Mun-Keat Looi

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International News & Features Editor @bmj.com
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 12h

Polarisation in medicine: how can we better engage with people who disagree with us? buff.ly/yIvtfAs

Polarisation in medicine: how can we better engage with people who disagree with us?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.

This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.

Subject: Deaths in children due to COVID-19 vaccines and CBER’s path forward

Dear Team CBER,

I am writing to report that OBPV career staff have found that at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination. These deaths arerelated to vaccination (likely/probable/possible attribution made by staff). That number is certainly an underestimate due to underreporting, and inherent bias in attribution.

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For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children. Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death. In many cases, such mandates were harmful. It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines.

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Putting these facts together, it is horrifying to consider that the US vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved. This requires humility and introspection.

Vinay Prasad MD MPH
CBER Director, CMSO US FDA

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 1d

Gender affirming care for minors fails medical standards, US government report says buff.ly/RQlx7TM

Gender affirming care for minors fails medical standards, US government report says

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

Study shows AI Ttool reduces polaeisation on X ground.news/article/stud...

Study: AI Tool Reduces Political Polarization on X

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Stanford, the University of Washington, Johns Hopkins, and Northeastern universities have developed a browser extension that uses AI to detect and reorder ...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

Will Americans ever be able to afford weight loss drugs? buff.ly/4zWKjFz

Will Americans ever be able to afford weight loss drugs?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 4d

Fluoride in drinking water does not negatively affect cognitive ability, US study finds buff.ly/5K81c0e

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 4d

HPV vaccine safe and reduces risk of cervical cancer, anti-misinformation review finds buff.ly/dTcRV57

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 4d

Whooping cough surges in US as vaccination rates fall buff.ly/baTCtnY

Whooping cough surges in US as vaccination rates fall

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Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller , and 3 more Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Mun-Keat Looi

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.

The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.

They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

Vaccines.gov
CDC
The functionality of this website may be impacted while it is being updated.
Find a pharmacy near you.
Enter 5-digit ZIP code
10001
Search
Please enter a valid 5-digit ZIP Code

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Adolescence lasts into 30s - new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Certainly explains my life

Four pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study

Brain scans on thousands of people reveal the dramatic shifts the brain goes through between birth and death.

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Reposted by Alan Richardson

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall

World leaders pledge just over $11bn, short of the $18bn experts say is needed to stay on track to tackle challenges

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban, Pinterest exempted | TechCrunch buff.ly/d9fK7GL

Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban, Pinterest exempted | TechCrunch

Australia’s internet watchdog has added Twitch to the list of social media sites banned under its Social Media Minimum Age rules, effective December 10.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

China and South Korea To Curb Influence "Without Expertise" wersm.com/china-and-so...

China and South Korea To Curb Influence "Without Expertise"

Influencers have become key players in political and cultural discourse. Now China and South Korea are saying they must be qualified.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling

Policy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

CDC to end all monkey research buff.ly/OudLxcW

Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Declaration HHS – #117, Att. #4 in American Federation of Government Employees, AFL CIO v. United States Office of Management and Budget (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-08302) – CourtListener.com buff.ly/MulkZlA

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Nearly a billion women face domestic or sexual violence, report finds buff.ly/3koukzb

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Man in first ever human case of H5N5 avian flu dies buff.ly/pYAYxIu

Man in first ever human case of H5N5 avian flu dies

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Will the new FDA fix the old FDA? buff.ly/T1RiBgF

Will the new FDA fix the old FDA?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Government accused of “weaponising” antisemitism to silence doctors on Gaza buff.ly/YysV2z6

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

CDC website altered to suggest possible link between vaccines and autism buff.ly/GUbJGZz

CDC website altered to suggest possible link between vaccines and autism

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in society could drive more foreign doctors away from a “less welcoming” UK, the General Medical Council warns.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 8d

Top FDA drug regulator Richard Pazdur, who assumed his new role this month, has warned that new Trump administration initiatives to expedite approvals could be illegal and pose a risk to public health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...