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Graphic by Finnegan Shannon with a white background and black text. Below is a QR code and hashtag #DisabledRage. Text reads, MEDICAID CUTS [arrow] REDUCTION IN HEALTHCARE [arrow] MORE E.R. VISITS AND WORSENING CONDITIONS

🏥🩺🩻The upcoming cuts to Medicaid will strain the healthcare system and other connected social welfare systems. What is your #DisabledRage? You can download, share, and wheat paste this graphic and more. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

JAMA Data Brief: Bar graph comparing infant mortality rates in the US vs. OECD18 between 2007 and 2022. Mortality rate decreased but remains higher in the US. Causes listed: prematurity, SUID, and other causes.

📊 JAMA Data Brief: Despite medical advances, US children's health is worsening with increased mortality and chronic conditions, partly due to inadequate insurance and societal investment.

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Incredible turn out for #NoKingsDay. Thank you to everyone speaking up and taking action. Dissent is patriotic!

Urge Congress to Protect Medicaid for Patients, Families, and Health Centers Urge Congress to Protect Medicaid for Patients, Families, and Health Centers

Our communities deserve safe, equitable, high-quality healthcare, and #Medicaid supports our most vulnerable. #Communityhealthcenters save lives — and money — generation after generation. Take a moment to send a letter now. #medsky hcadvocacy.quorum.us/campaign/Pro...

Oz, the Cruel and Powerful, Takes the Reins of Medicare and Medicaid He hits the gate running with a page out of the fascist playbook

Excellent must-read from @drjengunter.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/... #medsky #publichealth #medicaid #medicare

Flying with food allergies: Combating misconceptions and advocating for safety Passengers with food allergies face systemic barriers and stigma when flying, and urgent changes in airline policies, medical preparedness, and public awareness are needed to ensure their safety and d...

kevinmd.com/2025/03/flyi... @nonuttraveler.bsky.social

The Trump Administration Goes To War With Health-Care Quality Inside its plan to destroy a small agency that keeps you safe.

The administration is working on demolishing AHRQ, the agency whose mission is to improve healthcare quality and safety.

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Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist The second Trump administration has released a torrent of executive policies hostile to public health, science, and marginalized populations. We outline th

Our patients persecuted; colleagues and public health institutions under attack. Our field needs to rise up & fight back

Silence=Death Redux: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and the Imperative to Resist

Viewpoint by @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social & me

OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

A powerful reminder of the deeper purpose behind every clinical encounter 🥹

"Each time we look into the eyes or place our stethoscope on the chest of someone suffering indignities of discrimination, we are affirming their value and importance to our world."

It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment “There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.

It’s late. Read it in the morning. But my new one is up.

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“Eventually no one will have any rights that the state need respect, because the public will have sacrificed them in the name of punishing people it was told did not deserve them.” And at any time, they can change who they decide deserves rights and who doesn’t. No one is safe.

Family Physicians Have a Strong Case for Protecting Medicaid The AAFP is telling Congress not to make drastic funding cuts to Medicaid. Your voice will help.

www.aafp.org/news/blogs/a...
#medsky #familymedicine

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

How To: Medicaid Congressional Advocacy Webinar | Matthew Cortland Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon

House GOP Leadership just announced they want to cut at least $880 Billion from Medicaid.

This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.

COVID & Health news, 2/10/25 Please check out a special issue of my newsletter that I posted on Saturday summarizing most of the actions from the Trump administration last week, including important changes at the NIH, the Treasur...

✨Please share! My newsletter is out.

In this issue:
🤒 Worst Flu season in 15 years
🫀 Mild COVID increases plaque in coronary arteries
🚨 Dangerous D1.1 genotype of H5N1 in Nevada cattle
😿 H5N1 transmission b/w people & cats

& much more drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-...

#medsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security.

2/10 at 4PM ET: Congressional Medicaid Advocacy Webinar | Matthew Cortland Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon

2/10 at 4PM ET: Congressional Medicaid Advocacy Webinar

MAGA and MAHA are planning massive cuts to Medicaid that would result in catastrophic coverage losses. So we're going to talk about how to advocate for Medicaid with the legislative staff of a Member of Congress or Senator.

In Times Like These, Our Purpose Is Clear White House transitions can appear chaotic, but the AAFP’s advocacy is calm, steady — and heard.

www.aafp.org/news/blogs/a...
#FamilyMedicine
@aafp.org

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

Food Bank For New York City | One Mission. Five Boroughs. Feed All. As the city’s largest hunger-relief organization, our mission is to end hunger by organizing food, information and support for community survival and dignity.

Yes! Www.foodbanknyc.org here.

Yellow background. Different CDC websites that have been removed. Some are in black and white. Others are purple or red and green.

✨PLEASE SHARE! CDC GUIDELINE ARCHIVES✨

▶️STI GUIDELINES
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▶️VACCINE VIS buff.ly/4jJ1603

▶️Others from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
LGBTQ CDCGuidelines.com

#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪

Double Up Food Bucks matches your SNAP EBT dollars so you get twice the fruits and veggies.
Now available in more than 25 states, including #NY.

Find out more and share widely: doubleupamerica.org
#foodinsecurity

Did you know?

In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

Important Covid editorial @science.org by Maria Van Kerkhove
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you for your service and your advocacy for one another and your patients! Stay strong!

A headline reads "Doctors Council Members at Four NYC Health + Hospitals Announce January Strike Amid Ongoing Understaffing Crisis."

Physician members of @doctorscouncilseiu.bsky.social, the union representing thousands of frontline doctors across New York City, have provided a 10 day notice to NYC H+H and its private sector affiliates of their intention to commence unfair labor practice strikes beginning Monday, January 13.

More US Pharmacies Closed Than Opened In 2018–21; Independent Pharmacies, Those In Black, Latinx Communities Most At Risk | Health Affairs Journal In recent years, federal and state policy makers have expressed concern about retail pharmacy closures throughout the US. However, there is a dearth of timely information on the extent of such closure...

During the pandemic, I frequently talked about the importance & value of neighborhood pharmacies as trusted messengers.

How very disappointing:
- ~30% of pharmacies have closed since 2010
- independent pharmacies & those in minority (Black, Latino) neighborhoods are more likely to close

Just publish paper evaluating effects of vaccination on long COVID risks in children/adolescents during Delta/Omicron periods

We found vaccines strongly protected against long COVID-19, and the effect was almost wholly mediated by reduced infection risk

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#FamilyPhysician here but love my #GIMsky and other #PrimaryCare kin!
#MedSky