@lacountybos.bsky.social LA County Public Health confirmed its incompetence in messaging the public about the first flu death of the season. Handwashing is the 1st recommended NPI. Asymptomatic spread & air cleaning/filtering/monitoring are ignored. What will it take? www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Please join me in sending a message of solidarity with NNU @nationalnurses.bsky.social act.medicare4all.org/survey/send-...

Please join me in publicly commenting - oral and/or written - in anticipation of the upcoming ACIP (CDC) meeting. Thank you Dr. @kaitlinsundling.bsky.social for guiding us through the process of making our voices heard, for sharing your own expert comments & for your continued leadership.

@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social says "things aren't bad yet." "ILI ... is still below the 'epidemic' level threshold." (This threshold is usually when I put on my mask... at airports or crowded indoor places, because I don’t have time to get sick.)" yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/flu-season...

Based on their callous disregard for workplace precautions in their book, Macedo & Lee would surely approve of Tyson's prioritizing cost-benefit analysis over employee health & well being. OSHA was no match for Tyson & other companies with inadequate Injury/Illness plans for mitigating COVID harms.

Peter Attia’s “Focusing on what really matters for reducing your risk of death” is full of self-praise for “accuracy over attention” & not prioritizing, as the media does, the more sensational over the most common causes of death. Once again Attia places COVID-19 among the 1-3% set of causes, 1/2

Medicare Advantage OVERVIEW: - Succinctly, Medicare Advantage Plans are BAD! "Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." youtu.be/Ejoi9yfLVCc?... John Oliver of @lastweektonight.com did an excellent job! I've Medicare A & B, a Medicare Supplement Plan, & a Part D prescription plan.

Please call your California Congressional Reps to urge them to support Rep. Rho Khanna's letter to the UC President in support of the CA Nurses' new contract for better patient/nurse protections! I just called mine! Tell Congress: Support UC Nurses and Patients! act.medicare4all.org/sign/congres...

Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid. My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing. youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT... 🧵1/11

@medpagetoday.com Imagine for a moment that it were normal for healthcare facility policies on hand hygiene to be "all over the map" depending on whether few or many were testing positive for diarrheal disease. So disheartening that the report quotes MDs LaSalle, Grisolia & Weber, who 1/2

Thank you @thewhn.bsky.social for this brilliant discussion about the basics - and more. There's still hope when the medical and engineering experts actually work together!

"Because the far right is trying to create a bogeyman term in 'antifa' to equate protests with terrorism, I got caught up in the middle of this."

Updated COVID and Influenza Vaccines Available Now in Wisconsin open.substack.com/pub/wcha/p/u...

Santa Clara County (California Bay Area) is one of several to reinstate a mask mandate in healthcare during "virus season" (Nov-March). COVID isn't seasonal, but SCC's standing order is better than nothing, which is the case almost everywhere else😥. publichealth.santaclaracounty.gov/diseases/cov...

Sign up for updates on Prop 50 act.medicare4all.org/signup/prop-...

Along with nurses around the globe, we are grieving the murder of Dr. Mohammed Akram Al-Kafarneh, head of the Palestinian Nursing Association in the Gaza Strip. We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues against this outrageous violence. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses...

Tell Congress How Dangerous RFK Jr. is to Nurses and Patients Today! act.medicare4all.org/letter/rfk-v...

Violet Affleck crushes it again

There is a web page at the ACIP web site which defines "shared clinical decision making". It dates from 2025-Jan-07 (when CDC was still moslty sane). www.cdc.gov/acip/vaccine... As to who's involved on the clinical side, I captured this image (because character limits). Pharmacists qualify.

New on Cardiac Long Covid More reasons to decrease the spread, prevent infections/reinfections, & continue vaccinating ("vaccines have been instrumental in significantly reducing the burden of morbidity & mortality during both acute & post-acute phases of infection") academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

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I’m in Gaza City, my bag is packed, but I refuse to leave my home Israel’s devastating assault on my city is forcing thousands to flee in search of ‘safety’ that we know doesn't exist, and at the cost of losing our homes forever. By Ahmed Ahmed.

Dr. Adalja claims that "not repeatedly vaccinating truly low-risk people against COVID isn't very controversial" but I hope more MDs will oppose "risk-based Covid 💉s" & instead advocate, just as we do for the influenza 💉, for universal Covid vaccination. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Are you concerned about changes to the vaccine schedule? act.medicare4all.org/survey/chang...

Will you join me in submitting public comments in support of vaccine access before the CDC's ACIP meeting on Sept. 18-19? Dr. @kaitlinsundling.bsky.social makes the process easy for each of us - experts & lay people alike - to go on record: precaution.substack.com/p/tell-the-c...

