My Defend Public Health colleague @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social and I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle about #RFKJr's hypocrisy, and why #PublicHealth advocates must do more than just fix what Trump and Kennedy have broken. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/rfk-junk-food-snap-trump-healthy-22208321.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vb3BlbmZvcnVtL2FydGljbGUvcmZrLWp1bmstZm9vZC1zbmFwLXRydW1wLWhlYWx0aHktMjIyMDgzMjEucGhw&time=MTc3Njc3Mzg2MjY3OA%3D%3D&rid=M2IyZmI2MWMtZGQ5MC00NTZjLWFhMTQtZjc3MzRmMjFkYzI1&sharecount=MA%3D%3D
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After changing instances, let me post an introduction:
I'm a family physician who cares about primary care, prevention, and public health. My day job in academia juggles medical education, clinical work, and scholarly pursuits in the U.S.
In my free time, I like reading, dancing, and traveling. I believe in the power of community and diversity is a strength. Looking for joy in simplicity and going outside. Will consume BTS content.
#Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the #Deaths Began.
Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse.
#law #policy #PublicHealth #health #government #SocialServices #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/health/idaho-mental-health-act-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"Even my mother … doesn’t want to accept that she might suffer Long COVID because she saw what happened to me with my sickness. … Everyone is so scared to be sick like me."
https://thesicktimes.org/2026/04/14/long-covid-is-significantly-underreported-across-the-globe/
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children
People stop freaking out about #HantaVirus. There is a variant first seen in the #Andes that can be transmitted human-to-human, and that's probably what got on the #cruiseShip based on its ports of call, but these things tend to peter out, it happens all the time, it is well-contained...
" #KLM #flightAttendant hospitalised with suspected hantavirus"
Oh fuck
#PublicHealth #Disease #Epidemiology #Epidemic #Medicine #Virus
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#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/global-virus-response-trump-administration
#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence
“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.
#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
No joke
Penile implant doctor with #AntiVax & #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories history led the government’s #hantavirus presser
As the #Trump admin sought to reassure Americans this week that a hantavirus #outbreak posed little risk to the public, Dr. Brian Christine, one of Trump’s top #PublicHealth officials in charge of #InfectiousDisease policy, stood before reporters in Nebraska promising a response “grounded in science” & “grounded in transparency.”
#idiocracy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/politics/brian-christine-vaccine-skepticism-history
#ICE detainees are dying by #suicide at an 'alarming' rate, AP investigation finds
Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught. Detained by ICE, he was on his fourth day of #isolation in a Missouri jail as he battled the fevers & chills of #COVID-19.
His request for #MentalHealth treatment had been put off, records show, & staff had forbidden Rayo from making his nightly call to his mother as a precaution intended to prevent the spread of illness.
#law #HumanRights #PublicHealth
https://apnews.com/article/ice-suicide-deaths-detention-custody-d902169055292dfd27f5079e609e86ad
Who could have predicted?🤦🏼♀️
As #vaccinations decline, doctors are seeing more #children with #WhoopingCough, #BacterialInfections & other #illnesses.
#PublicHealth #Trump #RFKJr #AntiVax #ConspiracyTheories #medicine #science
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/well/children-vaccines-illnesses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed.
“The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Medicine #Vaccines #Parenting
NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-cdc-rfk-jr-lawmakers-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Congress #Children #Parenting #CDC #RFKJr
The south is under water & the north is on fire, but, sure, #ClimateChange is a hoax right?
At least 1 person has died as #Texas #flooding forces evacuations & rescues, governor says
#PublicHealth #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-uvalde-camp-mystic-616ad82c32b5728d8a0f894c5e602b24
This is no exaggeration; there’s smoke lingering in the streets & lawns, visibility is less than 1 mile, you cannot see the horizon.
#Smoke Floating Far From #CanadaWildfires Will Darken Skies Again on Thursday
#AirQuality in several cities reached hazardous levels Thursday morning as smoke was expected to move across #NorthAmerica.
#wildfires #PublicHealth #pollution #air #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/weather/canada-wildfire-smoke-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
LA Times: Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’
"...Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.
These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail...."
"“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,..."
#Fauci’s diary reveals his thoughts on a ‘rambling’ #Trump, the absurdity of his own fame, the #FarRight’s politicization of the #COVID #pandemic & more
Released by #GOP Sen. #RandPaul, diary entries from the federal scientist who helped lead the covid response spotlight the internal battle over how to handle the outbreak.
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Begging folks to wake up and realize that the massive increase in food borne illness and infectious diseases is not an accident.
This was always the goal.
The regime removed protections because they want “the vulnerable” to die.
Fascism and eugenics go hand in hand.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/health/foodborne-illness-outbreaks-risk-rising
#uspol #eugenics #fascism #ableism #disability #chronicillness #publichealth
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A new study published today in eBioMedicine, part of the Lancet portfolio and one of the most rigorous journals in clinical medicine, provides what researchers describe as the clearest physical evidence yet of what long COVID is doing to the brain. Using the same imaging technology used to detect early Parkinson’s disease, a team led by Jeffrey Meyer at the University of Toronto scanned the brains of 24 long COVID patients and 24 healthy matched controls. They were not looking for general inflammation or nonspecific brain changes. They were measuring one specific thing: the health of the neurons that release dopamine.
What they found was a measurable, consistent, and symptom-correlated loss of dopamine nerve terminals averaging 18 percent across the long COVID group.
Shameful
#RFKJr targets #Fauci & pushes #medical #misinformation in fiery CNN interview
In attempting to rewrite the history of the #US #Covid-19 response, “Health” Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously reviving a string of debunked assertions about #vaccines, #RSV & #measles.
#Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #PublicDisservice #eugenics #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/rfk-jr-fauci-medical-misinformation
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — now doctors say removing them can reduce your risk by nearly 80%.
#cancer #WomensHealth #health #medicine #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/health/ovarian-cancer-fallopian-tubes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.qxeo.byDvNJ0cPS-Q&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Two people in Michigan have died from the Cyclosporiasis outbreak.
The media is already leading with the fact that they had pre-existing conditions.
They’re pacifying the public.
Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you.
It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly.
The expendable people.
Eugenics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/well/eat/cyclospora-deaths-michigan.html
#ableism #publichealth #disability #eugenics #chronicillness #uspol #Cyclospora
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more ~
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
#USA #USpol #USgovernment #trump #TrumpAdmin #data #datasets #health #PublicHealth #education #environment #labor #police #veterans #immigration
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/18/trump-federal-data-deleted-altered
Of course he did
#RFKJr personally asked to remove #Pennsylvania #measles deaths from #CDC tally, sources say
Kennedy’s request came after CDC staffers had already accepted the state’s characterization of the deaths as linked to measles, a Pennsylvania official said.
Despite that, #EricaSchwartz, the recently appointed director of the CDC, agreed with Kennedy’s directive & implemented it WITHOUT OBJECTION, said the 3 sources….
#AntiVax #Trump #PublicHealth #vaccines
https://www.reuters.com/world/kennedy-asked-remove-pennsylvania-measles-death-cdc-tally-sources-say-2026-09-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement