
Annie Sparrow
@annie_sparrow
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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https://www.anniesparrow.org 13-04-2011 05:12:17
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1000+ health-care workers have been killed in Gaza and 670 health facilities, ambulances & personnel attacked. The medical community has a moral/professional duty to speak out against these abuses, but only a quarter of US medical societies have done so. thelancet.com/journals/lance…



A vaccine expert resigns from the @CDC, saying she could no longer continue while the “health” secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States,” endangering all children. nytimes.com/2025/06/18/hea…

Twenty-five years after measles was officially declared eliminated from the United States, it has returned with a vengeance, thanks to anti-vaxxers like Trump’s “health” secretary. “About one in five unvaccinated people with measles will be hospitalized." nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/…



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/commentisfree/…



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/leaders/2025/0…





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/2025/07/04/opi…