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Economics and politics. I have been focused on healthcare and that goon RFK Jr. lately.
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Vivian Thomson
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My commentary on methane with Mike Mann
@michaelemann.bsky.social
also appears here, with a nod to Virginia's leadership.
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Methane, federalism and Earth's fragile moment: Va. must take legislative action on climate change ⢠Virginia Mercury
Gov. Spanberger has until May 23 to approve or reject a bill that could help reduce landfill methane pollution.
https://virginiamercury.com/2026/05/15/methane-federalism-and-earths-fragile-moment-va-must-take-legislative-action-on-climate-change/
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Eric Topol
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The key Figure from a 2020 publication on a hantavirus outbreak, buried in the supplement of the paper.
@donmilton.bsky.social
, an international authority on airborne transmission and respiratory viruses, discussed this with me yesterday.
erictopol.substack.com/p/assessment...
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Kimberly J. Soenen
about 5 hours ago
Read more in THE FINE PRINT Magazine about how the ongoing cruel and barbaric healthcare policy whiplash in the United States distresses families and harms our fellow citizens emotionally, financially and physically.
#Violence
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Families caring for disabled relatives face unthinkable choices as Medicaid cuts loom
President Trumpās ābig, beautiful bill,ā state budget turmoil and new attacks on paid family caregiving have people fearing financial ruin as they fight to keep loved ones out of institutions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-medicaid-cuts-threaten-caregivers-disabled-family-members-rcna344930
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T. Ryan Gregory šØš¦
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Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHOās default approach to airborne risk
The multinational outbreak of Andes hantavirus (ANDV) linked to cruise ship travel should prompt the World Health Organization (WHO) to change its default response to the risk of airborne transmission of the virus. Hantavirus is a pathogen with documented person-to-person transmission and high case fatality. Therefore, the starting point should not be to downplay the risk of airborne transmission until it is definitively proven. The starting point should be the immediate adoption of precautionary measures to reduce airborne transmission, such as respirator use by healthcare workers, cases, and close contacts; ventilation optimisation; avoidance of unfiltered air recirculation; and portable HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtration in all enclosed quarantine and transport settings. On 8 May 2026, WHO issued several documents that point in different directions. A Disease Outbreak News report acknowledged possible person-to-person transmission, but largely framed precautions around droplet and contact transmission outside aerosol generating procedures.1 By contrast, WHOās guidance for managing contacts of Andes virus cases and disembarkation from the cruise ship adopted much more precautionary measures, including quarantine, universal respirator use during disembarkation, respirators for healthcare workers ā¦
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s919
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid
about 19 hours ago
This isolation includes going out in public if you so choose.
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Angry
about 21 hours ago
Xi: America is declining as a world power Trump: HE MEANT UNDER SLEEPY JOE!! No, you assclown - he meant because youāre intentionally isolating the US on the world stage and GIVING our influence away.
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Sean Sublette
about 19 hours ago
Never forget the lackeys. Never forget the cowards. Never forget the enablers. Whether they are in the GOP Or in Rupert Murdoch's Fox Media.
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Mouse
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@elhopkins.bsky.social
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Jonathan Cohn
2 days ago
Almost every Senate Republican voted against a Democratic effort to restore the CFPBās advisory opinion on deceptive or unfair medical debt collection practices.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 2nd Session
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00122.htm
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Sorry to hear this.
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Jonathan Cohn
2 days ago
Shameful
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Trish Greenhalgh
3 days ago
OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHOās default approach to airborne risk. š§µ 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections ā not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs.
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s919
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Esther
3 days ago
@theguardian.com
This should be the way WHO deal with Hantavirus. Already we are off to a poor start.
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T. Ryan Gregory šØš¦
2 days ago
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When Rare Zoonoses Travel: Andes virus, Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome, and the Preparedness Gap
The perspective discusses how the suspected Andes virus (ANDV) associated hantavirus cluster on the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius illustrates a crā¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971226004133
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Prof Gavin Yamey
2 days ago
𤯠Right-wing lab leak & āplandemicā (āplanned pandemicā) conspiracy kooks have come out of the woodworkāitās giving Covid vibes Some argue the WHO caused itš¤¦āāļø TBH, even the NIH Director is in on the Covid conspiracies (he says governments caused Covid, felt guilty, & used lockdowns out of guilt š)
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Ned Resnikoff
2 days ago
Iām very excited about this project. Please share widely!
