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Laurel Bristow, MSc

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“Well researched and completely unhinged” Host of NPR podcast network’s Health Wanted.

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Whoever is picking the music for the San Diego departures terminal is diabolical. Sade? You did that on purpose.

02.03.2026 23:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Aging is when you have the means to pay more for a faster uber because the bathroom line at the bar is too long.

22.02.2026 05:39 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I always referred to my scrubs as “tactical pajamas”

23.01.2026 02:34 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Do anyone check if it’s made of chocolate wrapped in foil?

16.01.2026 00:10 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Had to go on X for the first time in a long time to see some bullshit Bobby was posting and WOWEEEE that place is a shit hole. Can’t believe anyone on the left is trying to convince people to stay

13.01.2026 21:52 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Is this because we keep Single White Woman-ing their vaccine schedule?

10.12.2025 22:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.12.2025 22:10 👍 54 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 4

I would like to buy Jason Goldman a drink. This is better than gloves off. This is gloves dipped in concrete.

05.12.2025 14:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Actually sounds like she’s just blaming immigrants generally, saying hep b status report is very “voluntary”

04.12.2025 18:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How these dipshits can keep talking about comparing hep b vertical transmission in countries with universal healthcare to our country is making my nose bleed.

04.12.2025 17:48 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Potentially recommending kids get HBV antibody tests before additional doses is so wild. If parents hate seeing their kids get shots just WAIT until you have to watch a pediatric blood draw….

04.12.2025 17:33 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Spreading like herpes simplex 2 in the love island villa

18.11.2025 01:54 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you’re in Austin it’s *the* antivax groups conference

07.11.2025 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Extremely clarifying to learn this man is the way he is because he married a woman who believes she can talk to spirits/that trauma victims attract more trauma. Someone investigate what in Floridas water causes wives to channel their ambitions through their puppet husbands.

10.10.2025 14:18 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The “kids are too medicated” crew and making more medications, without sufficient evidence, available for kids.

22.09.2025 21:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No downside to giving the vaccines separately (more shots, more doctors visits, less uptake).

Hep B is sexually transmitted so babies don’t need the vaccine (not true).

No harm in not taking Tylenol in pregnancy (fever can cause stillbirth)

Plenty of money in research (lol)

22.09.2025 21:00 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No Tylenol for kids either! (Not part of the research)

Stop giving all 80 vaccines in one visit (that doesn’t happen)

No Amish are autistic (untrue)

22.09.2025 20:59 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I will say I do like RFK jr being visibly uncomfortable behind Trump as he riffs absolutely insane health recommendations.

22.09.2025 20:56 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This is a very good lesson on the importance of a nationalized vaccine recommendation system

19.09.2025 21:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meissner specifically asked if this vote means adults over 65 don’t need a script and the chair responded this vote was about insurance coverages. He might be mistaken but that’s where my confusion comes from.

19.09.2025 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With the (very confusing) ACIP meeting concluding, I’m reminding everyone we have this spreadsheet that I would LOVE help updating (as I assume more state will declare their own rules about COVID access). If your state needs updating and has a public statement please tell me!!!

19.09.2025 20:58 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It DOES seem like VFC coverage for Covid is protected. The chair explicitly said the vote was about keeping things available on VFC

19.09.2025 20:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The CDC scientists who did these meetings are saints so I’m confident they will write more coherent summaries of what’s going on.

19.09.2025 20:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like, do those states have to make new rules to allow FDA eligible groups to get it without a rx? Will they keep that requirement? Do people outside the FDA groups who use “shared decision making” still need a script in those states? It’s very confusing!!!

19.09.2025 20:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I really don’t know. My interpretation of the situation is “if people get it, it’s covered by insurance, but we’re not making recommendations about if you should get it.” So I don’t know what this means for states that have been requiring an rx for the FDA approved groups because ACIP hadn’t met yet

19.09.2025 20:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My understanding is vote 4 was about keeping it on the schedule which equates to Public/private insurance coverage. They didn’t make any recommendations about which groups should get it. So I’m v confused about what happens now in states that tie vax access to ACIP rules.

19.09.2025 19:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

So…are the recommendations in changed from last year? Do we have no recommendations? Is it every state for themselves?

19.09.2025 19:28 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok. Robert Malone being a voice of reason regarding what the ACIP legal authority is is…surprising.

19.09.2025 18:56 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Good god

19.09.2025 18:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok let’s say they approve this vote…in states that follow ACIP recs but don’t currently require a rx if you fall into the FDA approved groups, are those states going to require a rx now?

19.09.2025 18:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0