I use the present tense because that's the reality. It's still here, spreading & harming us - including children & those of seemingly low risk - in the acute & long-term stages. We've been told to live with Covid & accept Covid deaths & disability as normal, because there are fewer of them now.

TY Dr. @kaitlinsundling.bsky.social for making it easy for each of us to go on record in support of universal vaccine access, including Covid vaccines, before the next ACIP (CDC vaccine committee) meeting scheduled for 9/18-19. TY for once again leading the way. open.substack.com/pub/precauti...

COVID is on🔥 Watch #MaskTogetherAmerica Back-to-School Health Forum featuring Dr. Hoerger @michael-hoerger.bsky.social, Dr. Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social & Dr. Robi Tamargo, three distinctive speakers who stand for the layered approach to sickness prevention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5_R...

Dr Michael Hoerger has been an amazing public health resource during Covid 👏👏👏 Here is his latest contribution ⬇️⬇️ youtu.be/7q5CDiCXn7E

17K views of an MD and a psychotherapist discussing health anxiety for 2+ hours. Are people who still mask in airports & elsewhere displaying “maladaptive behavior”? The 2 experts admit they are “ignorant” about Long Covid; they also seem unaware that people are still dying (130/wk in US) 1/5

Israel continues killing and wounding the witnesses - journalists filming and reporting on the genocide and famine - along with the healthcare workers trying against all odds to rescue and treat the injured, sick, malnourished, disabled. apnews.com/article/mide...

Our VA nurses & staff don’t deserve this. They’ve dedicated their lives to caring for veterans – and now they’ve had their union rights terminated overnight. We must stand with these heroes & fight to preserve collective bargaining for the people who protect our veterans. nurse.org/news/va-term...

Hold health care corporations accountable for patient and nurse safety act.medicare4all.org/survey/patie...

"WE NEED TO BE PROTECTING ALL CHILDREN." www.youtube.com/live/Vndj9oM...

Thank you @thewhn.bsky.social for submitting your spot on public comments & expert feedback to the World Health Organization in response to their inadequate draft of a new WHO Strategic and Operational Plan for Coronavirus Disease Threat Management (2025–2030). whn.global/scientific/p...

WHO is finalizing its global COVID plan — and it’s missing key protections. Public comment closes tomorrow, Aug 8. Submit public comment now at [email protected]. Learn more: whn.global/scientific/p... #COVIDisAirborne #LongCOVID #CleanAirNow #COVID19 #COVID #PublicHealth #worldhealthorganization

TY Madeleine Brand for @kcrw.com Press Play & for sharing with us your recent bout with Covid. I’m glad it was mild! TY for testing & for staying home while you test +. Please invite experts who will remind the public that EVERYONE is at risk of Long Covid, even if "most" experience the acute phase

Rep. Al Green Joins House Democratic Leaders and Texas Legislators to Fight Against Redistricting. You can also watch his remarks on YouTube by clicking here: youtu.be/yheKJsW_470?...

@who.int Call for Public Comment 🔵Vaccines still the focus 🔵Respirators/air cleaning barely mentioned 🔵Nothing on asymptomatic spread 🔵The 2023 recommendation for airborne precautions in healthcare (during AGPs & "suspected or confirmed Covid-19") HAS NOT BEEN REPLACED! www.who.int/news-room/ar...

Send a message of solidarity to UMCNO Nurses! act.medicare4all.org/survey/send-...

Rep. Al Green Calls Out Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, & Collective Punishment of Palestinians in Gaza. You can also watch the short clip of Rep. Green on YouTube by clicking here: youtu.be/v_vcb-hLe5Y

Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some have had rare but serious incidents of patient harm. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

“If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout [the treatment], the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TY @newrepublic.com for summarizing Justice Jackson’s 15-page dissent. I’m not a legal expert, but this at least seems clear: Trump’s order for massive federal worker layoffs can’t in any way be construed as an emergency & allowing him to proceed constitutes “an extraordinary risk of harm”. 1/2

TY @ralfekrowski.bsky.social for the gift. Please read every word of Justice Jackson's dissent. Coney Barrett's dismissiveness make Sotomayor's & Kagan's lack of solidarity all the more disturbing. If these 2 give up/in, what models do we have left to inspire us to oppose Trump's abuse of power?

Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

The implied premise of "history will vindicate..." is always "we're going through a horrible time now, but society will set itself right, allowing wise and virtuous people in the future to look back in judgment." Pretty shaky premise.

More minimizing & misinforming from @who.int without mentioning the risks of reinfection & long Covid. Mind boggling the continued insistence on "no sign of increased severity" rather than "no sign of decreased severity," referring to NB.1.8.1 on acute Covid. bsky.app/profile/coza...