Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

CDC platforms have stopped warning the public about disease spread. One of the CDC's main newsletters that alerts health professionals about outbreaks hasn't been sent since March. And most CDC social media accounts have gone over a month without posting their own new content.

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:

1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

2. Contact your elected officials
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"Covid is over. We have the tools"

First they took away masks
Then they took away tests
They stopped distancing
They stalled on clean air
They stopped tracking data
They stopped research
Now they are limiting vaccines

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:

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Have you wanted a cute bag that can be worn as a backpack, crossbody bag & waist bag? That can be attached to mobility aids. That's what I've designed. They have custom zipper pulls & padded space for a tablet.

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Measles. Is. Back.
A disease we had basically eradicated in the U.S. is now spreading in schools, hospitals, and communities.
Why?
Because misinformation kills.
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They are terminating STEM education grants -- the grants that help you and your kids get access to a better and more effective learning experience. They are terminating grants that help everyone access careers in STEM, regardless of race or ability.

They are stealing from you. Don't let them.

Your allergies are about to get worse With record pollen counts across North America, seasonal allergies are hitting harder than ever. Johanna Wagstaffe explains how climate change is turbo charging allergy seasons and what you can do abo...

Have itchy eyes and a running nose but never had allergies before?
Well, you might now!
Climate change fuels pollen production which can overwhelm even the immune system of the "I don't have allergies" people.

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RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.

RFK Jr. is launching a government registry to track autistic Americans using private medical records.

And where have you been? All of my calls and messages to any of your offices go unanswered and unreturned.

More actionable advice: Search online or ask your local library for local community organizations (e.g. labor unions, grassroots collaboratives). Cold call, email, DM, etc. and ask how you can get involved. Attend a meeting or event. Stay involved.

Ok. Little chat. As we are hitting the 5 year anniversary of Covid lockdowns beginning in 2020, as someone who is permanently disabled by Long Covid, here’s what I’d *love* to see when people talk about the ongoing pandemic and how it effects them:

Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️

Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!

More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

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They’re counting on intricacies of indirect costs being too hard for general public to understand.

The money they are cutting literally keeps the lights on in the buildings where our doctors are trained, our college students are educated, and the next generation of cancer treatments are discovered

If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Wait… did he blame DEI because it was a Black Hawk helicopter

COVID Safe Campus Merch Drop. Tees. Hoodies. To the left of the image are black, red, and navy t-shirts with various designs. The first shirt features our "masking for community trans pride hearts" design. White script reads “Masking for community”. A large heart with a small heart on either side of it. The hearts have the stripes of the trans flag inside them. The second shirt features our "collective liberation and COVID justice" design. White text above reads “Collective liberation”. Below is a white KN95 mask.Text continues “requires COVID justice”. The third shirt features our masking for community pride hearts design. White script reads “Masking for community”. A large heart with a small heart on either side of it. The hearts have the stripes of the rainbow pride flag inside them. Above these shirts is a spiked shape labelled with their price "$28." Below the t-shirts in white bold text reads "Tees." To the right of the image are navy and green pullover hoodies with various designs. The first hoodie features our "mask for mask" design. 2 white KN95 masks offset diagonally from each other. White block letters between the masks read “Mask For Mask” in all caps. The second hoodie features our "reject individualism" design. White text reads “Reject individualism. Wear a mask.” Below the text is a row of white KN95 masks. Above these shirts is a spiked shape labelled with their price "$40." Below the hoodies in white bold text reads "Hoodies." In the bottom left of the slide in white text reads "All proceeds from our fundraising store help support CSC’s work" along with the link to the shop: bonfire.com/store/covidsafecampus.

COVID Safe Campus Merch Drop. To the left of the image are two crewneck sweatshirts, one black and one maroon featuring various designs. The first crewneck sweatshirt features our "mask for mask" design. 2 white KN95 masks offset diagonally from each other. White block letters between the masks read “Mask For Mask” in all caps. The second sweatshirt features a transparent version of the COVID Safe Campus Logo with only a white outline. A white border encircles the content of the CSC logo, a white virus particle and white text which reads "COVID Safe Campus. Alongside these sweatshirts is a spiked bubble that displays the price "$38" To the right of the image is a white mug with the classic red COVID Safe Campus logo on it. The mug has a back handle and inner. Above the mug is a spiked label displaying the price "$22". Below the products is bold white text that reads "Sweatshirts" and "Mug". In the bottom left of the slide in white text reads "All proceeds from our fundraising store help support CSC’s work" along with the link to the shop: bonfire.com/store/covidsafecampus.

