2024-1214
Tag: healthcare
The woke-washing of right-wingers in opposition to public health.
Spare me arguments that someone against public health is going to solve public health issues.
Vaccines require high uptake to quell transmission.
Even the measles vaccine requires high uptake to stop transmission. This has always been the case. Vaccine effectiveness for transmission has always depended upon high uptake. That’s just how it works. That’s why it’s important to have a vaccine campaign.
More people are “high risk” than anyone seems to realize, but this information is in fact available from the CDC.
Just being over 50 is a risk condition
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for Medicare patients.
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for patients.
Misinformation and pseudoscience may take over every online space.
This is a huge problem.
Seed oil panic is right-wing health misinformation.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the whole seed oil panic stuff is a right-wing conspiracy theory based “health concern” that’s promoted mostly by masculinity grifters.
But many did not survive the first time.
I realize that some people think they’re being helpful or consoling somehow when they say “the country survived the first Trump term”, but it’s unthinkingly insulting to all the people who lost their lives…
Doctors who spread medical misinformation have been free to do so.
Covid contrarians repeating false information have not typically faced much in the ways of consequences.
Public Health has “public” in it for a reason.
Buying into stigma by seeking “discreet” solutions is individualist hopium.
Marty Makary is a covid contrarian, cozy with anti-vaxxers.
There’s good reason he’s welcomed into the seedy MAGA ranks of Trumpy Trumpworld.
PA Democratic Party politicians celebrate corporate giveaway.
Less than 10 days after having to deny being elitists who’ve abandoned the working class, to defend the party’s historic defeats they announce millions of taxpayer money being given to a literal bank.
Right-wing talk show used Steve Hassan’s BITE model for anti-mask propaganda.
there was a right-wing talk show on broadcast radio where the talk show hosts were using Steve Hassan’s cult “BITE model” to assert anti-mask propaganda…
All the nightmares of AI in hospitals.
Tracking everything a patient says in the ICU in order to deny nurses the ability to complain about unsafe staffing levels.
JD Vance laid out the Trump anti-vax plan to Joe Rogan.
There’s a perfectly good program for vaccine adverse events which has a lower bar than the normal courts, and has functioned well for a long time. And even Republicans in Congress have suggested moving covid vaccines to that program. But it seems like MAGA doesn’t want that now that RFK Jr. is on board.
Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2024 by Chloe
Going backward is a choice. We know better now. We use surgical gloves, autoclaves, disinfectants, checklists and yes, respirator masks exist. But big healthcare corporations don’t wanna pay for that, they lock up PPE, force nurses to work without sick leave at hospitals, and make patients beg for reasonable accommodation.
Trump admin’s grotesque folly set an extremely low bar for looking good on the pandemic.
More Trump will make more of the worst Democrats look not so bad because the comparison is a low set bar.
Big money industry interests have been on the side of disease all along.
On Knowledge Fight podcast #961, one of the guys said that Alex Jones worked for Covid-19 for free. But there was money behind spreading covid on purpose.
Trump said he wants to let RFK Jr. “go wild on” health, food, and medicines.
RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer who promoted an anti-vaxxer in Samoa…