Polio is a serious vaccine preventable disease as Pat Crago attests to during this interview. Vaccination rates are plummeting! Do not risk your kid's health-get them vaccinated. Grandparents and allies of kids-join us! grandparentsforvaccines.com spectrumnews1.com/oh/cleveland...

Please follow @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social to keep up to date with our all volunteer organization working to keep our grandkids safe and healthy!

Thank you @kfvs12.com and Heartland Health Department for this great partnership. @donnagaffney.bsky.social explains @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social is based on the idea that lived experiences passed down by grandparents can have a huge impact on younger generations. www.kfvs12.com/2025/11/11/h...

I think it's time to IMPEACH DJT. Enough is enough. Come on Congress. Americans deserve so much better.

"As an untapped resource, grandparents are changing the conversation about vaccines — replacing fear and misinformation with stories, wisdom, and love. Together, we honor our legacy and shape a healthier future for every family.” Dr. Arthur Lavin, Founder GFV @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social

Thank you @robincogan.bsky.social for urging all grandparents and all who care about children’s health to get involved with @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/15/t...

This is the very first book I remember crying as I read it. (And the only time in my life that I actually loved a spider, "Charlotte" who saved a pig, demonstrating the power of kindness, love and friendship. #HandsOffOurBooks Keep your evil and hate to yourself DHS! www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

Might be a course of antibiotics for these students, but if they expose a baby or small child, pertussis (whooping cough) can be lethal due to their very small airways PLEASE make sure your vaccinations are up to date, not just for your health but for those around you. www.kxly.com/news/five-ws...

GOP war on children: 1731 cases of measles Millions about to lose food security ACIP plans to eliminate hepatitis B newborn vaccine Leader and cronies support and empower pedophilia IF UNTRUE: Release the files Fire RFK Jr Remove ACIP cynics Fully fund SNAP National vaccination program Impeach DT

Thank you to @opb.org and @thinkoutloud.bsky.social for interviewing Sheri Schouten and me about Grandparents for Vaccines. Here is the link to take a listen: play.cdnstream1.com/s/opb/think-... Please follow @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social To Join: grandparentsforvaccines.com Our kids need us!

Thanks for including @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social interview on @opb.org Think Out Loud @robincogan.bsky.social This is a meaningful and important story. #VaccinesWork #VaccinesAreEffective and MOST IMPORTANT #VaccinesDoNotCauseAutism #VaccinesAreSafe -- spread the word.

Sending love and hope to the Kennedy's after reading Tatiana's brave essay in @newyorker.com "I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over." Tatiana, how we wish we could.

Lots of comments in support of Tatiana Schlossberg saying they want to do something. She bravely stood up for science rebuking RFK Jr. Get your flu and COVID vaccines-cancer patients depend on herd immunity as they are too immunosuppressed to be vaccinated. Show them some love through action.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM! However Measles can cause encephalitis and brain damage. Chickenpox can lead to permanent scars. Meningitis has long term consequences like seizures and motor function disorders. Polio can cause respiratory paralysis. Vaccines are SAFE and prevent life long misery.

SNAP benefits, just days from termination, will especially hurt mothers, babies and children who depend on these government subsidies to eat. @donnagaffney.bsky.social and I wrote about HUNGER 2 months ago in USA Today. If you live in VA, NJ, PA your vote will help #FiretheGOP This is on them!

Welcome all new followers! And special thanks to @wkyc.bsky.social for hosting Grandparents for Vaccines Founder and President Arthur Lavin yesterday. Dr. Patrick Crago shares what it was like to be a 5 year old child with polio - before a vaccine was available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3-H...

@gparents4vaccines.bsky.social is now officially on BSKY!! We need followers. :-) Check out this amazing video where Pat Crago describes what he remembers during his hospitalization with polio. Join us: grandparentsforvaccines.com For media requests email us at [email protected]

Wondering what #GrandparentsforVaccines is all about? Take a look at nurseteria.bsky.social and donnagaffney.bsky.social op ed published this week in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. meidastouch.com mollyjongfast.bsky.social todayshow.com www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...

Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!

HEIST: THE LOUVRE'S STOLEN CROWN A look at the brazen daylight theft and what it reveals about security, power and French national pride. Watch CNN @cnn.com YOU MISSED THE STORY MAJORITY OF AMERICANS CARE ABOUT. FOTUS destroyed the East Wing and we are pissed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Q4...

Not the title @donnagaffney.bsky.social and I sent in to the editor but grateful to #AshevilleCitizen-Times for picking up this op ed! From Public Service to Public Peril: A Betrayal of the Kennedy Legacy was what we submitted. RFK Jr is NO JFK! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...

relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/08/31/t... “Why Grandparents Must Lead on Vaccines,” a recently published Op Ed by @donnagaffney.bsky.social & @nurseteria.bsky.social , aka #OpEdNurses, & proud grandparents share the urgent message of seniors having a powerful voice in vaccine promotion

Another great op-ed from @nurseteria.bsky.social and @donnagaffney.bsky.social on grandparents fiercely protecting their families through #vaccination www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/us-v... #GrandparentsForVaccines.

