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I’m not sure what you mean. I shared a gift link in this very post and there indeed are comments (402 so far)
Gilead’s tactics may have resulted in higher drug prices but that is just one of the many issues at play here, as the article details. I have written about Gilead issues elsewhere: www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/h...
Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
C.D.C.’s New Acting Director Draws Unexpected Praise From Agency Staff: When having a CDC director that meets the minimum bar of wanting to prevent dangerous infectious disease is a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h... via @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
In his first week leading the CDC, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been met with praise and gratitude — an unexpected reception for a scientist who has faced scorn from most public health experts.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...
Florida is taking a stand
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A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California.
w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/s...
This just happened, the suit itself is not live yet, but will add once it is
Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...
Adding to a rapid shake-up of the leadership at federal health agencies, the CDC announced on Monday that Dr. Ralph Abraham had resigned as the agency’s principal deputy director.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/h...
This is by now a familiar routine. Trump administration announces cuts that may be illegal. States sue. Judge issues TRO. Here’s step 3 in the events that began Monday with an announcement of $600 mil in cuts to 4 blue states
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
BREAKING: Four states led by Democrats sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, aiming to halt deep cuts in federal public health funds that had already been allocated.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/h...
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
“Based on recent events, we are moving our assessment of one of the categories — stifling speech and dissent — up one notch, to Level 4”
The NYT editorial board on its updated autocracy index
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Federal vaccine advisers are setting their sights on the next targets: the mRNA Covid shots, and vaccines offered to pregnant women. One panelist, Robert Malone, says he is “trying to force FDA to come clean” on data showing harms of COVID shots
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
Been writing about these folks all week so this felt particularly apt (and sorry for spoiling the one clue, but it’s only one, right?)
People: any recommendations for a deeply flavorful Roiboos?
But just as abruptly as it was announced, it was reversed, and the pause was over. HHS told me the grants were “temporarily paused” for review. Unclear why exactly the were unpaused suddenly and whether they will be paused again, perhaps after the storm.
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Wide panic because the funds pay for everything from outbreak response systems to personnel. And at least in some places, would have affected response to the snowstorm. 2/3
A couple of hours ago, state health departments were told their public health infrastructure grants — totaling $5 billion — would be paused and reviewed to ensure they were “aligned” with the administration’s goals. 1/3
The leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
ICYMI: @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
on the US's worst year for measles in 2 decades. www.wnyc.org/story/the-wo...
Proving that the Texas measles outbreak that began last January is the source of the current outbreaks in Utah and Arizona or South Carolina is turning out to be more complicated than officials had expected.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
The Trump administration reinstated on Tuesday hundreds of CDC employees who had been placed on administrative leave in April.
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So much still to learn about the world around us. Sean lions of the Galápagos come back for their mother’s milk even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/s...
Six leading medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule announced last week by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal officials.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/h...
H5N1 may be the avian flu virus that worries most people in America. But other types of bird flu are causing trouble around the world.
(Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/h...
BREAKING: Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s: Officials in Denmark and Germany are baffled, given the differences between the countries.
Experts point out this will kill and harm children. via @apoorvanyt.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...