Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return. Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Telehealth flexibilities for Medicare as of right now is set to expire tomorrow. Please call your reps to prevent this from happening!: www.meactions.org/telehealth?m...

The next Covid Awareness billboard will be something to the effect of… “Mask Up, Clean The Air, Protect the Kids, and Show We Care.” #SafeSchoolsNow If you like to help me continue my work and place some more billboards please share/donate. Every bit helps. YerAweSum! gofund.me/b398a403

Everyone needs to read this This is extremely bad

We live in an oligarchy. The Supreme Court laid the foundations for it. Billionaire families and powerful business interests bankrolled it. Their elected stooges built it. The dark money networks and allied media sold it. Many voters bought it. Now, we’re all going to pay for it.

With the passage of this Big Bill, Democrats now have a mandate and responsibility to pass Medicare-for-all and the Green New Deal when they next get into power.

It’s easy peasy. Call 1-(202) 224-3121. Ask for your representative, give your zip code if you don’t know, and theyll connect you. Tell them to vote NO on Trump's budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering bill. YOUR CALL IN MATTERS!!

Phone bank to save Medicaid!: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Thinking about how powerful it would be if the 60% of people who don't approve of this bill would call their Representative in Congress and urge them to vote NO! Fill their phone lines with opposition! www.house.gov/representati...

Good morning! Some inspo to start the day. NIH staffers, led by their union, walked out of a town hall with Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to protest working conditions and budget cuts harming life-saving research. Let’s keep these acts of resistance coming. 💪💚 @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info

Science: 'What does the new FDA framework mean for the future of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.?' 'Neither Long Covid...nor the related condition myalgic encephalomyelitis...(ME/CFS) is included on Makary and Prasad’s list..' www.science.org/content/arti...

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

Great Barrington Declaration co-author Jay Bhattacharya has been confirmed as our NIH director. He is a professional merchant of doubt, an anti-vax adjacent misinformation peddler, and completely unqualified to run—let alone work for—the agency. It’s a dark day for our republic.

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine. This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

There need to be mass demonstrations. Like yesterday.

Why did senators not ask Makary or bhattacharya about their pandemic records? I mean here’s Makary saying in 2021 that immunity is probably lifelong. Doesn’t this say important things about his credibility and willingness to stick to the evidence? It got erased. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgQk...

Fight for every single drop of truth. Don’t let a single lie absorb into the national discourse. That’s the lesson of the COVID era and this moment.

Had to turn it off… couldn’t deal with the constant referral to the “chronic disease epidemic” without one mention of #LongCovid #Bhattacharyahearing

Wish there were protesters at the Bhattacharya hearing like there was at the RFK hearing… in some ways he’s more dangerous

If you are from LA, KY, ME, AK, OK, KS, SC, MO, AL, IN, FL, MD, DE, NJ, MA, CO, NH, VA, CT, WI, WA, or VT you have a senator on the HELP committee. Call or write them now to oppose Jay Bhattacharya’s nomination as head of the NIH!: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/action-ite...

Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. Here’s everything you need to know about the man who will (probably) lead our National Institutes of Health. Don’t sleep on this guy. He’s every bit as extreme as Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...

STAT: “RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions” In notice to Federal Register, health agency says public participation is not needed in many decisions www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

There is going to be a wave of activism in response to Trump’s catastrophic healthcare policies and cuts. Us Covid conscious folk need to get INVOLVED to ensure Covid advocacy is part of the picture.

It will be halted for 3 months and reviewed- not ended. What can we do in that time, how can we organize to make sure it isn’t ended? How can we also do this for the nasal vaccines? These are the questions we must be asking

There’s a lot going on right now but we can’t let hysterics or defeatism get in the way of meaningful action. We have power, we must use it.

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

URGENT: The House is set to vote tomorrow on whether to advance $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid — eviscerating essential programs that provide lifesaving services for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Tell your representative now: Don't cut Medicaid.

I think it’s so bizarre when Middle Eastern folks use the “big nose” trope to try to insult Jews when it was literally invented by white Europeans to mock Jews for their Semitic features 🤷‍♀️

Wow the antisemitism on instagram is really, really bad…

Disabled and vulnerable Americans warned you that abandoning them was empowering anti-science forces on the right.

Hey, @davidfrum.bsky.social, here’s an idea: COVID deniers won because folks with cushy jobs at publications like The Atlantic were extremely quick to join right-wing dark money groups and their fringe scientists in demanding we abandon nonpharmaceutical interventions and layered protection.

Today is also a good day to remember the political cowardice that enabled the right to undermine COVID mitigation measures.

Today is a good day to remember all of the smug coverage portraying those who still took COVID seriously as neurotic shut-ins. While you all moved on, the right and anti-science grifters used disinformation to rewrite history, scandalize science, and win. Now, they’re coming for vaccines.

The exhaustion of navigating an oblivious world….

Seriously who starts a fight with Canada……??? 🤦‍♀️

How do you prioritize #LongCovid research when you’re pausing research on infectious disease?????! #RFKhearing

It’s not just environmental toxins, RFK. It’s also infectious disease. #RFKhearing

“Obesity, diabetes, heart disease.” Covid is causing higher rates of diabetes and heart disease, and exacerbating already-existing diagnoses. Obesity is a risk factor for #LongCovid. #RFKhearing

RFK refused to say he won’t capitalize on his role as secretary of HHS #RFKhearing

RFK wants to find the root cause of chronic disease so long as they don’t at all involve infectious disease (because god forbid we find out about the ongoing impact of repeat covid infections…) #RFKhearing

Will they bring up #LongCovid even once? #RFKhearing

Man I wish I saw this energy during Biden’s normalization of Covid infections…

“Chronic disease” is the new Not-Covid

RFK is here to “make America healthy again” while he literally sounds like he has every single disease of the quad-demic….🤦‍♀️

Strong start from Wyden 👍

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Call the Capitol Switchboard. Tell your friends to do the same. Speak to your Senator. VOTE NO. (202) 224-3121 www.cbsnews.com/news/doctors...