Pentagon Signs Agreement to Redirect NIH Infectious Disease Funds to Defense Department, Alarming Lawmakers
The Department of Defense has signed an interagency agreement with the National Institutes of Health that would shift funding earmarked for…
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#Pentagon Agreement With #NIH on #Biodefense Draws Alarm From Democrats
#DoD would play a larger role in biodefense and #pandemic preparedness.
Arrives at moment of turbulence and uncertainty at #NIAID, which has lost many of its longtime leaders and is undergoing major strategic shifts under the Trump administration. The agency is veering away from biodefense and pandemic preparedness research that was once one of its three core areas of focus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/pentagon-nih-biodefense-agreement.html
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Senator #RandPaul accuses Dr. #Fauci of funding research in China that sparked the #pandemic, & then lying about it to #Congress — outrageous accusations Dr. Fauci vehemently denies.
In a brief opening statement, Dr. Fauci noted that he had testified before Congress more than 200 times during the 38 years he ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [ #NIAID ], including during the #Covid pandemic.
#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law
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#HHS refused for weeks to confirm what was widely known: Jeffery Taubenberger had been removed as acting director of #NIAID. Today HHS confirmed that John H. Powers is now acting director.
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Many US #health agencies are operating with interim heads.
Among the vacant positions are the director of the #InfectiousDisease agency; #SurgeonGeneral; head of the Food & Drug Administration [#FDA]; deputy health secretary; & head of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [#CDC] — a leadership vacuum that observers say is unprecedented.
#Trump #nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #PublicHealth #NIAID #WHO
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The prohibition has been in place during an #outbreak of #hantavirus that some Americans have been exposed to. The communication limits were relaxed slightly in the past week as another #virus #outbreak — an unfolding #Ebola #epidemic centered in the #DRC — intensified.
Now, some #NIAID ofcls can attend virtual #WHO meetings, but only in small groups & only in a “listening capacity,” acc/to a May 18 email from a senior NIAID ofcl to staff obtained by CNN. Any follow-up to be handled by #HHS….
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The #Trump admin issued the directive stopping individuals at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases [#NIAID] from communicating with the #WHO.
The federal #health subagency was led for decades by Dr. #AnthonyFauci & oversaw developing treatments for #PublicHealth emergencies including #HIV / #AIDs & #COVID19.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #global #virus #InfectiousDisease
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#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
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Good to know Taubenberger, acting head of #NIAID, the infectious disease institute stepped down ~2 weeks ago while the world is dealing with the hantavirus and ebola....
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e255d33k7c3fyw2enrlofubl/post/3mmeofzxj322g -
Good to know Taubenberger, acting head of #NIAID, the infectious disease institute stepped down ~2 weeks ago while the world is dealing with the hantavirus and ebola....
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e255d33k7c3fyw2enrlofubl/post/3mmeofzxj322g -
Researchers identify first suite of human antibodies against measles virus
Thursday, May 14, 2026 NIH-funded study lays foundation for antibody-based measles treatment.
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #against #America #Antibodies #identify #measles #monoclonalantibodies #NIAID #NIH #Researchers #UnitedStatesofAmerica
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/356031/ NIH-supported trial reduces HIV incidence by 70% in rural populations #Éire #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #HIV #IE #improved #Ireland #NIAID #NIH #Outcomes #reduced #Research #Study #Technology #Transmission
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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THREAT MODEL: COVID
for Feb. 19th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue- #CovidCautious Olympian wins Gold and breaks record
- #NIAID staffers ordered to remove #biodefense, #pandemic preparedness language on website
- The musicians making concerts safer with Covid precautions ( #Deerhoof! )
- #FDA reverses stance to review Moderna #mRNA flu shot application
- Study: Covid in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks
- France sees its first court case over death from Covid caught in hospital
- Footballer #JariLitmanen on battling #LongCovid
- It’s time to take Long Covid pacing seriously
- Tucson pilot wins Long Covid fight against #FAA
- The long US surge continues
...and much more.
✨THREAT MODEL is free to read -- please help keep it accessible to all by becoming a patron, even $1 a month makes a difference!✨
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-february-151134668
#ThreatModel #ThreatModelCovid #ThreatModelNewsletters #VioletBlue #COVIDnews #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver
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The complaints were filed by Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who until the end of March had directed the National Institute of #Allergy & #InfectiousDiseases [#NIAID], the institute previously run by Dr. Anthony S. #Fauci; & Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, who until mid-April had directed the #NIH Fogarty International Center, which supports global #health #research.
