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There’s measles outbreaks in multiple States now, and every time a new cluster is announced there’s an exposure at an ER

Why? Because that’s where the sick people go

It’s one of the reasons disabled people often say they won’t go to the ER unless literally dying.

They’re not safe places for us:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-wont-go-to-the-er-unless-im-literally

#disability #chronicillness #disabilityrights #ableism #eugenics #healthcare #measles #COVIDisAirborne #keepmasksinhealthcare


A team of archivists have recreated the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) website from just before it was purged by US President Donald Trump, hosting it in Europe!

https://restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/

#uspol #health #healthcare #cdnpoli #abpoli


"Without treatment, 400 million people worldwide could suffer indefinitely. “Do no harm” means providing access to treatments — not withholding them."

~Julia Moore Vogel, Ph.D., MBA, ‘Do no harm’ is hurting 400 million long Covid patients worldwide

#Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #Healthcare #Disability


Patients have been bearing the brunt of infection control in hospitals, having to go to great lengths to protect themselves and their loved ones.

They’re unfairly judged, psychologized and mistreated for masking and/or requesting staff mask.

Covid is still here. It’s still killing and disabling people. We’re also seeing outbreaks of tuberculosis, measles and the worst flu season in over a decade.

Public health is being systematically dismantled and gagged by the Trump administration, allowing misinformation and disinformation to flourish and putting even more lives at risk.

Why don’t we have mandatory masking in healthcare? Why are we killing and disabling patients who go there for help? Who can’t ‘just stay home’?

The second article in my Masks in Healthcare series looks at patient stories, retaliation, and what we can do to make hospitals safer for everyone.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/we-need-mandatory-masking-in-healthcare

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #sarscov2 #chronicillness #healthcare #keepmasksinhealthcare #wearamask #ableism #eugenics #disability


UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials
—Rolling Stone

「 UnitedHealth submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking for approval to block a shareholder proposal that it use a third-party auditor to assess “previous customer denial claims, particularly where a death was involved, to determine if denial letters included factually incorrect and insensitive information.” 」

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/unitedhealth-defends-image-claim-denials-mangione-thompson-1235259054/

#unitedhealthcare #ai #healthcare


#Media barred from covering top #Defense, #VA #Health officials at conference amid concerns over care, despite being welcomed at such conferences up to now.

Musk/Trump/#GOP champions of govt #transparency?

I don't think so.

#Vets #Healthcare
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/03/media-barred-covering-top-defense-va-health-officials-conference-amid-concerns-over-care.html


"The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)... has run continuously since 1988 and covers everything from the particulars of newborn health and morbidity to issues like post-partum depression in mothers...

the #Trump #CDC has shuttered the program as part of its general clampdown on medical #research and public #health information."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-shutters-prams-program-on-maternal-and-infant-health

As @GottaLaff would say #ProLifeMyAss

#GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #Healthcare #Women #Children #News #USNews
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CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health

By Josh Marshall
February 22, 2025 4:18 p.m.

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 06: A general view of the Center for Disease Control headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 06, 2022. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)


"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them" ~Julius Nyerere, #HealthCare Edition

"Being outraged only when the #Republicans are in office & refusing to hold the #Democrats accountable for their often equally abysmal policies on #immigration, healthcare, #genocide, & natural resource extraction is precisely why we have #Trump." @-mmills

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#Capitalism #Obama #Biden #RFKjr #Duopoly
The Biden administration oversaw the largest disenrollment from Medicaid in history-25 million people. They did this as they manufactured the end of the pandemic to serve capitalism, abandoning poor, disabled & high-risk people, & doing irreparable damage to public health. 1/
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Biden appointed Jeff Zients, a private equity exec & Facebook board member with no public health experience, to lead the pandemic response. His CDC director Rochelle Walensky said it was encouraging news that the majority of COVID deaths occurred in people with "comorbidities" 2/

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Biden expanded Trump's plan to privatize Medicare. @TheDemocrats killed #MedicareforAll legislation & took 63% of the healthcare lobby's money in both the 2020 & 2024 elections. Harris, Biden, Obama & Clinton are the top 4 recipients of pharmaceutical lobby cash from 1990-2024 3/
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@TheDemocrats paved the way for the Trump administration's plans to destroy the already murderously inadequate safety net because end stage capitalism demands it. Eugenics began as a "progressive" project- rank and file democrats have happily complied for the last 4 years. 4/

