Melody Schreiber

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Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.

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SCOOP: The CDC told state and local health programs that they have to align with the agency's new priorities -- including a move away from proven overdose prevention and a greater focus on "parental authority" in education.

They got five days to align. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comWhite House mandates move away from overdose prevention in US health programsExperts say move signals greater political interference into public health and will exacerbate opioid overdose crisis
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Notably, this study wouldn't even be on safety and efficacy. It's looking at overall mortality, as well as secondary outcomes like skin conditions and neurodevelopmental conditions

@carlbergstrom.comReposted by @melodyschreiber.com

As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

Use of Placebo The benefits, risks, burdens, and effectiveness of a new intervention must be tested against those of the best proven intervention(s), except in the following circumstances: If no proven intervention exists, the use of placebo, or no intervention, is acceptable; or If for compelling and scientifically sound methodological reasons the use of any intervention other than the best proven one(s), the use of placebo, or no intervention is necessary to determine the efficacy or safety of an intervention; and the participants who receive any intervention other than the best proven one(s), placebo, or no intervention will not be subject to additional risks of serious or irreversible harm as a result of not receiving the best proven intervention. Extreme care must be taken to avoid abuse of this option.
@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.socialReposted by @melodyschreiber.com

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

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