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Jessica Nix
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Scoop! CDC is asking its workforce to volunteer to assist with Ebola screenings in airports in the latest turn of response efforts. The agency has lost at least a quarter of its staff in the past year. Gift link for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
When measles comes to town, some vaccine hesitant parents are changing their minds about the MMR.
“What are we doing? Why are we doing this?” one mom told me. “I wanted to protect my kids.” Gift link! @bloomberg.com
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A paranoid leader, staff clashes and industry backlash. Inside Marty Makary's FDA. One high-profile misstep could put his job at risk, but there are attempts to right the ship.
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The world built up preparedness efforts after the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Now, the system is being tested again after global health funding has been rolled back. Gift link for our @bloomberg.com Big Take today. With Jason Gale:
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FREE LINK for this SCOOP > The CDC is asking its workforce to volunteer as Ebola testers at US airports. @jessicanix.bsky.social has the details > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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FREE LINK > HHS now plans to bar green-card holders from the US if they’ve traveled recently to Ebola-affected areas.
John Tozzi and @jessicanix.bsky.social have the story >
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FREE LINK > As Ebola began to spread in Africa one group was missing from emergency meetings -- the US government.
@jessicanix.bsky.social and @annikainampudi.bsky.social trace what the USAID pullback has meant for vulnerable communities
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After hours of testifying on the Hill, RFK Jr. finally couldn't hold back on vaccines. He had a pointed exchange with Senator Bill Cassidy, incorrectly claiming the shots didn't help slash the US mortality rate
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Great piece from @jessicanix.bsky.social on the parents coming around to vaccines amid the measles outbreak--and how physicians are gently guiding them:
FREE LINK > In a lovely, sympathetic piece, @jessicanix.bsky.social talked to anti-vaxxers who changed their minds about the measles shot as the disease closed in on their families.
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A strain with no known treatment or vaccine is spreading fast, and the international system built to contain outbreaks is in crisis.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking volunteers from its workforce to go to domestic airports and help screen for Ebola as the deadly viral outbreak in the Democratic Republic ...
Enough parents are quietly embracing the MMR that it’s helping to slow the outbreaks.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking volunteers from its workforce to go to domestic airports and help screen for Ebola as the deadly viral outbreak in the Democratic Republic ...
US health authorities said they plan to bar lawful permanent residents of the country from reentering if they’ve traveled recently to Ebola-affected areas in a new rule published Friday.
Enough parents are quietly embracing the MMR that it’s helping to slow the outbreaks.
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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was challenged by Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in a congressional hearing after incorrectly claiming that a study showed vaccines didn’t...
