Prof Sheena Cruickshank

Health secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved

Yup that’s democracy for you- voters choice if you don’t suppress voters that is.

Last year I was privileged to join Serbian students calling for change @bmj.com Tonight it looks like they’ve won. A rare bit of good news www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Branches everywhere on dog walk today. Dog was at least pleased tho

Multi-omics profiling of primary human B cells activated via distinct stimuli www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com @bostonchildrens.bsky.social

The US is in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in decades whilst RFKJr as HHS seeds vaccine mistrust. So it’s disappointing but somehow not surprising that the CDC refuse to support to develop a multiplex test that would enhance measles detection and surveillance.

A novel cancer vaccine, made with mRNA technology, helps to significantly reduce the chances that melanoma patients’ tumors return.

Our open letter to UK infection control leads went today. Patients can be asked to remove their FFP2 or FFP3 mask, or swap it for a surgical one, while staff can now choose a respirator if treating a patient with respiratory symptoms. clinicallyvulnerable.org/letters/right-to-mask #RightToMask

We will continue to fight against exploitation in human scientific research with the Science & Justice Project. Donate to the project here: tr.ee/euVHqc #RFKJr #CDC #HepB #Vaccine #Denmark

This is brilliant news as RFKJr funded Danish trial to play lottery with babies lives by withhold the HepB vaccines will now not go ahead as the Guinea-Bissau officials will not allow it. Huge thanks to campaigners such as @standupforscience.net for fighting to prevent the study

This is shocking- there are cases of congenital measles - measles acquired during pregnancy -occurring in Pennsylvania now- that is so dangerous for the baby as can affect heart development.

The Inquiry’s overarching judgement is that fragmented responsibility, ignored warnings, poor data and inadequate planning created conditions in which Covid could spread “like wildfire”. Social care’s neglect was longstanding. During the pandemic, its consequences became catastrophic.

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

Really welcome this. Air pollution has a disproportionate impact on more economically deprived areas, young and old people and those with certain health conditions so important actions needed!

The new Not Normal BBC News - NHS faces more challenging winter than normal, health secretary warns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also: NO TRAITORS NO PATHOLOGICAL LIARS NO CONVICTED FELONS NO ADJUDICATED RAPISTS NO PEDOPHILES NO RUSSIAN ASSETS NO ORANGE ATROCITIES NO EPSTEIN/MUSK BUDDIES NO PUTIN PUPPETS NO MAKEUP-WEARING MAN-BABIES NO BLOWHARDS WITH ZERO SELF-AWARENESS BRONZED BRAGGARTS and NO ARROGANT A-HOLES

Trump’s actions to block sanctions to Russia go against the wishes of some of his closest allies and will enable Russia toto punish Ukrainian people by cutting off electricity and water.

Russia, Russia, Russia was not a hoax. Trump signed an EO tonight exempting Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. The law was designed to squeeze the financial lifelines sustaining Russia's war against Ukraine. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Cases started appearing in May, according to the article’s graphic. CDC is only now sending one person to PA to help? One epidemiologist? After six deaths and thousands of cases?

Who would have thought Liz Truss could outlast anyone in a role!!

Just one more sleep until QED con!!! Eeeek

Wanted to share a new preprint where we use #MALDITOF not just for species ID, but rapid Sequence Typing 🧬 Even without DNA sequencing we can determine strain lineage 🦠, enabling rapid + cheap outbreak detection Amazing work led by Hoai-An Nguyen #IDSky #MicroSky www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

How cool are butterflies? Evidence suggesting their flying and bright patterns help them confuse potential prey

RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views helped sideline a bird flu plan politi.co/47h6fYs

Conference bingo- the speaker has a raft of slides and selects a chunk for a talk without planning a narrative thereby running over versus the speaker who planned content but too much so talks REALLY fast to get through it

Reproductive health care for women was already hugely impacted by Trumps policies- now more maternity wards set to close due to trillion dollar cuts in Medicaid.

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

This is shameful. The controversial Guinea-Bissau truck RFKJr wants to fund has been given ahead. Now a life saving vaccine will be deliberately withheld from newborns in a country where hep B is endemic