancer-vaccine/

RFK Jr to testify at Senate hearing on chaos at federal health agencies and vaccine policy changes
– live updates
Trump’s health secretary is expected to face tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to
‘make America healthy again’

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a microbiologist at Mount Sinai’s medical school who wasn’t involved with the study, called the work
“a good vaccine to have ready in case of any outbreaks with this virus”
However, he thinks this approach may fall short in tackling human influenza.
“H5 changes in multiple directions, so a central antigen makes sense,
while in the human flu or human SARS-CoV-2,
the central antigen moves with time.”

One shot to rule them all in the fight against H5 influenza
New bird flu vaccine design could help preparations against an evolving potential pandemic virus 

For nearly 40 years
the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,
a special federal court system,
has compensated Americans who prove they were harmed by vaccines while also protecting the manufacturers from litigation.
Now Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to overhaul the program, saying he will make it more efficient and speedier for Americans seeking payment.
He said in a social media post last month that the vaccine court had “devolved into a morass of i…

Kennedy’s Next Target: the Federal Vaccine Court
The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.

RFK Jr’s new CDC vaccine advisers recommended against the combined measles and chickenpox shot for young kids | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-cdc-measles-vaccine-recommendation-b2829509.html

I’m Dr. Angela Rasmussen,
a virologist and proud member of the
Save America Movement steering committee.
The CDC has just been gutted.
RFK Jr. has fired the nation’s top vaccine experts,
replaced them with anti-vaccine ideologues,
and forced out some of the CDC’s most dedicated leaders.
Programs that took decades to build are being razed overnight.
That means fewer vaccines.
Less access to care.
More outbreaks of preventable diseas…

Rockmond Dunbar Loses Covid Vaccine Trial Against Disney
https://deadline.com/2025/10/rockmond-dunbar-loses-covid-vaccine-firing-trial-disney-1236591063/

Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media.
“We did it, everybody,”
says Leslie Manookian,
the woman in the middle.
She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho.
Her group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation.
With Manookian in the video are
two of her allies, the leaders of H…

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024. 
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands. 
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

Cases of Victorian-era whooping cough soar in Florida amid plummeting vaccine rates
Cases of a Victorian-era disease have soared in Florida over the past year amid state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's declaration to end all vaccine mandates for children.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal
has been identified as the shooterwho opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.
The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident,
had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire.
The man, identified a…

Union wants statement against COVID vaccine misinformation after CDC shooting
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associat…

The Trump Administration is giving tax breaks to billionaires while cutting vaccine research and development.
This puts every single American at risk.
-- Katie Porter
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
The Trump administration is terminating 22 contracts focused on developing mRNA vaccines and winding down additional federal investments in mRNA technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Climatologist Michael Mann and vaccine expert Peter
say we’re in an
“antiscience superstorm.”
It’s a movement that has upended federal health agencies,
defunded research and weaponized social media and AI
to advance its agenda.
And now, some of the nation’s most vocal antiscience figures are in major positions of power.
We talk to Hotez and Mann about their daily battles against disinformation,
their personal toll and what we can all do to …

Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience | KQED
We talk to Hotez and Mann about their daily battles against disinformation, their personal toll and what we can all do to counter the antiscience threat. Their new book is “Science Under Siege.”

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.