We’re failing to help all Americans understand why staying up to date with Covid vaccines has 3 functions: 1. Reduces risk of hospitalization and death 2. Reduces risk of strokes and heart attacks and protects heart health 3. Reduces risk of long Covid

NEW: Stunning data shows how important it is for pregnant mothers to be vaccinated agst covid MMWR Nearly 90% of infants <6mo hospitalized for covid had moms who weren't vaccinated. Infants are as vulnerable to covid as 65-74yo. One in 5 hospitalized for covid are in ICU.

These are vaccine-preventable deaths. No kids should die from flu...or COVID...or RSV! It's just so so upsetting.

Misinformation and disinformation are undermining trust in scientific and public health institutions. We need governments and other stakeholders to speak up and help tackle the challenge. Global health security depends on it. #PandemicAccord

A masterclass in communicating scientific nuance and uncertainty. Thank you Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 for this excellent piece. statnews.com/2024/10/16/bir…

An honor to moderate this all-star panel (dare I say, womanel) at APHA #APHA2024. Join us Tuesday @ 8:30amCT as we kick off a whole day of de Beaumont Foundation #Disrupt with our session: Empathy in Action: Transforming Public Health Messaging in a Polarized Era."

Calgary stopped adding fluoride to its water in 2011. What happened? "The need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700% at the Alberta Children’s Hospital." - Dr. James Dickinson @ University of Calgary calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-s-plan…

Not here much. Find me where the skies are bluer. Same handle: Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS

“I don’t see our management of H5N1, which is already really bad, improving under a new administration,” said Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS “It’s about to get worse.” New story up for Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

The POTUS-elect is misinformed: as I detailed in the book about my daughter, we now have overwhelming evidence showing vaccines don’t cause autism + the evidence showing how autism begins in early fetal brain development through the actions of autism genes (before kids are born)

WHO says 10 out of 12 samples from Congo's outbreak have tested positive for malaria. Further samples are being collected. "It’s possible that more than one disease is involved."

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Public Health Says: Stop the RFK Jr. Nomination. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/7f9f33…

I spoke with Benjamin Mueller The New York Times about the H5N1 sequences from the severely ill case in Louisiana (link in replies). The specific mutations don't concern me as much as the increase in human cases around the country coupled with a surge in seasonal flu. Short thread on why 👇

Check out our Winter issue Cover Story! Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS discusses the continuation of misinformation and disinformation being disseminated causing more public health communication issues as mistruths associate the vaccines with cancer. contagionlive.com/view/mrna-covi…

Tonight on PBS News Weekend: Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS on the Trump administration's response to the measles outbreak; Ali Rogin with John Eligon on President Trump's war of words with South Africa over land over land policy ... 1/2

On this week’s episode of “More To The Story,” host Al Letson talks with epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS about how we could be stumbling into another pandemic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bir…

We are so grateful and excited our #WorldImmunizationWeek conversation with Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS and Stella Anyangwe on the 24th! #EndPolio #VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible

Join us at the upcoming Vaccine Congress in September; submit your abstract today! We have a great line-up of speakers, including Susanna Esposito , Francisco TT Lai , Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS , Marios Koutsakos and many more! Check-out: elsevier.com/events/confere…

RFK just announced Martin Kulldorff & Robert Malone as chair and co-chair of ACIP. He also says he never promised Cassidy not to change ACIP. U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. is a coward. Secretary Kennedy is a liar. We’ll all suffer for their shortcomings. nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/…