Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
💊 🏛️ NBC News Medical Reporter covering health policy, drugs & federal agencies
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- Amid the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas that's killed two kids and one adult — all unvaccinated — Kennedy has pushed unproven remedies, including the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil. @berkeleyjr.bsky.social @nbcnews.com
- HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sidestepped vaccine questions during his testimony before Congress: "I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me" Story w/ @berkeleyjr.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- NEW: 'Thicket of red tape' for Medicaid in GOP bill sparks fears of coverage losses Doctors and critics warn that the work req’ts and stricter screenings that Republicans are rallying around will adversely impact rightful beneficiaries. w/ @berkeleyjr.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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- Kennedy wants all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled trials. It sounds like Covid vaccines, which are updated yearly to match the circulating strain, may fall into that category. If that's the case, it's highly unlikely updated Covid shots will be avail by fall. @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
- This little pup has managed to stay dry despite wearing so much drip. 12/10
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- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a portion of his speech on Friday to FDA staff deriding their past decisions, at one point saying that the agency “became a sock puppet” for the industries it was meant to regulate.
- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a portion of his speech on Friday to FDA staff deriding their past decisions, at one point saying that the agency “became a sock puppet” for the industries it was meant to regulate. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- The FDA’s former top vaccine regulator Dr. Peter Marks says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “tepid endorsement” of the measles vaccine puts the U.S. at risk of losing its elimination status of the disease. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- The exodus of top talent at the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research could hobble the agency’s ability to approve new vaccines and a wide range of other drugs. The administration “has left us decapitated,' one former FDA official said. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
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- Breaking News: Senator Cory Booker’s speech criticizing President Trump has just become the longest speech in recorded Senate history.
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- NEW: Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine scientist, is out, forced by Kennedy to resign. Marks wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is “irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety, and security.” by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
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- BREAKING: HHS announced it's planning to cut 10,000 jobs across the department. The move will shutter or downsize a number of divisions, including at CDC. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
- I am ready to receive so much money. kind of whenever. just announcing my availability for such things
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- Across the U.S., a longtime push to ban synthetic dyes in food is gaining renewed momentum, with critics of the dyes insisting it’s not a matter of if, but when.
- NEW - 🍬 A nationwide push to ban artificial food dyes is gaining steam. States like WV cite RFK Jr.‘s “Make America Healthy Again” movement and concerns that dyes may affect kids’ behavior — a link the FDA is monitoring but hasn’t confirmed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- What “INSIDE OUT 2” is NOT FINNA DO IS HAVE ME CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- NEW - The Trump administration is considering a plan to eliminate the CDC's division focused on HIV prevention and potentially move its responsibilities over to another department within HHS, according to a source familiar with the plan. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- Meant to post yesterday: FDA staff returning to White Oak Monday dealt with overcrowded buses, long lines and packed parking lots —some even resorting to parking in the grass. “People are parking in the grass like we’re here for a Beyoncé concert.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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- Dr. Oz, Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, dodged questions from senators on Friday about whether he supports a House budget plan that could slash Medicaid. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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- The CDC launched a "database" listing current and former ACIP members and what it describes their conflicts of interest. This comes several weeks after HHS abruptly cancelled a meeting of the committee. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
- Bhattacharya said that he doesn’t “generally believe” there’s a link between vaccines and autism. But he didn’t rule out devoting funding to new research, citing public distrust of vaccines and unknowns about why autism rates are rising. @berkeleyjr.bsky.social reported from the hearing
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- TODAY: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — known for opposing Covid lockdowns — faces a Senate confirmation hearing to lead the NIH. He’d take over a $50B agency as the Trump admin eyes job cuts and RFK Jr. pushes to shift its focus from infectious diseases to chronic illness. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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- A budget resolution adopted by House Republicans could jeopardize the health insurance coverage of millions of low-income and disabled people who rely on Medicaid if lawmakers follow through with their proposed spending cuts, experts warn. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- Good context here “The fraud argument is being used as a frame to justify Medicaid cuts, but the major proposals that are under consideration today to achieve this $880 billion target are the same major Medicaid cuts that were included in the [2017] Affordable Care Act repeal and replace bills..."
- A budget resolution adopted by House Republicans could jeopardize the health insurance coverage of millions of low-income and disabled people who rely on Medicaid if lawmakers follow through with their proposed spending cuts, experts warn. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- Yesterday, the FDA's vaccine advisory committee meeting to select flu shot strains was canceled, raising concerns that the U.S. won't have enough supply of the vaccine for next flu season. @berkeleyjr.bsky.social @nbcnews.com
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- NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
- NEW: HHS emails employees warning responses to Musk email may "be read by malign foreign actors" “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly," it read w/ @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social+@berkeleyjr.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
- Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who survived polio, was the only "no" vote from Republicans.
- Now that he’s got the job, RFK Jr. may struggle to navigate his new position as secretary of Health and Human Services as the agency contends with potential job cuts and the administration works to pursue Trump’s agendas. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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- Nice reporting by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social “Direct cost is the groceries," Golden said. "Indirect costs are the money you need to have a refrigerator and to pay your electric bill so that the milk and eggs don’t go bad.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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- "I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar
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