Subject: A series of post from Catherine Rampell
These are from her BlueSky account. I am just putting up the texts. The graphics can be seen at the link at the end.

Catherine Rampell
‪@crampell.bsky.social‬

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

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‪Catherine Rampell‬ ‪@crampell.bsky.social‬
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Flu hospitalization rates are higher so far this season than at the same point during each of the past FIFTEEN YEARS, at least
Chart shows Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET) cumulative hospitalization data; red line is current (2024-2025) season

Catherine Rampell‬ ‪@crampell.bsky.social‬
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Per source, they also fired 18 contractors this week just from the flu division who work on data and communications, 4 from the comms team.
This is also the primary division handling bird flu.

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