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Annie Fine

@incacola68.bsky.social

Love living, Brooklyn, mountains, dogs, public health/epidemiology, all kinds of music, speaking Spanish and will work for truth, justice, and sanity.

63 Followers  |  150 Following  |  13 Posts  |  Joined: 07.11.2024  |  1.9297

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From NYC

05.04.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No regard for tenure or competency

01.04.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Affected areas so far: HIV prevention, cdc communications, TB comms, environmental health comms, birth defects, violence prevention, global health, global pediatric HIV, almost all of NIOSH (occupational/worker health and safety) #publichealth #cdc

01.04.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Hearing of many firings (called rifs for reduction in force) at CDC this am. Whole branches gone. Experienced scientists and public health servants. Terrible harm to them and to the country.

01.04.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S. β€œNow that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.

The blows just keep coming.
The infectious disease and public health work force barely survived the pandemic, I think the latest assaults will be the final straw for many. 😒
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

26.03.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
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Aid operations in Gaza imperiled as millions of promised USAID dollars do not arrive The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire, ac...

Cuts to USAID impacting humanitarian aid in Gaza and potentially threatening the ceasefire apnews.com/article/isra...

07.03.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Department of government elimination

06.03.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Restricting the Freedom to Vote The SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.

Congress is preparing to vote on the SAVE Act, which has the potential to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.

05.02.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 14

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

02.02.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4783    πŸ” 2438    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 209

Yeah - normal and worthy use of time two weeks before taking office as president

09.01.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.

Imagine living this way, every day. apnews.com/article/gaza...

31.12.2024 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Shakti: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music Shakti: Tiny Desk Concert

Master drummer, tabla player Zakir Hussain has died. He played across musical genres. Wonderfully here with Indian jazz fusion group Shakti. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8A...

16.12.2024 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

You should read the last sentence! Chilling.

13.12.2024 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza Dozens of Palestinians are receiving help from an Israeli legal group in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza...

apnews.com/article/isra...

12.12.2024 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Q: Do children really need vaccinations, even if the disease is not still around?

A: Yes. (Keep reading for the nuance.)

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10.12.2024 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

The age of the sound bite. 262 words, relatively speaking, is now a manifesto. Good to know!

10.12.2024 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

⚠️ BREAKING:

Marin County, California, is investigating a potential case of H5N1 bird flu in a child.

Local authorities are working alongside the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the CDC to determine the source of the child's exposure.

07.12.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5330    πŸ” 1162    πŸ’¬ 280    πŸ“Œ 156

@indivisible.org
Ive been trying for 8 mos to get pple to call their Reps & Senators. Professor Richardson reposted this for me today.

Can you please repost.
Sen. Rounds can bring this Bill to Abolish Public Education into 45's Republican majority Senate.

I'm Grateful ppl are listening.
Thank you

08.12.2024 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5

If your plan to counter antisemitism actually advances the very same antisemitic conspiracy theories that have repeatedly fueled antisemitic mass violence β€” including the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history β€” it’s not a plan to counter antisemitism.

08.12.2024 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1613    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 18

Remember when Zoe Baird was rejected for Attorney General because she didn’t pay as taxes for her nanny? Quaint times.

15.11.2024 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That is all.

14.11.2024 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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