Underlying Conditions

Underlying Conditions

What comes after a measles infection?
Measles erases part of a child’s immune memory for 2 to 3 years. No U.S. agency tells doctors whether to repeat childhood vaccines.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Anthropic report: could AI + synthetic biology = bioweapons?
Anthropic voluntarily blocked five concerning chats, but there are no legal guardrails to protect against potentially nefarious use.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Flu, COVID and RSV vaccines: are they still covered this fall/winter?
What 299 studies say about flu, COVID and RSV shots, and why that is not what decides whether you pay.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Why I think of measles as a mini HIV
Measles erases immune memory built from past infections and vaccines. No guideline says how to rebuild it.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder

August 2026

Senator Ted Cruz asked me for this evidence in 2021. I sent it to his committee.
The 82% is not a miscarriage rate. It is what you get after removing nearly every healthy pregnancy the registry had finished counting.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Is COVID vaccination safe in pregnancy? What Dr. Fauci's texts show.
Three federal health officials had to extrapolate from other vaccines in January 2021 because COVID vaccine clinical trials excluded pregnant women.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Trump said the vaccine order was about autism. It never says autism.
The order cuts the recommended list from 18 diseases to 11, tells manufacturers to split a shot nobody makes, and hands the Attorney General the only…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
AOC filmed her fertility shot. Nobody films the storage bill.
Egg freezing works. The success numbers, the prices, and the insurance rules are murkier than the marketing, and half the biology never gets studied at…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Organ donation when the donor isn't dead: what records show
A Kentucky man woke up on the way to his own organ recovery. A Mississippi woman spent 15 hours alive at an organ recovery center while her family…
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
FDA approves first mRNA flu vaccine: what mFLUSIVA means
mRNA vaccines make it possible to update shots in weeks. HHS canceled $766 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccines for pandemics.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
Congress defunded the rule that finds the contaminated food
Nine recalls this year came with a named food. Nine more FDA investigations have no food at all, so nothing comes off the shelf.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
How Much Did the New Mexico Measles Outbreak Cost? $53,522 a Case.
The state bought immunity at emergency prices in August that it could have bought at $26.35 a dose long before.
 • Dr. Céline Gounder
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