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Acyn
3 days ago
PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think itās funny that heās been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.
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Jonathan Cohn
3 days ago
The Republican Party is a party that deeply, deeply, deeply hates children.
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Kimberly J. Soenen
3 days ago
Pay those premiums and forgo care, Americans. Or, drop your plans and risk your financial health and health. Covid and now the end of ACA tax credits? Big Big Big money for commercial health insurance companies! Rake it in! Windfall! Hike & purge, baby!
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/05...
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ACA enrollment drops 21% as premiums soar without subsidies
The numbers support widespread fears that the end of extra, pandemic-era subsidies would leave Affordable Care Act plans unaffordable for some Americans.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/05/aca-enrollment-drops-health-insurance-subsidies-expire-federal-government/
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CIDRAP
3 days ago
Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed So far no cases have been identified in anyone other than passengers on the Dutch cruise ship. Read more:
ow.ly/8quR50YYtoT
š·: AcfiPress Noticias Canarias, CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia Commons
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
3 days ago
Texas MAGA Gov Abbot forced a city to cancel an event because the event was held by Americans who are Muslim. Yes, seriously. Its the 4th time he's done this. Corporate media is ignoring it. Saadia Mirza, State Director for Let's Address Texas reports:
letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/abbott-hel...
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Abbott held $530,000 dollars hostage to cancel an event by Americans because theyāre Muslim
Abbott just bullied Grand Prairie out of an Eid celebration. He's done this to four Texas cities in less than a month.
https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/abbott-held-530000-dollars-hostage
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ProPublica
3 days ago
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with
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Inside the Company Helping Americaās Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1778642520&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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T. Ryan Gregory šØš¦
3 days ago
Pretty simple, really. If they were wrong repeatedly in minimizing COVID, they're not experts no matter their job title or training.
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Julia Raifman, ScD
3 days ago
What was the R in the Andes variant
#hantavirus
outbreak detailed in NEJM? R across outbreak: 1.19, āa finding that suggests ⦠potential for self-sustaining transmission (R>1)ā R before mitigation: 2.1 R after case isolation & contact quarantine: 0.96 Isolation & quarantine key to limit spread
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āSuper-Spreadersā and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina | NEJM
From November 2018 through February 2019, person-to-person transmission of Andes virus (ANDV) hantavirus pulmonary syndrome occurred in Chubut Province, Argentina, and resulted in 34 confirmed infe...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040
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Kristian G. Andersen
3 days ago
āHHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2ā This might be the most insane thing yet.
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Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding
HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a āpattern of deceptionā in describing virus studies long before pandemic
https://www.science.org/content/article/virologist-accused-starting-covid-19-will-fight-u-s-ban-funding
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Anthony Michael Kreis
3 days ago
The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.
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Eric Topol
3 days ago
Join Dr Donald Milton, first author of this new BMJ paper, and me this Thursday 11A PT for a Ground Truths podcast on the topic
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHOās default approach to airborne risk
The multinational outbreak of Andes hantavirus (ANDV) linked to cruise ship travel should prompt the World Health Organization (WHO) to change its default response to the risk of airborne transmission of the virus. Hantavirus is a pathogen with documented person-to-person transmission and high case fatality. Therefore, the starting point should not be to downplay the risk of airborne transmission until it is definitively proven. The starting point should be the immediate adoption of precautionary measures to reduce airborne transmission, such as respirator use by healthcare workers, cases, and close contacts; ventilation optimisation; avoidance of unfiltered air recirculation; and portable HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtration in all enclosed quarantine and transport settings. On 8 May 2026, WHO issued several documents that point in different directions. A Disease Outbreak News report acknowledged possible person-to-person transmission, but largely framed precautions around droplet and contact transmission outside aerosol generating procedures.1 By contrast, WHOās guidance for managing contacts of Andes virus cases and disembarkation from the cruise ship adopted much more precautionary measures, including quarantine, universal respirator use during disembarkation, respirators for healthcare workers ā¦
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s919
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Prof Gavin Yamey
3 days ago
Yup
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Gregg Levine
5 days ago
Kudos to Harvard Prof. Joseph Allen for publicly expressing his concern w/ CDC & WHO, which say the Andes hantavirus can only spread with āclose & prolonged contact,ā when the literature indicates the virus is aerosolized & can spread more easily. (This confirms how Iāve been reading the lit, too.)
