Jake Scott, MD

NEW @nejm.org: We synthesized 511 recent studies on Covid-19, RSV & flu vaccines for 2025-26. With federal advisory processes disrupted, clinicians & the public need rigorous, independent evidence synthesis. Here's what we found: 🧵 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

One of the infectious disease physicians who I always read, & whose views/guidance I trust the most, is @jakescottmd.bsky.social This is a superb Op-Ed, laying out how RFK Jr’s latest vaccine injury initiative is designed to DISTORT data on vaccines—he’s collecting biased data to fit his opinions

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

As WV lawyers fight against RFK Jr. ally Aaron Siri, Sec Kennedy promises to "be helpful" to legal allies aiming to take down vaccination laws. Interviews w/ over 70 sources/internal HHS emails, memos, texts, meeting records. @jakescottmd.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social @vinguptamd.bsky.social /2

EXCLUSIVE @rollingstone.com months-long reporting project: On The Front Lines of the Vaccine Wars. Inside a West Virginia courtroom battle, one of US' most effective vaccine laws hangs in balance: “Potentially as earth shaking as reversal of Roe [v. Wade].” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1

Important reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com on Aaron Siri’s efforts to undermine childhood vaccination & his extraordinary influence inside HHS. I spoke w/ her about how he misrepresents the clinical trial evidence. Well worth reading www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters A decision on whether to recommend just 1 dose needs to rest on solid evidence. Full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4hXLkj6 📷: Heather Hazzan / Self magazine

My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters. The evidence for one dose is strong in girls; uncertainties remain, especially in boys. The biggest problem is still the kids who never get a 1st dose. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in. by Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/4ixhfYw

CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in. The people with the most to say, the pediatricians, pharmacists, & obstetric nurses, are the ones least likely to know they can say it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4xDZsTu

HHSGov is taking public comments on how it labels childhood vaccine recommendations. It closes Sunday. Most of the people with something to say don't know they can. I wrote about it for @cidrap.bsky.social. Please share. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: ‘Died with, not from’ was a COVID problem. It’s the wrong framework for measles. A Lancaster County family lost a newborn and then heard the HHS secretary suggest their child's death might have been invented. They deserve better. @jakescottmd.bsky.social Op-Ed: https://bit.ly/4xB0dx3

Pennsylvania reported two measles deaths. RFK Jr. called them possibly fabricated. CDC pulled them from the count. I wrote for @cidrap.bsky.social on why “died with, not from” doesn’t work for measles. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...

Exclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate. Stellar reporting by @bymichellersmith.com based on documents obtained by @theguardian.com and @apnews.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Lots of lies being spread by RFK Jr about the MMR vaccine, even as the US struggles to contain the worst measles outbreak in decades. I go into depth about MMR myths in this @cidrap.bsky.social piece. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: What a package insert actually says, & how it was turned against vaccines One approach to sowing mistrust in vaccines is to read a package insert aloud & present every event it lists as a proven harm, which is highly misleading. https://bit.ly/3SdVMsV @jakescottmd.bsky.social

I have to say: I wish more folks on this site were still on X to help fight all the rampant lies about vaccines. I know Musk is terrible and the site can be hellacious, but still.

"If you set out to write a policy that confuses people, it would look a lot like this one." Excellent reporting by @willgottsegen.com @theatlantic.com on the vaccine executive order. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“This is one of the most studied interventions that we do in pregnancy" quoting Dr. Hughes in this article. The TL;DR version is that vaccines don't cause miscarriages. And there's robust data supporting that statement. #MedSky + #ObGynSky. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/w...

Monday’s vaccine executive order rests on one document, an HHS assessment saying America should vaccinate like Denmark. I wrote in December about why that fails. Copying Denmark’s endpoint while ignoring what makes it work strips protections kids need. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us "There is no measles-only vaccine available in the United States... Coverage falls when vaccination gets harder, not only when people refuse it" @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Dr. Jake Scott (@jakescottmd.bsky.social) writes that splitting the MMR shot into three separate injections does not lower the vaccine dose count under the administration's own counting method. It just triples the number of shots a child gets. Full op-ed: tr.ee/vaccineexecu...

@citizencohn.bsky.social is a very sharp writer, and I always enjoy our conversations. We talked about the vaccine executive order for his latest, which follows it from the Oval Office to the pediatrician's office. Worth reading: @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/vaccine-li...

What a completely unnecessary mess. #vaccines #publichealth

CIDRAP Op-Ed: What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us President Trump said nothing bad can happen. Bad things have already happened, and more are coming. Full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4ht8QEY 📷: Wellcome / Wikimedia Commons

My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: this executive order makes vaccinating a child harder in every direction at once, and cites no trial, no safety signal, and no dataset for doing it. It arrives in the worst measles year since 1991, as school starts. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Something bad happening after a vaccine and a vaccine causing something bad are two different claims. Separating them is most of the work. My new op-ed in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap-op-ed...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: A gap is not a finding—A lawsuit, a petition, and what it takes to know whether a vaccine caused harm The right response is to investigate it: fund the work, design the study so that it can come out either way, and wait for the answer. https://bit.ly/4vLFdSQ @jakescottmd.bsky.social

"There is no vaccine injury that improves and then kills a child overnight. And certainly not two children in the same night.” Excellent reporting on the Idaho twins case by Michelle Smith. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com

this is one of the clearest and most soberly written pieces on "chronic lyme" that exists. if you feel confused on the distinction between this and Lyme disease, this is the only thing to read. jail for doctors who prey on "chronic lyme" patients www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there. Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/bWJh50ZjgW8

Lyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

“The old assignment was to figure out how to use vaccines well. The new one, in plain terms, is to build the case against them.” Great piece in @cidrap.bsky.social by @lizszabo.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The US has effectively lost its measles elimination status. The virus has spread across the country for over a year, driven by falling vaccination rates. The official call comes in November. But it’s not a lost cause. We’ve done it before, and it’s winnable. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says by Jake Scott @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/49nzhqS

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says After a top FDA official claimed the COVID vaccine killed at least 10 US kids, the actual report noted only 2 as even "probable." Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/TfMY50Z4Vjb

FDA's then-vaccine chief said the agency would acknowledge COVID vaccines had killed at least 10 American children. The analysis behind that claim was kept private for six months. It's now public & doesn't say what he said it said. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

After having consulted the #DRC & #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR. My statement: bit.ly/4wGGiwX

The CDC is weighing an ICD-10 code for a COVID vaccine injury syndrome with no case definition. Codifying an undefined condition doesn't help injured patients. It produces the appearance of medical recognition without the science behind it. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the FDA tried to bury studies showing vaccines are safe? Because political leaders did not like the results of carefully controlled studies using large data sets and valid methods, explains @jakescottmd.bsky.social in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...