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luckytran

@luckytran@med-mastodon.com

📢 Scientist and organizer working in public health, climate justice, and science communication

🎓 Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, Adelaide

➡️ Contact/Links: https://linktr.ee/luckytran

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It's ridiculous that most Democrats are just watching passively as Republicans are passing mask bans. In states where Democrats hold power, they should absolutely be passing laws that codify and protect people's rights to wear a mask.

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While Republicans are responsible for mask bans, the Biden White House is also complicit.

They prematurely told the public to unmask in 2021, they encouraged governors to repeal mask mandates, they said states should decide mask policies, they forced workers back into offices.

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The Biden White House has refused to consistently stand up for public health. The result is ceding power to Republicans at state and local level, who are exploiting a weak White House to pass reckless anti-public health policies like mask bans that put everyone’s health at risk.

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Republicans complained about government overreach at the start of the pandemic. Yet they are now justifying the use of legislative power in order to ban wearing a mask for health reasons. What an absolute farce.

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Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

https://www.wral.com/amp/21433199/

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"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

Yet, raw milk enthusiasts are undaunted by the heightened risk. The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

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"Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago."

This is why we can't have nice things.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu

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And sometimes we pause to watch the universe in awe….

Northern lights in New York 🌌

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Aurora borealis starting to faintly show in New York as clouds part. Not yet easily visible by the naked eye.

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This North Carolina bill is ridiculous. It justifies punishing protestors for blocking emergency vehicles, yet bans wearing masks for health reasons. This bill is dangerously anti-public health and restricts people's ability to protest and exercise their First Amendment rights.

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Senator Buck Newton, who presented North Carolina's anti-mask bill that also penalizes protestors blocking traffic, says people "do not have the right to risk people’s health and safety." Shameless hypocrisy. Removing the right to wear a mask increases health risks for everyone.

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What is also ridiculous is that the North Carolina anti-mask bill would ban people from wearing a mask for health reasons, but allows mask wearing for holiday costumes, work, theatrical productions, and parades.

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Last week, the requirement for US hospitals to report key COVID data to the federal government ended.

But there's a proposed HHS/CMS rule that would change this, and require hospitals to report key COVID, flu, and RSV hospitalization data outside of public health emergencies.

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If passed, the new respiratory reporting requirements for hospitals would take effect October 1st.

We absolutely need it to keep track of the ongoing COVID pandemic and monitor potential pandemics like bird flu.

Please submit a public comment in support: https://federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/02/2024-07567/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-and-the-childrens-health-insurance-program-hospital-inpatient#open-comment

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We don’t talk about it enough but it’s a huge failure that there isn’t more urgency to develop better COVID vaccines.

An Operation Warp Speed for nasal vaccines and more variant proof vaccines would transform our ability to deal with COVID and help us mitigate future pandemics.

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The current COVID vaccines have reduced deaths but governments are in denial that there’s still a too many deaths, too many getting Long COVID, & too many locked out of society. Better COVID vaccines (with treatments & other public health layers) would make a huge difference!

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Governments are failing to value technology development in preventing and mitigating future pandemics.

mRNA vaccine technology was developed decades before COVID and this made a critical difference.

New nasal and variant proof vaccine tech will be needed for future pandemics.

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With future pandemic threats like bird flu showing alarming signs right now, it’s dangerous that governments are not showing enough urgency to develop new and better vaccine technologies.

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Sadly, thanks to capitalism, governments have prematurely declared mission accomplished on COVID.

But the job isn’t done. We need to develop better vaccines to meaningfully address the ongoing harm that COVID is continuing to cause, and to prevent and mitigate future pandemics.

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Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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It appears that some universities are banning masks of any kind at sites where they are holding their graduation ceremony. This is ableist, exclusionary, and completely unacceptable.

(Photo: Dr. Mary Donegan)

Sign at UCONN listing prohibited items which includes masks of any kind

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The whole point of protest is to disrupt. Oppression is never overcome by asking politely for your oppressors to stop.

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COVID killed people in prisons at disproportionately higher rates, and has been the leading cause of US police deaths over the last few years. Yet, police officers are ripping masks off protestors.

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The Guardian - US prison deaths soared by 77% during height of Covid-19 crisis, study finds

Analysis of in-custody deaths show mortality rates were more than three times the increase in general population in 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/03/us-prison-deaths-covid-19-study

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The Guardian - Covid was top line-of-duty death for US police for third year running in 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/covid-police-top-line-of-duty-death-usa-2022

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