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Grandparents For Vaccines
3 days ago
www.nbcnews.com/now/video/gr...
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Grandparents advocate for vaccination by sharing childhood illness stories amid skepticism
Grandparents are sharing their stories of what it was like to endure diseases like polio and measles before vaccines. NBC News' Valerie Castro spoke to a member of 'Grandparents for Vaccines' who hope...
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/grandparents-advocate-for-vaccination-by-sharing-childhood-illness-stories-amid-skepticism-263192645680
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Yes I think about this often especially in light of
@maxwell-stearns.bsky.social
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"We need a little humility here. Too much is uncertain."
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BladeoftheSun
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For all the people at the back. They know Hantavirus is VERY deadly. They have NO idea just how infectious it is. They need to assume it is VERY infectious and take maximum possible precautions. Not wait until it is too late.
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The Maryland Department of Health is monitoring two people who were on a flight and were exposed to hantavirus.
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Maryland monitoring 2 residents for possible hantavirus exposure; what you need to know
The Maryland Department of Health is monitoring two people who were on a flight and were exposed to hantavirus.
https://bit.ly/4wnHAfU
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Living Safely With Covid
3 days ago
āWHO should say plainly that ANDV should be managed as a pathogen with plausible airborne transmission and that recommendations should start stringent, then ease only if evidence allows. That is the precautionary approach this outbreak demands.ā
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg
14 days ago
NEWS: The NIH whistleblower
@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
, who was put on paid leave in November after criticizing the Trump administrationās cuts to medical research, has been reinstated ā without explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
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N.I.H. Reinstates Employee Put on Leave After Criticizing Trump Research Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/trump-jenna-norton-nih.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.zKiJ.Cyeppk5lNn76&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Esther
4 days ago
Facebook blocked me for posting about the Covid inquiry on all groups and has never responded to any complaints. The company allows antivaxxers to spread false health information (mostly fake accounts) in their thousands and the government does nothing to prevent public health being eroded.
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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC
4 days ago
The
@bmj.com
reports that US FDA officials blocked publication of multiple studies showing COVIDā19 and Shingles vaccines to be safe ā in research conducted by the agencyās own scientists. Transparency in public health isnāt optional. Evidence should see daylight. Link:
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https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s896
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T. Ryan Gregory šØš¦
3 days ago
There are only two options apparently. Either we know everything about this virus and this is just a routine, fully-contained outbreak (and calls for the precautionary principle are fearmongering), or this is the next massive global pandemic (which it isn't, fearmongers!).
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Prof Gavin Yamey
3 days ago
āMildly positiveā š¤¦āāļø The problem with the MAGA/MAHA men leading the US health agencies is two-fold: their actions are BOTH nefarious AND incompetent
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Ferric Fang, MD
3 days ago
"If weāre lucky, this hantavirus outbreak will peter out... If we are unlucky?... this time Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be in charge of the U.S. response." š link
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Opinion | We Should Take Hantavirus More Seriously
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/hantavirus-complacency.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.dIqK.in2X4q2xfa74&smid=url-share
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Dorit Reiss
3 days ago
Another way anti-vaccine activism is, literally, killing babies: tricking parents into refusing the vitamin K shot, leading to preventable brain bleeds in young babies.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
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Dr Noor Bari
4 days ago
NEGLIGENCE
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Liz Szabo
4 days ago
Just the latest of dozens of studies finding that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at keeping pregnant women and fetuses safe. From
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No link between maternal COVID infection and birth defects, data suggest,
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No link between maternal COVID infection and birth defects, data suggest
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/no-link-between-maternal-covid-infection-and-birth-defects-data-suggest
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
4 days ago
A person from CA who was on the ship with the hantavirus outbreak has returned home without going to the Nebraska facility first. They are being evaluated and monitored by the state health department. We canāt be sure what this entails but if itās not quarantine then mistakes are being made.
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Scott Krugman
4 days ago
Needs to be impeached immediately. All dead children are his doing and the damage he has done will take decades to repair.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/h...
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Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hlA.f1v7.EkmzggC7LsIG&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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RFK Jr. is holding these up as well as life saving gene therapy trials for my family member. Never forgot, he is responsible for lost American lives!
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Mark Ungrin
4 days ago
The public health and infection control leaders fighting against taking precautions against the possibility of human to human aerosol transmission of hantavirus are reckless, negligent, and endangering us all. These people belong in jail.
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