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Rep. Ritchie Torres Jen Rubin interview fired #USAID worker, Nancy Bolan

"Nancy Bolan — who has spent over 25 years saving the lives of mothers and newborn babies — was fired from her health care position at USAID on January 28 as part of Elon Musk's purge at the U.S. Agency for International Development."

#TheContrarian #RichieTorres #doge #musk #trump #uspol #publichealth
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/rep-ritchie-torres-jen-rubin-interview


There’s so much going on in the world that we can’t control.

The Covid pandemic gave way to rising fascism, just like the pandemics that have come before.

People are scared. Many lost loved ones. Society changed overnight. The loss of control that many felt allowed bad actors to rise up and capitalize on people’s fear.

No matter what our governments say or do, Covid isn’t over. It’s still killing and disabling people.

What’s worse, the pro infection crowd has become so loud and emboldened that vaccine uptake is down, masks are vilified and we’re seeing a resurgence of diseases like measles and tuberculosis.

Despite all the infectious disease threats out there, we still don’t have mandatory masks in healthcare.

The one place people absolutely can’t avoid, the place they should have a reasonable expectation of safety, has become one of the least safe public spaces.

Patients are being infected trying to access basic healthcare, because staff refuse to mask. Refuse to test. Refuse to isolate.

It’s eugenics, and we need people to realize it before it’s too late.

We need mandatory masks in healthcare. We must protect patients AND staff. We must protect even the ones who refuse to protect themselves.

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

#uspoli #pandemic #publichealth #fascism #masks #n95 #chronicillness #disability #ableism #eugenics #covidisairborne #covidisnotover


📃 KI kann #PublicHealth transformieren – wenn sie richtig eingesetzt wird. Ein neuer Artikel in LANCET Public Health gibt klare Empfehlungen:

✅ KI-Expertise einstellen und schulen
✅ Digitale Infrastruktur stärken
✅ KI-Tools ethisch und umweltfreundlich nutzen
✅ Transparente und diverse Daten sichern

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00036-2
Dachzeile: Publikation in LANCET Public Health 
Text: KI in Public Health: neue Impulse
Das Bild zeigt eine Paneldiskussion auf einer Bühne mit fünf Personen, die auf weißen Sesseln sitzen. Die Teilnehmenden sind in formeller Kleidung, und einige halten Notizen in der Hand. Im Hintergrund ist eine große Leinwand zu sehen, auf der ein Ausschnitt einer Präsentation mit zwei Porträtfotos und Namen angezeigt wird: Keyrellous Adib (WHO Europe) und Katharina Ladewig (Robert Koch-Institut). Die Gestaltung enthält geschwungene blaue Formen im oberen Bereich.


🌍 Sitz des IANPHI-Sekretariats geht nach Deutschland!

Das Sekretariat der International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) wird 2025 an das RKI verlegt.

Ein wichtiger Schritt für die globale #PublicHealth -Kooperation!

🔗 https://www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles/Neuigkeiten-und-Presse/Meldungen/Archiv/2025-03-04_IANPHI-Sekretariat.html


New York confirms two cases of measles as RFK Jr does an about face on vaccinations.

After spending years spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric and lies, he’s now tacitly recommending the MMR in the wake of the first child death of measles in a decade.

More outbreaks will continue to happen until people start vaccinating their kids again.

Measles is incredibly contagious, and it’s airborne. The average person goes on to infect approximately 9 others.

The disease was all but eradicated thanks to vaccination, and it’s on the rise again because of people like RFK Jr

The kids need us to protect them. They need the adults to make smart choices.

Also, wear a respirator! It’ll help protect from measles, covid, flu and more.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-reports-two-confirmed-cases-of-measles/6171176/

#measles #rfkjr #publichealth #airborne #wearamask #vaccines #hhs #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover


RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now.

This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.

Just a few days ago he was minimizing the outbreak by saying it was “normal” and recommending vitamin A.

What changed? Not going to lie… my initial thought was “it must be really bad if RFK Jr is pushing the vaccine”

Please folks, get your boosters. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Protect your health & the health of those around you.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-vaccine

#rfkjr #vaccines #measles #uspoli #hhs #publichealth #texas #wearamask #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #disability


Am 24. März ist #Welttuberkulosetag

Tuberkulose ist noch immer eine große #PublicHealth-Herausforderung.

