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Delaying vaccines = declining them. They need to be given on time to be as effective as possible.

U.S. measles cases as of March 30, 2025 Map shows how many cases are in each state. 1-2 cases: AK, WA, MN, MI, KY, N, FL, VT, RI. 3-9 cases: CA, OK, PA, NY, NJ, MD, GA. 10-49 cases: NM, KS, OH. 50 or more cases: TX This count includes both confirmed and suspected cases. SOURCES: CORI, state and local health departments, news outlets, YALE ESF-8 Virtual Medical Operation Center

As of March 30, there are approximately 529 measles cases across 20 states. Experts project that the Southwest outbreak, which has spread from West Texas to New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, could last up to a year as cases continue to rise.

Read this full thread for what to know. ⬇️ 1/11 🧵

It feels like a positive anecdote from a parent is more likely to influence change than doctors opinions, evidence, and science.

Our patients are trusting us less and less. If you are a parent who believes in science, and saving childrens lives, PLEASE speak up about your choice to vaccinate your child. It is safe. It is life saving.

I just had a family decline/delay vaccines explicitly because of “controversy in the news.” As a pediatrician, I am terrified.

US decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision.

#USA: the decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk.

It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision.

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White supremacy is a death march, and fascism is the drumbeat pushing it forward.

We have a choice: resist or be dragged down with it.

"Beyond a laundry list of moral positions or communities we care about, we should be tying ourselves together with a coherent vision for the direction we want our society to go — and a worldview about how it should work " - @asha-rrs.bsky.social

Doctors and nurses, this is for you. When ICE is trying to raid your hospital, or when your hospital executives are telling you to end programs addressing racial and gender health inequalities or telling you to stop providing trans or abortion care—please, please disobey.
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Farmworkers feed the country, but who protects them from wildfire smoke? Thousands of farmworkers labored in fields in Ventura County, Calif. in late January in wildfire smoke. They have little to no protection from its harmful effects.

California employers are legally required to provide N95 respirators to workers when the AQI reaches unhealthy levels. Yet, it was labor unions and community organizers that supplied more than 20k respirators to farmworkers in Ventura County last month. @npr.org
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How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk"

To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky

Everyone can organize.

Everyone can contribute to social movements.

Everyone can do something, from somewhere.

None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.

Everyone can organize and has something to offer.

Watercolor and sharpie. One green stem heavy with blossoms. Words by Mariame Kaba (from Twitter probably): What’s the most good that’s within my power to do today? Let that be my guide.

Comrade card for 1/30/2025. Evergreen from @prisonculture.bsky.social.

trying to find hope through my little plants. native sages, lilac, yarrow, poppy, and goldenrod 🌱🌾🪻planting toward the future.

#gardening #nativeplantgarden #socalgardening

I say this as much to myself as anyone else: this is their goal. To pelt us with every vile declaration & action, to make us feel battered, powerless & defeated at every turn.

I just keep reminding myself to feel my feet on the Earth, breathe, get in my lane, reach out across lanes & fight.

hiii. glad to be here.