@czimmermann.bsky.social
Retired educator. Grandmother with a to-do list.
Eighty-five percent of parents said they trust their child’s pediatrician on vaccine information — a level of confidence that cuts across political divides, including among MAGA Republicans, according to a Washington Post-KFF poll.
10.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 121 🔁 35 💬 7 📌 3“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”
Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors
We can't rely on the CDC for evidence-based information about vaccines anymore. It's sad and frustrating, but that's where we are. So here are a ton of other resources where you can go instead. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/10...
09.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 30 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 0
If you’re an older adult, you have a story to tell about a time before routine vaccinations for contagious childhood diseases.
Please share your stories with the young adults in your life who have never seen these diseases.
www.grandparentsforvaccines.com
open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...
Free newsletter for families from the News Literacy Project folks at @newslit.org
Info to support parents wanting to help their kids navigate online information. Could also be a valuable resource for the classroom!
newslit.org/scroll-smart...
RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day”
Let’s prove him wrong
Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK
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So excited to hear about this group - thank you! The links to your Facebook and Instagram pages don’t work from your website and couldn’t find them in a search on those platforms. Will they be up soon? Looking forward to helping the effort! Already signed up!
10.09.2025 07:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Did he also call her “darling”? 😳
07.09.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Respect you both enormously and enjoyed this conversation. Not surprised by your continued optimism - I’m fighting for my children and grandchildren, too. Thank you for all you do and have done for public health.
05.09.2025 22:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many of these senators are lawyers, right? Surprised by the lack of fact checking of Kennedy’s lies in real time by most. Do your homework and don’t ask a question if you don’t know the answer & can prove the witness’s response is a lie in real time. Fact checking in news articles is much too late.
04.09.2025 21:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Immunity wanes from both infection & vaccines, which is why a yearly (or more often) vax matched to the current variant has been the recommendation up to now. “Healthy” people still risk long COVID, time out of work and school, and spreading to the vulnerable - reason enough for universal access.
04.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.
29.08.2025 22:34 — 👍 218 🔁 83 💬 6 📌 4
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
29.08.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Now, more than ever, media literacy matters.
12.08.2025 18:35 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I have commented for previous ACIP meetings and look forward to doing so this time. More important than ever! Thanks!
15.04.2025 00:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is it still helpful to have a risk-based recommendation if most of the population (>74%) is considered “at risk”? 😳 I’m guessing most people don’t know this (and don’t know if they are in that majority group).
14.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thank goodness you’re here! Welcome!
06.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place.
A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5
For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST
Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.
This was a tough episode to listen to - but so important. We all need to speak out against the dismantling of public health.
05.04.2025 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need a well-functioning loyal opposition party.
13.02.2025 18:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are the cavalry.
08.02.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heartsick to hear this. You are one of the best!
08.02.2025 11:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to see you here!
31.01.2025 02:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bennet was outstanding.
29.01.2025 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The California Department of Health published new indoor air quality guidance for schools. It’s a start. Let’s get this into building codes nationwide. Our kids and school staff deserve healthy schools.
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
Me, either. But glad you’re here.
28.10.2023 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
