Jon Cohen
@cohenjon.bsky.social
Staff writer at Science, specializing in infectious diseases and immunology. Vaccine history geek. Hate outbreaks, love covering them. Serious surf addiction, occasional contributor to the incomparable Surfer's Journal.
"It's as if it stopped raining, so why fix the roof?https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-dismantling-efforts-fight-next-pandemic
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic
A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"It's as if it stopped raining, so why fix the roof?https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-dismantling-efforts-fight-next-pandemic
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is poised to become one of the largest philanthropies supporting science, and it now is going "all in" on AI and biology to create a virtual immune system. I spoke with Chan and many of its scientists last week. www.science.org/content/arti...
AI drives dramatic expansion of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s funding to end all diseases
Entering its second decade, philanthropy with Facebook fortune has shed social causes and now focuses on ambitious science dream
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November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is poised to become one of the largest philanthropies supporting science, and it now is going "all in" on AI and biology to create a virtual immune system. I spoke with Chan and many of its scientists last week. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Vaccine Integrity Project @CIDRAP is conducting an independent review of the evidence supporting the long-standing recommendation for universal #HepatitisB vaccination at birth.
In Sept, CDC’s vaccine advisers tabled a vote on the birth dose and asked for more data.
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In Sept, CDC’s vaccine advisers tabled a vote on the birth dose and asked for more data.
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ACIP tables vote to delay hepatitis B vaccine birth dose
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November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Vaccine Integrity Project @CIDRAP is conducting an independent review of the evidence supporting the long-standing recommendation for universal #HepatitisB vaccination at birth.
In Sept, CDC’s vaccine advisers tabled a vote on the birth dose and asked for more data.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4sy3wwa7
In Sept, CDC’s vaccine advisers tabled a vote on the birth dose and asked for more data.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4sy3wwa7
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November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Genetically engineered pig kidney in Tim Andrews unfortunately failed after nearly 9 months, but he fortunately returned to dialysis and is doing well. www.science.org/content/arti...
Man’s pig kidney fails just shy of setting record
The xenotransplant, from a gene-edited pig, had survived for nearly 9 months in Tim Andrews
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October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Genetically engineered pig kidney in Tim Andrews unfortunately failed after nearly 9 months, but he fortunately returned to dialysis and is doing well. www.science.org/content/arti...
I'll be speaking today at Lewes Library Science and Society webcast talk at 4:45 EDT about my just released book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics. Registration required. delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/14650002
Science and Society | Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics
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Since Covid-19 swept the world, scientists have been grappling with an urgent issue: How do we prepare for the next pandemic—and at a time when science denial and...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'll be speaking today at Lewes Library Science and Society webcast talk at 4:45 EDT about my just released book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics. Registration required. delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/14650002
I'll be speaking about my book on Oct. 7 at Lewes Public Library's Science and Society Lecture, which is webcast: www.capegazette.com/article/scie...
Science and Society Lecture to address pandemic prevention Oct. 7
Lewes Public Library’s Science and Society Lecture Series will present Science magazine’s Jon Cohen for an online presentation based on his new book, "Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemic...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'll be speaking about my book on Oct. 7 at Lewes Public Library's Science and Society Lecture, which is webcast: www.capegazette.com/article/scie...
My book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics, comes out next week. It's not about flawed COVID responses. It's about scientific efforts to develop better vaccines, treatments, masks, surveillance--and to move more quickly...as one world.
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Planning Miracles by Jon Cohen: 9780593321225 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A groundbreaking book about the past, present, and future of pandemics, and a behind-the-scenes portrait of the intrepid and innovative community of scientists working tirelessly to stop the next one ...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics, comes out next week. It's not about flawed COVID responses. It's about scientific efforts to develop better vaccines, treatments, masks, surveillance--and to move more quickly...as one world.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690752...
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An ostrich flock, H5N1, culling policy, Canada’s Supreme Court, farmers, biotechs, hair growth and weight loss products, opponents of government overreach, animal rights activists, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, the Royal Mounted Canadian Police. Read all about it. www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada’s Supreme Court will decide fate of ostrich flock hit by bird flu
Farmers and supporters—including RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz—urge government to spare birds that survived H5N1 outbreak
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September 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
An ostrich flock, H5N1, culling policy, Canada’s Supreme Court, farmers, biotechs, hair growth and weight loss products, opponents of government overreach, animal rights activists, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, the Royal Mounted Canadian Police. Read all about it. www.science.org/content/arti...
To get full flavor of this remarkable collection and its remarkable backstory, read the links.
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After bizarre journey, prized history of molecular biology archive finds new home
Science History Institute makes public multimillion-dollar collection, including Rosalind Franklin’s famous DNA image, assembled by fake scientist
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September 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To get full flavor of this remarkable collection and its remarkable backstory, read the links.
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I took a close look at vaccine mandates in the wake of Florida's push to do away with them. www.science.org/content/arti...
Florida plans to nix vaccine mandates. How well do they work?
Abandoning long-standing vaccine requirements for schoolchildren could prompt bigger outbreaks, researchers warn
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September 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I took a close look at vaccine mandates in the wake of Florida's push to do away with them. www.science.org/content/arti...
