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Botswana declares public health emergency over medicine shortage
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
The crisis is linked to the high price of medicines, a shrinking national budget and cuts in US aid.
Aug 26, 2025, 7:31 AM
Report: RFK Jr. and Trump to Pull Covid-19 Vaccines ‘Within Months’
Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com
Cardiologist Aseem Malhotra claims that the Trump administration will take action to remove mRNA vaccines from the U.S. market later this year.
Aug 25, 2025, 3:40 PM
WATCH: What to know about the plague
ABC News
After a California resident tested positive for the plague, Dr. Alok Patel breaks down what to know about the bacterial infection, which dates back to the 1300s.
Aug 22, 2025, 5:29 PM
WATCH: 'Wet Wipe Island' clogs up area along River Thames
ABC News
The River Thames is supposed to be the beautiful heartbeat of London. Instead, there are an estimated 400,000 pounds of wet wipes clogging up one 820-foot stretch along the riverbed.
Aug 22, 2025, 11:51 AM
The CDC Under Fire
Lizzie O’Leary, Slate Magazine
Big Balls gets carjacked and the troops come out. The CDC gets shot 500 times and Trump doesn’t even mention it.
Aug 22, 2025, 9:30 AM
Hundreds Of HHS Staff Sign Letter Begging RFK Jr. To Stop Making Them Targets With Misinformation
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
As you will recall, a single gunmen opened fire on a CDC campus in Atlanta earlier this month, claiming to have been injured by COVID vaccines. The rhetoric he had used prior to the shooting closely aligned with what RFK Jr. had been spouting for years. While…
Aug 22, 2025, 2:59 AM
COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far
Rogé Karma, The Atlantic
If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.
Aug 21, 2025, 4:07 PM
The Covid Vaccine Situation for the Fall Is a Complete Mess
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (aka Your Local Epidemiologist) has a frustrating update on how Covid vaccines are probably going to work thi
Aug 20, 2025, 3:20 PM
Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate. We Have a Few Ideas as to Why.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Andrew Stokes, and Jacob Bor, Slate Magazine
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
Aug 20, 2025, 9:45 AM
FDA Warns Public Not to Eat Frozen Shrimp That Could Be Radioactive
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
The shrimp was sold at Walmart with a best-by date of March 2027.
Aug 19, 2025, 7:45 PM
Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those are realities about the technolo…
Aug 19, 2025, 5:50 PM
Toxic algae season is back — and Trump has cut safeguards
Patrick Wensink, Salon
Climate change and funding cuts are putting our drinking water, ecosystems and lives in danger
Aug 16, 2025, 1:00 PM
RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines
Emily Mullin, Wired
HHS is slashing hundreds of millions in funding for mRNA vaccines and infectious disease treatments, but leaving the door open to mRNA therapies for cancer and genetic conditions.
Aug 13, 2025, 6:07 PM
US judge orders conditions be improved in New York immigration facility
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Detainees reported 'crowded, squalid and punitive' conditions in the holding areas of 26 Federal Plaza, an ICE facility.
Aug 13, 2025, 12:12 AM
Gunman who attacked CDC aimed to send message against COVID-19 vaccine
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Investigators say the suspect blamed the COVID vaccine for his health issues ahead of a deadly shooting in Atlanta.
Aug 12, 2025, 5:28 PM
Trump's remarks on homelessness in DC spark concerns among homeless advocates
Meredith Deliso, ABC News
President Donald Trump vowed this week to rid Washington, D.C., of homeless encampments, though what those plans will look like are unclear.
Aug 12, 2025, 9:16 AM
How Trump Threw Out the Pandemic Playbook
Stephanie Psaki, Beth Cameron, Jon Finer, The Atlantic
The White House inherited a system for handling outbreaks. No one left knows how to use it.
Aug 11, 2025, 11:31 AM
Friday’s attack was carried out by a shooter who’d been reaching out for mental health assistance for weeks, CDC leaders say
Dalia Faheid, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, CNN, CNN
A gunman opened fire on CDC headquarters in Atlanta, killing a police officer. The shooter may have blamed a possible illness on vaccines.
Aug 10, 2025, 11:12 AM
CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police
The Associated Press, NPR
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man who opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Patrick Joseph White. White died and a police officer was shot and killed.
Aug 9, 2025, 1:50 PM
Trump Is a Degrowther
Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
What else do you call a strategy designed to raise prices and lower productivity?
Aug 9, 2025, 11:31 AM
They Afflict 40 Percent of the Population. No One Takes Them Seriously.
Laura Miller, Slate Magazine
A new book explores the science behind the suffering.
Aug 9, 2025, 9:45 AM
Woman Diagnosed with Malaria in Washington May Be State’s First Locally Acquired Case
Natalia Mesa, Gizmodo.com
The woman who contracted the disease had not traveled out of the country recently, marking the first potential locally-acquired case of malaria in the state.
Aug 7, 2025, 7:55 PM
The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms.
Sean Rameswaram, Vox
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced last week that it would shut down after Congress voted to claw back over $500 million of federal funding from the organization. The announcement imperils local PBS and NPR stations around the country that have…
Aug 7, 2025, 5:47 PM
Ultra-processed food consumption is down a bit, but still more than 50% of U.S. diet
Yuki Noguchi, NPR
Americans get about 55% of our calories from tasty, cheap — and unhealthy — manufactured foods, the latest data from CDC says. For kids, the percentage is even higher.
Aug 7, 2025, 1:42 PM