BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
Black mothers in America face disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity. We must do more to ensure access to affordable, quality care. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek
April 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Black mothers in America face disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity. We must do more to ensure access to affordable, quality care. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek
Make Childhood Morbidity Great Again!
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Make Childhood Morbidity Great Again!
Of course he is.
Anything to deny the actual causes of childhood morbidity and mortality.
Like preventable diseases, gun violence, and suicide.
Anything to deny the actual causes of childhood morbidity and mortality.
Like preventable diseases, gun violence, and suicide.
September 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Of course he is.
Anything to deny the actual causes of childhood morbidity and mortality.
Like preventable diseases, gun violence, and suicide.
Anything to deny the actual causes of childhood morbidity and mortality.
Like preventable diseases, gun violence, and suicide.
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Until today.
January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Until today.
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Guess what? Pain relief during labor via epidural is linked to a 35% reduction in severe maternal morbidity compared to unmedicated childbirth. Both during and after childbirth.
Epidurals are good, actually!
www.bmj.com/content/385/...
Epidurals are good, actually!
www.bmj.com/content/385/...
Epidural analgesia during labour and severe maternal morbidity: population based study
Objectives To determine the effect of labour epidural on severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and to explore whether this effect might be greater in women with a medical indication for epidural analgesia d...
www.bmj.com
May 25, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Guess what? Pain relief during labor via epidural is linked to a 35% reduction in severe maternal morbidity compared to unmedicated childbirth. Both during and after childbirth.
Epidurals are good, actually!
www.bmj.com/content/385/...
Epidurals are good, actually!
www.bmj.com/content/385/...
Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan.
The US has the largest morbidity gap.
Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The US has the largest morbidity gap.
Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan.
The US has the largest morbidity gap.
Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The US has the largest morbidity gap.
Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
<Trump voice> The morbidity is enormous. It's the best morbidity you can get. It's amazing.
July 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
<Trump voice> The morbidity is enormous. It's the best morbidity you can get. It's amazing.
The headline finding: psychiatric morbidity skyrocketed among adolescents who got medical gender reassignment. 9.8% → 60.7% in one group. Sounds devastating. But the authors bury a critical fact: severe psychiatric morbidity was a contra-indication for treatment in Finland.
April 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
The headline finding: psychiatric morbidity skyrocketed among adolescents who got medical gender reassignment. 9.8% → 60.7% in one group. Sounds devastating. But the authors bury a critical fact: severe psychiatric morbidity was a contra-indication for treatment in Finland.
It’s a good morning for death metal
September 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
It’s a good morning for death metal
Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.
October 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.
"Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 [air pollution] fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people."
In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...
How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years
With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
reasonstobecheerful.world
March 20, 2024 at 3:16 AM
"Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 [air pollution] fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people."
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
Pathological oppositional defiance, sociopathy, and sadism is refusing to allow a vaccine booster for a vaccine that saved millions upon millions of lives and that reduces morbidity.
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Pathological oppositional defiance, sociopathy, and sadism is refusing to allow a vaccine booster for a vaccine that saved millions upon millions of lives and that reduces morbidity.
Great news, everyone, the Mortality and Morbidity people got fired
We're all going to live forever
We're all going to live forever
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Great news, everyone, the Mortality and Morbidity people got fired
We're all going to live forever
We're all going to live forever
The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
You know how the Trump admin blocked publication of the CDC's weekly morbidity and mortality report, which until now had been released every single week since 1952?
Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Trump Administration’s Halt of CDC’s Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies - KFF Health News
An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.
kffhealthnews.org
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
You know how the Trump admin blocked publication of the CDC's weekly morbidity and mortality report, which until now had been released every single week since 1952?
Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
February 23, 2026 at 2:39 PM
And, to be absolutely clear, the burden of maternal morbidity and mortality among Black birthing people is a racist disparity borne of a racist society, and not an outcome of some trait 'innate' to Black people.
February 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
And, to be absolutely clear, the burden of maternal morbidity and mortality among Black birthing people is a racist disparity borne of a racist society, and not an outcome of some trait 'innate' to Black people.
In terms of aggregate mortality / morbidity / destruction, yes.
August 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM
In terms of aggregate mortality / morbidity / destruction, yes.