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The US government is owned by the healthcare lobby- its interests supersede affiliation with Republicans or Democrats. This includes RFK, who's against government run healthcare but in favor of a government owned by healthcare- he accepted the 5th highest lobby total in 2024. 5/

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Being outraged only when the Republicans are in office & refusing to hold the Democrats accountable for their often equally abysmal policies on immigration, healthcare, genocide, & natural resource extraction is precisely why we have Trump. The problem is the capitalism. 6/6


United Healthcare or Disunited? The largest healthcare company in America is under siege...
Following the killing of UnitedHealth's top exec last Dec., the organization has become accustomed to defending itself.

⭐️"The Justice Dept is currently investigating the massive, vertically integrated conglomerate for alleged antitrust violations.
⭐️"It's also interviewing former UH docs who allege that the company pressured them to diagnose patients with illnesses that carried 1/3

#press #healthcare


Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical NGO, has confirmed that 162 medical staff remain in Israeli detention, including some of Gaza’s most senior physicians, and a further 24 are missing after being taken from hospitals during the conflict.

#Israel #Gaza #Healthcare #Doctors #Abduction #WarCrimes

More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/25/more-than-160-gazan-medics-held-in-israeli-prisons-amid-reports-of-torture?CMP=firstedition_email


📲 Video credit: ICRC / Roya News

#rehabilitation #healthcare #gaza #medics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_FPhAIJpug


Providing Healthcare...isn't a crime!

https://youtube.com/shorts/mJ05U6SoCew?si=GlK_bqhbseze-pbN

Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!!!

(*tears* oh my gosh he looks so emaciated!! 😭)

#freeDrHussamNOW #gaza #Healthcare


Since Texas brought its near-total abortion ban, no one has studied the statewide effect on people undergoing pregnancy complications. So @ProPublica did it, purchasing and analyzing seven years of hospital discharge data. The findings: The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50 percent for those hospitalized in the second trimester of pregnancy. “This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen,” said Dr. Lorie Harper, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Austin.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis

#Health #Healthcare #Texas #WomensHealth #Abortion #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday


U.S. per capita spending in healthcare is about twice that of other wealthy countries.

h/t pgpfoundation #press #healthcare


Worse & worse:

Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers

Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. #DonaldTrump & #ElonMusk are hobbling it. What will those #Republicans say now?
https://newrepublic.com/article/191702/trump-musk-national-institutes-health-wrecked

"The firing of Van Keuren-Jensen, CARD’s incoming director, is seen as particularly damaging to the cause... They describe her as a leading researcher in the #Alzheimers field"

#Health #NIH #Healthcare #Musk #Trump #Politics #News
Headline: Worse and worse

Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers

Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?

Greg Sargent
February 19, 2025


📢 The director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, Doctor Hussam Abu Safiyah, is expected to be among those who'll be released on Saturday.

Israeli media has broadcast footage of the doctor chained and appearing weaker than when he was detained in northern #gaza back in December.

Dr @drmadsgilbert from the University of Tromso weighs on his release.

(Follow Dr Mads Gilbert on mastodon)

#genevaconventions #healthcare #medics #press

📲 Video credit: TRT World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0IZsJViuc


Five years since COVID. Migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe are disproportionately affected by the impact of long-COVID:
📖 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100427

#minorityrights #minority #healthcare #europe #covid #democracy #press #humanrights #longcovid

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Minority groups experience disparities in health care access. See a European comparative study:
📖 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1204854/full

And an overview on ethnic and racial inequalities of COVID19 impacts:
📖 https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-216061

#minorityrights #minority #healthcare #inequality #humanrights #press #democracy #covid

📷 Melanie Cervantes
My heart overflows with gratitude for the workers giving us life


Reasons to Hate Capitalism #206 - Capitalism puts the freedom to make profit above the freedom to live - your life vs their profits! #capitalism #healthcare #anticapitalism


#story time: I once had a patient who kept putting off starting a medication until she could change her diet, promising me she was motivated to do so. Months went by - no progress. Finally, she disclosed that she was unhoused, living in a shelter & had to eat what was served, which was often high carb high fat fare. She thought she’d be out of there in a few months but she wasn’t. This is why “lifestyle medicine” won’t give us a healthy nation. We have to fix #poverty
#healthcare #MedMastodon


