The @nytimes and @apoorva_nyc owe parents the facts behind their alarming hepatitis B reporting. The paper they discuss is a “modeling study” or simulation based on assumptions, not a study of evidence or outcomes. The model assumes allowing parents and doctors to decide when or whether to vaccinate would drive vaccine completion down to just half of children. The researchers did not observe that decline or establish that our policy would cause it. Yet the Times obscures that assumption while amplifying the alarming prediction it produces. At its December meeting, ACIP recommended that parents and doctors decide whether and when to begin hepatitis B vaccination. CDC’s January update to the childhood vaccine schedule carried forward that approach. Yet the researchers assigned sharply different vaccination rates to the two, producing different infection projections. The Times should explain what justifies that difference before attributing its alarming 83% figure to the January update. The article also gets the recommendation wrong. The recommendation did not tell parents to wait until two months to decide. Parents could choose vaccination at birth. The two-month suggestion applied to administering the first dose if parents deferred the birth dose. The recommendation retained birth-dose vaccination for babies whose mothers have hepatitis B or whose status is unknown. For babies whose mothers test negative, it gave parents and doctors a choice about when or whether to begin vaccination. I reject the idea that respecting parents’ choices means abandoning children’s health. Under my leadership, HHS puts informed consent, individual medical circumstances, and conversations between parents and doctors at the center of health decisions. I welcome rigorous scrutiny of our policies. But scrutiny demands accurate reporting, defensible assumptions, and evidence. The Times should correct its error and explain the assumptions behind its headline. Parents deserve the full story. nytimes.com/2026/10/19/healt…

Fraud Playbook: ❌ Recruit someone to the daycare center ❌ Pay the kickback ❌ Pay for additional services that are not necessary or never happened New York knows they have a problem — we're holding them accountable to fix it.

Major Concern: Public Unionization of Family Caregivers @CMSGov Deputy Administrator Dan Brillman breaks down why this is a problem 👇

🇺🇸 American taxpayers deserve answers "@CMSGov sent a letter to the state of New York—a compliance warning letter—for their failure to oversee the managed long-term care plans who oversee these programs. The state has 30 days to answer and 90 days to come into compliance." —CMS Deputy Administrator Dan Brillman

American taxpayers are being RIPPED. OFF. Over half of managed long-term care plans responsible for the compliance of these centers reported ZERO fraud last year — that's not possible! 15/15 were found to be fraudulent yesterday — that didn't happen overnight.

15 of 15 New York Social Adult Daycares audited yesterday showed no record of a single meal, activity, or hour of supervision — just attendance sheets. These daycares are receiving millions from our Medicaid system and providing NOTHING in return —this is FRAUD!

"Sign in sheets already had things filled out for tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday—they're already pre-filling out sheets and billing for people who haven't shown up yet!" —@CMSGov Deputy Administrator Dan Brillman

🚨 Nearly 100 Social Adult Daycares in the Greater Flushing and Queens area received monitoring letters yesterday! If you're committing fraud in our healthcare system know the Trump Administration is looking for you, we will find you, and we will stop you. The rampant fraud ends now.

"Some centers bill Medicaid millions of dollars per year and appear virtually empty during the day." —CMS Deputy Administrator Kimberly Brandt New York Adult Daycare Center received $28.5 MILLION before they were terminated!

🚨 Nearly 100 Social Adult Daycares in the Greater Flushing and Queens area received monitoring letters yesterday! If you're committing fraud in our healthcare system know the Trump Administration is looking for you, we will find you, and we will stop you. The rampant fraud ends now.

👀 WATCH: @CMSGov Deputy Administrator Kimberly Brandt breaks down her eyewitness account of rampant fraud at Adult Daycare centers in New York. "These centers aren't competing on care, they're competing on cash."

"Our constitutional framework calls upon our leaders to steward the money carefully." — @OIGatHHS Inspector General T. March Bell The Trump Administration takes our constitutional duty in the stewardship of American taxpayer $$ seriously—we will continue to root out fraud wherever we find it. 🇺🇸