“[the editorial has gone] from being completely unknown to, as of last night, the 50th-most cited, most-viewed paper in the entire world among 300,000 papers published in the last month.”
True Streisand effect happening
Great interview from @helenbranswell.bsky.social w/ WHO Director
When other health issues & armed conflict cause >> deaths than Ebola + mistrust/misinformation = difficulty to get best practices to contain spread
But also the perspective that other countries only care now d/t threat to them
“The woman said she regretted not getting her kids vaccinated when the outbreak started.”
These kinds of stories are helpful for the vaccine hesitant parents
The goal isn’t to convince the anti-vax, but out compete the vacuum that they have taken in public communications
A great read below ⤵️
Absurd in context of 1) dangers it causes to people & children, & 2) the 0 benefits raw milk
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital ... But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb”
www.propublica.org/article/mark...
E.g., the study was not designed or powered to measure the outcome
The study was published in 2010 - interestingly the 1/2 authors is dean of global public health at NYU and a professor of biostats
"The authors do not agree with the retraction." I wonder why?
publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/melo...
ADA censors scientists at their own conference on Friday
2 (maybe more) board members resign by Monday
It shows scientists in solidarity with each other 👏🏻
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
New CDC MMWR on Ebola risk:
"To help reduce the risk for continued spread ... ongoing collaboration between CDC and international partners and coordination among U.S. government agencies are essential"
Instead 'ongoing' should be 're-established and sustained'
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
I wouldn't be where I am professionally w/o AHRQ, which funded my postdoc at UCLA, where I began work toward Coverage Denied. In my latest Substack, I wrote on why Republicans' effort to eliminate AHRQ is so dangerous for patients and hobbles health policy training. open.substack.com/pub/miranday...
My story on America's regressive, new reality is now up @kffhealthnews.org (without a paywall) kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
www.propublica.org
This report describes the risk posed by the current Ebola outbreak to the general U.S. population.
The House of Representatives is at it again, working to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a proposed cut that is as misguided as it is dangerous.
My story on America's regressive, new reality is now up @kffhealthnews.org (without a paywall) kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
Alex Sundermann, DrPH
kffhealthnews.org
Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state’s outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventabl...
Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state’s outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventabl...
House Appropriations released its FY27 bill, again working to eliminate Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which it calls "duplicative." My friend/colleague @sundermannaj.bsky.social & I wrote on AHRQ's necessity. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
appropriations.house.gov
Miranda Yaver
Amy Maxmen, PhD
Amy Maxmen, PhD
Miranda Yaver
Fallout continues from the ADA's decision to forcibly expel five diabetes experts from its annual meeting in New Orleans for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal cuts to biomedical research. Liz Cooney has the latest:
www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/a...
www.statnews.com
The condemnations keep coming after five diabetes experts were escorted out of an ADA meeting for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal research cuts.
How do you persuade people they need to take #Ebola seriously when more in their midst are dying from other diseases & armed conflict? That is the challenge #WHO DG Tedros confronted when he visited the outbreak zone in DRC this week. “Ebola is a lesser evil." www.statnews.com/2026/06/13/w...
The director-general of the World Health Organization is profoundly worried about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, he told STAT in an interview.
I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again.
Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed.
🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...
I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again.
Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed.
🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...
www.wired.com
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
A 2010 paper that linked hepatitis B vaccines in infant boys to an increased risk of autism diagnosis was retracted and another study by the same authors is under investigation.
Read more at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/121745
