In #401 of “Do Not Resuscitate,” I describe RFK Jr’s pseudo-scientific circus on vaccines while Trump’s Big Brutal Bill slipped through to lay waste to the nation. The Trump budget provides billions for immigrant-chasing and prisons and tax cuts for billionaires, paid for with less healthcare. It’s official: America is now great! “An after-dinner mint? It’s wafer-thin.”
Here are the links to all the articles mentioned:
“Senate passes Trump’s tax bill with $1 trillion in health cuts,” Associated Press, Jul 1, 2025 https://bit.ly/4nt4Ch2
Alexander Bolton, “GOP leaders boost rural hospital fund, rewrite Medicaid provisions to save Trump megabill,” The Hill, Jun 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/46aRWFB
“RFK Jr. made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary,” Associated Press, Jun 27, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-vaccine-policies-promises-d1ad570053583d953f15ec3e566e426f
Meredith Wadman, “RFK Jr says federal vaccine advisers are beholden to industry. The evidence does not support him,” Science, Mar 7, 2025 https://www.science.org/content/article/rfk-jr-says-federal-vaccine-advisers-are-beholden-industry-evidence-does-not-support
Kristina Fiore, “Removed ACIP members say ‘U.S. vaccine program critically weakened,’” MedPage Today, Jun 16, 2025 https://bit.ly/469Nrer
Jess Steier et al., “Policy by tweet: How RFK Jr broke 60 years of vaccine decision-making process,” Unbiased Science, May 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/4lkmKbt
Maya Goldman, “RFK Jr. vaccine panel rolls back recommendation on certain flu shots,” Axios, Jun 26, 2025
Meg Tirrell, “Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative,” CNN Health, Jun 24, 2025 https://bit.ly/3TG7XMh
Meg Tirrell, “What to know about thimerosal, a target of RFK Jr.’s new CDC vaccine advisers,” CNN, Jun 25, 2025 https://bit.ly/4l9lacf
Brenda Goodman et al., “Unusual pushback, ‘dangerous precedent’: What the first meeting of Kennedy’s CDC advisers reveals about the future of vaccines in America,” CNN, Jun 27, 2025 https://bit.ly/4lyF00m
Jason Mast, “The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, empowered by RFK Jr., is just getting started,” STAT, Jun 26, 2025 https://bit.ly/40saUDK
Julie Appleby, “A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1400,” KFF Health News/Washington Post, Jun 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/3GoTFMO
Arthur Allen & Sam Whitehead, “Kennedy’s vaccine advisers sow doubts as scientists protest US pivot on shots,” KFF Health News, Jun 27, 2025 https://bit.ly/4ewhwqk
Erika Edwards, “Outside groups organize to form unbiased, independent vaccine panel,” NBC News, Jun 22, 2025 https://bit.ly/4lkWUny and Jen Brull et al., “We will not stay silent on vaccines, say leaders of five major U.S. medical associations,” STAT, Jun 26, 2025 https://bit.ly/4lzfRCT
“U.S. pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science,’” Associated Press, Jun 26, 2025 https://bit.ly/400NKnS
KLG, “Trust in science, public health, and politics: Lessons from Covid-19,” Naked Capitalism, Jul 2, 2025 https://bit.ly/4nvTL65
Jeremy Roebuck & Dan Diamond, “11 Eastern Europeans charged in $10.6 billion Medicare fraud scheme,” Washington Post, Jun 26, 2025 https://archive.ph/0kU6x#selection-257.0-663.14
Sherry Glied & Richard G. Frank, “Trump Administration’s HHS cuts: Creating waste and inefficiency, not eliminating them,” Health Affairs, April 21, 2025 https://bit.ly/3IbJRpZ
Jessica Lussenhop, “A doctor challenged the opinion of a powerful child abuse specialist. Then he lost his job,” ProPublica, Jun 30, 2025 https://archive.ph/73uA
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