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Alain Lefebvre

@aplefebvre.bsky.social

International senior consultant health and social affairs, political writer. Also the father of 3, often sarcastic, French, and living in Finland.

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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

17.05.2025 20:51 — 👍 6797    🔁 3527    💬 277    📌 612
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Europe one step closer to clean energy as #Helsinki ditches #coal The near-complete phase-out of #coal puts Finns in a league with countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Slovakia and Sweden.

Europe one step closer to clean energy as #Helsinki ditches #coal

01.04.2025 04:02 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Condamnée, Marine Le Pen s’accroche coûte que coûte à sa candidature Condamnée à une peine d’inéligibilité avec effet immédiat pour détournement de fonds publics, Marine Le Pen pourrait être empêchée de se présenter à l’élection présidentielle. Mais la cheffe de file d...

Renoncer, Marine Le Pen ? Vous n'y pensez pas. Malgré sa condamnation, elle s'accroche coûte que coûte à une candidature pour 2027. Et écarte, pour le moment, le plan "B" Jordan Bardella (par @vlazard.bsky.social et Lucas Burel)
www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20...

31.03.2025 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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« J’ai entendu le président de la République dire qu’il faudrait rendre inéligible à vie ceux qui ont été condamnés pour corruption et fraude fiscale.

Ah bon ? Et pourquoi pas le reste ?

Pourquoi pas pour détournement de fonds publics ? »

— Marine Le Pen, le 5 avril 2013.

#PassionArchives

31.03.2025 14:21 — 👍 723    🔁 386    💬 16    📌 32
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02.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 24402    🔁 7020    💬 1283    📌 453
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Meta's Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were 'Blindsided' by Decision to Axe Them Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
07.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Follow a natural health philosophy? Vaccination may have more in common with it than you think Vaccination prepares the body’s immune system in the same way “natural” exposure to infection does. It just does it in a safer, controlled way with a much lower dose.

In fact, holistic medicine has nothing to do with RFKjr. The practitioners are not against vaccination and medical research, except some crazy extremists, they support a combination of medical treatment, nutrition advice, physical activity, supplementation etc theconversation.com/follow-a-nat...

24.12.2024 21:50 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners They don’t merely support doctors—NPs increasingly treat patients independently, including in specialty practices and emergency rooms. When they aren’t well trained, the results can be tragic.

Nurse practitioners — the fastest-growing profession in the US — are increasingly treating patients independently of doctors. When they’re poorly trained, the results can be tragic

24.12.2024 20:20 — 👍 156    🔁 43    💬 15    📌 4
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Expertise France on LinkedIn: Leaflet - HUB Santé Project 📢 🏆 The multi-country project “EU Resources Hub for sustainable investing in health” funded by the EU through the #TechnicalSupportInstrument has come to an…

Happy to have piloted this successful and ambitious project…

www.linkedin.com/posts/expert...

07.12.2024 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr: Fact-checking his views on health policy Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated to be the next US health secretary, but some of his views are not backed by science.

Putting a leader in conspiracy theories , anti vaccine specialist to pilot health at the Federal level … #Trump is a genius: Americans tend to doubt anything supported by the federal government, chances are they reject conspiracy theory and anti vaccine BS…

16.11.2024 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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End of the project I am leading on testing the creation of a EU resources Hub to help Member States to prepare and finance health reforms by accessing EU funds. Will the #EU Commission create it, or leave it?

16.11.2024 20:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TSI 2025 Flagship - EU Health Hub - Quality spending and strategic investments for future proof health systems This flagship aims at helping EU regional and local authorities design and implement structural reforms aimed at promoting cooperation and cross-border exchanges to build administrative capacity and p...

At Gastein Forum with DG Reform
🇦🇹,🇧🇪, 🇸🇮, we had an important session on future challenges and opportunities for the future on #health investments.
🔗TSI 2025 flagship europa.eu/!VRBC4T
🔗Check out the
@OBShealth
publication shorturl.at/b36IA

25.09.2024 10:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,475,475, Alain Lefebvre ‪@aplefebvre.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 12, 2023"

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,475,475, Alain Lefebvre ‪@aplefebvre.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 12, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,475,475!

24.09.2024 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to present our pilot projects in this forum

24.09.2024 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EHFG 2024 - Live streaming Join us at the hybrid EHFG 2024 from 24 - 27 September to help find solutions for the complex "3D" interplay of democracy, demographics, and digitalisation. Let's be optimistic and not bury our heads…

📺 Live now at #EHFG2024:

✅ Unlocking EU investment potential for health - A resources hub for sustainable investment in health: https://buff.ly/4ejjNEN

Sign in with your email and password ehfg24

24.09.2024 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Addressing the health and care workforce crisis A healthy and robust health and care workforce is an essential factor for resilient health systems. However, the health and…

Europe in demographic crisis: more care needs with aging population, less carers

28.03.2024 05:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lawmakers call for extra time to iron out wrinkles on health data Differences over patients’ right to opt out of health data transmission to third parties scuppered all-night talks on the last health file of the term.
28.03.2024 05:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body Reducing trade friction with the EU could boost access to member states, group says

Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body

28.03.2024 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Care, Prepare, Protect”: Strengthening the EU Health Union On 26 and 27 March, the Federal Public Service Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (FPS Health) organized a High-level Conference on the Future EU Healt

Happy to have been a speaker at this conference, presenting the TSI project testing a EU Health Resources Hub to facilitate the access of MS to EU funding for structural reforms of #health systems

www.health.belgium.be/en/news/care...