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One dose of antibiotic treats early syphilis as well as three doses
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 NIH-funded clinical trial shows potential to simplify treatment for early syphilis. Researchers funded by…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #antibiotic #AU #Australia #dose #early #NIAID #NIH #research #syphilis #treats
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WIRED reports a shocking halt: the Integrated Research Facility at NIH faces a shutdown order from HHS by April 29, ceasing vital research on diseases like SARS-CoV-2 and Lassa fever. Michael Holbrook, the associate director, reassures that ongoing studies will aim to preserve sample value without animal euthanasia. This abrupt decision raises significant public health concerns. Discover more about this critical situation. Read the full article: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/nih-orders-closure-infectious-diseases
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the head of the #FDA’s Office of New #Drugs, the head of the National Institute of #Allergy & #InfectiousDiseases [#NIAID], the director of the #CDC’s National Center for #HIV, Viral #Hepatitis, #STD, & #TB Prevention, the head of the CDC’s Center for Forecasting & #Outbreak Analytics,
#RFKJr #Trump #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
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RFK’s Department of Health Fires Fauci’s Wife Among Staffing Shakeup Robert F. Kennedy Jr., h...
https://saraacarter.com/rfks-department-of-health-fires-faucis-wife-among-staffing-shakeup/
#COVID-19 #Anthony #Fauci #NIAID #NIH
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Timing of #NIH's announcement that Jay Bhattacharya has started as the new director is ... not exactly opportune. Bloodletting today at NIH & its sister agencies, #CDC & #FDA. Many NIH center directors, including Jeanne Marrazzo of #NIAID, have been put on admin leave. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/jay-bhattacharya-begins-tenure-18th-director-national-institutes-health
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In the USA, #NIAID's Visual & Medical Arts Unit & NIAID Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (#BCBB) have created a library of #biomedical & #scientific #icons for use in figures, presentations, websites, & print. Images are #free to use and in the #PublicDomain. https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/ H/T to @enniscath.bsky.social for pointing it out.
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Whenever Dr. Fauci was actually allowed to respond to questions from Republican lawmakers,
he took the opportunity to push back on many of the conspiracies about his role in the pandemic.Rep. Nicole #Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) attempted to press Dr. Fauci over claims that Covid-19 originated from a research laboratory, or the so-called “lab leak” theory.
“I don’t think the concept of there being a lab leak is inherently a conspiracy theory,” Fauci responded.
“What is conspiracy is the kind of distortions of that particular subject, like it was a lab leak and
I was parachuted into the CIA like #Jason #Bourne
and told the CIA they shouldn’t be talking about a lab leak.”When asked if he received any royalties from Big Pharma since 2021, Fauci responded that he’s made “zero” dollars in pandemic royalties.
#NIAID #Ross #Dingell #Anthony #Fauci #David #Morens #FOIA #lady #Wenstrup #Tokuda #Daszak #remdesivir
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As head of #NIAID and a presidential adviser, Fauci helped guide the public during the pandemic on measures to avoid infection,
such as mask-wearing and maintaining physical distance.But at a May 22 hearing, Wenstrup said Fauci’s NIAID “was, unfortunately, less pristine than so many, including the media, would have had us all believe.”
In his letter to Bertagnolli, Wenstrup said there was evidence that a former chief of staff of Fauci’s might have used intentional misspellings
— such as a variant of “EcoHealth”
— to prevent emails from being captured in keyword searches by FOIA officials.WHY WERE MORENS’ EMAILS ALARMING?
The emails show a pattern of trying to shield communications from public disclosure.
“We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns,
and if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails,
and if we found them we’d delete them,” Morens wrote on June 16, 2020.“The best way to avoid FOIA hassles is to delete all emails when you learn a subject is getting sensitive,” he wrote on June 28, 2021.
Some of Morens’ emails included sexual or sexist remarks, including one from December 2020:
“Beverage is always good, and best delivered by a blonde nymphomaniac.”In another email, discussing how former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky got her job, he remarked,
“Well, she does wear a skirt.”Morens apologized at the May 22 hearing and called some of what he wrote “misogynistic.”
“Some of the emails I’ve seen that you all have provided look pretty incriminating,” he testified.
