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Lots of misreporting that the Trump administration is backtracking on *visas* issued to foreign students. In fact, the reversal today has nothing to do with visas. The administration instead is restoring records for foreign students maintained in an ICE database called SEVIS,

Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported so far in 2025, according to preliminary data from the CDC. That’s twice as many cases as this time last year. apnews.com/article/whoopi…

Honored my VANITY FAIR story Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response won 1st place in Association of Health Care Journalists awards in public health category; my story Shots in the Dark on fake Ozempic got 3rd place in investigative. Both had 1 great thing in common: editor Mike Hogan healthjournalism.org/contest-entry/

HHS Sec. RFK Jr. plans to require placebo-controlled trials for all new vaccines, apparently even for well-known diseases like measles. This could delay access to lifesaving vaccines, undermine trust, ignore decades of scientific and ethical standards and put lives at risk.

Thank you rt hon Sir Desmond Swayne TD MP for raising Alaa's case in yesterday's debate. Alaa's family are still waiting to hear news of progress following Prime Minister Starmer's call with Sisi over two months ago. #freealaa

🚨🚨🚨Scoop: Stephen Miller emerges as top contender for Trump's next national security adviser axios.com/2025/05/02/ste…

Dr. Angela Rasmussen Rebecc@ ███████ Loofymectin aka Jan Masleid Richard H. Ebright Jay Bhattacharya DNI Tulsi Gabbard The Megyn Kelly Show Megyn Kelly NIH Rand Paul HSGAC GOP Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic OIG at HHS NIAID News NIH Office of Science Policy Secretary Kennedy AAAS Might be time for @USask to provide training to Dr. Angela Rasmussen on perils of making defamatory and actionable statements on X. The article she cites even provides a link to this photo of a literal lab leak at USAMRIID.

SCOOP: The Signal clone used by Trump admin that Mike Waltz was seen using in a cabinet meeting in has been hacked 404media.co/the-signal-clo…

“In this situation, the idea that a laboratorian would intentionally compromise a colleague’s protective suit, thus putting them at potential risk of infection with a deadly agent is unconscionable and incredibly serious.” forbes.com/sites/markkort…

Even when there is a literal lab leak, virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen insists it does not count as a lab leak because it’s a plumbing leak, not a pathogen leak. When informed nobody knows what was in the water, Rasmussen says it still doesn’t count if nobody was confirmed infected🤡

“At the Brink,” an New York Times Opinion series confronting the risk of nuclear war, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing. Read more here: nyti.ms/44oLlX6

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: propublica.org/series/life-of…

New video: Alaa's mother, Laila Soueif, has returned to Cairo to visit him prison.

Big win against a big bully. We have been through so much leading up to this but only a fraction of what countless victims of NSO's malicious mercenary services provided to ruthless autocrats and corrupt security agencies. Never Let Bullies Win

We’re losing Laila Soueif very soon if Alaa Abd El Fattah is not released. That’s the reality. As groups and individuals we have a very short window to act and get both egy and uk government to act NOW . Release Alaa and give this woman a chance to live.

The executive order signed on Monday was not a ban or moratorium on risky pathogen research with the potential to cause pandemics. It was a charge for OSTP and other agency heads to come up with a new policy & strategy for governing and tracking such research in under 180 days.

Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is about to rescind the chip export restrictions, and will choose not to enforce Biden's AI Diffusion Rule. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and NVIDIA have all lobbied heavily for these restrictions to be lifted.

Access to jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's account on X has been blocked in Turkey - the latest move against President Erdogan's key rival. Imamoglu was arrested in March on corruption charges, and nominated as his opposition CHP's presidential candidate while in custody.

Reminder that in 2018, Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance sought to mislead a federal funding agency. He wrote once they got the $, they would allocate the research differently, sending experiments to Wuhan. Policy on dangerous gain-of-function must be cognizant of bad actors.

That paper actually weakens the zoonosis hypothesis, since - according to its thesis - we should have seen a lot of recombinant viruses close to SARS-CoV-2 in many places in South East Asia and China. We have not. Recombination works very well in a research setting though.