My thoughts on Trumps comments about USA Women's Hockey Team:
1) If you're mad about this but don't believe women should have a category free of men, you're just an unserious person.
2) not going to lie, I face-palmed when I heard it. I knew exactly how it would be spun. I know his humor, but this one missed the mark IMO.
3) Trump is the reason true women's hockey exists. USA women's hockey has just recently voted to ban men from women's hockey (hasn't instituted it yet). Wouldn't have happened without Trump's EO. There are teams with as many as four men on one USA hockey women's team (Minnesota). How can people claim he doesn't care about women's hockey when his EO is the reason true women's hockey will exist at all?
4) it's unfair to disparage the men's team over taking the phone call, going to SOTU, being proud to be an American, etc. They've been incredibly supportive and congratulatory of the women's team. Jack Hughes said Megan Keller's golden goal in the women's game was his inspiration to do the same. Stop trying to pit them against each other.
5) I wish the women would attend Trump's SOTU address. They were invited just as the men were. I think their attendance would've inspired young girls across the country and been significant for the sport of women's hockey. I hope it really was just a scheduling issue they couldn't be there.
6) in general, there's a group of people so anti-America that they genuinely hate patriotism. They don't want unity. They'll use an inspiring sports story to tear down the man in the Oval Office. Y'all are weird. My heart swells with pride for both the men's and women's team.
6) there is still a ton of work needing to be done to protect women's sports and the threats they face (abusive coaches, NIL, adequate funding & resources, etc). I'll continue to use my contacts and platform to advocate for these things and encourage others to do the same.
Incredible fan view from the stands when the U.S. beat Canada in Olympics. #hockey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRWjRwHsn-Q
Is anyone else just obsessed with that backcheck by Hughes to prevent an OT goal, then the forecheck by #8 and #86 ferociously winning the puck and setting up the golden goal? That winning goal would never have been possible without #8 Werenski and I think he needs more attention :)
The US hockey team rolled into E11ven night club in Miami and led the club in singing the national anthem. This is phenomenal:
In COVID times, a cardiologist was forced off a peer reviewed paper on the topic of vaccine myocarditis, but yes tell me more about how much you care about misinformation.
I’ve signed 100% of compassionate use requests that have come to my desk.
Can Clalit undertake an investigation? Can our FDA collaborate to get more data from them?
Anybody who is mad about this video has a dump in their pants. Talking to the President after winning Gold is as American as Apple Pie. Hockey twitter stays the softest group of crybabies who ever existed.
I’ve watched this so many times…the twirls are cool but also just look at her hand movements. So delicate. So calm. Flawless!
She really earned this one. 🇺🇸
The team wanted to share their victory with the children of their teammate who was killed by a drunk driver.
One of the best moments in sports history.
This is America 🇺🇸🙏🏼
When I was a kid, this photo would be on the cover of Time, the Wheaties box, next years Trapper Keeper, lunchboxes, and the bedroom wall of teenagers all over America.
Amazing to see USA win Olympic gold again as underdogs after 46 years!
I remember the last one well — I saved my birthday and Christmas gift money and allowance for several years and bought myself a 12” BW tv for my room when 9 years old in January 1980, costing $70, and the Miracle on Ice was one of the first things I watched!
Thank you for sharing this. So many good men out there. Give him a hug for all of us.
I didn’t know this about the Hughes brothers. I admire them even more now.
He lost two teeth during the game, there was blood on the ice, and he kept fighting. And scored the gold medal winning goal for Team USA.
This is why we love sports.
What a champion. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
This letter to @SecKennedy from these politicians is absurd.
It claims I have a "history of anti-vaccine ideology" - but with no support for this claim.
I'm not anti-vaccine. My positions are clear - & they're things we all agree on:
-Pregnant women deserve accurate counseling about vaccines.
-Vaccines carry risks & benefits.
-Pregnant women should be counseled properly & supported in their vaccine decisions.
These are uncontroversial, common-sense positions supported by the overwhelming majority of the public & I'm honored to be serving on ACIP.
Thanks to this wonderful team of scientists for continuing to look at the data on this using a nuanced approach.
"I thank the Lord the most for everything... God is good."
- Team USA Women’s Hockey Player Joy Dunne After Winning Gold
Dunne also talks about taking pride in being American & representing the red, white, & blue 👏
Couldn't agree more. Yesterday was the start of Lent. Hallow and Ascension have great tools for daily reflection if you would like something on your phone to bookend your day. It's a great way to use that "devilbox" for some good! :)
This article is misleading. NIAID is refocusing on its core mission, advancing rigorous research in allergies and infectious diseases, and moving away from the out of scope, pandemic-era policies that fell short. The January 16 announcement clearly outlines this direction and is linked here. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12820581/
“The Moderna drama didn’t start with the new FDA. It started the moment Peter Marks left in March 2025. Suddenly the permissive guardrails were gone, and the gamble they took under the old regime was laid bare.”
Cc @matthewherper - thoughts ?
