If you want to avoid long term health issues, wear a mask If you care about disabled people, wear a mask If you care about being able to resist & fight back, wear a mask If you know that raw milk, vitamin A and green juice aren’t cures, wear a mask If you want to fight fascism, wear a mask

Fuck this. Novavax has shown its safety and efficacy over and over and over. It’s the *best* vaccine we have. Please keep calling and emailing FDA to demand BLA for Novavax ➡️ (800) 835-4709 or (240) 402-8020

You can start with these three FDA officials, all directly involved in the #Novavax file. All are addressed as "doctor". [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Keep calling and emailing and faxing the FDA every day to get Novavax full BLA approval, under 12 access, extend shelf life Keep calling the FDA 800-402-8010 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Tomorrow is the last day to get in public comments for ACIP. If you want to stand up against RFK Jr, get your comments in supporting Novavax and expansion for pediatric use of it. You can make a comment here: www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...

Never forget you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing. You can wear a mask and protect others. You can get boosted. You can help someone in need. You can donate to mutual aid. You can amplify voices different than your own. Caring about one another IS a form of resistance.

This is why respirators need to be mandatory in hospitals. Babies, people with certain disabilities & some health conditions need others to mask to protect them. This hospital shouldn’t be “scrambling”. Make masks mandatory & protect patients and staff. Clean & ventilate the air too!

There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. & Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric We need mandatory masking in healthcare A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:

Whenever you hear of a new measles case, contact tracers invariably list the following as exposure sites: Airports/airplanes ERs and walk in clinics Shopping malls and pharmacies. Getting vaccinated is the best prevention for measles, but wearing a respirator in high risk places helps too!

Medicare coverage for telemedicine is set to expire end of March Telemedicine is a vital accommodation tool for disabled & elderly people. Many can’t get to in person appointments without risk to baseline & health setbacks Yet representatives at Medicare don’t seem to know what’s happening?

Let's go, let's go, let's go - one month to save telehealth!! Here's a letter campaign, but PLEASE also call your three Members of Congress. They NEED to hear from you about this. actionnetwork.org/letters/medi...

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask. If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask. If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask. If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask. My ultimate guide to respirators:

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Alt text included #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisntOver #WeAreStillinApandemic

“We’re seeing patients in hallways, in triage bays, in every kind of nook and cranny of our hospital that we can find.” —Dr. Brandon Trigger, M Health Fairview, shared signs of a "Quaddemic." Jeremy Oslon @startribune.com reports. bit.ly/4jewGCA Stay safe! #MaskTogetherAmerica

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

The disastrous #LAWildfires spread toxic air. Steve Patterson @stevepeterson.bsky.social @nbcnews.com reports on the threat & how N95+ respirators & air purifiers can reduce health risks. We are indebted to Patterson and all news crews for their bravery and sacrifices in keeping the world informed.

If you're in an evacuation zone in SoCal, please check in with any disabled/aging neighbors you have to see if they need help evacuating.

I’ve been told that there’s no point trying to stay safe that it’s just inevitable that I will catch it again and then catch it again and again and while I recognize that death and taxes may be inevitable I refuse to believe that the same is true about catching this virus.

No one wants to spend Christmas in the hospital - but if you DO need the hospital over the holidays - please wear a mask. For the staff, for yourself, for all the other patients. The period between Christmas and New Years is rife for virus spread - mask up and stop transmission!

“They say they were not given adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), including high grade masks, and often had to rely on flimsy surgical masks…” www.context.news/socioeconomi...

⏰With a gov’t shutdown looming for Saturday, let’s make sure #telehealth doesn't end up on the chopping block! “Johnson had pledged he would try to move…a narrow bill…to avert a government shutdown” Contact your reps now and request telehealth extension support #callyourrep

This doesn't look good for extended Medicare coverage for telehealth unless a new plan is developed and voted on by Friday.

The #telehealth extension is in this CR bill, vote should be this week: docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf Contact your congressional reps: www.congress.gov/members/find... The #House is “allowing 72 hours…to review a bill before holding a vote. That would place it Friday afternoon.”

