My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.
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The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-mandate-ban-reporter-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #Idaho #Vaccines #Health #Medicine #PublicHealth #Measles

It’s a promising medical discovery that could help researchers fight cancer. New research published in the journal “Nature” found that patients with some forms of advanced cancer who received a COVID mRNA vaccine lived significantly longer than those who didn’t. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Christiano Marconi, cancer researcher at the University of Florida.
#mRNA #vaccines #cancer #health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRFPeOlGSU

It’s a promising medical discovery that could help researchers fight cancer. New research published in the journal “Nature” found that patients with some forms of advanced cancer who received a COVID mRNA vaccine lived significantly longer than those who didn’t. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Christiano Marconi, cancer researcher at the University of Florida.
#mRNA #vaccines #cancer #health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRFPeOlGSU

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Idaho #Vaccines #Health

A reminder that the #Covid #pandemic isn't over. Thousands are still infected & hospitalized every year. Deaths aren't the only possibility - millions are facing long-term disability from " #LongCovid", including #children. #Vaccines, #cleanair filtration, #respirator masks, & more help keep us safe.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist

A reminder that the #Covid #pandemic isn't over. Thousands are still infected & hospitalized every year. Deaths aren't the only possibility - millions are facing long-term disability from " #LongCovid", including #children. #Vaccines, #cleanair filtration, #respirator masks, & more help keep us safe.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist

#RFKJr fires top #NIH scientist weeks after she files #whistleblower complaint

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump admin’s #hostility toward #vaccines

The US * #health* secretary, RFKJr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of #Health (NIH) just 3 weeks after she had filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump admin relating to its hostility towards vaccines, according to a report.

#science #medicine #OrchestratedShutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/rfk-jr-jeanne-marrazzo-nih-fired

#RFKJr fires top #NIH scientist weeks after she files #whistleblower complaint

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump admin’s #hostility toward #vaccines

The US * #health* secretary, RFKJr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of #Health (NIH) just 3 weeks after she had filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump admin relating to its hostility towards vaccines, according to a report.

#science #medicine #OrchestratedShutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/rfk-jr-jeanne-marrazzo-nih-fired

A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines!

- A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial
- Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain
- News on progress with the Covid infection studies laying the groundwork for testing mucosal vax in human challenge studies

Plus more clinical results for self-amplifying mRNA vax & fascinating pandemic preparedness news from Singapore

Nextgen Covid vax update @PLOS https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/30/the-35th-mucosal-covid-vaccine-in-clinical-trial-an-intranasal-self-amplifying-mrna-vax-and-more-nextgen-vaccine-update-33/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines!

- A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial
- Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain
- News on progress with the Covid infection studies laying the groundwork for testing mucosal vax in human challenge studies

Plus more clinical results for self-amplifying mRNA vax & fascinating pandemic preparedness news from Singapore

Nextgen Covid vax update @PLOS https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/30/the-35th-mucosal-covid-vaccine-in-clinical-trial-an-intranasal-self-amplifying-mrna-vax-and-more-nextgen-vaccine-update-33/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

"Writing in the Lancet medical journal in July, Heidi Larson, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, identified the US as the origin of so much of the 'pandemic of misinformation' and 'fringe narratives' that caused controversy during the Covid pandemic and appear to have gained even more traction since."

~ Denis Campbell

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #disinformation #science #medicine #Covid #pandemic
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/27/dont-trust-trump-how-uk-health-experts-fighting-back-war-medicine

"For example, from 2019to 2021 the US acted as 'a major exporter of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation, with American accounts disproportionately represented as central hubs in global misinformation networks', she said. That influenced behaviour in countries as far away as Nigeria, Ghana and Bulgaria, contributing to reduced uptake of Covid and childhood vaccines."

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #disinformation #science #medicine #Covid #pandemic
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Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared

Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism

He encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain

He praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines

These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community.

My latest looks at the threat to our lives, as well as how we can support one another.

We must not give up hope, but we need our non disabled allies to fight with us.

Refuse to see us as expendable and help us demand better:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big-autism-announcement-and

#uspol #autism #eugenics #disability #fascism #maha #rfkjr #tylenol
#vaccines #ableism

"As a result, organisations such as the WHO and Gavi, the vaccines alliance, in their day-to-day work promoting vaccines 'are increasingly confronted by vaccine hesitancy grounded in exported disinformation, much of it directly traceable to American political discourse and media,' Larson said."

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #disinformation #science #medicine #Covid #pandemic
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"For example, from 2019to 2021 the US acted as 'a major exporter of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation, with American accounts disproportionately represented as central hubs in global misinformation networks', she said. That influenced behaviour in countries as far away as Nigeria, Ghana and Bulgaria, contributing to reduced uptake of Covid and childhood vaccines."

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #disinformation #science #medicine #Covid #pandemic
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"Writing in the Lancet medical journal in July, Heidi Larson, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, identified the US as the origin of so much of the 'pandemic of misinformation' and 'fringe narratives' that caused controversy during the Covid pandemic and appear to have gained even more traction since."

~ Denis Campbell

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #disinformation #science #medicine #Covid #pandemic
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/27/dont-trust-trump-how-uk-health-experts-fighting-back-war-medicine

if you look back at the data, 250 years ago, 40% of kids never made it to adulthood. Today, it’s 4%. The majority of that decrease is due to vaccines. Vaccines have saved more lives than any other type of medical intervention, including antibiotics, including everything. Vaccines have saved an enormous number of lives.

—Drew Weissman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines.

Argument against #antivaxxers.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/drew-weissman-nobel-prize-mrna-covid-vaccines-rebuts-retsef-levi-claims/?utm_campaign=rss

#BoostingIsSharing

#vaccines #covid #COVID19 #health #Medicine #media

#Vaccines