Tootfinder

What if vaccines could be made to protect against a family of viruses, like influenza or coronaviruses, rather than just individual members of them?
✅ Scientists are working on “everything vaccines”
https://www.economist.com/science-and-tech

"Public health is not a government bureaucracy. It is the reason most of us are alive. It is clean water, childhood vaccines, and food safety inspections. ... And women — often overlooked, often working without recognition — built much of it." 🧪💉
https://www.

Guest column: A Fargo daughter proved that women’s health matters. We’re still proving it.
Professor Michelle A. Williams will deliver the Mary Jaylene Berg Memorial Lecture at North Dakota State University on April 7.

US FDA blocked publication of COVID, shingles vaccine safety studies (Padmanabhan Ananthan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-fda-blocked-research-publication-that-covid-shingles-vaccines-are-safe-nyt-2026-05-05/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p109#a260505p109

RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is coming for the elderly

The miseries of aging are more linked to late-life infections than was previously understood
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/26/robert-kennedy-war-vaccines-senior-health/…

RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is coming for the elderly
The miseries of aging are more linked to late-life infections than was previously understood.

“The American-Israeli aggressors have attacked the Pasteur Institute of Iran – the oldest and most prestigious research and public health centre in Iran and the entire Middle East, founded in 1920 through an agreement between the Pasteur Institute of Paris and the Iranian government.”
How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera

How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines
The Pasteur Institute of Iran is one of several healthcare facilities in the country to be targeted.

"Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent."
In South Carolina Measles Outbreak, Vaccine Skepticism Led to Largest Outbreak Since 2000 - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-vaccines.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
The Vaccines:
🎵 If You Wanna
#TheVaccines
https://fakedjalmeria.bandcamp.com/track/the-vaccines-if-you-wanna-fake-dj-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ca3uEAuun3HusTUiIXKs1

An eight-minute exchange at the end of #Casey #Means’ two-hour confirmationhearing captured the potential and the predicament the MAHA movement has created for itself.
Means -- an entrepreneurial wellness influencer with a medical degree from Stanford -- appeared on Wednesday at the Senate health committee -- to be conf…

Surgeon general nominee and senator face off over vaccines and ‘shared decision-making’
Casey Means wanted to talk about chronic disease. But Bill Cassidy wanted to hear about her views on vaccines.

F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe (Christina Jewett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.8TIf.Nf0VZEDJJMok&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p73#a260505p73

I remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"

New parents are shunning proven preventive care for their infants in effort to be 'natural'
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that refusals of vitamin K shots rose steeply between 2017 and 2024. Those shots can prevent potentially deadly bleeding. A subsequent research review found that U.S. parents who declined vitamin K shots were 90 times more likel…

Trump’s surgeon general pick, Casey Means, still lacks votes for confirmation - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/surgeon-general-casey-means-vaccines-nomination-rfk-00801331

Federal Judge strikes down RFK Jr's COVID and childhood illness vaccine decisions, stating that science was not used in making them.
#covid #rfkjr #vaccines

Judge Strikes Down RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policies in Blow to Trump’s Health Agenda
Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish (ProPublica)
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p38#a260327p38

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
Here’s so many technologies that are actually helpful and amazing and I’m exited about, here’s some more:
- e-paper
- health tracking that alerts to possible conditions
- safety features in vehicles
- new vaccines
- those soundboards for pets allowing them to form sentences
- 3D printing
- LED lights
- new, less dangerous battery technologies
And so much more

from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

Diphtheria:
The 'strangling angel' could return if RFK Jr. succeeds: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-vaccines-2676632514/

Trump’s administration is so afraid that they might even accidentally do something good, or of value, or that might save lives or appear to be modern and scientifically based if appropriate.
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The FDA refused to review a flu vaccine, contrary to evidence. Now the agency reversed itself.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/cidrap-op-ed-fda-refused-review-flu-vaccine-contrary-evidence-now-agency

Q&A with The Atlantic's Liz Bruenig on her hypothetical creative nonfiction measles essay, writing in second person, persuading parents about vaccines, and more (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-atla

The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
The Vaccines:
🎵 Minimal Affection
#NowPlaying #TheVaccines
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MoEjHgtxcUk3UlpCQM6zl

GOP-led Florida House tanks AI, medical freedom proposals pushed by DeSantis (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/florida-house-gop-ai-vaccines-special-session-00895379
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p103#a260428p103