David Baltimore, for much of the past three decades, has been one of my most helpful, thoughtful sources. I wrote an obit about his remarkable career, and I included a few of my interactions with him. www.science.org/content/arti...
Remembering David Baltimore, a titan who transformed biology and spoke bluntly
The influential Nobel laureate ran institutions, trained future scientific leaders, survived a scandal, and shaped policy
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September 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
David Baltimore, for much of the past three decades, has been one of my most helpful, thoughtful sources. I wrote an obit about his remarkable career, and I included a few of my interactions with him. www.science.org/content/arti...
I started research for this story, which came out today, more than a year ago. Thanks to all who stuck with me, and shared their thoughts. www.science.org/content/arti...
The last gift: How bodies donated for research may help find a cure for HIV
Pioneering project uses “rapid autopsies” to find virus hideouts in infected people
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September 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I started research for this story, which came out today, more than a year ago. Thanks to all who stuck with me, and shared their thoughts. www.science.org/content/arti...
OK, I was wrong. I thought the call for China to share more data was spotlighting the central problem--and common ground-- and that the other arguments were debatable but far less relevant. I, too, think intelligence communities should produce evidence and not simply reveal how they lean.
Not me, Jon 😉
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
OK, I was wrong. I thought the call for China to share more data was spotlighting the central problem--and common ground-- and that the other arguments were debatable but far less relevant. I, too, think intelligence communities should produce evidence and not simply reveal how they lean.
The rare opinion piece about the contentious origin of COVID pandemic that will find most everyone interested in this question nodding in agreement--everyone, that is, outside of government officials and compliant scientists in China. thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...
Why we still don’t know where COVID-19 came from. And why we need to find out.
Five years after COVID-19 emerged, killing millions, costing trillions, and disrupting global life, we still don’t have a definitive answer as to the origins of the pandemic and the virus. This contin...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The rare opinion piece about the contentious origin of COVID pandemic that will find most everyone interested in this question nodding in agreement--everyone, that is, outside of government officials and compliant scientists in China. thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...
Xenotransplantation of pig-to-human organs takes a small step forward with the first ever lung transplant. It's not a giant leap for mankind, but it adds to momentum the field has seen over the past year. www.science.org/content/arti...
In a first, pig lung survives and functions—briefly—in a person
Organ transplanted to brain-dead man lasts for more than a week before succumbing to an immune assault
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August 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Xenotransplantation of pig-to-human organs takes a small step forward with the first ever lung transplant. It's not a giant leap for mankind, but it adds to momentum the field has seen over the past year. www.science.org/content/arti...
Proposal calls for quintupling implementation science budget at NIH to make it 30% of portfolio, potentially cutting basic research driving treatment, vaccine, and cure studies. Lenacapavir PrEP triggered push for funding shift.
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NIH ponders overhauling HIV budget to capitalize on prevention breakthrough
Scientists warn $1 billion push for “implementation science” spurred by promise of lenacapavir will hurt research on new treatments and vaccines
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August 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Proposal calls for quintupling implementation science budget at NIH to make it 30% of portfolio, potentially cutting basic research driving treatment, vaccine, and cure studies. Lenacapavir PrEP triggered push for funding shift.
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@martinenserink.bsky.social delves into dilemmas Guinea is facing in malaria prevention/treatment of children because of U.S. government cuts in aid. Powerful story, photos, and graphics. This is the third in our series, generously supported by @pulitzercenter.org
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In Guinea, the United States helped beat back malaria. Now, the disease is set to soar
Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa
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August 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@martinenserink.bsky.social delves into dilemmas Guinea is facing in malaria prevention/treatment of children because of U.S. government cuts in aid. Powerful story, photos, and graphics. This is the third in our series, generously supported by @pulitzercenter.org
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A key spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives has signaled it sharply disagrees with President Donald Trump’s proposals to cut or totally eliminate funding for prominent global health programs.
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Trump’s plan to slash global health spending rejected by key spending panel
House of Representatives committee signals support for HIV/AIDS and other funding
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July 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A key spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives has signaled it sharply disagrees with President Donald Trump’s proposals to cut or totally eliminate funding for prominent global health programs.
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Barbie's New Pink Pumps
(The headline that didn't make it through the editing machine.)
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(The headline that didn't make it through the editing machine.)
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Meet the diabetes researcher behind Barbie’s new pink (insulin) pumps
New line of dolls aims to help children with type 1 diabetes feel more included
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July 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Barbie's New Pink Pumps
(The headline that didn't make it through the editing machine.)
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(The headline that didn't make it through the editing machine.)
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"Just remember this: If my purpose is to shine that beacon of hope, then by God, I'm happy to do that," says Loreen Willenberg. Strong evidence suggests she naturally cured HIV infection--and she's now beating lung and brain cancer.
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‘Something remarkable has happened’: Cancer treatments bolster evidence of a natural HIV cure
In exclusive chat with Science, Loreen Willenberg describes remaining HIV-free even after immune-suppressing therapies for brain and lung tumors
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July 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Just remember this: If my purpose is to shine that beacon of hope, then by God, I'm happy to do that," says Loreen Willenberg. Strong evidence suggests she naturally cured HIV infection--and she's now beating lung and brain cancer.
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