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Environmental health scientist & epidemiologist, did molecular biology, got an MPH. I used to work at some cool places. You know yourself. roomcguire.health x.com/@roomcguire x.com/@roomewtoo

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Casey Means is dangerous & unqualified for Surgeon General.

Check out what fmr SG, Jerome Adams had to say:

“You wouldn’t promote someone to general without them meeting basic military standards…why should you lower the bar for public health?”

Agree? Call your senators & let them know.

27.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 199    🔁 63    💬 8    📌 1

Thank you so much for posting! :)

06.02.2026 08:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The People's Morbidity and Mortality Report (PMMR) - February 3, 2026/No. 2 - Bird flu: pathogen overview and current situation A comprehensive pathogen history, situation report, and risk assessment for Bird flu — Global, with a focus on the US, 2026 (your one-stop-shop for Bird flu information)

A comprehensive pathogen history, situation report, and risk assessment for Bird flu — Global, with a focus on the US, 2026 (your one-stop-shop for Bird flu information)
www.roomcguire.health/p/the-people... by @roomcguire.bsky.social

04.02.2026 03:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Historical and projected combined ICE and CBP money. Tons of additional money from BBB.

Historical and projected combined ICE and CBP money. Tons of additional money from BBB.

Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown.

Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.

25.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 3535    🔁 1110    💬 50    📌 94
A photo of Alex Pretti with the text: He was one of us

A photo of Alex Pretti with the text: He was one of us

A photo of Alex Pretti with the text: Honor the memory of Alex Pretty by wearing black this week (ribbons, tape on ID badge, or clothes)

A photo of Alex Pretti with the text: Honor the memory of Alex Pretty by wearing black this week (ribbons, tape on ID badge, or clothes)

Join us in honoring Alex’s memory this week by wearing black.

25.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 44    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

A lot of my friends still in the federal government at other agencies, many well-funded agencies, are equally okay with enduring no funding for concrete action that could stop the death in our city streets.

25.01.2026 23:30 — 👍 56    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:

“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer

25.01.2026 05:19 — 👍 777    🔁 270    💬 13    📌 16
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What's with the whole milk stuff? Many netizens are trying to understand a new, weird health campaign. Let's discuss white supremacist dog whistles, MAHA's culture war, Big Dairy, the Epstein Files, and the midterms.

Let’s talk white supremacist dog whistles, health, Big Dairy, the Epstein files, and the midterms. Why is MAHA talking about whole milk? www.roomcguire.health/p/whats-with...

20.01.2026 23:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Preparing for, Protecting Against, and Treating Tear Gas and Other Chemical Irritant Exposure: A Protestor’s Guide - PHR Deceptively known as “less-lethal,” these weapons can in fact cause severe injuries and even death when used with excessive force. Physicians for Human Rights has worked extensively on the health impa...

Protect yourself from tear gas: N95s aren’t enough. Use half- or full‑face respirators with P100+OV filters, eye protection, no contacts.

Safety tips: phr.org/our-work/res...

Respirators: www.crisisreadymedia.org/masks

Stay safe, be brave, fight for what’s right ✊💚.

17.01.2026 12:13 — 👍 231    🔁 116    💬 7    📌 8

🚨CDC STAFF PSA🚨

Yesterday during an active shooter scare, our alert system failed. Again. Delayed or non-existent texts/emails, no alarm or intercom in labs.

⚠️Despite CDC warning Emory, Emory alerts went out before CDC.

📲Download the Emory Safe app to get Emory alerts. No Emory account required.

17.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 164    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 2
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Potential Implications of the New Medicaid Data Sharing Agreement Between CMS and ICE   | KFF This issue brief provides an overview of a new data sharing agreement for CMS to share Medicaid data with ICE and its potential implications for health care access and data privacy.