Wait until they find out that phones, PCs, servers, electrical equipment, and so much more are made in China, too.
The Coalition on Secure Technology, the cross-party campaign raising awareness of technological threats from hostile states, has warned that the components that allow fridges to connect to the internet are often made in China.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/5]:
- Beyond In-Distribution Success: Scaling Curves of CoT Granularity for Language Model Generalization
Ru Wang, Wei Huang, Selena Song, Haoyu Zhang, Qian Niu, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18273 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114069031700102129
- Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech
Anja Ryser, Yingqiang Gao, Sarah Ebling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00780 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114267149909002069
- Cultural Biases of Large Language Models and Humans in Historical Interpretation
Fabio Celli, Georgios Spathulas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02572 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114278467094094490
- BRIDGE: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Understanding Real-world Clinical Practice Text
Jiageng Wu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19467 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114420036189999973
- Understanding the Anchoring Effect of LLM with Synthetic Data: Existence, Mechanism, and Potentia...
Yiming Huang, Biquan Bie, Zuqiu Na, Weilin Ruan, Songxin Lei, Yutao Yue, Xinlei He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114550277171100272
- Just as Humans Need Vaccines, So Do Models: Model Immunization to Combat Falsehoods
Raza, Qureshi, Farooq, Lotif, Chadha, Pandya, Emmanouilidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17870 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114572956853819813
- LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
Fu, Jiang, Hong, Li, Guo, Yang, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14493 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114703502552989170
- GHTM: A Graph-based Hybrid Topic Modeling Approach with a Benchmark Dataset for the Low-Resource ...
Farhana Haque, Md. Abdur Rahman, Sumon Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00605 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114969875643478303
- Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Anastasia Zhukova, Thomas Walton, Christian E. Lobm\"uller, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09096 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115020938764936882
- AirQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation
Huang, Cao, Zhang, Kang, Wang, Wang, Luo, Zheng, Qian, Chen, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16952 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253526588472475
- Multi-View Attention Multiple-Instance Learning Enhanced by LLM Reasoning for Cognitive Distortio...
Jun Seo Kim, Hyemi Kim, Woo Joo Oh, Hongjin Cho, Hochul Lee, Hye Hyeon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253586227941157
- Dual-Space Smoothness for Robust and Balanced LLM Unlearning
Han Yan, Zheyuan Liu, Meng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23362 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115293308293558024
- The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis
Tadesse Destaw Belay, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25477 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115298213432594791
- Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Reco...
Srivastav, Zheng, Bezzam, Le Bihan, Koluguri, \.Zelasko, Majumdar, Moumen, Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115343748052193267
- Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
Taisei Yamamoto, Ryoma Kumon, Danushka Bollegala, Hitomi Yanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08284 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115349533441895984
- CLMN: Concept based Language Models via Neural Symbolic Reasoning
Yibo Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10063 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115372392366793754
- Schema for In-Context Learning
Chen, Chen, Wang, Leong, Fung, Bernales, Aspuru-Guzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13905 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115389057899856601
- Evaluating Latent Knowledge of Public Tabular Datasets in Large Language Models
Matteo Silvestri, Fabiano Veglianti, Flavio Giorgi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20351 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115428615784704418
- LuxIT: A Luxembourgish Instruction Tuning Dataset from Monolingual Seed Data
Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Siwen Guo, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115457025096322944
- Surfacing Subtle Stereotypes: A Multilingual, Debate-Oriented Evaluation of Modern LLMs
Muhammed Saeed, Muhammad Abdul-mageed, Shady Shehata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115491321130591723
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A Vaccine Skeptic for Surgeon General (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/casey-means-surgeon-general-hearing-hhs-vaccines-donald-trump-1051ec8e?st=hZ7YTz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p134#a260225p134

If the US doesn't want Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine I hope someone else jumps on it - I'd love one where you don't have to pick a choice of the other allergens which the current range of flu vaccines have; just give me that mRNA.

At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams stood with Trump at the White House,
serving as a prominent face of the president’s health agenda.

Now Adams has taken a far different stand: trying to stop Trump’s hew nominee for Surgeon General , Casey Means, from being confirmed as the nation’s top doctor.

Means’s nomination has stalled in the Senate, where several Republicans have questioned her stance on vaccines,
her pushes against th…

Trump’s first surgeon general tries to stop nominee from becoming his second
Jerome Adams, who served at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, says Casey Means is unqualified to hold the job. Means’s nomination is stalled in the Senate.

George Washington's Woke Vaccines (Thomas Lecaque/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/george-washington-woke-vaccines-hegseth-flu
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p61#a260422p61

MAHA allies eye 'huge escalation' in war on vaccines despite a 'rattled' White House - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-vaccines-2675943398/

Trump's surgeon general pick, Casey Means, still lacks votes for confirmation (Simon J. Levien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/surgeon-general-casey-means-vaccines-nomination-rfk-00801331
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p75#a260226p75

America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
staked his political career on the false belief that vaccines cause autism,
and has used his power to force federal agencies to support his bonkers position:
The CDC’s website now says,
“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
Thanks to Kennedy and others, measles outbreaks are happening all over the country after the disease was declared officially eliminated in th…

The Cynical, Gullible American Man
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