Weltweit sterben über 1 Million Menschen pro Jahr an Tuberkulose. Mit Prävention und Behandlung könnten viele Leben gerettet werden.

🔗 https://www.rki.de/zahldesmonats

#ZahldesMonats
Oben mittig befindet sich ein Foto von Tuberkulose-Bakterien unter einem Elektronenmikroskop, die Bakterien sind als rötliche, stabförmige Strukturen auf schwarzem Hintergrund zu sehen.

Links oben ein orangefarbenes Element mit einer angesteckten Pinnnadel-Illustration, in dem in weißer Schrift steht: „Zahl des Monats“.

Der untere Teil der Folie ist in Blautönen gehalten.

Groß und fett hervorgehoben: „11 Millionen“
Restlicher Text: „Fast 11 Millionen Menschen erkranken jährlich weltweit an Tuberkulose“


#usa #press #journalism #canada #cdnpoli #publichealth #emergency #media #uspol

#Newspapers: it would be GREAT if you could waive your access fees for articles updating energencies affecting the community. https://mastodon.social/@mackayim2022/114094870522954610


The measles outbreak in Ontario has doubled, putting 18 children in the hospital (one in the ICU).

“He adds measles vaccinations have fallen to about 40 per cent during the pandemic, where before it was 85-90 per cent. He says people aren’t getting the vaccine anymore because of many factors, including “vaccine fatigue”.

Who would have imagined that having to get a series of Covid shots would lead people to give up on vaccines that have saved lives for decades?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ontario-facing-one-of-its-largest-measles-outbreaks/

#measles #publichealth #pandemic #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #vaccines


#data #usa #rfk #fdroid #opensource #tech #uspol #measles #news #medmastodon #publichealth #nih

🎉 I am pleased to announce the release of Measles Tracker: an open-access repository for tracking measles in the U.S. in real time 🇺🇸📊 Detailed data by age, jurisdiction and more + a timeline so you don't miss any information

🔗 more: https://github.com/fbranda/measles/tree/main/USA https://bird.makeup/users/fbranda94/statuses/1895855859642876287


There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric.

We need mandatory masking in healthcare, and we need it now.

A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more.

There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers

#masksinhealthcare #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #n95 #keepmasksinhealthcare #h5n1 #publichealth #donoharm


Texas becomes the latest State to propose a mask ban (while in the midst of a measles outbreak that’s currently over 100 cases).

These are ugly laws. They’re discriminatory & push disabled people further out of society. They increase the likelihood of police harassment. They paint maskers as “bad”.

There’s an excellent document with scripts for how to call & fight back! 🧵 1/2

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1704ui-FIcCqF97SX5uVnjP-Xi4A6m4WUXjce2ZonKEI/mobilebasic

#uspoli #maskbans #nomaskbans #uglylaws #infectioncontrol #publichealth #texas #measles #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #ableism #eugenics #disability


Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease


If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, please consider the following:

😷 Police are not doctors
😷 Many disabilities are invisible
😷 Disabled people don’t live in a bubble. I need my friends and caregivers to mask to protect me
😷 Everyone should have the right to protect their health, you shouldn’t have to already be sick to be permitted to mask
😷 Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers and increases odds of aggression

The reality is that mask bans are discriminatory, ableist and eugenicist. They push disabled people out of public spaces. They put marginalized and POC at increased risk of police profiling.

There’s no official policy for a medical exemption either, it’s at police discretion.

If you’re stopped and questioned, you will have to prove you’re masking for the “right reasons”

I’m more than willing to admit that if I were stopped by a cop for masking, I would appear nervous, shaky, tachycardic and probably “suspicious”.

Not because I’m doing anything wrong, but because my illnesses do not respond well to stress and the police are stressful.

It’s not right to put the onus on the masker to defend their right to mask. We’re still in a global pandemic. Texas has a measles outbreak. There’s tuberculosis in Kansas. Bird flu is spreading and it’s the worst year for influenza A in over a decade.

