Amit Chandra, MD

I fear this exactly. Failing to adequately prepare increases the likelihood of lockdowns. No one should want this.

Corporate poisoning for profit?
Crickets... 🦗🦗

How Many People Die in India From Hot Weather? Nobody Really Knows.

🌡️ India's heat crises are likely worse than we think. Official counts miss most heat-related deaths... though estimates rise to 150,000+ excess deaths for summers experiencing 5 heat waves.
Addressing gaps in data collection and urban public health systems will be good places to start.

The Rookie Who Wrecked the System Now Wants Applause for the Rubble Jeremy Lewin uses a State Department briefing to recast his own demolition job as redemption.

Jeremy Lewin is the product of a government that forgot what public service is for. The piece tracks how a single appointment became a symptom of a deeper collapse and what happens when demolition gets sold as strategy.

Nursing is a professional degree. The end.

Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind What really happened when he logged out of Washington.

Advice from their leaders on their exit interviews:
“Guys, seriously,” one warned, “get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

🚨 DOGE no longer exists
The experiment may be over, but its devastating impacts remain. Crimes include: unauthorized access to classified systems, violations of federal records laws, & regulatory breaches. Agencies now lack capacity for disaster response, consumer protection, & disease prevention.

"Every year, promising new uses for generic drugs emerge from academia, non-profits, and patient groups — yet most never reach patients. Not because of scientific barriers, but because the U.S. drug development system was built for commercial sponsors."

"The recent meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was a reminder of how global funding cuts and this year's changes in priorities have undermined public health and pandemic preparedness."
@drjudystone.bsky.social

"As part of its new America First Global Health Strategy, the Trump administration is drafting bilateral deals with African countries to fund global health programs, including HIV services."

@theandrewgreen.bsky.social shares experiences on the ground in Botswana.

Who could argue with RFK Jr’s slam dunk evidence of supplemental figure 4.

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

A must-read for folks in education. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

"Looking back at the person she was when she was pregnant, it’s sometimes hard for Lopez to recognise herself."

“Nobody joins a cult willingly,” she says. “You think you’re joining a great movement.”

mRNA flu shot shows better results than traditional vaccine in trial - UPI.com Pfizer's mRNA flu vaccine worked better than a standard flu shot in a large Phase 3 trial, researchers reported in the results of a clinical trial.

People who received the mRNA flu vaccine had 35% fewer flu-like illnesses than those who received the traditional vaccine.
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room. Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

This is why we need single payer healthcare ie Medicare for all

Person holding their head at the entrance to a maze, there are receipts and bills scattered through the image, representing medical bills. A broken clock and pig shaped piggy bank are flying through the sky.

ICYMI: sharing my recent publication in STAT News - First Opinion, republished to my Substack today without a paywall:

apothek.substack.com/p/how-emotio...

We share how emotions and cognitive biases sabotage our health coverage decisions. Call it the Insurance Fear Factor:

After Series of Denials, His Insurer Approved Doctor-Recommended Cancer Care. It Was Too Late. - KFF Health News Eric Tennant’s doctors recommended histotripsy, which would target, and potentially destroy, a cancerous tumor in his liver. But by the time his insurer approved the treatment, Tennant was no longer c...

This is the insurance industry's playbook: deny or delay until it's too late. Eric Tennant's insurer denied the cancer treatment his doctors recommended, only approving it months later when he was too sick to receive it. He died in September.

Via @kffhealthnews.org

Nominations Deadline – November 24, 2025

2 past winners / featured stories below for inspiration!
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Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines

This is what all the firings and resignations at the CDC were meant to accomplish: clear the way for RFK to push unsubstantiated beliefs into the agency's public statements.

Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.

Via the @nytimes.com & @theexamination.org:

Dirty lead recycling factories in Nigeria supplying Ford, GM, and Tesla are poisoning communities. Opaque supply chains allow everyone to blame someone else.

#MedSky #GreenSky @blanphear.bsky.social

Great interview this AM on @npr.org's Morning Edition with @drdemetre.bsky.social:

www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
"There's also no evidence that umbrellas don't cause kittens."

I'll be adding his quote above as a post-script to my holiday cards this year. 👏🏽👏🏽

Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It The disappearance of inconvenient facts and the remaking of reality.

Via @thebulwark.com:
"HOW DO YOU ERADICATE hunger, STDs, illiteracy, poverty? It’s actually quite simple. You stop measuring them."

Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most. Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

Latest via @propublica.org:
Climate policy rollbacks could lead to 1.3 million additional heat-related deaths worldwide by 2115... most of which would impact the poorest countries in Africa and South Asia.
This is the human cost of our retreat from climate action.
#GreenSky #EnviroSky #MedSky

The article's subtitle says it all: "The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich."
#GreenSky #EnviroSky

You can't manage what you don't measure... and mismanagement / inaction is the point here.

Article by @helenbranswell.bsky.social in @statnews.com... important reminder to vaccinate before upcoming holiday gatherings!

I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too A pro-vaccine physician went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. He warns that public health must learn what it’s up against.

Fascinating experiences of @craigspencer.bsky.social at the anti-vaccine movement's biggest gathering to speak on a @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social panel:

"Over the next two days, I heard versions of the same arc again and again: loss reframed as mission, grievance redirected into organizing."

How Many People Die in India From Hot Weather? Nobody Really Knows.

🌡️ India's heat crises are likely worse than we think. Official counts miss most heat-related deaths... though estimates rise to 150,000+ excess deaths for summers experiencing 5 heat waves.
Addressing gaps in data collection and urban public health systems will be good places to start.

Thanks @kffhealthnews.org for featuring my latest article in Monday's morning briefing!
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