The Good News: 5-20-2025

• NIH Director @DrJBhattacharya sparks mass walkout from NIH employees after suggesting COVID-19 may have originated from the Wuhan lab — and that NIH helped fund it.

  RFK_ Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international power politics. While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organization’s funding historically, other countries such as China have exerted undue influence over its operations in ways that serve their own interests and not particularly the interests of the global public. Global cooperation on health is still critically important to @POTUS and myself, but it isn’t working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate. I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call.

• FDA to limit covid shot approval to elderly, those with medical conditions- The agency will narrow its approval for updated coronavirus vaccines, marking a significant shift in the agency’s approach to green-lighting shots that have been recommended broadly to the public.

• The Food and Drug Administration unveiled plans Tuesday to narrow its approval for updated coronavirus vaccines to older adults and people with at least one health condition that puts them at high risk for severe disease, marking a significant shift in the agency’s approach to green-lighting the shots.
  The new guidelines indicate updated vaccines will probably be available in the fall for Americans over the age of 65, as well as those older than 6 months who have at least one condition putting them at higher risk of severe illness, as well as people with conditions such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and obesity, in addition to pregnant women. Top FDA leaders estimate more than 100 million Americans would be eligible for the shots under the new framework. In past years, the shots have been broadly recommended, including to children and otherwise generally healthy Americans.
  FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad, who was recently tapped as FDA’s top regulator of vaccines, detailed the new approach in a New England Journal of Medicine article released Tuesday morning. The change — which top Trump health officials had earlier forecast in vaguer terms — comes just two days before the agency’s independent advisers are set to make recommendations on selecting the formula that vaccine makers should use to potentially adjust their shots to target the strain of the coronavirus currently circulating in the country.
  The new framework will also require vaccine makers to conduct a randomized controlled trial before the agency signs off on a coronavirus shot for healthy people between the ages of 6 months and 64 years. When possible, the agency will “encourage manufacturers” to complete such trials after they get the agency’s approval for a vaccine for high risk groups, a potentially expensive endeavor.
  “The FDA will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data on persons at low risk,” Makary and Prasad wrote. “These clinical trials will inform future directions for the FDA, but more important, they will provide information that is desperately craved by health care providers and the American people.”
  About 74 percent of adults have at least one condition that puts them at higher risk of severe illness from covid-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  Prasad recently replaced Peter Marks, an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines whom the Trump administration forced out in late March.

On the Clinical Data Front and MAHA:

• Two Top Mexican Federal Officials Murdered in the Capital, President Claudia Shinbaum Confirms

• Disgraced Democrat @EricSwalwell defends @LaMonicaMcIver for assaulting ICE officers while trying to support criminal illegal aliens. “She was in the right.”
• Elon Musk to Pull Back on Political Spending: “I Think I’ve Done Enough”
• Rep Burlison- Why did the CIA try to hide Lee Harvey Oswald’s interactions in Mexico City from Congress? A witness from the original House Select Committee on Assassinations says he was being used by the CIA. So, was JFK’s assassination an assignment or asset gone rogue?
• Former Senior Analyst at the JFK Records Review Board Douglas Horne alleges that JFK was shot MULTIPLE times in the head. “The JFK skull x-rays reveal unambiguous and clear evidence of two headshots fired from in front of the President… they actually reveal a total of THREE headshots.” Watch his statement below

• Home Depot declines to raise prices as a result of tariffs, one-upping competitors – CNBC “More than half of what the company sells comes from the U.S.”
• “I think humanoid robots will be the biggest product ever. The demand will be insatiable … Optimus can watch YouTube videos … and based on that video, just like a human, can learn how to do that thing.”