American Healthcare continues to go backward
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Stillwater Townie
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It implies that about everybody has worms. I doubt that, but do wonder if Trump supporters have worms in their heads
Appeal to popularity.
Thalidomide was a very popular drug for morning sickness. So popular that people in the US, where it was never approved, were importing it from Canada.
There is not a single shred of clinical evidence that ivermectin is effective as an antiviral.
People see this as “sticking it to big pharma”. But ivermectin, the base compound, is manufactured by Merck, Mylan, and Teva, IOW, big pharma. Generic manufacturers have to get the base compound from someone who makes it.
IOW, it’s stupid.
There was one reviewer at the FDA who held it up because she knew a similar compound had caused birth defects in animals.
If a bunch of people quit the CDC it would only allow JFK Jr to replace them with who he wants. They need to STFU and ride it out.
What if ethically they can't do it anymore? Just speculation but if you were told fabricate data or Im going to find a way to fire you for cause and do everything I can to wreck your career, what's your next step? You can say that I can't do that but I just forced your director out because they didn't align with my political ideology which is more important to me than actual data. You know now that I can make your life a living hell and there are higher paying jobs out there than government work.
Its happened all across the federal workforce-this administration cares more about loyalty than ability to perform. The CDC is no different than a million other government agencies in this regard.
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I'm a healthcare ethics consultant for the medical center, one of only two (and I don't know of another pharmacist in the VA that serves as an HEC, it's certainly rare). I am pursuing certification as an HEC and was thinking about making ethics my gig when I retire. However, the administration has gutted the ethics hierarchy. While they haven't eliminated the pathway to certification, they've definitely made it uncertain - if I take the certification exam and pass I don't know if the VA will now recognize the certification or if they will reimburse me for it (as they do most certifications). There has been no strategic initiative that has been communicated to anyone, no one has given us a reason why ethics has been gutted, though I have my suspicions. To say that I am discouraged is to put it mildly. I've thought about quitting that part of my job, I do not get paid extra to serve as an HEC, it is service to the medical center. But, in the end, the ethical thing for me to do is to keep doing it. Stopping helping other healthcare professionals work through their ethical conflicts would do more harm than good.
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Good luck on the test. Whether or not you pass or fail their test, I’ve always considered you certifiable.
Just couldn’t resist 
Polds4OSU
Marshall
A lead CDC official who resigned said Kennedy’s team asked him to “change studies that have been settled in the past” to fit anti-vax views. That’s not public health leadership—it’s malpractice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/bernie-sanders-robert-f-kennedy-jr-resign-hhs.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/bernie-sanders-robert-f-kennedy-jr-resign-hhs.htmlStillwater Townie
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Where does all this anti-vax nonsense come from and the desire to ban them. Maybe it comes from the tiny minority of people who have bad side effects after taking them. But then the anti-vaxxers don't advocate banning peanuts because a tiny minority of people have life threatening reactions after eating them.
I think alot of people see this as an opportunity to really stick it to everyone else (pun intended). There is a portion of the population that is ok suffering as long as other people suffer more.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
Ummmmmmm....ummmmmm....yeah don't take your medical advice from GOP senators ....THIS IS FALSE
This is the EXACT same rhetoric at the start of the AIDS epidemic...... remember when only Gay men could get AIDS
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
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DIFFERENT WAYS MONKEY POX CAN SPREAD
Monkeypox (mpox) is primarily spread through close, personal contact with an infected person, animal, or contaminated objects
. The virus can be spread by anyone from the time symptoms begin until the rash has fully healed.
Person-to-person spread
Human-to-human transmission occurs through direct contact with an infectious rash, scabs, or bodily fluids.
The virus can survive on objects, fabrics, and surfaces that have been used by an infected person and not disinfected. Transmission can occur from touching contaminated items, including:
In areas where mpox is endemic, the virus can spread from infected animals to humans through:
This is the EXACT same rhetoric at the start of the AIDS epidemic...... remember when only Gay men could get AIDS
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
www.threads.com
DIFFERENT WAYS MONKEY POX CAN SPREAD
Monkeypox (mpox) is primarily spread through close, personal contact with an infected person, animal, or contaminated objects
. The virus can be spread by anyone from the time symptoms begin until the rash has fully healed.
Person-to-person spread
Human-to-human transmission occurs through direct contact with an infectious rash, scabs, or bodily fluids.
- Direct contact: Skin-to-skin contact with the sores, scabs, and lesions of someone with mpox is the most common form of transmission. This includes intimate contact such as hugging, massaging, and kissing.
- Intimate and sexual contact: The virus often spreads during sexual contact, including oral, anal, or vaginal sex, or by touching the genitals or anus of a person with mpox. Sores in hard-to-see areas like the genitals, mouth, and anus can spread the virus during sex.
- Respiratory droplets: Prolonged, close face-to-face contact can lead to transmission through respiratory droplets. This requires extended periods of close proximity, unlike airborne spread over long distances.
- Mother to fetus: Pregnant people can pass the virus to their fetus through the placenta during pregnancy or to a newborn during birth.
The virus can survive on objects, fabrics, and surfaces that have been used by an infected person and not disinfected. Transmission can occur from touching contaminated items, including:
- Clothing, bedding, and towels
- Dishes and utensils
- Sex toys
In areas where mpox is endemic, the virus can spread from infected animals to humans through:
- Bites or scratches from an infected animal.
- Contact with an infected animal's bodily fluids or waste.
- Handling, trapping, or eating infected wild animals.
The vast majority of people do not have side effects from vaccines. Much of what you find people discussing on social media are post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
I know 2 people right now with it
Cases of COVID-19 are spiking in Texas as a new variant spreads across much of the U.S.
The surge is hitting Texas particularly hard. Nearly 18% of tests reported to the CDC from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana were positive for COVID.
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Cases of COVID-19 are spiking in Texas as a new variant spreads across much of the U.S.
The surge is hitting Texas particularly hard. Nearly 18% of tests reported to the CDC from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana were positive for COVID.
The Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) on Threads
Cases of COVID-19 are spiking in Texas as a new variant spreads across much of the U.S. The surge is hitting Texas particularly hard. Nearly 18% of tests reported to the CDC from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana were positive for COVID.
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Marshall
Breaking news: Florida will end vaccine requirements to attend school, making it the first state to do so. The state’s surgeon general said every vaccine mandate “drips with disdain and slavery.” https://wapo.st/46hO1WS
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