“Have you no shame, sir?”
“Is there anything about field of public health that you have any respect for?”
“What will it take to convince you that you’re wrong? How many preventable deaths and disabilities?”
And to Bill Cassidy “do you regret being the deciding vote to confirm?”
“Have you no shame, sir?”
“Is there anything about field of public health that you have any respect for?”
“What will it take to convince you that you’re wrong? How many preventable deaths and disabilities?”
And to Bill Cassidy “do you regret being the deciding vote to confirm?”
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
This is a terrible idea
Vaccinating is “a personal choice” but your child getting lead poisoning from your municipal water supply is mandatory
This is literally eugenics
More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.
This is eugenics
a proper investment in healthcare would look like doctors seeing 10 to 12 patients a day instead of 20-40. People don’t trust doctors for many reasons but one common factor is they do not feel like the doctor is listening, which is extremely hard to do in such short visits. AI won’t help.
I’m old enough to remember when a political appointee telling a subordinate expert group to reach a specific policy decision would be a weeks’ long scandal
US cuts to #HIV programs in Africa threaten to set progress back to 'dark ages,' experts say
If PEPFAR funding is cut, nearly 500,000 children in Africa may die of AIDS-related causes and 1 million may be infected with HIV in the next 5 years.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...
So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.
Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
No child should ever die of an infection we can successfully prevent with vaccines
Dr. Richard Pan, speaking on SB 277
A poster to celebrate the passing of SB 277 into law
I mean, it’s hard to find images of “doctors in politics” so this was about as close as I could get
Still from the movie, The Rock. You’ll need to listen to the episode for this one.
New Episode!
Discussing doctors in politics and SB 277, the landmark bill eliminating personal belief exemptions for school vaccinations with it’s author, @drpanmd.bsky.social
With @caulimovirus.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/4kkkaf59
Spotify: tinyurl.com/2fha798m
I generally think I’m a pretty laid back attending, but I do have 1 pet peeve that makes me feel like an old man yelling at the youths to get off my lawn:
Fever is a noun, not a verb
“Much of the government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates nationwide have been run through OIDP”.
The harm that’s coming is on purpose.
Sigh. We could have emerged with the lesson of: “what we each do can impact lots of others, let’s be cautious when ill”
Instead we took: “screw everyone else. No public health nerd can tell me to change any part of my life”
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This is actually insane. It’s March 28 and the official CDC spokesperson is fully antivaxx and antiscience (kinda redundant I know). They are literally withholding public health from Americans.
CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
We do like it! It makes the differential more interesting 😁
Great thread👇
This program is responsible for vaccinating HALF of the entire world’s children.
In under 25 years they’ve vaccinated over a billion children so far.
The free market literally can never replace this program (the program exists to address market gaps).
Now it’s all getting canceled.
“Gavi is estimated to have saved the lives of 19 million children since it was set up 25 years ago. The United States contributes 13 percent of its budget”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
I found the sick adults inappropriately messing with children’s sex hormones and it’s not healthcare providers or trans people
Stephanie Nolen reporting that 1,200,000 children will die because of this decision. Unconscionable.
This is devastating for the future of pediatric research
This was entirely predictable
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Or albuterol…
I feel like a lot of people do not understand that it costs so much more for everyone to just let people die preventable deaths than it does to pay for basic healthcare services