Asked if he ever sent information related to covid to Fauci’s personal email, he said he didn’t remember but might have.
Morens said some of his comments were “snarky jokes” intended to cheer up his friend Daszak, the EcoHealth president, who was receiving death threats over media coverage of his organization’s relationship with the Wuhan lab.
Morens testified that he didn’t knowingly delete official records.
#Ross, the North Carolina representative, said the emails
“inflict serious damage on public trust for the entire scientific enterprise.”She said the dangers can be seen in eroding public confidence in vaccines, contributing to recent outbreaks of measles.
Rep. Debbie #Dingell (D-Mich.) said Morens showed disdain for the Freedom of Information Act.
The subcommittee’s investigation has been an unfounded effort to pin the blame for the pandemic on NIH and NIAID, and Morens’ emails have helped blur the issues, she said.
DO THE EMAILS REVEAL THE ORIGINS OF COVID?
No, as Democrats have emphasized.
In a way, Morens’ correspondence undercuts allegations that people at the top of NIAID covered up a lab leak in Wuhan.
None of Morens’ emails describe any effort to suppress evidence of a lab leak and, in an email sent from a private account,
he ridiculed the idea, calling it “false to the point of being crazy.”But the subcommittee’s senior Democrat, Ruiz, criticized Morens for dismissing the lab leak theory.
“Unless and until we see specific evidence on the origins” of the virus that causes covid, “the scientific process requires that we examine all possible hypotheses with objectivity,” Ruiz said.
#Anthony #Fauci #David #Morens #FOIA #lady #Wenstrup #Tokuda #Daszak #remdesivir
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CW: covid origins / USA FOIA evasion
Interesting update on the US end of the covid origins mystery.
"Top officials used private email addresses and perhaps burner phones to conduct official government business and to delete communications about COVID-19 origins in order to defeat FOIA requests — all of this is stated in their own words.
"The huge question that this raises is — Why the cover-up?"
Includes suggested questions for future hearings.
https://www.aei.org/articles/the-nih-ecohealth-alliance-cover-up/
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Asthma drug Xolair found to reduce risk of fatal allergic reactions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/asthma-xolair-drug-peanut-allergy-b2503102.html#Asthma
#Xolair
#Allergies
#PeanutAllergy
#FatalFoodAllergies
#Anaphylaxis
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2018 #coronavirus research in #NIAID #Montana lab is unrelated to the #COVID19 #pandemic, contrary to claim by #FoxNews’s #JesseWatters
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Source: nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic
From the article:
The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection.
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Was können wir aus der #Corona #Pandemie lernen, damit wir beim nächsten Mal, wenn ein #Krankheitserreger neu auftritt, besser gewappnet sind? Anthony Fauci, ehemaliger Direktor des #NIAID und Christian Drosten sehen u.a. Probleme bei #Wissenschaftskommunikation #Desinformation #Fehlinformation @riffreporter https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/covid-19-wissenschaft-desinformation-corona-pandemievorsorge-whs-fauci-drosten
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The #5thCircuit panel also limited the govt institutions affected by its #ruling to the WH, the #SurgeonGeneral’s office, the #CDC & the #FBI. It removed restrictions #Doughty had imposed on the depts of #State, #DHS & #HHS & on agencies including the U.S. #Census Bureau, #NIAID, & #CISA. The #5thCircuit found that those agencies had NOT coerced the #SocialMedia companies to #moderate their sites.
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#LGBTQ #NIAID #JeanneMarrazzo
Lesbian and STI Expert Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo to Succeed Fauci at NIAID"Marrazzo will be the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to head the institute."
https://www.advocate.com/health/jeanne-marrazzo-niaid-fauci?share_id=7790083&utm_campaign=RebelMouse&utm_content=The+Advocate&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter -
Ars Technica: Moderna CEO says private investors funded COVID vaccine—not billions from gov’t https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922447 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #COVID-19vaccine #development #COVID-19 #Science #moderna #vaccine #niaid #NIH
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Moderna CEO says private investors funded COVID vaccine—not billions from gov’t
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922447
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Moderna CEO says private investors funded COVID vaccine—not billions from gov’t - Enlarge / Moderna pharmaceutical and biotechnology company's CEO Stepha... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922447 #covid-19vaccine #development #covid-19 #science #moderna #vaccine #niaid #nih