Masks are a public health tool. They’re a disability accommodation. They should NOT be criminalized.

For more on mask bans and medical exemptions, I wrote an article on the Nassau County ban here:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#nomaskban #uspoli #texas #northcarolina #maskban #disability #uglylaws #publichealth #ableism #eugenics #h5n1 #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne


If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask.

If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask.

If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask.

If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask.

My ultimate guide to respirators looks at the early days of mask mandates, the rise of antimaskers, how to up your mask game for the ultimate personal protection and why we need to “fix our hearts or die”

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witnessing-the-fall-of-public

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #wearamask #n95 #uspoli #fascism #chronicillness #longcovid #h5n1 #publichealth #disability #ableism


I just can’t with these people. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

“The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.

In a statement, the agency said it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.”

#USPolitics #Politics #BirdFlu #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #MuskCoup #TrumpRegime #USDA

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716


"In healthcare, the DSA endorsed the profit-driven policy of “herd immunity” as far back as 2020, originally promoted by the first Trump administration and the extreme right and which became state policy under the Biden administration. Jacobin has also favorably interviewed signatories of the pro-mass death Great Barrington Declaration in late 2020 and called for the reopening of schools, knowing they were significant vectors for the virus.

The organization has therefore been in political solidarity with policies which have produced the conditions which nurses face, including the near collapse of the healthcare system."

How the Democratic Socialists of America enforces unsafe staffing levels in Oregon hospitals
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/17/nxbx-f17.html

#CovidIsntOver #PublicHealth #Nursing #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #DSA #Oregon


Now more than ever we need to support and amplify healthcare workers who are trying to get the word out about the state of public health

Support independent journalists who are doing the same.

With the CDC muzzled we don’t have the line of sight we should on outbreaks and threats to the population

What we do have is alot of doctors and nurses sharing serious concerns about how sick their influenza A patients are

We do have a significant egg shortage because of unmitigated bird flu

We do have measles and TB outbreaks.

The good news? A well fitted respirator can protect you from all these things.

It may be our best and last line of protection as it doesn’t depend on government or public health for accessibility.

Mask up and keep yourself and your community safe!

#uspoli #publichealth #resist #censorship #fascism #pandemic #covidisairborne #h5n1 #wearamask


"Already in 2023, air pollution related to powering U.S. data centers led to 360 premature deaths and total health costs of $5.6 billion across the nation, the researchers estimated. But those figures factored in just the average power-plant pollutant emissions.

When the researchers looked at marginal power-plant emissions, the figures jumped to 490 premature deaths and $7.6 billion of total health costs...

By 2030, because of the expected increase in electricity demand for training and running AI models, data center-related air pollution could result in as many as 1,270 premature deaths and 600,000 cases of asthma nationwide on an annual basis, according to the study. All told, the pollution would cause as much as $21.5 billion per year in health-care costs, the researchers said."

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/ai-induced-pollution-could-kill-hundreds-cost-billions-researchers-say/article_6449a044-e811-11ef-88d2-473a3ec5a724.html

#AI #Tech #Data #BigTech #Environment #Sustainability #PublicHealth #Capitalism #EnvironmentalRacism


🚀 Die Gesundheitsberichterstattung #GBE am #RKI stellt regelmäßig Daten zu nichtübertragbaren Krankheiten und ihren Einflussfaktoren auf #GitHub und #Zenodo bereit: maschinenlesbar, offen, frei verwendbar.

🔗 https://www.gbe.rki.de/DE/Startseite/meldungen/2025-02-12_OpenData.html

#OpenData #Gesundheit #Transparenz #PublicHealth
Transparenz durch Open Data
RKI stellt Daten zur freien Nachnutzung bereit


📝 Memorandum of Understanding between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit @GIZ and Robert Koch Institute for another two years!

🤝 This partnership enables us to further expand our collaboration in infectious disease monitoring, health system resilience, and emergency preparedness and response. #PublicHealth

🌍 By working together, we aim to develop effective solutions for #globalhealth challenges and strengthen international networks.
Prof. Lars Schaade (RKI President) and Anna Sophie Herken (GIZ Managing Director).