The Trump Admin’s decision to share Medicaid enrollee data with ICE for immigration enforcement purposes raises key issues, including questions about data privacy, impacts on immigrant families, and the ability of CMS to comply with a related court order. https://on.kff.org/4sZBIYO

17.01.2026 19:43 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

RFK Jr has unveiled the True American Diet 🇺🇸
Red meat 🥩, butter 🧈, full-fat dairy 🧀, beef tallow 🐄
No limits on alcohol 🍺🍷
Industry stakeholders are thrilled 💼✨

cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf

07.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 81    🔁 24    💬 28    📌 3

Friday: Donald Trump pledges to defend any protesters in Iran killed by the regime
Wednesday: Donald Trump defends ICE killing a protester in America

08.01.2026 05:08 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Eat real food-RFK Jr.
Cool.  Most Americans already don’t meet basic dietary guidelines.  New guidelines don’t fix poverty, food prices, time scarcity, mental load, or invisible labor.  More guidelines won’t fix jack squat.  Same shit.  Different day.  No results.

Eat real food-RFK Jr. Cool. Most Americans already don’t meet basic dietary guidelines. New guidelines don’t fix poverty, food prices, time scarcity, mental load, or invisible labor. More guidelines won’t fix jack squat. Same shit. Different day. No results.

@drplantel.bsky.social

08.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 137    🔁 22    💬 9    📌 0
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CDC staff ‘blindsided’ as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists.

As some of the scientists still at CDC fighting the good fight with all we have left, we appreciate when journalists use precise language in their headlines. It matters.💚

Career scientists weren't involved in this sham, & would not propose change based upon political ideology & vibes

G'night all 😴

08.01.2026 03:03 — 👍 196    🔁 46    💬 6    📌 0

this situation is just not tenable

08.01.2026 03:41 — 👍 52    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Flu reaches highest levels in the US in 25 years | CNN Flu continues to visit misery across the US, with all but four states showing high or very high levels of activity as a new virus strain called subclade K continues to spread.

🧵 Dear CDC political appointees, Jim O'Neil, Ralph Abraham, Stuart Burns, Lynda Chapman, Nina Witkofsky, and Matt Buzzelli.

It's a bad flu season.

But remember how you kneecapped vaccine promotion campaigns and 🪱🧠 removed flu from the childhood vaccine schedule?

edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

07.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 139    🔁 53    💬 6    📌 2

Palestinian children like Traji's daughter Aya are being starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Bluesky moderation couldn't care less, & deletes them every day. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:

04.08.2025 22:26 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

omg Eddington is The Movie

29.12.2025 00:27 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 1
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US Health Department cancels millions of dollars in grants to American Academy of Pediatrics The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has canceled millions of dollars in grants awarded to the American Academy of Pediatrics, it said on Wednesday, including ones the group said were aime...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been an outspoken critic of RFKJ's vaccine disinformation and non evidence-based vaccine recommendations.

Now they are losing millions in federal funding for mental health services, rural healthcare access, and more.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

17.12.2025 23:39 — 👍 237    🔁 104    💬 20    📌 7

Thank you so much for highlighting us @nikkigwrites.bsky.social

Maybe of interest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

24.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Email CDC-INFO Users can use this form to direct questions to the CDC.

Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:

1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈

22.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 458    🔁 179    💬 25    📌 4
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Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health - KFF Health News Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly upended outbreak response, HIV treatment, and dementia care in communities across America.

“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”

12.11.2025 01:13 — 👍 816    🔁 420    💬 41    📌 35
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Maine sought federal help amid its largest HIV outbreak in state history. It’s still waiting After initially approving Penobscot County's request for CDC aid, the agency put it on hold. Meanwhile, the virus spreads.

When the current administration cuts the budget to CDC’s HIV prevention unit, freezes deployment of outbreak response experts, & slashes harm-reduction programs; they are not abstractly “reducing cost”.

They are letting diseases spread.

Maine is giving us a wake-up call. Who is going to listen?

10.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 75    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 1

We ended that fraud!!!!! lollll

10.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

He voted no but as party leader he let this happennnnn

10.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bc he be caving 😐

10.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Senator Chuck Spelunker…

10.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

ok

15.10.2025 05:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yepppp yeppp

15.10.2025 00:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0