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Journalist covering the F.D.A. for The New York Times. Loves: The outdoors, a juicy investigation, spicy food & my most of all, my boys.
A key member of Trump 1.0 Covid team re: the CDC news:
“I think this is quite a negative and potentially catastrophic step for the country,” said Adm. Brett Giroir.
“I don’t know who’s in charge, honestly, and that’s frightening because the No. 1 thing you need is somebody in charge,” he added.
BREAKING (AGAIN): The White House said it has fired CDC director Susan Monarez, who clashed with @seckennedy.govpeeps.us over vaccine policy. Confirmed by the Senate, she had refused to resign unless the WH fired her.
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
BREAKING: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired, per her lawyers.
via @sherylnyt.bsky.social + @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
NEW: He called Covid vaccines "the most failing medical product in the history of medical products."
Now he's running a C.D.C. task force reviewing them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...
The only place industry COI does not pervade medicine, it would seem, is on vaccine advisory panels!
New in @jama.com today, great work by @profgenkanter.bsky.social
cc @mdaware.org @by-cjewett.bsky.social @charlesornstein.bsky.social @joho.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.
A neighbor told NYT about the shooter: “He very deeply believed that vaccines had hurt him,” Ms. Hoalst said, “and that they were hurting other people.”
...Mr. White would launch into unrelenting monologues about it on her front porch, describing a vast and confusing conspiracy.
A 33-year-old ex-Marine police officer was shot at the CDC by someone who believed he was hurt by the Covid vaccine. The policeman was a father of two with another baby on the way --->
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
ICYMI: A pressure campaign by Laura Loomer + Rick Santorum leaning on the White House = the ouster of Dr. Vinay Prasad at the FDA.
Santorum reposted articles complaining that he was anti-innovation because he rejected some drugs (that he/his team deemed subpar) .
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
After a pressure campaign by Laura Loomer, Dr. Vinay Prasad is out at FDA. Sec. Kennedy tried to defend him -- based in part on his work on vaccines -- but it wasn't enough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...
