Randy Horwitz, MD, PhD FACP

There is no better use of the healthcare dollar than vaccination

@SandyGl88167783 @EricTopol @TheLancet This is the strongest indication as to how serious our heathcare crisis is. Mistrust of decades of data and solid science is what led us to this crisis. It will take us years to recover.

@EricTopol @TheLancet So leading medical journal that most doctors trust for real information goes political. Just leads to even more mistrust of medical establishment

This week @TheLancet cover and link to their accompanying editorial thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@angie_rasmussen US science and healthcare on hold for another 3 years...fortunately, other countries have the insight and social conscience to continue important research

Moderna isn’t done—they are turning into a cancer therapy company. That’s great for cancer! It’s not great for vaccination. This strategy will be used to push every manufacturer out of the US vaccine market. No need to ban vaccines if manufacturers can’t afford to make them.

@nickmmark @SenBillCassidy So true. Q: What does it take for a trained physician to turn his back on nearly 230 years of data? A: 5 minutes in the spotlight...

@SenBillCassidy After voting to confirm RFK, you now are living the last year of your political career and the first line of your obituary. To quote Dostoyevsky, “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing”

Claiming that risk from vaccines is greater than the threat from disease has led to highest rate of measles in decades. Undermining faith in polio vaccine will lead to paralyzed children. What others are doing will be blamed on President Trump. Unfair but true. statnews.com/2026/01/22/vac…

@oasishealthapp OMG...do some reading on linoleic acid before you all form blanket opinions. Be aware that a 100g serving of tofu typically contains around 4 to 5.5 grams of linoleic acid (an Omega-6), with variations depending on firmness...More than an egg. We all need some omega-6

Testing reveals Vital Farms eggs contain more linoleic acid than canola oil A polyunsaturated fatty acid known to promote inflammation. The report found that 23.5% of the fats in a Vital Farms egg are linoleic acid, which is higher than the 19% found in canola oil. Since selling to BlackRock, Vital Farms has switched their feed from pasture forage to a soy blend. To support growing sales, all their 575 family farms now rely on this supplemental soy feed. When eggs are labeled as pasture-raised, this might now mean they are fed soy and kept in cages with only temporary access to pasture. Unfortunately, this situation is all too common with brands that sell out. We created the Oasis app to test and show you what's really inside what you eat

@scrippsresearch @EricTopol @ScrippsRTI @usnews Congratulations, Eric!

Congratulations to Eric Topol, MD (@EricTopol), Scripps Research EVP and founder of the @ScrippsRTI, who was listed among @usnews’s 2025 “Best Leaders”, recognized for his significant impact in business, education, health care and public service. More: ow.ly/cOTk50XuUvX

@stephanieinnes Especially scary, as measles infection basically erases immunity from many, many other infectious diseases. It's called "immune amnesia" and we have known about it since 1908. It's the real reason we worry about kids getting measles.

There are 78 #measles cases due to one outbreak in two bordering counties - Mohave County #Arizona and Washington County #Utah azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

@LindaNguyen_l Also: A second vote was on whether the Vaccines for Children program, which provides shots to about half of American children, should continue to cover the cost of the shot. The committee voted yes on Thursday and then reversed that decision on Friday, in another vote.

@LindaNguyen_l Just a couple: From NYT: “Thursday’s session ended with the panel members at odds. A hot microphone caught one panelist calling another committee member “an idiot,” although it was unclear who was speaking.”

Listening to the ACIP Meeting. I think we have found a replacement for Jimmy Kimmel Live.

We have joined @IDSAInfo, @ASMicrobiology, and 19 other medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, in calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to ensure the health of the American people. Read the statement in full: news.aai.org/2025/09/04/joi…

@ImmunologyAAI @IDSAInfo @ASMicrobiology Finally!

@florian_krammer Almost every division director at cdc just resigned in the past hour

At least the CDC director is qualified.... ....oh wait a minute.

I see your shocking and raise it to fucking outrageous. These are lies designed to keep American taxpayers from being able to access safe and effective vaccines. It weakens our ability to respond. In the long run, more people will die in a H5N1 pandemic.

2/ First he destroys research. Now he wants to eliminate common sense in Medicine. What next? Education?

“When it comes to a question like raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm”. --Casey Means /1

Nice! Keep it up, @angie_rasmussen !!! nature.com/articles/s4157…

I'm sorry, but this is unacceptable: "Ms Iwasaki" and "Dr. Krumholz." It is an insult to women and to scientists (and esp to women scientists)...Great Op-Ed, though😠

So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context. There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.

@PaulBieniasz 😭

Those utter, fuckwit, shithead charlatans who are now running NIH will likely redirect the funding to idiotic studies of whether the measles vaccine causes autism, pretending that we don’t already know the answer. Dark days for American science.

@angie_rasmussen @maxdkozlov Vaccine research effectively halted for the next 3.5 years (at least). Hopefully other more enlightened countries will take up the slack...Such a sad state of affairs.

Yesterday when I talked to @maxdkozlov about this, I wondered which of my NIH-funded colleagues would have their grants cut. All of them. Research on pandemic viruses has now ground to a screeching halt in the US. nature.com/articles/d4158…