27.03.2024 21:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Comme c’est uniquement sur invitation, le nombre de personnes sur Bluesky est encore limité, mais il y a des progrès…

19.12.2023 06:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Macron Unveiled – HISTRIA BOOKS Macron Unveiled examines Macron’s first four years as France’s president, scrutinizing Macron’s personality, his way of solving problems, his sources of inspiration, his mistakes, his difficulti...


My last book, was recently presented at Hawai Alliance Francaise.
histriabooks.com/product/macr...

17.12.2023 09:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reforming the Public Health System in Greece Supporting the functional modernization of the Greek Public Health system

My last project as Team Leader has successfully ended, taking one or two months off before looking for other challenges...
www.expertisefrance.fr/en/fiche-pro...

17.12.2023 09:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tweet by Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Dr. Mona Nemer:
"Even mild cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection are at risk of becoming long covid, and these results suggest the threat increases with multiple infections. (1/3)
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article/00015-eng.htm"

“Chart 2 - Percentage of Canadian adults with long-term symptoms, by number of self-reported COVID-19 infections, June 2023.” The chart displays the percentage of Canadian adults with long-term symptoms by the number of self-reported COVID-19 infections as of June 2023. There are four bars representing different categories: “1 or more infections,” “1 infection,” “2 infections” and “3 or more infections.” The y-axis is labeled in percentages, ranging from 0 to 50 percent. The first bar (1 or more infections) reaches 20%. The second bar (1 infection) reaches 15%. The third bar (2 infections) extends just above 25%. The fourth bar (3 or more infections) extends to nearly 38%.

Tweet by Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Dr. Mona Nemer: "Even mild cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection are at risk of becoming long covid, and these results suggest the threat increases with multiple infections. (1/3) https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article/00015-eng.htm" “Chart 2 - Percentage of Canadian adults with long-term symptoms, by number of self-reported COVID-19 infections, June 2023.” The chart displays the percentage of Canadian adults with long-term symptoms by the number of self-reported COVID-19 infections as of June 2023. There are four bars representing different categories: “1 or more infections,” “1 infection,” “2 infections” and “3 or more infections.” The y-axis is labeled in percentages, ranging from 0 to 50 percent. The first bar (1 or more infections) reaches 20%. The second bar (1 infection) reaches 15%. The third bar (2 infections) extends just above 25%. The fourth bar (3 or more infections) extends to nearly 38%.

The Chief Scientist of Canada is correctly drawing attention to these staggering new research findings, which make it crystal clear that continual COVID reinfection is not a long-term strategy for a functional society.

14.12.2023 07:24 — 👍 29    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 4
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Influence of Lifestyle Habits on Insulin Dynamics in Children This cohort study assesses whether adiposity, physical activity, fitness, and screen time affect insulin dynamics over 2 years in children with a family history

Preventing overweight and obesity in childhood maybe be the key to prevent type 2 diabetes later in life.

💎Public health strategies that promote healthy body weight, notably physical activity, need to target school-aged and possibly younger children.🧪

14.12.2023 08:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Kremlin-Linked Network Used Fake Taylor Swift Quotes to Push Anti-Ukraine Propaganda A disinformation campaign led by a group linked to Russia's GRU is using images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Oprah to lambast Ukraine.

The celebrity quote campaign that Reset exposed last month continues to run unhinged on Facebook with a slight change of tactics. The ads now literally put words in famous people's mouths by promoting footage of actual interviews w/ fake audio dubbed on top via text-to-speech apps.

06.12.2023 12:33 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazon’s Risky Recommendations - CheckFirst In a landmark research collaboration, CheckFirst and AI Forensics publish a comprehensive study examining the intricate facets of Amazon's recommendation algorithm, unveiling concerning content amplif...

✨📚 CheckFirst and AI Forensics present an eye-opening study, "The Amazing Library".

We expose the harms of Amazon's algorithms, spanning from promoting anti-vaccine content to suggesting sexually explicit books on teenager books’ pages.
checkfirst.network/the-amazing-...

11.12.2023 09:33 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Health misinformation is rampant on social media – here's what it does, why it spreads and what pe... Studies show that health misinformation on social media has led to fewer people getting vaccinated and more lives lost to COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases.

The real cost of health misinformation and disinformation, by Dr Monica Wang, Associate Professor of Public Health at Boston University.
@theconversationus.bsky.social
theconversation.com/health-misin...

14.12.2023 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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