From Kit @oconnell in 2022: How Texas used #NYTimes' inaccurate and misleading reporting about gender-affirming care for young people as evidence in court when the state accused supportive parents of child abuse. https://www.texasobserver.org/emily-bazelon-transgender-healthcare-debate-new-york-times/

#LGBTQIA+ #trans #Texas #KenPaxton #media #journalism #Healthcare #transphobia #news #politics #USpol


WATCH: Al-Shifa medical complex completely destroyed by Israel
(video in link)

https://aje.io/5o5zga?update=3497817

#Gaza #healthcare #Israel
WATCH: Al-Shifa medical complex completely destroyed by Israel
Gaza’s healthcare system is barely functioning after 15 months of Israel’s war.

Hospitals should have been a protected place for Palestinians to seek treatment – but they were regularly targeted.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud went inside the ruins of al-Shifa Hospital, which was the largest medical complex in Gaza.

(video in link)


Private equity investment firms have been criticized for their role in diminishing healthcare quality while raising costs for patients, per a new HHS report. PE investment in nursing homes led to an 11% increase in patient deaths, per one study!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/private-equity-healthcare
#press #healthcare


Reason #14 why #FordMustGo

One of Ford's earliest campaign promises was to "end hallway medicine". Despite numerous announcements of funding for hospitals and adding beds, the issue of overcrowded medical clinics and closed emergency wards has remained. Perhaps his war on public service employees, limiting salary increases for professionals on the COVID frontline, demonstrated just how much respect he has for healthcare workers.

#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #Healthcare
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-ontario-hallway-medicine-hospital-overcrowding-1.5440470


Here's how much United Healthcare wants to make amends and improve its public image:

United's tone deaf response to Brian Thompson's assassination was to appoint Tim Noel as new CEO.

Noel was previously the head of United Healthcare’s Medicare division.

United's Medicare Advantage plans win the prize for the most fraudulent.

If you work for United Healthcare and you fraud really well, you're headed for the top.

#Healthcare #UnitedHealthcare

https://www.startribune.com/report-unitedhealth-group-tops-list-of-medicare-advantage-insurers-receiving-billions-in-questionable-payments/601169613


Trump is sabotaging the health system, imperiling Americans’ lives, & vuln ppl from around the world, esp. those impacted by ending life-saving foreign aid.

Trump doesn’t have a strategy for a healthier America: RFK Jr suggested regenerative AG (not part of HHS), & would ban mifepristone if Trump asks him to. He’s more focused on getting rid of ideas & initiatives he doesn’t like than fixing the problems of cost & access that pervade the #healthcare ecosystem.

#USPol
https://t.co/JVp9IEdflV


I am specifically thinking about the healthcare industry's accommodators of fascism.

Unmasking, accommodating fascists, was the Rubicon. It was past many a year ago under a different president.

That you now don't have access to vaccine schedules, contraception guidelines, infectious disease guidelines on the CDC's website,

I have to ask, what the fuck were you thinking?

Those who have gone along with and thus reinforced unsafe, ableist, discriminatory healthcare settings should have done better then, but the next best time to do better is now.

Don't go down in history as Theodor Leipart.

#healthcare #medicine #fascism #COVID19 #ableism


Just learned about this app called 5 calls. It makes it easy to contact your senators to oppose the nomination of RFK, Jr, for example. RFK’s vaccine skepticism, anti-science conspiracy theories & his lack of mgmt experience are a danger to public health. It takes just a few minutes to call & a script is provided, if desired.
https://shorturl.at/NFrqO #healthcare #press


#CDC Centers for Disease Control & Prevention sites datasets removed as of 1/31/25 . Not immediately clear what day they were removed: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey; AtlasPlus, which housed #HIV #AIDS, #Hepatitis and #STD information; #contraception page for #healthcare providers; page on ending #gender based #violence; Evidence supporting recommendations for #HPV vaccination harmonization across genders, ages 22 -26 yrs; #Heartdisease death rates by gender, by county https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/health-cdc-websites-data-removed-trump


"Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who was thought to be open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, now says the nominee is in serious trouble after his rocky confirmation hearing.

“I don’t think it went well for him today. I don’t think that was a good one,” he said after Kennedy sparred with Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee over his past statements and stance on vaccines."

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5114271-fetterman-rfk-jr-nomination-hearing/

#healthcare #HHS #USpol