BirmingSteve 🇺🇦

Something about yourself here.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

In 1777 George Washington himself mandated smallpox inoculation for his troops

It's one of the major reasons he led the Continental Army to victory

Vaccines play a crucial role in American history

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The way to deal with a measles outbreak is to do your best to push up vaccine rates and get it under control.

What does RFK Jr do?

Push fake scare stories about fetal tissue in vaccines and dispute measles deaths

And he's the UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF HEALTH

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

FDA approved the first pill for metastatic pancreatic cancer. "Twice as long" means 13 months instead of 7. Nearly $40K a month. Medicare can't negotiate it.

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[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Measles cases in Pennsylvania by year

MAHA!

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

Pennsylvania reported 2 measles-associated deaths, the first in the US this year. One was a newborn. On Aug 28 the coroner listed measles as a contributing factor.

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[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

Merck stopped making the standalone measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in 2009, because nobody was ordering them. There is no licensed version in this country. No company has said it's building one, and the order only takes effect once those products exist. Merck estimates FDA approval for three new products would take more than 10 years.

I spoke with New York magazine's @nia_prater.

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[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

No surprise that Trump’s goons take the side of secrecy for criminals and kleptocrats. Too bad. It was a good bipartisan bill. That’s corruption in action.
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[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

Ted Cruz asked me for evidence that COVID vaccines are safe in pregnancy. I sent it to his committee in 2021.

His 82% is that paper minus 700 women.

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#COVID19 #pregnancy

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Never forget. Justice for Cricket.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Joe Biden is in the process of dying a very painful death and this asshole is trying to rag on him. Fuck everyone who supports Donald Trump.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The richest man in the world has the logic of a child. A small child.

North Korea’s full name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Per Musk, North Korea is a democracy.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

mRNA vaccines don't increase your risk of blood clots

The vaccine that did, rarely, cause clots was the NON mRNA Astra Zeneca one

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that it’s pure far-right propaganda to suggest Hitler was left-wing or a socialist. It’s ahistorical, no serious historian agrees with this, and it’s something that traditionally Nazi apologists have claimed.

[Иблис Пиндосский 🇺🇸🇨🇦 @y_monsoon]

@mjfree

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

When Joe Biden passes away, Donald Trump will do nothing but disparage him.

He will not lower the flags.
He will not offer condolences.
He will not attend the funeral.

He will not allow Biden to lie in state at the Capitol by claiming he was never president — that 2020 was stolen, that Trump has been in his third term the whole time, and that any recognition of Biden is an insult to the “real” president.

He will turn a former president’s death into another loyalty test and another chance to rewrite history in real time.

This is who he is.
This is what he does.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

And he then mass-killed German socialists.

Musk is as dumb as he is dangerous.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is so funny and ridiculous on so many levels.
1) If it was fascism, then Trump's the fascist as Trump oversaw the response to Covid for the first year of the pandemic, no matter how much Republicans want to pretend he wasn't president in 2020.

2) Neither Trump in 2020 nor Biden from 2021 onwards arrested journalists, seized their devices, banned them from reporting, detained foreign students for speech, or threatened opposing party members with execution.

That's Trump now. The fascism is *now*. But Rand Paul wants you to talk and think about Fauci so you ignore the masked federal agents who are shooting American citizens in the street *right now*, but weren't shooting them for violating lockdowns or not wearing masks or whatever other imagined repression Paul thinks happened in 2020.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Latest on Reflecting Pool Debacle:

The falsely-charged “vandal” has just filed an important motion in the case after the U.S. Attorney dismissed his felony charges “without prejudice” — meaning they could charge him again.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He’s such a fucking bigot and Muslim-hater.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There is more evidence that you are a Taliban supporter than there is that El-Sayed is a Hamas supporter.