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One easy way to know if you should support cuts to Medicaid is to ask yourself if you want your nearest hospital to be open or closed next time you need it. Then repeat the question substituting “Emergency Department,” “Trauma Center,” “Stroke Center,” “Cardiac Cath Lab,” etc.

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Can someone remind me is it good when the government starts making lists of people they think are inferior?

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Offit was no alarmist about vaxing kids for Covid either. This is very damning.

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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

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The problem with 'do your own research' is that vaccine data can be countintuitive. E.g. COVID vaccine very effective despite apparent (but explainable) contradictions like: - most people who died in early 2021 had been vaccinated - most disease deaths occurred after vaccine rollout began More:

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An unconfirmed political appointee - who is an antivaxx grifter with no vaccine or immunology experience, or even drug or drug approval experience, …or even clinical trial experience for that matter - is making it impossible for the updated COVID Novavax (the non-mRNA option) vaccine to get approved

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Bad news for the Novavax COVID vaccine: FDA wants Novavax "...to show its vaccine is effective w/ another randomized study after appointees under (HHS Sec. RFK Jr.) intervened in the approval process... The additional step goes beyond what other Covid-19 vaccine makers had to do to win approval..."🛟

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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

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My article in @plosglobalpublichealth.org on some immediate things we can do journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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The Contrarian At The CDC Vaccine Policy Meeting, by @walkerbragman.bsky.social www.importantcontext.news/p/the-contra...

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Translating what Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak apnews.com/article/robe... via @mrsmithap.bsky.social

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Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

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"The answer to science’s influence problem is not trust building but rather aiding better-placed confidence and communicating the truth in a more compelling way, one that does not assume a lack of competing sources or that everyone is playing by the same rules of evidence."

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Secretary Kennedy seems to believe that vaccines against respiratory bugs that target a single antigen don't work. People who have studied and designed vaccines beg to differ. With multiple pending #Covid vaccines before #FDA, this may not bode well. www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r...

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RFK Jr. draws from misinformation playbook by touting an inhaled steroid to treat measles www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social et al @nbcnews.com "It’s reminiscent of the days when fringe doctors said ivermectin could cure Covid." "There is no evidence to support the use..."

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for

submitted 44 days ago • 876 comments

The first person who posts the Lucille Bluth banana meme when bananas actually do cost ten dollars will feel like a king for a day

submitted 48 days ago • 13 comments

So grateful to @booker.senate.gov for standing up for our democracy! My children hope you get the most delicious snack after all your efforts! Thank you for setting an example for them, for your colleagues, and for all of us! We can - and must - do hard things!

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A refreshing story and an important reminder that even though antivaxx parents suck the oxygen out of every conversation, an overwhelming majority of parents still want and seek out vaccines to protect their children from diseases. #Vaccineswork www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

Since accepting a taxpayer-funded position with access to pretty sweet healthcare, I’ve seen this dude hiking and playing tennis for the Gram. I’m also seeing tens of thousands of people under his purview lose their jobs and funding.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

if you kill your kid by not allowing them to be vaccinated you can get a full time grifter job in the anti vax movement but if a school shooter kills your kid you'll get smeared by the same people that make anti-vax child killers their heroes. the commonality is they all love it when kids die

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How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs? From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles: “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…

submitted 62 days ago • 869 comments

The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens. RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.

submitted 63 days ago • 121 comments

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

submitted 65 days ago • 34 comments

A number of followers have asked us for merch. We don’t have anything to offer yet - it’s been a busy Q1 - but we’d like to promote a couple small shops that sell some awesome public health merch. We have no connection other than admiration. 1. MariahDrawsThings

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments

The nominee for NIH director “isn’t sure COVID vaccines killed more people than they’ve saved.” COVID vaccines saved at least 20 million people the first year they were available alone. Please share this with your Senators (call them!).

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Write to #Schumer. His chief of staff Mike Lynch ([email protected]), his deputy CoS ([email protected]), comms director ([email protected]) and press secretary ([email protected]).

submitted 68 days ago • 9 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

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