R to @KrugAlli: Thanks to the author team:
Paul Bourdon, PhD - mathematician
Ram Duriseti, MD, PhD - computational modeler and clinician
Christian Gromoll, PhD - mathematician
Dyana Dalton, PhD - immunologist
Kevin Bardosh, PhD - bioethicist
Alli Krug, MPH - epidemiologist
Read the full paper for details on methods, supplements, & why this matters for future pandemics. Feedback welcome!
8/9
R to @KrugAlli: We are grateful to Restore Childhood for its funding allowing open-access publication of our work. Please consider supporting Restore Childhood whose mission is “ to ensure parents have the information, community, and courage to stand up for their children” (http://restorechildhood.com/donate).
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R to @KrugAlli: Implications: To build trust & reduce hesitancy, public-health agencies should use benefit-risk models that can support stratification of vaccine recommendations not only by age & sex but also by prior-infection & comorbidity status. Blanket recommendations can do harm.
6/9
R to @KrugAlli: The FDA's benefit-risk assessments should be more rigorous, and, in particular, the FDA should expect the CDC to provide the information necessary to ensure rigor.
(For both its Pfizer and Moderna assessments, the FDA failed to obtain data from the CDC on incidental COVID hospitalizations.
For both assessments, the FDA claims that age/sex specific VAM/P information from the CDC’s VSD system is not available; e.g., for its Pfizer assessment the FDA author team stated, “[W]e have no access to VSD data for smaller age/sex subgroups [e.g., 16–17-year-old males].”
Finally, for its mRNA-1273 assessment, the FDA failed to request that the CDC disaggregate COVID hospitalization data for the age range 18–45 into data for the subranges 18–25, 26–35, and 35–45.)
7/9
R to @KrugAlli: Results: For 18-25 males, our modeling suggests vaccine risks (VAM/P hosps) outweighed benefits (COVID hosps prevented) in more likely scenarios—creating 8% to 52% more VAM/P hosps than prevented. Findings were validated by later data from Ontario and Connecticut. (Details covered in extensive supplements.)
4/9
R to @KrugAlli: We also illustrate how our model can be modified to incorporate a comorbidity (obesity) as a risk modifier by providing a benefit-risk assessment of mRNA-1273 vaccination of 18– 25-year-old males based on their Body Mass Index (BMI).
We find that for BMI levels 23–34 (from the ideal to the moderately obese), prior-infection status determines whether vaccination is beneficial, but for the those with high BMI (35–44) in high-infection-risk scenarios vaccination becomes beneficial even for those with prior-infection protection.
5/9
R to @KrugAlli: The FDA approved mRNA-1273 on 31 Jan 2022 (for those of ages 18 and up) based on its assessment that vaccine benefits “clearly” outweighed risks even for young males at high vaccine-attributable myocarditis/pericarditis (VAM/P) risk. However, the FDA benefit-risk analysis had significant shortcomings such as omitting benefits conferred by prior COVID infection.
2/9
R to @KrugAlli: We built a model extending the FDA's by accounting for prior-infection protection, incidental COVID hospitalizations, finer age-stratification of hosp rates, and more accurate VAM/P-rate estimates. We used data available to the FDA at the time of its mRNA-1273 analysis (3rd week of Jan 2022). We assumed a 5-month eval period as the FDA did.
3/9
Pinned: Our new paper in @Vaccines_MDPI reanalyzes the FDA's benefit-risk assessment of Moderna's mRNA-1273 COVID vaccine (orig formulation). We focus on hospitalizations—those prevented by vaccination vs. those caused by vaccine-attibutable myocarditis/pericarditis (VAM/P). We incorporate benefits from prior COVID infection—something the FDA overlooked. Our analysis is restricted to males 18-25 (those at highest VAM/P risk).
Bourdon PS, Duriseti R, Gromoll HC, Dalton DK, Bardosh K, Krug AE. A Reanalysis of the FDA’s Benefit–Risk Assessment of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 COVID Vaccine Based on a Model Incorporating Benefits Derived from Prior COVID Infection. Vaccines. 2026; 14(2):165. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines14020165
cc @KevinBardosh
1/9
41-year-old bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor just became the oldest Olympic gold medalist in history.
But her greatest title isn’t “Olympian.”
It’s being a mother of two precious deaf children — one with Down syndrome — and being openly Christian, placing God above every medal.
“God put me here for a specific reason, and I don’t think it’s just to win medals. At the end of the day, I’m in this sport to glorify God, so if that means I come in last place, or I win the gold medal, that’s what I’m going to do.”
@anish_koka has been terrific explaining FACTS on the Moderna -FDAPrasad story
Anyone who slings personal insults rather than acknowledge the facts is not acting in good faith
it’s that simple
Generational disaster with grave decades-long consequences!
I don’t know @JenniferSey but she has been one of too few who had the moral clarity and the courage speak up, for our children and young.
We need more like her!
This is the strongly worded advice from the New Zealand government’s group of vaccine experts in relation to the under 18s. It wasn’t implemented.