Annie Fine

From NYC

No regard for tenure or competency

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

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.

CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S. “Now 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...

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...

Department of government elimination

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.

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

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

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...

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...

You should read the last sentence! Chilling.

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...

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

⚠️ 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.

@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

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

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

That is all.