Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread!

Debbie Socolar (MPH) - #VaxPLUS #HealthEquity #M4A #GND
#antiracism #StopFascism #CovidIsAirborne #UnionsForAll

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress.

He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Solidarity with the nurses striking in Houlton, fighting for safe staffing levels.

Understaffing kills patients every day. In the Senate I’ll support national safe staffing legislation, which is long, long overdue.

[Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread! @dsoq]

@BarryHunt008 Terrible! Hospitals, MDs + CDC dropped COVID prevention (routine tests, req'd sick time for staff, etc) + failed to *ever* focus on stopping aerosol spread. That made hosps. deadly, needlessly!
Use of N95s by staff + KN95s/N95s by all feasible pts wld help lots!
#CleanIndoorAir

[charlos @loscharlos]

“Given that nearly everyone in the US is believed to have had COVID, the 16% rate extrapolated to the approximately 340 million people in the country would mean that roughly 54 million Americans developed #LongCovid.

An HHS spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.”

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

I’m proud to endorse .@DarializaforNY for Congress. The daughter of a single mom and case worker, Darializa has dedicated her life to fighting for people too often left behind by government. She’s helped free neighbors wrongfully detained by ICE and has long believed in a politics rooted in affordability, dignity, and community. Her campaign is powered by working people ready to reject a politics of big money and demand something better. Let's go win this.

[Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread! @dsoq]

@nschwalbe And the CDC / US officialdom policies (announced or not) about hantavirus quarantines etc. seem erratic, constantly changing, and unexplained.

Scarily inadequate much of the time, and lack of explanations means when they get more stringent, resentment and confusion grows....

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Is #LongCovid going away? Data show it is not. In a cohort study with 457.950 Covid cases, 1 in 6 patients developed Long Covid. Prevalence is 13-23% of US population, increasing 0.4%-1.5% every 3 months.
Cases remained stable through 2022 but started to increase in late 2023.

[Darializa for Congress @DarializaforNY]

Last year, @ZohranKMamdani showed the entire country that people power can beat a machine. I’m thrilled to have his support!

I look forward to fighting for our shared vision of a more affordable New York—one where we invest in our communities, not in bombs abroad—in Congress.

[Team AOC @TeamAOC]

We are proud to endorse David Orkin, Christian Celeste-Tate, Eon Huntley, and Eli Northrup for New York State Assembly to deliver a New York where everyone can afford to live and afford to dream.

Election Day is Tuesday, June 23. Vote!

[Brigid Bergin @brigidbergin]

NEW: The candidate trying to fight past the boys club vying for retiring Rep. Nadler's seat

https://t.co/xLxgGTJBod via @gothamist

[Laetitia Moreau-Gabarain MS MBA @MoreauGabarain]

@DrTedros @BarryHunt008 @WHO @DrTedros please revisit the #conresp / airborne risk assessment for #ebola and assist workers and locals with respiratory protection instructions and supplies.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

The implication: hospital-acquired COVID looks both more common and more deadly than strict surveillance definitions suggest. How we count it shapes whether we treat in-hospital respiratory transmission as a measurement footnote or a safety priority.

[David Siffert for Assembly @SiffertForNY]

Until very recently, non-binary people weren’t eligible to run for some state offices in New York.

My friend @EmiliaDecaudin and I wrote legislation that changed that – now I’m taking that same spirit of legislative creativity with me to Albany.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Dr. Craig Spencer is a public health professor and emergency medicine physician at Brown University who survived Ebola in 2014. He says it's not a coincidence that the world is seeing a new outbreak of the disease, as well as hantavirus and rising rates of measles in the United States.

"If you recall, it was just over a year ago that Elon Musk gleefully declared that they were throwing USAID into the wood chipper. And you may recall that Elon Musk also sheepishly said at his first Cabinet meeting that he mistakenly canceled Ebola prevention but turned it back on. For many folks, the story ended there, but what actually happened was there was an Ebola outbreak, and DOGE and Elon Musk cut all the support that we normally would have been giving to respond to that Ebola outbreak. The result was that exactly USAID, who in the past would have been supporting things like airport screening in Uganda, was not providing that logistical or financial support. USAID and other partners would have been providing support to make sure testing was adequate, to make sure a vaccine rollout could have taken place, but we didn’t have USAID on the ground.

"Similarly, CDC has long had relationships in this part of the continent, in Congo and in Uganda, and a lot of those relationships have broken down and withered over the past year, because we just haven’t been paying. Similarly, the U.S. has pulled out of the World Health Organization over the last year, which means that in normal circumstances our CDC folks are not able to even talk to World Health Organization people, something that is absolutely unbelievable and an incredible mistake for something that we should be able to do and be prepared for at all points.

"And the result is what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks with hantavirus, we’ve seen with the dramatic increase in number of measles cases in the U.S., and now Ebola in DR Congo and across the border in Kampala. This is not all just a coincidence. This is a consequence of us cutting back our support, not only here at home, but also abroad.

https://t.co/Km03jENTdG

[Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread! @dsoq]

@ZKittyC @ostonox Dr. Hamawy is an amazingly dedicated medical professional who has, at great risk, cared for Gazans with devastating injuries from Israeli bombs & snipers -- & who Sen. Tammy Duckworth credits with saving her when he was a military MD.

[Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread! @dsoq]

@ZKittyC @ostonox Total nonsense!
**Chris** Rabb is Christian, and by the way was instrumental in forming the Penn House Black-Jewish Caucus

[David Siffert for Assembly @SiffertForNY]

Half of all New Yorkers are rent burdened, tens of thousands are homeless, and many older adults are finding themselves unable to age in place.

Albany can and must address these issues, lower rents, and make housing more affordable for everyone. Here’s how we can start. 👇

[Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread! @dsoq]

@SiffertForNY So important!

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Words fail me…🤬

At the US National Quarantine Centre, it appears that the ‘high-risk contacts’ currently being monitored for hantavirus symptoms are only wearing SURGICAL MASKS when coming into contact with others.

This is NOT what the WHO recommends…

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Now we have 2026 Andes virus (ANDV)

Last week, it was a small containable brush fire

This week, embers have been scattered worldwide