COVID Safe Campus Merch Drop: Totes. To the left of the image are two premium style black tote bags with various designs. The first tote bag features our "masking is community care" design. A white KN95 mask with small red outlined hearts on either side. White script reads “Masking is community care”. The second tote bag features our "masking for community pride hearts" design. White script reads “Masking for community”. A large heart with a small heart on either side of it. The hearts have the stripes of the rainbow pride flag inside them. Above the tote bags in a spiked shape labelled with the price "$28." To the right of the image is a larger organic style tote bag featuring our "masking for community trans pride hearts" design. White script reads “Masking for community”. A large heart with a small heart on either side of it. The hearts have the stripes of the trans flag inside them. Above the tote bag is with a spiked shape labeling the price as "$31." Below the totes in white bold text reads "Totes!" In the bottom left of the slide in white text reads "All proceeds from our fundraising store help support CSC’s work" along with the link to the shop: bonfire.com/store/covidsafecampus

COVID Safe Campus Merch Drop flier: zip ups and hats. To the left of the image are black and gray zip up hoodies with various designs. The design on the black zip up hoodie features our "Mask for Mask" design. 2 white KN95 masks offset diagonally from each other. White block letters between the masks read “Mask For Mask” in all caps. The design on the gray hoodie features the COVID Safe Campus logo, a red circle outlined in white with a white virus particle and white text which reads "COVID Safe Campus." Above the jackets is a spiked shape containing the price "$50." Below the jackets in white bold text reads "Zip Ups!" To the right of the image are a black and gray baseball cap with various designs. There is a black baseball cap featuring a design with our "Mask up heart" design. A large red heart with concentric hearts inside it in decreasing size. The hearts are increasingly lighter shades of pink. White bubbly text with a red outline reads “Mask up”. The other baseball cap features the COVID Safe Campus logo. Above the hats in a spiked shape labelled "$27." Below the t-shirts in white bold text reads "Hats!" In the bottom left of the slide in white text reads "All proceeds from our fundraising store help support CSC’s work" along with the link to the shop: bonfire.com/store/covidsafecampus.

Just launched: Shop COVID cautious merch while directly supporting our advocacy and mutual aid initiatives!

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Proceeds from all purchases help raise funds to sustain CSC's work.

You can also make donations directly at: covidsafecampus.org/donate

⚠️BECOMING MORE AIRBORNE—New study in Nature says that the newer #H5N1 bird flu variants are becoming more airborne than older bird flu variants. This is extremely worrisome. Virus will always try to adapt to be more adept at transmission and infection ability—Evolution arms race.

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

A red supergiant’s clock is ticking, and we’re getting a good look before it goes supernova I won’t cry when WOH G64 explodes, but it IS getting dusty in here

A red supergiant star has a truly cosmic case of dusty flatulence and that means it's about to die. And we've obtained pretty detailed images of it despite it being IN ANOTHER GALAXY.

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Got that Novavax juice in my arm!!!! 💉💉💉

Shout-out to Rite Aid for taking walk-ins and none of my money~

Novavax is available at RiteAid, Costco, and some CVS stores!

I'm happy to finally have made my appointment!

RiteAid
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Costco
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Covid Pandemic

Many of you have reached out in recent days inquiring about Biobot’s future with CDC NWSS. The contract Biobot held with CDC NWSS for the last few years was up for rebid this summer, and was recently awarded to Verily, an Alphabet precision health technology company.

While we are disappointed with this news, we are incredibly proud of the work we’ve accomplished with CDC to date, and we know that this decision had nothing to do with our past performance. This is just the reality of how government contracting works.

We remain committed to our vision and look forward to continuing our work with federal, state and local public health agencies, wastewater treatment plants, universities, and private companies all across the country to bring the vast potential of wastewater epidemiology to life.

Important wastewater data update: Biobot has lost its contract. This is disappointing news as wastewater data has been difficult to communicate to the public, and Biobot has been one of the leaders in making COVID wastewater data easy to understand.

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In recent study #SARSCoV2 can infect palatine tonsils, adenoids, and secretions in children without symptoms of #COVID19, with no history of recent upper airway infection. tonsils may be sites of prolonged infection, even without evidence of recent #COVID19 symptoms.