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Brenda Goodman retweeted
NEW: Trump “loves” our vets. I dug into reality
At Trump's gutted VA:
Shortstaffed hospitals have stopped surgeries for heart attacks
They've stopped radiation for cancer
A vet w/ burst, gangrenous appendix couldn't get surgery bc OR was closed
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Brenda Goodman retweeted
OK, there are about 70,000 Georgians who have absentee ballots that haven't been accepted by their counties yet. We have reached that point in the cycle where, if you haven't mailed it yet, your best bet is to drop it in a drop box or turn it in at your County elections office.
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Brenda Goodman retweeted
SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving.
Jennifer Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC.
Now she's out after six months.
w @bylenasun
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Brenda Goodman retweeted
CNN's @KaitlanCollins: "Two thirds of Americans don't think the US is winning the war with Iran. When will it end?"
Trump responded: "You should not be here covering me. You said you weren't going to cover me. You shouldn't be covering me."
Brenda Goodman retweeted
My son was in kindergarten when I filed this #FOIA request that the State Department just responded to. Today, I am driving him to college.
Brenda Goodman retweeted
NEW: The CDC is excluding two deaths reported by Pa from its weekly national measles death tally, a decision that came from new director Erica Schwartz. Me + @rachel_roubein
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Brenda Goodman retweeted
Yes indeed @JeromeAdamsMD Let’s go. One in 250 pregnant women with Syphilis is far too many.
Brenda Goodman retweeted
CNN: One year after shooting, CDC workers say they still feel like targets
By Brenda Goodman @CNN @ReporterGoodman @SecKennedy @CDCgov
➡️ cnn.it/4q38J5e
As we near the anniversary of the terror attack on the CDC, I want to highlight this incredible interview my friend @AndyPierrotti of Atlanta First News did with the shooter's father. He's a fantastic investigative reporter. It's worth a watch. atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08…
Brenda Goodman retweeted
Price has been a major barrier to access for these medications, especially for older adults who may live on fixed incomes. Bringing costs down through a temporary federal program may finally put them within reach.
But medical experts caution that price shouldn't be the only consideration when deciding whether to use one of these powerful drugs. cnn.it/4ggyfkG
Brenda Goodman retweeted
No one is more mortified by a mistake than a journalist committed to factual reporting. The best own up to it, correct it and apologize for it, as @NinaTotenberg has done. It's worth remembering a long career dedicated to getting it right.
Totenberg read the text of the apology message she sent to Justice Alito:
"Dear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today's error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. I rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks after a few minutes had not happened, I asked somebody was going on inside, to which the answer was, 'retirement announcements.' I didn't hear the 's' on 'announcements,' and I assumed something no reporter should ever do, that you were retiring. It was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I could go on, but I don't know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry."
Not fake news. Real news. Expensive to produce. Risky. Fact-checked. Wrenching. Watch. cnn.com/2026/06/01/world/vid…
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Brenda Goodman retweeted
A former USAID official based in the Democratic Republic of Congo tells @jaketapper that the response to the new Ebola outbreak was likely delayed weeks because of Trump's elimination of USAID.
Brenda Goodman retweeted
News: The CDC is sending a team to meet the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship and escort its American passengers back to the US via charter flight, per 4 sources.
Those passengers will then be placed in quarantine in Nebraska. w/ @jmhansler @ReporterGoodman & Deidre McPhilliips
Mississippi once had the highest childhood vaccination rates in the US, until Siri, funded the anti-vaccine organization, ICAN, fought to weaken the law. Since then, vaccination rates have fallen. Something Edney voiced concern about mississippifreepress.org/mis…
Edney has no business dispensing bandaids, let alone running the CDC. When heading Mississippi's health department that state ranked near dead last in health and he's a vaccine zealot that does not respect individual and civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/03…
Brenda Goodman retweeted
Understanding where shared clinical decision-making applies, and where it's being stretched beyond its design, is essential to understanding what's happening to the childhood vaccine schedule right now.
New piece: open.substack.com/pub/jakesc…
New data show prescriptions for leucovorin doubled after the White House touted it for some children with autism and a folate deficiency in their brains. It remains difficult for some families to find months later cnn.com/2026/03/05/health/le…
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Brenda Goodman retweeted
Vivid snapshot here of the public health outbreak just humming along in the background
cnn.com/2026/02/27/health/me…
Mood at CNN today is not great. variety.com/2026/film/news/c…
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