Lindsay Diamond

So, I am no stranger to bipartisan cooperation. But RFK Jr. is an ideologue. He's never going to operate in good faith and this is the mistake of those touting the need to "work with him." 25/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

What to know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s anti-vaccine advocacy Audiences need ongoing, accurate information about Kennedy's beliefs on vaccines and health policy — and what he could do as HHS Secretary.

It is utterly *essential* that reporters + influencers, podcasters & other new-mainstream media content producers accurately convey #RFK Jr.'s beliefs about #vaccines. Coverage of his #anti-vaccine advocacy must be continuous up to & thru confirmation hearings.
healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...

Thank you for sharing. Gray’s quote says it all, “And without remembering it, we cannot make amends & we cannot go forward.” I never wish for the TSE to drift into quiet history. The idea of using it to spread targeted mis/disinformation that creates additional barriers to healthcare is abhorrent.

Even in blue Colorado, vaccine advocates worry about RFK Jr’s appeal and ‘medical freedom’ movement Growing rates of infectious disease in state’s most populous region could indicate increased ‘vaccine hesitancy’

Great chat with The Guardian’s Jessica Glenza about RFK Jr, vaccine hesitancy, and “wellness” in Colorado!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Vaccines are tremendously powerful at preventing disease - including cancer.

When working with hesitant parents & families, I consistently find that redirecting the emphasis from *how* HPV is spread to focusing on cancer prevention in both sexes for long-term health helps move the needle. 💉

He’s a wood turner and potato peeler. 💯

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly an obsession with “wellness” can turn into actual health risk. Pasteurization is a good thing. 💯

Opinion | I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu. Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

When I said Kennedy Jr. could eventually kill millions, I meant it. As ever, Trump privileged money and power over everything else in promising DHHS to a madman in exchange for his endorsement.

The death toll America could experience due to the greed of Donald Trump is staggering. Read this report.

Opinion | I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu. Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

Not sure this is on the incoming administration's radar, but it ought to be. #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows — and poultry, and people — isn't going away. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...

A little elephant’s toothpaste fun when school is out! Next time, I need to find my narrower glassware and stronger hydrogen peroxide! 😀 🧪

Here’s an easy at-home recipe, if you’d like to make some!
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The stories will keep coming as long as doctors, nurses, & hospitals are told that they have to worry about the courts instead of to their medical judgement.

Abortion is healthcare.

Chart shows a decline in the share of Republicans who support vaccine requirement for children to attend public schools.

Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% in 2019 to 57% in 2023.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

Great explainer on hepatitis B vaccine at birth!

This paper suggests scaling up HepB birth dose vaccination to 90% of newborns in 110 LMICs could prevent 710,000 deaths in the 2020-30 birth cohorts. Delays in planned scale-up ➡️ additional 580,000 deaths globally.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is your friendly neighborhood marine biologist with a regularly scheduled reminder:

Megalodon was real, but is unequivocally super-duper extinct now.

Mermaids are not real.

Narwhals and giant squid are real.

National COVID-19 vaccination rate less than 20 percent: CDC survey Just 17.9 percent of U.S. adults have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, and 34.7 percent have received an influenza vaccine during the 2024-25 respiratory disease season, according to a new report from th…

National COVID-19 vaccination rate less than 20 percent: CDC survey
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I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It. Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

Woman at vaccine protest holding sign that reads, “remember Tuskegee - this vax equals racism. Stop the mandates.”

An example of what was happening during this time - the false equivalence of COVID vaccines with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (an inexcusable chapter in our history).

And the 95% target isn’t just a random goal. It’s the level of community protection that is needed to stop a single case of measles from turning into an outbreak.

Screenshot of a 2022 academic paper in CHI entitled “The polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism.”

It’s a good time to remind folks to peel below RFK Jr’s superficial attempts to appear as a BIPOC ally. He sits atop an organization & movement that directly targeted the Black Twitter community with disinfo invoking medical racism during the pandemic.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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If you’re sexually active & in a higher risk group (MSM), now’s a great time to get your #mpox vaccine!

💉 #VaccinesWork

mpoxvaccine.cdc.gov

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@kylec.bsky.social - you’re a national treasure. Thank you for this.