Why Grandparents Must Lead on Vaccines progressive.org/op-eds/why-g... Valuable perspective from @nurseteria.bsky.social and @donnagaffney.bsky.social #Vaccines save lives #GrandparentsForVaccines

Grandparents must lead on vaccines. We remember the dangers of vaccine preventable diseases. Our message- it is crucial that every child be vaccinated following the AAP childhood immunization schedule. @donnagaffney.bsky.social and my op-ed is here: www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/us-v...

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social @donnagaffney.bsky.social @BruceMirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @apha.org @nursesforamerica.bsky.social @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

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“Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night accused President Trump of intentionally fanning the flames of the Los Angeles protests and ‘pulling a military dragnet across’ the city endangering peaceful protesters and targeting hardworking immigrant families.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

LIVE: Prayer vigiI in Los Angeles calling for peace and solidarity Prayer vigil held in downtown Los Angeles, calling for peace and solidarity with immigrants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpwK...

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom urges peaceful protests: "I want you to know that you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety. What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment. Do not give in to him."

I can forgive many things, but I cannot forgive being so terrible that you give Gavin Newsom a chance to appear courageous.

I drove 3 hours through LA today, on the 10, 110, 101, 60, thru DTLA, past Pasadena. What did I see, traffic slowdowns from two stalled cars. That’s it—If Trump wanted to see our city on fire he should have come in January. Thanks @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social for these photos @nurseteria.bsky.social

RFK Jr is enemy #1 when it comes to our children's health. Wrong on vaccines. Wrong on fluoride. Wrong on how to MAHA. @donnagaffney.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social @nursesforamerica.bsky.social progressive.org/op-eds/rfk-j...

Call to Action: Saturday, May 17th National Day of Protest to Declare: "The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now!" Find protests or register a protest you are planning at RefuseFascism.org #3E #endImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #RefuseFascism

relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/05/03/t... @nurseteria.bsky.social @donnagaffney.bsky.social are back! While measles outbreaks are widely reported in the media, another preventable disease is quietly making a dangerous comeback: pertussis, or whooping cough.

Why would a man who believes vaccines are evil and the cause illness, launch a campaign to cause evil and illness? America's leadership is led by ruthless fascists, and some are delusional. Biden could have led the charge to expel & jail the traitor leaders, like Trump. But he didn't want too.

I had whooping cough last year and it took a full 5 months to get over of the cough. 0 out of 5 Stars. Not recommended. (I thought it had been eradicate and didn't realize I should have gotten a booster).

Kinda crazy there’s a vaccine for this as well. You would think people would stop listening to an anti vaccination person who has been vaccinated

So, let me get this straight. When a boat plowed into the key bridge, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social was targeted as a do-nothing DEI hire But when RFK jr literally drives disease instead of fighting it, there's crickets everywhere?

People, it’s easy , listen to your doctor. Not this administration. They don’t care about you. His own family spoke out against him. He makes a lot of money selling snake oil . Get your kids vaccinated, get yourselves vaccinated. Try to be healthy , use your common sense.

The Trump regime wants all of us sick - poor and stupid. It’s their idea of the Golden Era. Anyone who survives is the house servant or worker .

1st 100 days- NOT 1st in anything! Stocks falling off a cliff. Measles exploding. DOE decimated. NIH, CDC, FDA gutted. National security under siege. US born citizens assaulted and deported. Press under attack. Veterans left behind. Allies alienated. Recession pending. THIS IS NOT NORMAL ‼️🚨

It's not just measles. Major leadership failure by RFK Jr and pertussis is raging! Op Ed nurses @donnagaffney.bsky.social and @nurseteria.bsky.social published today in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @justin-gill.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/add-...

From the Editorial Board: Our public libraries serve as a great equalizer. Funding them should be a priority.

This is why @davidkessler.bsky.social said on @rachelmaddow.bsky.social it will be extremely difficult to restore trials. Supply chain interruption killed trials and may kill the patients they were intended to help. Read @donnagaffney.bsky.social and my op ed www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/loca...

Nurses are standing up! (well at least some of us are!) @donnagaffney.bsky.social www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/loca...

“As the nation waits on Congress and the courts to determine the future of NIH funding, fear and uncertainty rise, for health care professionals, scientists and the patients whose lives depend on their work.” Well done @nurseteria.bsky.social and @donnagaffney.bsky.social !

I’ve written and published 15 op Ed’s since April 2024 with the great @donnagaffney.bsky.social @eileen24.bsky.social @timothyholtz.bsky.social @ezekieltaylor.bsky.social Dr. Arthur Lavin and Savannah Powell. This one makes me 😭 What are we doing America? www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...

Excellent piece on the impact of vaccine refusal by @donnagaffney.bsky.social and Teri Mills. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/19/o...