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Tag: public health
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for Medicare patients.
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for patients.
Elite gambling in the stock market is a threat to public health.
RFK Jr. is a threat to public health, but elites gambling with healthcare on the stock market is also a threat to public health. NBC NEWS – Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS The stocks fell in the final hour of trading as reports emerged about Trump’s expected pick. […]
Anti-vaxxers and far-right intimidation. It’s the same picture.
Even after all that’s come out in recent times, the cumulative evidence still hasn’t been reaching a lot of people…
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.
Natural herd immunity debt misinfo inexplicably published in liberal media in November 2024.
The CDC warns that a respiratory illness preceding a case of walking pneumonia can increase the risk of severity. But Huffpost wants people to blame mask mandates from 3+ years ago.
Pandemic Revisionist History.
I don’t know how these things got memory holed other than there’s been just a continuous firehose of covid minimization, pandemic disinformation, and lockdown revisionism…
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…
Vaccine uptake is really low, so why are the anti-vaxxers still so riled up?
It’s like the trucker convoy people protesting public health mitigations that had no longer existed for quite awhile.
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.
The disinfo campaigns around the pandemic are the same disinfo campaigns around climate change.
It’s part of a whole disinformation economy.
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…