Remember how the CDC, FDA, and HHS had to frantically scrub their webpages of all mentions of “transgender” or “gender ideology,” or anything related?

Well, a federal judge has ordered them to put the pages back as litigation from outraged medical providers moves forward. The plaintiffs state that they rely on the critical information when caring for patients.

#health #PublicHealth #GenderIdeology #trans #transgender #trumpAdmin #USGovernment #USPol #LGBTQIA #lgbtq

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-orders-hhs-cdc-fda-restore-deleted-webpages-health-information/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a


Tuberculosis outbreaks in Kansas and North Carolina, measles outbreak in Texas and COVID is still everywhere. I’ve not seen a single media outlet mention wearing masks.

In fact masks are banned in North Carolina and Nassau County and more bans are currently on the table.

A good respirator protects from more than just Covid. The people deserve to know how to keep themselves safe.

#uspoli #airborne #publichealth #tuberculosis #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #wearamask #nomaskbans


Tuberculosis outbreaks in Kansas, North Carolina & Ohio.

CDC aren’t permitted to update the public & people are not being advised of the risk or told to wear a mask.

There’s evidence that COVID causes immune system damage which could lead TB to reactivate.

A respirator prevents both Covid and TB.

Given we’re witnessing the dismantling of what was left of public health, there’s no better time to choose to wear a mask

You will protect yourself and your community. You will show much needed solidarity with vulnerable people who’ve never been able to stop masking.

You send a strong signal to the government that you aren’t willing to leave people behind.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tuberculosis-outbreak-north-carolina-symptoms-b2692889.html

#tb #tuberculosis #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #cdc #publichealth #uspoli #wearamask #disability


🆕 #Bundesgesundheitsblatt ist da!

Themen u.a.:
🔷 Arbeitsbelastung und psychische Gesundheit von Pflegekräften in der #COVID19-Pandemie

🔷 Kann #Bürgergeld die Lebensmittelkosten einer gesunden Ernährung von Kindern und Jugendlichen decken?

🔷 Digital #PublicHealth in Deutschland

Die ganze Ausgabe lesen Sie hier:
🔗 https://link.springer.com/journal/103/volumes-and-issues/68-2
Cover der Februar-Ausgabe des Bundesgesundheitsblattes.


In Brazil it's nearly impossible to get vaccinated. Almost 1/5 Brazilians has had Long COVID. Almost 1/10 Brazilians are currently suffering from Long COVID.

➡️ 18 million people still have Long COVID in Brazil! ⬅️

"The last time a person who is not part of [the special priority] groups had a COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil was almost two years ago."

"A significant study published in July 2024, led by Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, one of the most prominent Long COVID researchers, showed that vaccination reduced the incidence of Long COVID by almost half"

"One of the study’s significant findings is that 65.2 percent of those infected with the novel coronavirus have or have had Long COVID, that is, some 40 million people (18.9 percent of the Brazilian population). Of this total, almost 18 million people still have a series of persistent post-COVID-19 symptoms or complications. According to the study, the most prevalent symptoms among those with Long COVID are memory loss, difficulty concentrating, hair loss, joint pain, anxiety and tiredness."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/04/ceum-f04.html

h/t @DenisCOVIDinfoguy

#COVID #Brazil #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #LongCovid #publicHealth #CovidIsNotOver


Die #CDC hat #Forschende angewiesen, eingereichte #Studien zurückzuziehen oder zu überarbeiten, um bestimmte Begriffe zu entfernen. Betroffen sind auch bereits angenommene, aber noch nicht veröffentlichte #Manuskripte. Die Maßnahme folgt einem #ExecutiveOrder der #Trump-Administration, die wissenschaftliche #Publikationen streng reguliert. Dies könnte die Veröffentlichung wichtiger #Gesundheitsforschung erheblich verzögern.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/114043

#Wissenschaft #Zensur #PublicHealth #Science


Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin

Jessica Valenti substack has an archived page with education booklets and guidelines related to contraception, sexual health, youth, health education, LGBTW youth at risk, and intimate partner violence.

Here is the substack page that archives the above topics.

