Melody Schreiber
@melodyschreiber.com
Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
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Experts fear for US childhood vaccine schedule after hepatitis B guideline change
Pediatricians say panel’s decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn ‘parody of public health’
www.theguardian.com
NEW: The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
no one ever talks about the hidden costs of pregnancy (having to buy new shoes after your feet get bigger)
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
no one ever talks about the hidden costs of pregnancy (having to buy new shoes after your feet get bigger)
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It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
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After Rubio told Congress lifesaving aid programs were active, his advisors turned around and denied funding requests that would allow those same programs to operate. In South Sudan, that incapacitated the country’s health and sanitation system just as doctors were scrambling to contain cholera.
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
After Rubio told Congress lifesaving aid programs were active, his advisors turned around and denied funding requests that would allow those same programs to operate. In South Sudan, that incapacitated the country’s health and sanitation system just as doctors were scrambling to contain cholera.
Are you SERIOUS
"At Walmart, recalled products were found in stores across 21 states.
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula
The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Are you SERIOUS
This is so dangerous for people who use drugs
"Trump declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. The designation could have sweeping impacts on U.S. policy toward China as well as the Trump administration’s military buildup in the Western Hemisphere." www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction
The designation could have sweeping impacts on U.S. policy toward China as well as the Trump administration’s military buildup in the Western Hemisphere.
www.politico.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is so dangerous for people who use drugs
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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The HHS roundtable on Lyme disease has just kicked off.
RFK jr. opened the discussion by stating Lyme disease has greatly affected his own family, citing his and his sons' experience with the disease. "We have to make it safe for children to go back into the woods.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3il...
RFK jr. opened the discussion by stating Lyme disease has greatly affected his own family, citing his and his sons' experience with the disease. "We have to make it safe for children to go back into the woods.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3il...
Lyme Disease Roundtable
YouTube video by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The HHS roundtable on Lyme disease has just kicked off.
RFK jr. opened the discussion by stating Lyme disease has greatly affected his own family, citing his and his sons' experience with the disease. "We have to make it safe for children to go back into the woods.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3il...
RFK jr. opened the discussion by stating Lyme disease has greatly affected his own family, citing his and his sons' experience with the disease. "We have to make it safe for children to go back into the woods.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3il...
Great story by @lizszabo.bsky.social -- especially the point that immigration could become a new anti-vaccine talking point.
Racially charged language on mothers, babies taints vaccine advisory meeting
by @LizSzabo
Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
by @LizSzabo
Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Great story by @lizszabo.bsky.social -- especially the point that immigration could become a new anti-vaccine talking point.
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“It's terrifying for government appointees to describe immigrants this way,” said Dr. Flor Munoz about the recent ACIP meeting, in which committee members repeatedly tied hepatitis B to immigrants.
Racially charged language on mothers, babies taints vaccine advisory meeting
by @LizSzabo
Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
by @LizSzabo
Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“It's terrifying for government appointees to describe immigrants this way,” said Dr. Flor Munoz about the recent ACIP meeting, in which committee members repeatedly tied hepatitis B to immigrants.
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Fired, suspended, punished, disciplined, and this is not at all a complete list—Kirk fans identified thousands of people who expressed their views in an insufficiently respectful way and urged their employers to take action. We'll probably never know the true number. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people. Republican officials have end...
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fired, suspended, punished, disciplined, and this is not at all a complete list—Kirk fans identified thousands of people who expressed their views in an insufficiently respectful way and urged their employers to take action. We'll probably never know the true number. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Researchers hoped they had finally found a way to get gene therapies past the blood-brain barrier. Then the first patient died. www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/g...
Child’s sudden death unnerves a promising area of gene therapy research
Researchers hoped they had finally found a way to get gene therapies past the blood-brain barrier. Then the first patient died.
www.statnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Researchers hoped they had finally found a way to get gene therapies past the blood-brain barrier. Then the first patient died. www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/g...
True of all things!
There are SO MANY other ways to effectively fight the the fucking right than screaming into the social media void and making yourself feel as awful as these dickheads actually are. They want to exhaust you here so you feel helpless everywhere else. Fuck them. Conserve your joy, online and off.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
True of all things!
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There are SO MANY other ways to effectively fight the the fucking right than screaming into the social media void and making yourself feel as awful as these dickheads actually are. They want to exhaust you here so you feel helpless everywhere else. Fuck them. Conserve your joy, online and off.
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There are SO MANY other ways to effectively fight the the fucking right than screaming into the social media void and making yourself feel as awful as these dickheads actually are. They want to exhaust you here so you feel helpless everywhere else. Fuck them. Conserve your joy, online and off.
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Updated 2024-25 COVID #vaccine cut emergency visits among kids, study suggests
The findings draw on data from more than 98,000 pediatric cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The findings draw on data from more than 98,000 pediatric cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Updated 2024-25 COVID #vaccine cut emergency visits among kids, study suggests
The findings draw on data from more than 98,000 pediatric cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The findings draw on data from more than 98,000 pediatric cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“
Texas is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using the DMV to help.
A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list fo...
www.kut.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
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New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ICE is tracking pregnant women all the way to the delivery room: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labour and delivery
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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🚨The person of interest in the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin.
My Signal is 202-412-9091 if you know more about him or what happened in Providence.
News, with @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
My Signal is 202-412-9091 if you know more about him or what happened in Providence.
News, with @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Live updates: Officials identify person of interest as 24-year-old from Wisconsin
Police have a person of interest in custody, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said, after a gunman killed two and injured nine others at Brown University.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🚨The person of interest in the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin.
My Signal is 202-412-9091 if you know more about him or what happened in Providence.
News, with @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
My Signal is 202-412-9091 if you know more about him or what happened in Providence.
News, with @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
One thing I haven't figured out is why so many people in the alternative wellness space are obsessed with supplement shots and IVs
I can literally think of nothing worse than every word used to describe this new private members club (it’s not even the one you think)
www.ft.com/content/6aad...
www.ft.com/content/6aad...
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
One thing I haven't figured out is why so many people in the alternative wellness space are obsessed with supplement shots and IVs
This is superb, sobering journalism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...
They Answered an Ad for Surrogates, and Found Themselves in a Nightmare
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is superb, sobering journalism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...
what if you have two uteruses
December 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
what if you have two uteruses