The #telehealth extension is in this CR bill, vote should be this week: docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf Contact your congressional reps: www.congress.gov/members/find... The #House is “allowing 72 hours…to review a bill before holding a vote. That would place it Friday afternoon.”

For those following, extended coverage for medicare will happen unless the end of year Congressional package doesn't happen...which is very unlikely. They're arguing about other stuff, but not telehealth for Medicare patients. www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/t...

Support telehealth? Call your reps now: www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member “Congressional leaders…hammer out an end-of-year healthcare package for expiring programs, including pandemic-era telehealth” “The House is expected to vote…early this week, & the Senate will vote later this week”

At-home and drive-thru vaccine clinics increase accessibility “Vermont Center for Independent Living…set up both these home appointments and a drive-thru vaccine clinic so anyone who wants the vaccine can get it” Source: WCAX article from Nov 2023 #outdoor-vaccination www.wcax.com/2023/11/16/a...

Each layer of protection compensates for the weaknesses of the others, making it extremely difficult for the virus to pass through and bringing the risk of infection to nearly zero.(6/6)

This is why you should still wear a mask in a shared space, even if there’s an air purifier running. Air purifiers are great for long-term protection but aren’t a substitute for immediate safety.(2/6)

A conventional air purifier (eg. AirFanta 3Pro) typically requires three air changes to reduce the airborne viral load by 95%. In contrast, an N95 mask can achieve the same level of reduction instantly. While air purifiers are effective over time, they don’t provide immediate protection. (1/6)

A layered strategy works. Wear a high quality respirator. Support and donate to local mask blocs. Test and isolate when sick. Clean the air and upgrade ventilation. Demand accountability from governments & public health. Refuse to treat others as expendable. It’s time. /end

One of the greatest lies of the pandemic has been that repeat Covid infections are “inevitable”. People were led to believe there was no point in taking precautions - and even encouraged to get covid in order to “build immunity”. A 🧵 on the great deception

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has again stated he supports a ban on masks Disabled activists have been screaming about the dangers of mask bans since they were enacted in North Carolina. We are still IN a pandemic. Masks are a public health tool that should never be banned. Brief history of mask bans 🧵

By now you should know that the secret to getting through this pandemic is remembering that this pandemic is not through with you.

The telehealth expansion is ending this month! Thanks to @drjudystone.bsky.social for the interview on this & for sharing my words - and for linking to the letter campaign! Sign onto it below. We have less than 3 weeks to save telehealth. You don't need to write an actual letter, b/c one... 1/2

Despite COVID being a systemic, multi-organ disease with the potential to cause long-term disability, and highly fatal when contracted by vulnerable patients... we are treating it like a cold. HICPAC members are not making scientific decisions, but political ones #MedSky #NurseSky #IDSky #EpiSky

In 2021, COVID was shown to be fully airborne. Yet for years, hospitals have failed to upgrade infection control measures. Bodies like the WHO and CDC are leaving HCW and patients in danger by failing to match recommendations to the science. My latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/cdc-infect...

Just gotta figure out how to wash the air’s hands and we’ll be ok 🙃

“Your test results are normal” is one of the most frustrating sentences for a chronic illness patient. It generally means they haven’t run the right tests and/or aren’t thinking outside the box. “Normal” values on standard labs don’t tell the whole story!

If you want telemedicine, there is an Urgent need for you to contact your congressional representatives to pass this telehealth bill. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... You can contact your House representatives at www.house.gov/representati... and Senators at www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

The same neighbors asking why I have a mask on in the elevator are sending out notes about why they have to cancel their kid's party this weekend because their family has the flu. Put a mask on when you go anywhere crowded or cold. It helps you and anyone who can't mask because of other issues.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield rolled back a policy change that would have capped payments for anesthesia for patients, and would have denied claims altogether if any given procedure exceeded a time limit.

Unless Congress acts in the next three weeks, Medicare will stop covering telehealth. For patients like me, too sick to leave home for months at a time, that would mean losing all access to healthcare. Please sign this petition prodding your representatives to act: actionnetwork.org/letters/pres...