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It’s so horrible for the FDA to announce an updated COVID vaccine and at the exact same time the CDC end the program that provides them for free to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

“Limiting our health defense to just some threats would be like allowing our military to protect us from only some types of attack,” eight former CDC directors write. trib.al/A2ncGYF

HOT OFF THE PRESSES... "Ethical challenges associated with #pragmatic and #cluster #RCTs" in this week's NEJM Charles Weijer Schulich WesternU Arts & Humanities Monica Taljaard The Ottawa Hospital #researchethics #bioethics Read here (registration required): nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Denial: The Hidden Link Connecting Mpox, COVID-19, HIV/AIDS "This collective denial, fueled by misinformation and political ideology, allowed the virus to take root across the country." forbes.com/sites/robertpe…

For the first time, WHO offers recommendations for national health authorities, regulators, and funders to improve clinical trials. The guidance addresses issues like poor trial design, lack of diversity and inclusion of at-risk populations, infrastructure gaps, and

Medically assisted death law ‘forcing’ disabled people to believe dying is their only option, groups say in Charter challenge thestar.com/news/medically… via Toronto Star

Marginalized people, poor people, disabled people etc. are always the first to warn society about an impending crisis. And they are almost always ignored. Yet, when everything collapses, they are the first to be abandoned. This is an unacceptable moral injustice.

Opinion: Almost five years since the pandemic began, there is not a single FDA-approved treatment for long Covid trib.al/FDmiU76

Some insurers can refuse to cover Americans with risky DNA. As scientists’ understanding of the genome improves, a growing number of people may find themselves similarly targeted, ✨kvb✨ reports: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The global COVID-19 vaccination effort is estimated to have saved around 20 million lives — in just its first year.

New modeling study finds that if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn N95 or FFP2 masks from the start of the pandemic, the rate of COVID-19 transmission would have been 9 times lower.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a media briefing on 10 December 2024: "We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

Nice to see my publication from Health Affairs cited in The New York Times today! nytimes.com/2024/12/22/wel… Link to HA article referenced: healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

What happens in China never just stays in China. There is a surge in influenza A in the U.S. as well this winter. We rarely test whether the virus is conventional flu, or H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu. But the crowded ERs seen in many places are indications something is afoot.

NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world. The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.

BREAKING: Public Citizen on behalf of Doctors for America for the lawsuit against the admin around the removal of clinical information & data from CDC, FDA, and HHS webpages was granted a temporary restraining order - by 11:59 pm, the pages must be restored. citizen.org/news/judge-gra…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans. trib.al/22ceuaj

In his new Forefront article, Radheesh Ameresekere from Harvard Medical School discusses how the current Trump administration proposes to cut $56 billion from programs that increased access to naloxone—an overdose reversal medication that’s curtailed the nation’s overdose rates—signaling a shift

Policy should always be humanity first, and serve those most in need.