US regulators will not review Moderna’s request to license a new, potentially more effective flu shot – even though the US FDA previously gave the green light to the project – in a decision that could have implications for all new and updated vaccines in the US.
It’s the latest move by the Trump administration against vaccines. Officials in January decided to stop fully recommending one-third of routine childhood vaccines, including flu vaccines
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Kennedy Refuses to Commit to Backing New C.D.C. Director on Vaccines (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-vaccines-erica-schwartz.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p99#a260421p99

The Trump administration is considering #Houman #Hemmati, an ophthalmologist, entrepreneur and frequent Fox News guest,
to serve as the nation’s next top regulator of #vaccines and treatments for complex diseases
If selecte…

Kennedy's Vaccine Agenda Hits Roadblocks, Diminishing His Clout (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/kennedy-vaccines-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p156#a260326p156

With Vaccines Widely Popular, Kennedy Changes Tone, but Maybe Not His Plans (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/politics/vaccines-kennedy-cdc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p109#a260417p109

High-dose flu vaccine tied to lower Alzheimer’s risk in older adults:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/high-dose-flu-vaccine-tied-lower-alzheimer-s-risk-older-adults

I am fortunate to have grown up in an era when vaccines were not portrayed as something to be avoided...
Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/measles-encephalitis-south-carolina-anti-vaccine-b2918500.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Vaccines:
🎵 If You Wanna
#TheVaccines
https://fakedjalmeria.bandcamp.com/track/the-vaccines-if-you-wanna-fake-dj-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ca3uEAuun3HusTUiIXKs1

Key Adviser Quits Federal Vaccine Panel (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/health/robert-malone-vaccines-cdc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p138#a260324p138

Sowing Doubt, Risking Supply:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spreading doubts about the safety of vaccines and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.

History has shown how vaccine-preventable diseases can roar back when trust in shots or access to them have faltered.

As the U.S. pulls international aid, deadly and disabling diseases like diphtheria, rubella and polio continue to harm people overseas and ca…

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.

DeSantis delays Florida's redistricting session -- and tacks on AI, vaccines (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/15/florida-desantis-redistricting-session-ai-vaccines-00875160
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p66#a260416p66

RFK Jr.'s days of going wild on health may be over (Amanda Chu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/21/rfk-midterms-maha-pesticides-vaccines-food-00792018
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p12#a260221p12

“What’s exciting is that we can now point to a specific viral component that can be redesigned. It means future adenoviral vaccines can keep all their advantages while sidestepping the rare immune misfire that causes VITT”
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery Behind Rare COVID Vaccine Blood Clots
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-solve-the-mystery-behind-rare-covid-vaccine-blood-clots/

It may be unchartered, but we can see the terrain:
the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps -- but not new vaccines.
That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people,
all of them deranged and malicious,
control over $3 trillion.
https://

Gabriel Zucman (@gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Surgeon General Nominee Sidesteps Questions on Vaccines at Senate Hearing (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/surgeon-general-casey-means-senate-hearing.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p96#a260225p96

RE: https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/116417038983034966
"JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism
and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and
RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines
and Donald Trump is lec…

Joe Rogan's down on Trump and MAGA -- but he's still hardcore MAHA (Anthony L. Fisher/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/joe-rogan-experience-maga-vaccines-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p88#a260417p88

RFK Jr.'s battle with the public health establishment has turned to trench warfare (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/rfk-health-secretary-maha-vaccines-food-00776630
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p31#a260215p31

Somebody Finally Stood Up to RFK Jr. (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/somebody-finally-stood-up-to-rfk-jr-hhs-vaccines-acip
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p118#a260317p118

Vinay Prasad, the Trump administration’s top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration,
single-handedly decided to refuse to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine,
overruling agency scientists, according to reports from Stat News and The Wall Street Journal.
Stat was first to report, based on unnamed FDA sources, that a team of career scientists at the agency was ready to review the vaccine
and that David Kaslow, a top career official who reviews vaccines, eve…

Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna's flu shot
FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.

White House sidesteps vaccine skeptics in potential CDC leadership reset (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/16/erica-schwartz-cdc-director-trump-vaccines/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p17#a260416p17

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine
made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.
The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
particularly those using mRNA technology,
which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.
Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from…

Moderna says FDA will not consider its mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology. The company announced the news on Tuesday. The FDA's decision reflects heightened scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has criticized mRNA technology. Moderna received a “refusal-to-file” letter, objecting to its clinical trial methods. The FDA said the trial didn’t compare the new shot to the best available standard of care. Moderna …

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/cdc-covid-vaccine-study.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p63#a260422p63

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The Vaccines:
🎵 Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
#TheVaccines
https://open.spotify.com/track/1K5vb3Yu4F8yMaHggtdpDY

Too young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/measles-vaccines-mmr-babies-south-carolina-outbreak-85b2ab8ec8baec808f258987b13af9dc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p44#a260410p44