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catherine-s-forest.bsky.social
Family medicine doc and public health & climate health specialist in ‘refinement’ (more of what I want to do—less of what I don’t want to do). Writer, musician, justice, a good laugh. 💫 Byebye Fam-DocForest moniker 🕊️
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Thanks, Hakeem! [Letter calling for Hegseth's immediate firing.]

This for humankind💚 No more fossil fuels for planetkind 💚

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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

🖋️ “STOP MUSK NOW” hit 100 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PWOHQU to 50409

If every American user on Bluesky signs a strike card we'd have enough people to call the general strike. I signed a strike card, please join me.

The administration is doing a good job trying to keep measles cases from being counted, yet we’ve already had more deaths in 2025 than in any of the last 30 yrs. Measles also has a delay (incubation period) between transmission and symptoms, so people can be contagious without knowing they’re sick.

My friends who are Libertarian & Republican & Democrat & Green & DSA — time to join forces against autocracy & oligarchy. We have this in common.

Paris #standupforscience ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Call your electeds

“Every employee of every U.S. department or agency now knows that the same playbook can be applied to them too: abrupt funding cuts and management changes, followed by smear campaigns”

We are living in a new branch of history, created by Covid and only now, five years later, really coming into view. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just so you know, up to 60,000 children go blind from measles every year

This BBC graphic is a good way to show why reciprocal 25% tariffs will cause prices on some goods to go up far more than 25%. A piston used in a car engine made in Michigan will cross the U.S. border twice, and will be taxed 25% each time. Some products cross the U.S. border even more than that.

Understanding more about #grief #lament www.instagram.com/p/DF-55nZR5a...

The long-term, multi-system complications after Covid hospitalization among ~64,000 cases and 310,000 matched controls. Excess of Type 2 diabetes, kidney, lung and neurological disorders. Replicates prior work by @zalaly.bsky.social and colleagues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Friends — tead a d learn — then kets act to protect women open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Doing the best that I can w LC ‘20. This is why I continue to mask up. 1-3% of pediatric cases get LC.

Covid vaccines and the reduced the risk of Long Covid in kids and teens jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Worth a listen to this terrific interview with @edyong209.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk

The brilliant @edyong209.bsky.social on important thoughts on new pandemic open.spotify.com/episode/7JQd...

The unraveling of peacetime efforts to support democracy. Read this piece by @LettersFromAnAmerican @HeatherCoxRichardson open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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The #measles outbreak is a fireft consequebce if the vaccine deniers (like RFKjr) Reprehensible open.substack.com/pub/emilysmi... Md

For all those who worship at the church of disc #ultimate #disc www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/n...

Important update of medical eligibility for #contraception www.reproductiveaccess.org/resource/med...

Note these dates from @indivisible.org via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social generalstrikeus.com?utm_source=s...

Data: Despite high risk of poor outcomes, only 1% of pregnant #COVID patients given antiviral The rate of antiviral prescriptions was 67% lower in pregnant than in nonpregnant women, including those with one or more high-risk underlying conditions. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Have you values let your congressional leaders know that the drastic cuts and anti-democratic actions of 45 and the Republicans? It’s easy to call 👇

After COVID-19, kids more likely to have GI symptoms for up to 2 years Children with previous COVID-19 infection have a 25% to 28% higher risk of developing new gastrointestinal (GI) tract symptoms www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

What you see now is a suit and tie version of January 6th -Lawrence O’Donnell We are once again under attack

The public health community is deeply concerned