Jasmine Kaur Bains

Passionate about health equity 🌳, data viz 📈, and food 🥭.

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

"As an immigrant, “you’re always living half in nostalgia,” she said. “In a state of having lost your home, you carry a sadness with you. And I think there’s these moments that just heighten that in a way that is powerless. You feel just lost; your family is lost.”

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

Powerful read by @prachigu: "I too am oscillating between waves of emotions—anger, helplessness, and guilt—as reports come in from my family in India. Although I can look forward to picnics in the park this summer, India’s parks are becoming grave sites" https://t.co/bZQXHhTPYH

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

"All the justified optimism around me now feels unjust and even irresponsible. For many of us with friends and family around the world, the trauma feels like a never-ending loop: When your immediate situation improves, another loved one enters a crisis."

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

@HarshyPandher @DeepNotShallow LOL sorry not sorry :)

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

When it comes to vaccine hesitancy, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: Republican voters. Recent national polls show that 43-45% of self-identified Republicans say they probably will never get a COVID vaccine, compared to 5-7% of Democrats. https://t.co/cIb4ZToQSJ

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

If the sound of last year’s state budget debate was a cacophony of cuts, the latest spending plan sings of surplus. Read @ER_Boone 's latest: https://t.co/LIAvHktkjX

[James Hamblin @jameshamblin]

I keep thinking of how this might’ve gotten covered as a “medical incident” if there were no video. And for how many people, over the centuries, there was no video.

[Simran Jeet Singh @simran]

"The Sikh community is disproportionately attacked, for their faith, for their race, for being who they are. And that's something that has to change."

— Satjeet Kaur, Executive Director, The Sikh Coalition

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

woohoo data + maps 📈

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

let’s go 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Carl Winder KOAA 𓆉 @CWinderKOAA]

MOBILE VACCINATION SITE KICK OFF: The COVID-19 Mobile Vaccination Site Bus is in Avondale, near Pueblo, as it kick’s off its tour around Colorado. @GovofCO is on the way. @KOAA

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

‼️ Friends! @COHealthInst is hiring! We're looking for a new Research Analyst, Marketing and Digital Communications Manager, and Managing Director of Finance and Administration/Chief Financial Officer to join our team. https://t.co/TDgu0C1irW

[Alex Burness @alex_burness]

Colorado legislature has passed a bill to allow unauthorized immigrants to benefit from state housing assistance. State officials say this will be the first law of its kind in the country.

https://t.co/okwJKaQdqv

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

New vaccination maps show that only 46% of adults 70 years and older in Aurora’s Montview Park had received their COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 100% of 70+ adults just a few blocks south. https://t.co/MXg9EFI2k6

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

550,000 US Covid-19 deaths have left an estimated 5 million mourners. We need to pay attention to the science and consequences of grief. https://t.co/ePJIjRwmFS via @voxdotcom

[CPR News @CPRNews]

JUST IN: @GovofCO says everyone in Colorado 16 and older will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine beginning this Friday, April 2.

[Kevin Beaty @KevinJBeaty]

A few more from last night in Boulder:

[Alex Burness @alex_burness]

Strange to say about a supermarket, but I think a lot of people feel a special affection for that King Soopers. I do. It's a hub, the anchor of the main commercial gathering spot in south Boulder. Really sick how many nice, normal places like that end up with scenes like this.

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

#StopAsianHate

[CO Health Foundation @COHealthFDN]

The shared suffering brought on by the #COVID19 pandemic is no excuse to frame members of AAPI communities as scapegoats for a public health crisis. More in our latest statement: https://t.co/C1Eg8XRx9M

[Jasmine Kaur Bains @JasmineKBains]

Woohoo!! Still the most magical announcement no matter how old you are. Thank you @COHealthInst for a day of rest 😌 and play ☃️ #Snowpocalypse2021