Lisa Jarvis
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social
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Chicago-based health & science columnist for Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bsky.social. Writing about public health, medicine, emerging technologies (Crispr!), biotech & pharma. opinions=mine, She/her. Signal: lisajarvis.77
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Case in point: staff of Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, #CDC's critical information tool. Most MMWR staff were informed Friday they'd been RIF'd, leaving it unclear what the future of the publication would be. It appears these firings have been rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication reversed hours later
Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication have been reversed hours later.
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lenasun.bsky.social
The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4
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lisamjarvis.bsky.social
This piece made possible by the detailed data and analysis in CDC's MMWR reports, the staff of which was reportedly laid off in last night's purge...
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Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last
Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...
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lisamjarvis.bsky.social
This piece made possible by the detailed data and analysis in CDC's MMWR reports, the staff of which was reportedly laid off in last night's purge...
lisamjarvis.bsky.social
Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last
Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...
www.bloomberg.com
lisamjarvis.bsky.social
Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last
Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...
www.bloomberg.com
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sherylnyt.bsky.social
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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W/today's Trump/AZ deal, sharing my still-relevant earlier @opinion.bloomberg.com column on the Trump/Pfizer drug pricing deal. As @dusetzinas.bsky.social told me then, the details really matter & seems possible we'll never get them--and never know if these deals are mainly good for pharma. 🎁link:
The White House’s Drug Plan Has Some Convenient Blind Spots
There couldn’t be a more pressing or galvanizing topic for Americans than the high cost of prescription drugs. And after months of blustery talk from President Donald Trump about lowering prices and c...
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I have a piece coming out this weekend that uses data from at least 4 recent MMWRs. That’s not unusual, btw, that’s how essential those CDC reports are for tracking things flu, RSV, maternal mortality…
sherylnyt.bsky.social
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:
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sherylnyt.bsky.social
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:
lisamjarvis.bsky.social
W/today's Trump/AZ deal, sharing my still-relevant earlier @opinion.bloomberg.com column on the Trump/Pfizer drug pricing deal. As @dusetzinas.bsky.social told me then, the details really matter & seems possible we'll never get them--and never know if these deals are mainly good for pharma. 🎁link:
The White House’s Drug Plan Has Some Convenient Blind Spots
There couldn’t be a more pressing or galvanizing topic for Americans than the high cost of prescription drugs. And after months of blustery talk from President Donald Trump about lowering prices and c...
www.bloomberg.com
lisamjarvis.bsky.social
Unsurprisingly, that curious % isn't in the AZ press release, which says "AstraZeneca will provide Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) sales to eligible patients with prescriptions for chronic diseases at a discount of up to 80% off list prices"
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"As of the end of August, preliminary data from the CPD shows 278 homicides so far this year, down by a nearly a third on the same period last year."
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.

Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?

- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans

Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0

www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org
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franciswilkinson.bsky.social
“People talk a lot about ‘can you get a deal with Trump?’,” said Gerald Butts. “As someone who spent a lot of time trying to do that … the … question is, ‘Is a deal even possible with a person who does not believe in the dictionary definition of the word deal?’” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?
Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.
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lisamjarvis.bsky.social
Yes, we were all (amazingly, wonderfully) vacationing off the grid then!
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Thankful for this excellent nonprofit local newsroom documenting the chilling events unfolding in my city this week.
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The Block Club Chicago newsroom continues to report on today’s federal immigration activity across Chicago.

If you have footage of agent activity you filmed, please reach out via this website:
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Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park Ald. Jessie Fuentes as she confronted them at a hospital. blockclubchi.co/3Wkje5V