#CDC #PublicHealth

https://jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-control-guidelines-pdf?triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


Since the mainstream journos never say this: this is not the result of a foreign aid stoppage, it's the result of half a millennium of colonization, in the aftermath of which colonized peoples are dependent on fickle colonizers' meager "charitable" resource allocations, which pale in comparison to the wealth and life and safety and well-being and ecosystem health the colonizers have stolen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/health/trump-aid-malaria-tuberculosis-hiv.html

#Colonization #PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease #Racism #Capitalism #Journalism


This is how it is done - and should be - all day and night every day and night - Sen. #AngelaAlsobrooks, the first #Black U.S. #senator in #Maryland history [she won against #trump supported #hogan], dragged Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s history of racist #pseudoscience to the fore during his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday. #HHS #congress #discrimination #hatred #science #publichealth https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/rfk-jr-alsobrooks-confirmation-hearing-vaccines-black-people-rcna190207


Not only does this memo give serious Handmaids Tale vibes (prioritizing the pious and the fertile while the rest of us go without)….

But don’t snooze on the fact that they’ve made it so if you get funding from the Department of Transportation you can’t have a vaccine or mask mandate.

COVID isn’t over. H5N1 is spreading rapidly and has pandemic potential.

We’ve got RFK Jr poised to take over HHS and do untold amounts of damage to public health.

Yet they’re still coming for masks and vaccines.

Please wear a mask while you still can. Mask to protect your own health and to show solidarity with disabled and marginalized people who’ve been cast aside and treated as expendable for years.

Mask to Resist.

Via Ken Klipperstein

#uspoli #dot #dei #deia #departmentoftransportation #discrimination #masks #vaccines #pandemic #publichealth #covidisnotover #h5n1
Memo from department of transportation which reads Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary of Transportation SUBJECT: ENSURING RELIANCE UPON SOUND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND ACTIVITIES DOT Order 1. PURPOSE This Order updates and resets the principles and standards underpinning U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) policies, programs, and activities to mandate reliance on rigorous economic analysis and positive cost-benefit calculations and ensure that all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or -assisted State contracts bolster the American economy and benefit the American people. 2. CANCELLATION None 3. APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE. This Order applies to all the Department's Operating Administrations (OA) and the Departmental Offices in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST).' 4. EFFECTIVE DATE This Order is effective upon its date of execution. 5. POLICIES. The following principles govern the implementation and administration of all DOT policies, pro-grams, and activities: a. The Department's grantmaking, lending, policymaking, and rulemaking activities shall be based on sound economic principles and analysis supported by rigorous cost-benefit requirements and data-driven decisions. This requirement shall apply 1 The terms "Operating Administration" and "OA" hereinafter refer to both the Department's operating administrat
Page two of memo which reads ii. iii. iv. V. 3 utilize user-pay models; direct funding to local opportunity zones where permitted; to the extent practicable, relevant, appropriate, and consistent with law, mitigate the unique impacts of DOT programs, policies, and activities on families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average (including in administering the Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grant program); prohibit recipients of DOT support or assistance from imposing vaccine and mask mandates; and require local compliance or cooperation with Federal immigration enforcement and with other goals and objectives specified by the President of the United States or the Secretary.


This is insane. Under questioning by Sen Angela #Alsobrooks, #RFKJr claims #Black people need fewer #vaccines than #White people. This is pure disinformation & utterly backwards thinking. This guy is interviewing for the job of running all of the #health agencies of the #UnitedStates.

#law #USpol #PublicHealth #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyjjY-E2YY


Worried about public health being dismantled? Wear a mask.

Worried about Medicare/Medicaid? Wear a mask.

Worried about the surveillance state? Wear a mask.

Want to fight authoritarian fascists? Wear a mask.

Interested in peaceful protest? Wear a mask.

Want to stay as healthy as you can for as long as you can? Wear a mask.

Wearing a mask is the best way to safeguard your health AND show resistance & solidarity. It’s a great form of allyship with disabled and marginalized communities too.

#CovidIsNotOver #covidisairborne #sarscov2 #fascism #surveillance #maskswork #publichealth #longcovid