Dr. K Drenner

21 people sick. 6 under age of 10. 7 people hospitalized. At least 2 severe infections. 1 farm and a glass of raw milk. Raw milk linked to E. Coli and Campylobacter outbreak in Florida. This isn’t “natural health.” It’s a public health risk.

@simonmaechling.bsky.social

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Every firm of every size on Wall St. should have done this morning what JPM did yesterday. Instead, it's been mostly crickets and, in some cases, cowardice.

Vaccination Intentions During Pregnancy and Among Parents of Young Children This survey study of pregnant persons and parents of young children in the US examines vaccination intentions during pregnancy and vaccination behaviors after the child's birth for vaccines recommende...

Oh goodness. This is study is a sobering evaluation of parents’ and pregnant women’s vaccination intention (with the caveat that intent is not always equivalent to behavior).

We have so, so much work to do.
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It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

Under the Republican "Big, Ugly Bill," high-income individuals are expected to gain approximately $12,000 per year, whereas working-class Americans may face an additional annual burden of $1,600. This administration is the reverse Robin Hood, taking from the poor to give to the rich.

“It’s the largest redistribution from poor to rich in a single bill in American history.”

It's a play in three regressive parts:
1. Tax cuts for the rich.
2. Spending cuts on the poor.
3. Tariffs that hit low-income folks hardest.

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

What am I worried about?
-Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East
-cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration)
-Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs)
-Allied assistance (we’ll need that now)
-Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)

😂😂😂

You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can’t bomb it into peace.
- Michael Franti

Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, cautioning that the country is “dangerously close" to normalizing behavior
"consistent with autocracies."
#Obama #NoKings

Not that it matters if it were fundable:

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” - John Waters

#booksky 📚

I love a John Snow reference. He finally showed cholera was not "miasma" but instead germs in the water. #notmiasmabutgerms

RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

A document circulated to members of Congress from Secretary Kennedy misinterprets studies and cites debunked research. This dangerous misinformation could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety which will harm public health.
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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

There is an old saying that "when public health works, it's invisible."

This has a lot of truth, but I think there is more going on than just a lack of appreciation for what public health does.

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CBO Confirms GOP Budget Bill Triggers Medicare Cuts Republican Plan Adds to the Deficit, Will Trigger Automatic Cuts Under Federal Law

turns out the GOP budget bill adds so much to deficits that it will automatically trigger cuts to Medicare (not just Medicaid).
Older voters unlikely to be happy about this when word gets out
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BREAKING:

A judge says of the flight to South Sudan: "The Department’s actions in this case are unquestionably violative of this court’s order."

As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”

WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will:

- Gut Medicaid
- Increase premiums for private health insurance
- Force rural hospitals to close

All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.

Sadly, this is where we ARE…

Let him have it, Bill.

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

Sidewalk chalk message says: "Start imagining the revolution. Stop imagining the apocalypse."

Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.

America is in the thick of a measles crisis, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is busy on Fox prattling about nothing.

Rather than promoting the merits of vaccinations and helping to protect people from a highly infectious, potentially deadly disease, Kennedy has…

I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper by Joseph Fasano Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.

It's final paper season.

Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”

Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.

The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.

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