Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS
🏳️🌈 Assoc. Prof. of Medicine & Biostatistics & Biomedical Informatics, Director of Epidemiology PhD Program, HIV/TB Epidemiologist @Vanderbilt.
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSbad news for fans of children www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.
- No matter how some undermine and pervert and obscure the truth, it *remains*. The tragedy to mourn isn't *just* the loss of our anchor to reality, it's the entirely preventable suffering that will now be *promoted* because of it. www.nytimes.com/.../vaccine-....
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSThis is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
- Acting with all the precision of a dull ax dissecting an earthworm...🙄 And what will the consequence be? My prediction: poorer outbreak response, poorer support for local health departments, poorer public health for Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h... www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSThe Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
- Worth remembering in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder (when many of my *Catholic* HS classmates were eager to suspend the legal rights of "leftists"), that we've covered this ground before...& St. Thomas More was pretty clear about the illogic ~500 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBi...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSBREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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- Part III: There's still something missing; the *value* of truth-seeking motivates *how* we do good science...but what about *why*? There's a cultural *rot* prizing selfishness & control over other people, mixed with ignorance & pride, that we have to reckon with, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
- Part II: more to be said about how academics often miss the point, following Bloom's piece... {https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-arent-professors-braver} But I think there's a lot more going on than what another academic (a sociologist) notes here: *values*... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
- Part I: *All* academics should read this & reflect, as I will. What's the role of academic culture in stifling healthy & necessary confrontation...and how do we shift it? #AcademicSky #MedSky www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSIcymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
- There's a lot to say about the scientific illiteracy, hucksterism, & plain ol' predatory populism here...but before we can better educate the ill-informed, we have to have people who *want* to understand the science (& then, who are *capable* of understanding it). 🤷🏾♂️🙁 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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- Kinda hilarious anyone wants to pretend these people are motivated by anything other than barbarous cruelty & violence. It's *grotesque*. America empowered the worst of its own in electing Trump, and in turn, he has empowered the worst of America. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- He should never have been confirmed by the Senate in the first place...& he's unlikely to resign or be fired...but that doesn't mean scientists shouldn't continue stating the facts & calling out this cult of disinformation & death. Thank you, @idsainfo.bsky.social www.idsociety.org/news--public...
- Whether Americans find the warnings persuasive or not, it doesn't change the terrible *reality* that we all face, or the knowledge, expertise, & credibility of these authors. It's important for scientists to keep speaking truth to power, if only to avoid complicity. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSThe newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSNew, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSThis interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
- To get a sense of how scientists/public health officials feel, think about what you felt when you saw Notre Dame burn. The collective history, heritage, & culture- the work of *generations*- being destroyed in the blink of an eye. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h... www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
- Even if many of us are still relatively insulated from the chaos...do we realize how far gone our society is? Whether you've noticed, the continued degradation of the rule of law here is no trivial thing... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSLarry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
- A #DailyShow interview worth a watch & reflection: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kX... Reputable organizations if you wish to donate: donate.wck.org/give/525879/... www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-r... Call your Representative/Senators & tell them what you think: www.congress.gov/contact-us
- This is also why those who say *science* mustn't be "political" miss the point. Science itself isn't political. But its *implications* & the actions it informs or indicts *are*...because politics are how free societies act (or don't). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
- Please remember, among the most destructive consequences of ripping public goods away & undermining institutional scientific integrity is the damage to our #publichealth. www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS🗨️ “Vaccines have done more to improve public health than any other medical intervention.” A Viewpoint focuses on cancer vaccines & the future of immunotherapy—analysing trials & how the next generation of cancer vaccines can help improve patient outcomes & quality of life. tinyurl.com/n94jsbju
- I can't overstate how successful #USAID has been... & how *catastrophic* its discontinuation will be. *Tens of MILLIONS* of lives saved over 20 years...& MILLIONS of lives imperiled in the next few. Ending USAID is pure evil. 😔 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
- If gutting healthcare for poor people & ensuring the uberwealthy don't see a tax increase reflects your values- well, you're not a good person. There's no point in sugarcoating it. 🤷🏾♂️ #OBBB If you don't approve, call your Representative: www.house.gov/representati... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Whether you understand the science of how scores of vaccines have been rigorously evaluated for safety, efficacy, & effectiveness, they *have* been. Everyone indulging RFKJ's outright *lies* has blood on their hands. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
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- Progress...but so much damage has already been done. Still, it's important to speak the truth aloud, again and again, as often as we can. The fact that the message comes from a Reagan-appointed federal judge this time helps a bit, too. www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
- In case you wondered what actual infectious diseases / #vaccinology experts think about DHHS's adventures in trying to erase sound science. #VaccinesWork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)
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- What to do after attending a conference with colleagues whose life’s work with vulnerable populations is under attack? Go to the NYC #NoKings rally.
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- The US has been the scientific & academic envy of the *world* for decades now. Thanks to reckless ideologues, we're surrendering that position. Our brethren at the #NIH are speaking out & we must rise to their defense. The eyes of the world are upon us. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
- This substitution of demagoguery for scientific evidence will harm us all- but *especially* the medically vulnerable: children and the elderly. As morbidity/mortality from #vaccine-preventable diseases likely rise in the coming months, remember the root causes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSReminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
- I don't think the intent matters much. The fact is this: an American President is using the military to police US civilians in a US city. It's open authoritarian bullshit...and if you can't call it out & see how destructive it is, then you really are lost. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSIn the USA, a recent series of Executive Actions pose a substantial threat to the nation's health and health equity. In our latest issue, a new Comment highlights why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Read this & more ▶️ tinyurl.com/6fn6uvr7
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSChris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."
- From an accomplished physician & #HIV researcher who has provided care & produced practice-changing evidence since the beginning of the pandemic. Thank you, Ken Mayer, for writing this important piece about the #LavenderPurge for @iasociety.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- For too long, we've indulged a culture that empowers fascist thinking & Musk's contempt for empathy as a "bug" is nothing new (remember Nietzsche's "Übermensch"?). If we don't forcefully reject this cruelty, it's *our* legacy as much as his. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSI don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSMusk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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- Canceling mRNA #vaccine grants & contracts is a disgraceful compromise of public health preparedness, particularly in the face of viruses of #pandemic potential; it's always about the ideology, never about the evidence with them. Sickening malfeasance. 😔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
- Clearer than ever that these charlatans are not only evil but also *lazy*. 😒 They obviously used AI to write their anti-public-health work of *fiction* & it did what AI often does: made up references that don't exist (and miscited others that do); what clowns. 🙄🤡 www.notus.org/health-scien...
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- I worry I won't say this well, but the deliberate *undermining* of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent severe illness & death is, to be plainspoken, *evil*. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/h...
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- We lost another giant today. Please watch/share this brief clip from an extended conversation with the former Supreme Court Justice 12 years ago. {Relevant portion starts at 1:07:56 & ends at 1:11:04} RIP, Justice Souter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVJh... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSWith NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- I don't know if it's time for me to leave yet, but it's good to know others are aware of the gravity of the situation... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
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- We are in an *extraordinarily* dangerous moment for democracy, civil rights, & #PublicHealth. Share this video as widely as you can. Educate everyone you're able to. It's past time to push back *forcefully* against the ignorance & cruelty threatening us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
- American scientists: maybe just pretending as though we aren't subject to the capricious whims of a mad king *isn't* a sensible strategy? The damage to #research, to scientific progress, & to #PublicHealth is going to be generational. We *must* respond accordingly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSMay Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
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- Reposted by Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHSWe have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.
