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🗞️ In the news
CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks By Alexander Tin April 10, 2025 / 6:40 PM EDT / CBS News The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is supposed to inspect large vessels at least twice a year. The epidemiologist tasked with leading the agency's outbreak response on cruise ships was included in the layoffs, multiple CDC officials said. The cuts come as the U.S. has been battling a record surge of norovirus, largely driven by a new strain of the virus. At least a dozen outbreaks have been documented so far this year on cruise ships, mostly from norovirus. Some of those outbreaks have made headlines for sickening dozens or even hundreds of people. There were 18 total outbreaks listed for all of last year. Agency staff were in the middle of responding to two outbreaks when they were let go, an official said. They were cut as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs across the nation's public health agencies, which included cutting around 2,400 employees of the CDC.
Combination of COVID, severe heart attack confers 25% greater risk of death, data suggest Mary Van Beusekom, MS April 30, 2026 CIDRAP “For example, patients who experience COVID-19 and STEMI, a severe type of heart attack caused by a complete blockage of a coronary artery, are seven times more likely to experience in-hospital death, stroke, recurrent myocardial infarction, or repeat unplanned revascularization, compared to those who did not have COVID-19,” the news release said.
The maga vendetta against public health targeting former aide of Dr. Fauci.
Doctor Fauci was pardoned by Joe Biden before he left office, for “crimes” he never actually committed, in anticipation of political prosecutions just like this.
Arrest of Fauci’s former aide sparks political persecution concerns By Rebecca Trager May 2026 Royal Society of Chemistry Federal prosecutors claim that Morens used private email accounts for government business and deleted records. They also allege that he coordinated with co-conspirators to hide communications related to the genesis of the Covid-19 virus and high-risk coronavirus research that the NIH was funding. Those co-conspirators include EcoHealth Alliance’s president Peter Daszak and an unnamed scientist described as being affiliated with an institute that received federal funding. If convicted on all charges, he faces up to 51 years in federal prison.
Peter Daszak is on the board of Accountability Journalism Institute that runs the substack newsletter Important Context. If Congress allows this type of thing to continue, I expect to see more abuse of power against doctors and public health professionals.
Reminder: Lab Leak Truthers are Pandemic Deniers. They’re often just straight up infectious disease deniers, full stop. Nicholas Enrich, the former acting Assistant Administrator for USAID, said in an interview on MS NOW in April 2026 that the DOGE team claimed to him that they believed ebola was “a scam”. So I think the claims of being concerned about “high risk” disease research are to some extent sane-washing what they’re actually asserting, often through PR disinformation campaigns across op-eds and social media, the idea that all infectious diseases are “hoaxes” in the sense that they’re cooked up in laboratories on purpose, largely to just scare people supposedly as a means of control. Sadly a lot of people believe this rather than what this story serves to cover up; that there are industry interests that don’t want public health mitigation to disease because it interferes with their business interests.
