Jon Cohen
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.
- “What’s troubling is to have an announcement that this is a revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, and there’s nothing on which to base those statements.” www.science.org/content/arti...
- NIH’s new director, Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya, dismissed the report as “rumors” in an interview with Science on Thursday morning, hours before he announced the new policy. www.science.org/content/arti...
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View full threadThanks for the note. Did you hear this from a program officer? Have others? That's not what we've been told by others and we want to clarify...
- Jay B said in statement with accompanying announcement: “As we transition to this new system, NIH will no longer allow new subawards to foreign institutions. As new competing awards are issued or non-competing awards re-issued, NIH will no longer support foreign subawards in them."
- “I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you’re like, actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about." Shortly before announcing policy change he said was a "rumor." @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social interview. www.science.org/content/arti...
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View full threadAnd thanks to Martin for the encouragement and editing. These are team efforts!
- @pulitzercenter.bsky.social also provided the funding that made these reporting trips possible.
- New acting director at NIAID is familiar face to flu researchers. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Exodus continues. www.science.org/content/arti...
- I'm turning final corner on book in works for 4 years about scientific efforts to prevent future pandemics. Knopf plans to publish in October and now has teaser up. Deeply grateful to @sloanfoundation.bsky.social and many others for the support! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690752...
- In a setback for the long struggling xenotranspantation field, the gene-edited pig kidney in Towana Looney failed. But the upside is she's back on dialysis and doing fine, and she lived longer with a pig kidney than any human has to date. My exclusive story: www.science.org/content/arti...
- If you believed this Tweet, a doctor who sells vaccine detox kits was named as deputy director of CDC today. I checked with HHS. It's not accurate. April Fools? Dunno. But lots of people who were sweating bullets are wiping their brows. x.com/stella_imman...
- "All this talk about eliminating waste-fraud-abuse-DEI-wokeness-whathaveyou is a childishly transparent rationale for the actual program, which is demolition, a power grab."
- One high level HHS official shown the door told Science, “I couldn’t have worked with these asshats anyway.” www.science.org/content/arti...
- aking sense of the chaos “is more challenging than trying to understand what’s going on with the damn diseases themselves,” says epidemiologist Michael Osterholm. www.science.org/content/arti...
- * Making sense of the chaos...
- ...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University www.science.org/content/arti...
- At the 50th anniversary of the Asilomar meeting--what Marcia Barinaga once dubbed the "Woodstock of molecular biology"--a diverse collection of thinkers gathered at the same California site to discuss the risks and benefits of cutting-edge biotech advances today. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Nice write up of session on injectable lenacapavir PrEP that I moderated on Saturday at AAAS meeting. view.aaas.sciencepubs.org?qs=74c684b15...
- "As difficult and scary as it is to talk to tough reporters and critics, the alternative can be far worse." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Science has a new Trump Tracker. The firehose of actions by the administration require a firehose of journalism: www.science.org/content/arti...
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- From one of my editors: Many people have access to these stories on university or institutional servers, which likely have site licenses for all Science content. For private access on phones or at home we give away 3 stories a month--and we're a bargain for $2.99 a month or $25 annually.
- Still not convinced? Our paywall is relatively soft so try a few things and see what happens. Support nonprofit journalism in these trying times if you can.
- Will Trump administration force PEPFAR to cut PrEP? www.science.org/content/arti...
- Interesting stories about CDC temporarily posting table in MMWR about cats and bird flu: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h... and www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- I'm confused by the chart. Doesn't it show that adolescent tested negative for H5N1?
- Charles Piller is the best.
- Shock and huh? continues at NIH. Jocelyn Kaiser and I explain here: www.science.org/content/arti...
- Will people depending on PEPFAR for their anti-HIV drugs suffer because of Trump administration decision to suspend funding of foreign aid? My story: www.science.org/content/arti...
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View full threadYikes. We will correct immediately. Thanks for flagging.
- Should have read cowpox, not chickenpox.
- My story on Japan's approval of mpox drug despite its recent failure in two large-scale, placebo-controlled efficacy trials in diverse populations.
- I meant to attach file in earlier post: www.science.org/content/arti...
- My story on the surge in norovirus, the "Ferrari of viruses." www.science.org/content/arti...
- My story on pandemic origin hearing today. science.org/content/article/pol…
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- Thanks Helen! Happy to try a new platform. I'm never going back to my old school.
