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Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return.

Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A collage of four pictures of Covid awareness billboards. The first one in the upper left corner is at night time in the winter. The long Covid billboard reads long Covid ruins lives mask up. And there is a graphic of a white N 95 mask. The billboard is on a brick pizza shop and it is brightly lit up in the nighttime. The second billboard in the bottom left corner is on a large brown platform and is also in winter, but in the daytime and it is a clear blue sky day. The billboard also reads long Covid ruins lives mask up and there is a graphic of a white N 95 mask. The third billboard is in the top right corner There’s a rainbow coloured crosswalk at the intersection of two streets. There is a brown brick building with large glass window panes. On the side of the building, there is a very large billboard a digital one that reads. Bright green background. With words that read COVID-19 CAUSES... BRAIN DAMAGE DEMENTIA IMMUNE DAMAGE HEART PROBLEMS DIABETES CHRONIC ILLNESS N95 ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION ANYONE CAN GET LONG COVID, EVEN KIDS. MASK UP AND STAY SAFE. On the left side of each symptom is a small graphic of a red virus particle. There is a large red virus particle in the upper right corner. There are two men and walking separately in different directions as well as two women walking the same direction as one of the men. The sky is clear. The women are wearing black and one of the r men is wearing jeans, and a blue shirt. The fourth billboard is in the Bottom right There is a large green digital billboard display with the words COVID-19 CAUSES... BRAIN DAMAGE DEMENTIA IMMUNE DAMAGE HEART PROBLEMS DIABETES CHRONIC ILLNESS N95 ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION ANYONE CAN GET LONG COVID, EVEN KIDS. MASK UP AND STAY SAFE. On it. There is also a graphic of a purplish virus particle, and a white n95 mask. There are also 3 vehicles in the picture, two are dark blue suvs and the other is a white car. There are buildings in the background.

The next Covid Awareness billboard will be something to the effect of…

“Mask Up, Clean The Air, Protect the Kids, and Show We Care.”
#SafeSchoolsNow

If you like to help me continue my work and place some more billboards please share/donate. Every bit helps. YerAweSum!

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Everyone needs to read this

This is extremely bad

We live in an oligarchy.

The Supreme Court laid the foundations for it.

Billionaire families and powerful business interests bankrolled it.

Their elected stooges built it.

The dark money networks and allied media sold it.

Many voters bought it.

Now, we’re all going to pay for it.

With the passage of this Big Bill, Democrats now have a mandate and responsibility to pass Medicare-for-all and the Green New Deal when they next get into power.

It’s easy peasy. Call 1-(202) 224-3121. Ask for your representative, give your zip code if you don’t know, and theyll connect you. Tell them to vote NO on Trump's budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering bill. YOUR CALL IN MATTERS!!

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Thinking about how powerful it would be if the 60% of people who don't approve of this bill would call their Representative in Congress and urge them to vote NO! Fill their phone lines with opposition! www.house.gov/representati...

NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology | CNN Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.

Good morning! Some inspo to start the day.
NIH staffers, led by their union, walked out of a town hall with Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to protest working conditions and budget cuts harming life-saving research. Let’s keep these acts of resistance coming. 💪💚
@alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info

What does the new FDA framework mean for the future of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.? Under proposed policy, updated shots would be limited to at-risk populations

Science: 'What does the new FDA framework mean for the future of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.?'

'Neither Long Covid...nor the related condition myalgic encephalomyelitis...(ME/CFS) is included on Makary and Prasad’s list..'

www.science.org/content/arti...

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

Great Barrington Declaration co-author Jay Bhattacharya has been confirmed as our NIH director.

He is a professional merchant of doubt, an anti-vax adjacent misinformation peddler, and completely unqualified to run—let alone work for—the agency.

It’s a dark day for our republic.

Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics.

Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address Long Covid, the mysterious lingering aftermath of some SARS-CoV-2 infections. “The research is being treated like we already have all the answers we will need in the future and that the current vaccines work well enough and don’t need improvement, which we know is not true,” says an investigator involved with one of the NIAID grants who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “Some of the studies being canceled were attempting to make a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would hopefully be available the next time a novel coronavirus jumps species into humans.”

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath.

29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

Here is the text of the email: Dear Colleagues, We are writing to let you know that the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will be closing as part of the administration’s reorganization coming this week. We are proud of what we have accomplished together in advancing understanding, resources, and support for people living with Long COVID. Over the last 3+ years, we have built meaningful connections and fruitful collaborations across the federal landscape to support this work. While our office is closing, we hope that the work we have been dedicated to will continue in some form. Updates will be shared as they become available. Thank you again for your collaboration and commitment. Best regards, Ian Simon, Ph.D. Director, Office of Long COVID Research and Practice Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health et al…

The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.

This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

There need to be mass demonstrations. Like yesterday.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard Dr. Marty Makary: Natural immunity "probably lifelong" from 7/2021

Why did senators not ask Makary or bhattacharya about their pandemic records?

I mean here’s Makary saying in 2021 that immunity is probably lifelong.

Doesn’t this say important things about his credibility and willingness to stick to the evidence?

It got erased.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgQk...

Fight for every single drop of truth.

Don’t let a single lie absorb into the national discourse.

That’s the lesson of the COVID era and this moment.

Yes- a wolf in sheep’s clothing

Had to turn it off… couldn’t deal with the constant referral to the “chronic disease epidemic” without one mention of #LongCovid #Bhattacharyahearing

Wish there were protesters at the Bhattacharya hearing like there was at the RFK hearing… in some ways he’s more dangerous

Action Item! Demand Congress Oppose Jay Bhattacharya as Director of NIH Urgent! Oppose Jay Bhattacharya Nomination as Director of NIH before US Senate HELP Committee Hearing on March 5, 2025

If you are from LA, KY, ME, AK, OK, KS, SC, MO, AL, IN, FL, MD, DE, NJ, MA, CO, NH, VA, CT, WI, WA, or VT you have a senator on the HELP committee. Call or write them now to oppose Jay Bhattacharya’s nomination as head of the NIH!:
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Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s NIH Pick Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a loud voice from the fringes.

Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearings begin tomorrow.

Here’s everything you need to know about the man who will (probably) lead our National Institutes of Health.

Don’t sleep on this guy. He’s every bit as extreme as Robert Kennedy Jr.

www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...

RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

STAT: “RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions”

In notice to Federal Register, health agency says public participation is not needed in many decisions

www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

There is going to be a wave of activism in response to Trump’s catastrophic healthcare policies and cuts. Us Covid conscious folk need to get INVOLVED to ensure Covid advocacy is part of the picture.

It will be halted for 3 months and reviewed- not ended. What can we do in that time, how can we organize to make sure it isn’t ended? How can we also do this for the nasal vaccines? These are the questions we must be asking

It will be halted for 3 months and reviewed- not ended. What can we do in that time, how can we organize to make sure it isn’t ended? How can we also do this for the nasal vaccines? These are the questions we must be asking.

There’s a lot going on right now but we can’t let hysterics or defeatism get in the way of meaningful action. We have power, we must use it.