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Proud mama of two fierce girls and a feisty doodle. Co-founder, Pandemic Action Network, CSIS Fellow, #globalhealth and development advocate. Politics, news, NYT Games junkie. Currently girl crushing on Keri Russell in The Diplomat. Opinions my own.
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Just got my free #Covid home tests in the mail from covidtests.gov Three days from click to door. This is how government is supposed to work for the people. Order yours before they destroy the stockpile (and the post office)

Gen-X knows 🤣

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THIS IS A MUST-READ PIECE. Please share, off Bluesky as well as on it. Most people *do not understand* how harmful these short-sighted cuts are going to be - for our economic as well as our physical health. 🧪🛟🩺

- If you want to avoid plane crashes, don't fire FAA staff - If you want to avoid outbreaks, don't fire CDC & EIS staff - If you want to excel in science, don't fire NIH & NSF staff - If you want to protect the environment, don't fire EPA staff - If you want drug safety, don't fire FDA staff

This endangers every American.

In South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, USAID alone provides more than a third of total ODA. It is focused on emergency (life saving) response. The ongoing stop-works and confusion will be particularly deadly in those countries. www.cgdev.org/blog/which-c...

New (second) lawsuit by contractors/grantees against the USAID 90-day freeze assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

"Abrupt PEPFAR cutbacks would have immediate and long-term detrimental effects on epidemiologic and clinical HIV outcomes in South Africa" New modeling study in @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Snowy evening in DC.

This says it all

The USAID Inspector General who wrote the report saying the 90 day pause and staff lockout put US assistance at risk of fraud and abuse has been fired by the Trump administration. Apparently ‘doing your job’ is reason enough to be fired. www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/p...

Vaccine ingredients aren’t a mystery. They’re documented to the nanogram. If you want to change a BRAND of buffer, you need data showing it is the same as the previous one. That’s how rigorous vaccine oversight is. Read my latest at ImmunoLogic for more: news.immunologic.org/p/we-know-ex...

In Rhode Island - NIH FUNDING: $256M JOBS SUPPORTED: 2212 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $502M www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

And yet we are hearing nothing from our government because CDC has been forbidden to do communicate with the American people. This is not just sad, it is deadly.

*All* government agencies submit audited financial every single year. So, the last time USAID was audited was ... this past December! oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul... Who does the audits? The Inspectors General. Who are presently under attack, so that future crimes won't be seen.

👇Spot on Samantha Power. Recklessly dismantling USAID is the equivalent of battlefield surrender. Worse, it's like arming our enemies - because the way this is being done will destroy decades of goodwill for 🇺🇸. This is not who we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

In Ottawa as the game of tariff chicken played out today. The palpable anger at the 🇺🇸 and news reports here suggest that even if the immediate crisis was averted, the damage this has already done to our relationship w/ our closest ally + neighbor could have negative effects for years to come. 🇨🇦

Something to think about. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

This is medical and scientific health data being blocked. We cannot go down this road. It is dangerous and sets our whole field back. @aphapublichealth.bsky.social

Right now I am terribly worried for my country, concerned for our planet, scared for the future of my children, and greatly saddened that 77 million Americans seem okay with all of this. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...

Tonight is the #BonkFriday #MEGABOOST 🎉 Want Hundreds Of New Blue Friends? 🌊 🌊🌊 Go to @donkoclock.bsky.social page at 8:00PM EST ⏰ Comment, Reply and Repost. 🔄 You can meet tons of new Friends by doing this AND get the chance to be in my #StarterPackSaturday Pack! 💙 Who is with me? 🖐️

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

“I’ve got people crying. I’ve got people not knowing whether they have a job or not” www.devex.com/news/i-don-t...

The Co-Chairs of @theindpanel.bsky.social, @helenclarknz.bsky.social & EJ Sirleaf endorse @theelders.bsky.social new policy position paper for pandemic prevention, prep. and response. A key to reform remains a highest-level leadership body to champion pandemic readiness. #PreventPandemics

Shout out to Senator Maggie Hassan for speaking the truth today. x.com/senatorhassa...

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...

Hello to all the new followers we're getting today. We're a nonprofit that (among other things) shares stories about why vaccines are important. If you're concerned about measles, polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases, you've followed the right page! www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

Pulling the US out of @who.int and stopping communications and collaboration makes Americans less safe. @agawande.bsky.social breaks it down:

Extraordinarily cruel People will get sick Drug resistance will spike It sounds as if PEPFAR could be terminated (not just “paused”) Until now, PEPFAR enjoyed bipartisan support & has arguably been one of the most effective bilateral health aid programs ever www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Having polio often means having a normal childhood taken from you. Ankit's parents didn't have him vaccinated, and it had lasting consequences. youtu.be/MERQ-kPxoqs?...

The prospective health and human services secretary skipped the meeting on #pandemic preparedness. Another disqualifier. Thx @ddiamond.bsky.social for your reporting

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

What she said.

Hail! Glad my hometown has something to cheer about.

“Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...