Annie Sparrow
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MBBS FRACP MRCP MPH MD. Flying doctor. Scientist. Strategist. Aid worker. Activist. Associate Professor Global Health Icahn School Medicine @ Mount Sinai.
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As Trump's "health" secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pursues his “war on science," would he have us revert to Medieval-era bleeding and leeches?
theguardian.com
Experts warn that the dangerous ideologically driven cuts at HHS will have long-term consequences for healthcare
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Malaria is "back with a vengeance" in Zimbabwe as the number of deaths triple. Trump's withdrawal of USAID funds threatens decades of progress, with cuts to research and a shortage of mosquito nets putting thousands at risk.
theguardian.com
Withdrawal of USAID funds threatens decades of progress, say experts, with cuts to research and shortage of mosquito nets putting thousands at risk across the country
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Conflict-plagued Sudan, with its huge drop in childhood vaccinations, may show us what American children's lives will be like (more deaths, more life-altering diseases) if Trump's anti-vax "health" secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has his way.
theguardian.com
The country, beset by war, has the world’s lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stalls
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To say that public-health authorities should have been more attentive to working-class people during the pandemic is fair. To destroy public-health institutions as a result is suicidal.
nytimes.com
America’s public health institutions made mistakes during the pandemic, but that does not justify the Trump administration’s broad assault on health and science.
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Chuck Schumer wants Trump's "health" secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to declare the sudden spread of measles a public health emergency, but Kennedy will have a hard time doing that because his attacks on the measles vaccine are a big part of the problem.
nytimes.com
Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the “nightmare” seen in Texas.
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While Trump's "health" secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. derides vaccines, a new study shows that "emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000."
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Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, according to a new study published this week.
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The @WHO reports that "94 per cent of the hospitals in Gaza are now damaged or destroyed, while displacement continues and civilians are being pushed into ever smaller spaces.".
news.un.org
Following the deaths of several children in an Israeli strike on Palestinians waiting in line for nutritional supplements in central Gaza on Thursday, UN humanitarian officials have once again cond...
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RT @MedGlobalOrg: In an op-ed for @thehill In an op-ed for The Hill, President of MedGlobal Dr. Zaher @Sahloul discusses the horrors he's s….
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Thanks to anti-vaxxers like Trump's "health" secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "there have now been more measles cases in 2025 than in any other year since the contagious virus was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000." That means dead children.
nytimes.com
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
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As Trump's "health" secretary unleashes his anti-vaccination ideology, "America risks unraveling the infrastructure that keeps children…without polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, bacterial meningitis and…other horrors."
nytimes.com
Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the shots they need.
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In December, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya walked down the middle of a road and made his way toward Israeli tanks. That is the last time the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza was seen before he was taken into custody by Israeli soldiers.
nbcnews.com
MedGlobal, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that arranges for hundreds of medical workers to treat people in Gaza, called for the release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical workers.
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RT @BohuslavskaKate: Trump administration just lifted sanctions on several Russian banks close to Putin. Right after the biggest Russian a….
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Trump's "health" secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will Make America More Unhealthy by terminating thousands of grants for pandemic prevention, and research grants related to cancer, vaccines and chronic diseases.
nytimes.com
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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"Before widespread vaccination…, infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children. the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday." Trump's "health" secretary wants to return to those days.
apnews.com
In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.
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By one estimate, covid vaccines averted 18.5M hospitalizations and 3.2M deaths in America in two years. Trump wisely got himself jabbed. So why is he now letting his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, dismantle the country’s vaccine-making ecosystem?
economist.com
Donald Trump’s health secretary undermines global public health, too
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Only in the benighted mind of Trump's "heath" secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is it somehow "science" to let children die of preventable diseases rather than vaccinate them. He is cutting funding to GAVI, the main international vaccination agency.
nytimes.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the agency, Gavi, had “ignored the science” in immunizing children around the world.
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A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the HIV virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone thanks to Trump's callous budget cuts (to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy).
nytimes.com
A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.
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Just because some right-wing figures have endorsed the view that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan doesn’t mean that that view isn’t true. There is no evidence that COV2 came from animal hosts in the wet market.
theguardian.com
While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry, says award-winning science writer Jane Qiu
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As Trump's anti-vaxxer "health" secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, makes the U.S. government an unreliable source on vaccines, plans are underway to circumvent Washington's benighted ideologues.
washingtonpost.com
The extraordinary effort to create a parallel system of recommending and perhaps even providing vaccines faces major challenges.
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RT @SMohyeddin: Tehran. After 3am. Israel is bombing all over district 6 & 7 of Tehran. Home to 600,000, the area houses the Tehran Museum….
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