Monica L. Northington, MD, MPH

11/28/2025

11/28/2025

Healing for the Holidays: A Grief & Healing Webinar
Only $5 to register!!!

The holidays can be beautiful, but they can also be heavy. Grief doesn’t pause for Christmas lights or family gatherings. In fact, many people feel it even more this time of year.

If you’re navigating grief, loss, or major life transitions this holiday season, I invite you to join me for my annual holiday webinar.

Together, we will explore:
✔️ Why grief intensifies during the holidays
✔️ How to process emotions in healthy ways
✔️ Practical tools for managing triggers, loneliness, and holiday expectations
✔️ Strategies for honoring loved ones while caring for yourself
✔️ How to create space for healing, peace, and grounding

🗓️ Replay included for all registrants
📌 Your payment confirms your spot
🔗 Register here: https://square.link/u/LB23y6LG

Your health and wholeness matter!
Take this step for you. 💙

11/26/2025

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Babies are dying of whooping cough across the US... and it is largely preventable.

We’ve had more than 25,000 pertussis cases this year so far. Cases are on track to surpass 2024 (a year that already saw a fivefold jump from the year before). In the first three months of 2025 alone, the U.S. logged 6,600 cases — 4× the same period in 2024 and 25× 2023!

Deaths have occurred in several states: three unvaccinated infants in Kentucky, two infants in Louisiana (we are not sure of vaccination status), and a child under 5 in Washington state who had received some doses but had not completed the DTaP series (and had other contributing health factors).

Between 2000–2017, 84% of U.S. pertussis deaths occurred in babies under 2 months old — the window BEFORE they can get their first DTaP.

IF ONLY WE HAD A WAY TO PREVENT THIS....
We do. And yes — we’re upset. These deaths should not be happening.

When children receive the complete 5-dose DTaP series on schedule, the vaccine protects about 98% of them in the year after the final dose. When pregnant women get Tdap between 27–36 weeks, it prevents ~78% of pertussis cases in newborns and is ~91% effective at preventing hospitalization.

The problem is that people aren’t getting it...

DTaP coverage among kindergarteners has fallen to 92.1%, down from about 95% pre-pandemic. That may look like a small drop — until you understand herd immunity thresholds. And until you start counting dead babies.

Pertussis in infants is brutal. About 1 in 3 is hospitalized. About 1 in 5 develops pneumonia. Some suffer seizures or brain swelling. Around 1% die.

Adults describe coughing until they vomit or break ribs.
Infants? They turn blue. They stop breathing. They die.

Whooping cough was rare for decades after vaccination became widespread — until the 2000s, when waning immunity, natural cycles, and pockets of low coverage (fueled by misinformation) allowed it to roar back.

We had this under control. Fear and misinformation are undoing decades of progress.
Get vaccinated. Get your kids vaccinated. If you’re pregnant, get Tdap between 27–36 weeks.

https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/third-unvaccinated-kentucky-baby-dies-of-whooping-cough/
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/pertussis/cases-rise-nationally-2-infants-die-pertussis-louisiana
https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/two-louisiana-infants-die-of-pertussis-amid-drop-in-vaccinations/

11/25/2025

https://www.knoe.com/2025/11/25/byheart-baby-formula-all-lots-may-be-contaminated-with-botulism-bacteria-tests-show/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHo_i20XH4EiOSP5bhfpkwT2dyFKsunyKQDgvb0QtTy6KY8hoJQ-h5mrCHwvG_aem_KYNn1rW7X_IT6XY6O6B9qg #

Tests of ByHeart infant formula tied to a botulism outbreak that has sickened dozens of babies showed that all of the company’s products may have been contaminated.

11/25/2025

Hi 👋🏻 from a biomedical scientist with a PhD in microbiology and immunology:

If someone says vaccines are being injected into someone’s bloodstream, you know they have no idea what they are talking about.

Because ZERO vaccines are administered intravenously.

We have vaccines that are administered:

Intramuscularly (most common, into the muscle).
➡️ Examples include: DTaP, Tdap, HPV, influenza, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, COVID-19, RSV, inactivated polio, meningococcal, pneumococcal, shingles

Subcutaneously (below the cutaneous skin layer).
➡️ Examples include: MMR, MMRV, Varicella, Yellow Fever.

Intradermally (between the dermal skin layers).
➡️Examples include: certain rabies vaccines, BCG, mpox.

Oral (by mouth).
➡️ Examples include: Typhoid, Rotavirus, oral polio, oral cholera.

Intranasal (inhalation).
➡️ Examples include: FluMist.

The route of vaccine administration has an important role in stimulating the immune response. But NONE are being “injected into your bloodstream” so let’s cease and desist with that.

Send this to any anti-vaccine person who continues to repeat that absurd lie solely to try to spread fear.

11/24/2025

The holiday season is quickly approaching, bringing loved ones together to celebrate. And as families gather, it’s easier for contagious viruses to spread, putting vulnerable groups at risk. Thankfully, widespread vaccination prevents these diseases from spreading and keeps everyone healthy.

Learn more about the importance of staying up to date on immunizations and community immunity this holiday season by visiting our website.
https://bit.ly/3XcrS7d

11/21/2025

https://www.wjtv.com/news/state/remaining-november-snap-benefits-being-issued-in-mississippi/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHmhaMZ6HtUUUalLj8-RAqmp_RCbM8qCd9kI4HYoiOA6dAhfgNjFRYBTQNy3G_aem_vFfQZwLifBz_slxY0u3KWw

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) announced that the issuance of the remaining November SNAP benefits is underway. Clients can expect their total ben…

11/21/2025

11/21/2025

Delay smartphones until the end of 8th grade and protect the joy of childhood.

11/19/2025

You are cordially invited to join us live TONIGHT from 5:30-6:30 PM CST for “The Fortune Report” on the Women for Progress channel on YouTube or Facebook. Dr. Fortune’s guests tonight will be Adriane Dorsey-Kidd and Dr. Monica Northington, and the topic will be Seasonal Affective Disorder.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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