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Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills: MAHA is bad for America's health For months we issued a warning: do not hand the nation’s health to a person who treats evidence like an inconvenience, who lets ideology replace...

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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day”

Let’s prove him wrong

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Get your writing on and tell Ron Wyden that RFK Jr. must go.

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Tell Democrats to Stand Up for Public Health in the Budget With negotiations on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past September 30th at a standstill, Defend Public Health believes that House and Senate Democrats MUST play ha...

An important action you can take right now to Defend Public Health!

House & Senate Ds MUST play hardball if we are to prevent the further erosion of public health, restore Congress' coequal power, & protect access to health care.

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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

Let’s show the world how we don’t support RFK Jr and his sick lies.

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Tell Democrats to Stand Up for Public Health in the Budget With negotiations on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past September 30th at a standstill, Defend Public Health believes that House and Senate Democrats MUST play ha...

New letter campaign sponsored by @defendpublichealth.bsky.social - if you have Democrat Senators or Representatives, consider taking action to ask them to support health and healthcare protections in Congress:
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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

Speaking of healthcare, please join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and send a postcard today to help prove RFK JR is WRONG - scientists and those in the medical arena do not support him or what he is doing to public health.

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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

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@defendpublichealth.bsky.social needs your help. Please send in your postcard and ask 5-10 friends to do the same. Help STOP RFK JR and call out his lies.

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Governor Phil Scott: Defend Public Health We are Vermonters who care about the health of our neighbors across our wonderful state. We are organizing alongside a new grassroots movement of public health practitioners, clinicians, patients, and...

Hey Vermonters:

We're calling on Gov. Phil Scott to stand up to the federal assaults on public health. (plz RT and share!)

Sign our open letter calling on Gov. Scott to do everything he can to defend public health.

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You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
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Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents The president’s dangerous misinformation about Tylenol is only the latest threat this government poses to infant and maternal mortality.

The incredible Dr. Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is out with a new piece about the impact of having a charlatan in charge of science and healthcare.

As usual he pulls no punches.

Whopper of the week: Kennedy's Lies About Fluoride Undermine Public Health | Defend Public Health RFK, Jr comments about the dangers of water fluoridation are not supported by data and put the dental health of the public at risk.

Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is on Kennedy's lies about fluoride.

Kennedy wants to change the water fluoridation recs, get states to ban fluoridation, and phase out approvals for fluoride tablets at FDA. Pay attention!

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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

Remember when RFK Jr. challenged Senator Wyden to a mailbag size contest?

Defend Public Health has a new campaign. You can help prove that scientists and healthcare workers do not, in fact, support RFK Jr.’s agenda by sending Senator Wyden a postcard.

Click on the link below to get started.

With @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social leading the way, a few of us helped @defendpublichealth.bsky.social to fight back against the erroneous claims that the COVID vaccine caused the deaths of 25 children. Read more about WHY we know this isn’t true.

Scientific evidence shows no link between COVID19 vaccines and child deaths | Defend Public Health In response to claims by the Trump administration that COVID19 vaccines caused 25 pediatric deaths, Defend Public Health reviewed the scientific evidence from rigorous vaccine safety surveillance syst...

Defend Public Health just released our report countering Marty Makary’s false claims last week that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. You can read it here:

From Evidence to Power: Organizing for Public Health with Jon Shaffer, PhD Sociologist–organizer Jon Shaffer, PhD, joins Infectious Dose to explain why organizing—not just evidence—wins public-health protections, how DPH is building state teams, and what you can do next.

New podcast just dropped with our own @jonshaffer.bsky.social talking about public health organizing. You can check it out here!

Welcome to the new era of Covid vaccine tourism Trump and RFK Jr.'s anti-vax crackdown is driving Americans across state lines—and making some pay out of pocket.

As I wrote about for @motherjones.com, people are already crossing state lines to get the Covid vaccine—which may become more common if the CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends limiting them this week. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Without Vaccines, Long COVID Will Be Our Next Public Health Crisis | Defend Public Health Defend Public Health member Dr. Beth Linas shares an often overlooked aspect of reducing access to COVID19 vaccines: the specter of more and more cases of Long COVID.

Defend Public Health member Dr. Beth Linas @bethlinas.bsky.social writes here about an important but often-overlooked potential consequence to restricting COVID19 vaccine access: rising cases of LongCOVID.

If RFK Jr. doesn’t resign, physicians should join a limited strike If Kennedy doesn’t resign, physicians should join a limited strike. Desperate diseases call for desperate measures.

“Kennedy’s recent actions have, in less than a year, substantially degraded the nation’s health security.”

Trump admin plots ‘alarming’ health announcement designed to ‘scare people’: report Top health officials within the Trump administration plan to give a presentation next week linking COVID-19 vaccines to child deaths – based on unverified reports – to a panel that helps shape vaccine...

Trump admin plots ‘alarming’ health announcement designed to ‘scare people’: report falsely claiming deaths due to #Covid #vaccine . #ACIP cc @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

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Senator Markey's RFK Jr. Attacks Tracker | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

RFK Jr. has taken numerous actions to limit access to vaccines and other health care. This web tracker lists all of them, in case there were some that you forgot about.
www.markey.senate.gov/RFKTracker

What Parents Need To Know About Measles As Kids Head Back To School Measles is highly contagious. If an unvaccinated person is exposed, there is a long, expensive quarantine period parents should consider and serious health consequences.

Learn more about why measles, and vaccine recommendations generally, are important. By @drjudystone.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Nice to see organizations like the @autismsciencefd.bsky.social and @defendpublichealth.bsky.social getting ahead of these potential forthcoming claims in RFK Jr.'s eventual autism report. More of this needed and in other forums too. 🛟😷🧪 sociology

Here's Autism Science Foundation's statement...

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RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States | Moustafa Bayoumi The CDC – the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans – is in shambles. And that is all thanks to one man

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This from The Guardian:
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Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.

Bravo @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

50% of kids

Florida Plans To Eliminate All Vaccine Mandates—What That Means For Us Florida plans to eliminate all vaccine mandates. This will be costly to individuals, society, and weakens public health nationally and our epidemic response.

Another banger by @drjudystone.bsky.social. What is happening in Florida really does impact everyone in the nation /