White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign

Is it more or less than one Scaramucci?

Also: he had no idea she was actually going to try doing her job. He was hoping for another yes-woman and got someone semi-competent. I doubt they'll make that mistake a second time, expect some reality-TV star to be the next nomination.

The guy likes firing people, he had a whole tv show about it.

Anthony Scaramucci wasn't confirmed, but he was hired and fired in 11 days during Trump I.

You’re giving too much credit to the admin. They’re a rag tag group of below average IQ wannabes. They can’t possibly be smart about everything all the time. They can only hope people will fall in line with implied threats.

I heard from someone high up in the administration that it’s really hard for some of the political appointments it’s been hard for them to find qualified people, who are willing to take the job, and who haven’t publicly criticized trump. For some of these positions they might not have many people to pick from

The timing of this and the announcement yesterday that the causes of autism will be released in September is pretty interesting.

In terms of a CFO in a business: one month after you’re hired, the CEO asks you to lie on this year’s financial reports. You refuse, having joined up on the pretense that you’d be given some leeway to do what’s right, and they fire you. The CEO gets to filter out all future candidates for yeslings, makes clear to the marketplace that they’re powerful ans unconcerned with being viewed as evil, and gets to create suffering and woe for someone who stood up to them. Triple win, especially if sociopathy, and it’s a very effective honeypot for well-intended individuals with a “change from within” mindset.

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A concern of mine is where the insurance companies will get their guidelines, i.e., who pays. Also, being willing to pay out of pocket is not a panacea, as you can still be turned down.

I worry that the pharmaceutical companies won't have the funding to develop vaccines for new variants of existing diseases (like the yearly Covid-19 and flu variants), or even for "new" diseases (e.g. there's a dog vaccine for Lyme disease, but not one for humans). IIUC (please correct me if I'm wrong), vaccine development is expensive, and relies on government subsidies--which certainly won't be coming from the US in the near future. And even provision of existing vaccines depends on there being a market, where the US has been the most reliable such market--again, correct me if I'm wrong (I'm hoping I am!).

> The physicians in my life - including my spouse - have essentially all abandoned the CDC and FDA as a source of decision-making on vaccines and pharmaceuticals, except for what is required by law.

The risk in this implicitly will be that some vaccines may be declared illegal, or not permitted in some other licencing model, which means physicians will be at risk of their professional registration to make them available.

I could imagine a similar risk in the prescribing of Mifepristone/Misoprostol. Not to actually declare 'day after' pill illegal, but withdraw licence to use the drugs, and put doctors at risk if they go ahead.

> Other sources of guidance, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule[0] and the WHO recommendations[1] are gaining prominence instead.

Not for nothing, but the AAP immunization schedule is explicitly at odds with the WHO schedule regarding the Covid vaccine: AAP says it is recommended for 18 years or younger, and the WHO does not. [1]

In fact, the AAP recommendations include some extremely questionable vaccines for children in the USA, such as Mpox and Dengue. Filtering for duplicates, I count 19 recommended vaccines for children in the AAP document, vs. 10 for the WHO.

Point being: there's obviously a reasonable amount of disagreement here, and any physician who treats them interchangeably clearly hasn't read them.

[1] And there's good reason for this: the risk/benefit ratio for Covid vaccine in healthy children has never been shown to be positive. The AAP is advancing an entirely unscientific recommendation based on, as far as I can tell, US politics.

I, for one, will be happy to see Covid make a vigorous comeback in the US. Theories need to be tested.

I'm probably going to be down voted... but if an organization (business or government) is full of people that refuse to sing the same song, how can such an organization accomplish anything?

In politics, we saw what happens when the republicans can't agree with each other and failed to elect a majority leader. We also designate 1 person to control a significant part of our government, not a committee people with opposite view points.

Inconsistent messaging from leadership creates distrust amount the workers/population and prevents people from accomplishing anything.

I'm very pro-vax and less than healthy, having multiple sclerosis, which is famously not great when immune system production spikes as novel new viruses appear on the scene. My best case scenario for proactive management of my disease involves staying current and getting routine vaccines for seasonal flu and COVID-19.

I could literally scream until my lungs bled over the credulousness and willful ignorance of the broader populace. I understand there will always be esoteric areas of science and technology that no layperson should be expected to meaningfully comprehend, but why doesn't that still induce the natural response of "Ask my doctor,"? The lack apparent lack of critical thinking skills is frankly appalling.

If the Trump administration follows through and makes modern vaccines difficult to get, the simplest option for US citizens will be to take a brief trip over the border to Canada or Mexico and pay out of pocket for a dose. Generally vaccines are cheap enough, even the fancy ones, that the per-dose cost is negligible compared to the travel. You can even make it a short vacation and time the shot at the end, so the full impact and recovery time kicks in once you're back home.

There's some intense irony here that "vaccine tourism" used to be an active economic boost for the US (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/covid-shot-tourism-latin...), and now it's going to be very much the other way around.

Bragging about obeying trump is so. Freaking. Weird.

Grats, you fell for the scam.Trump and his superpacs were the largest donors to Stein's campaign. It was all a scam from day 1.