Pretty remarkable that America temporarily constructed a safety net during Covid — including major health care coverage, food benefits, anti poverty funding for families & kids, etc — and then just systematically and slowly demolished it
The 2nd story is about the @BonSecours hospital chain. It used a federal program that was designed to encourage investment in poor communities to funnel money into rich neighborhoods.
The result was deadly. @katie_thomas@jbsgreenberg@virginiahughes https://t.co/kN76iZ86H0
Today the @nytimes is publishing the first two installments in a series called "Profits Over Patients."
It's about how tax-exempt hospitals have strayed from their charitable missions for the sake of fatter profits – with profound consequences for the US healthcare system. 🧵
NEW - Defend Wake County's Schools.
Wake County is the largest school system in NC. Like many schools across the country, it's under assault by far-right MAGA activists. Help defend it.
Our endorsements for the Wake County School Board:
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Just 11% of Americans vaccinated against monkeypox are Black, but they make up 38% of new cases
I went to Charlotte to chronicle Johnny Wilson, a Black gay health worker, as he went to clubs and Pride on a mission to get his community vaccinated https://t.co/cubluprMBu
Today, we announced an emergency response fund for community-based organizations that are responding to the monkeypox virus outbreak. We are committed to helping the LGBTQ, queer and HIV communities who are disproportionally affected by this public health crisis.
Deeply weird for @IndyWeek to amplify unproven and harmful claims that cancer can be cured by changing your diet and then link directly out to the scam company.
The Triangle-based chain, which has locations in Raleigh and Cary, has opened a third spot in a Durham shopping center near Duke Hospital. https://t.co/7BQTIsgkat
Vulture populations are plummeting in parts of Africa and Asia. Vultures play a key role in keeping many ecosystems healthy and clean & their loss is causing worry about the impact on global health and the spread of the disease.
https://t.co/20gdagzlXf
The ADA passed 32 years ago thanks to the fierce work of disabled activists.
On this ADA anniversary, we ground ourselves in the past actions of disabled activists, in the current work of incredible advocates, and in disabled futures.
SCOOP: The US lags behind the UK, Canada and Europe in planning clinical trials for the antiviral TPOXX (tecovirimat) to treat #monkeypox. Many people with the virus have endured desperate, frustrating searches for this medication, I report for @NBCNews.
https://t.co/CSzb4RjU9M
What was that in the sky? A flash? Must be the NYRB Classics Summer Flash Sale! Up to 40% off list price. Free shipping on orders of $50 or more within the US. https://t.co/cMPrY3Wl6c
If you’re living with #HIV, being undetectable is one of the best things you can do to stay healthy & means you won’t transmit HIV to your sexual partner, Undetectable=Untransmittable.
What does undetectable mean to you?
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#StopHIVTogether#uequalsu
My long read about Florida's national tragedy re the environment and our unique landscape is now live over at @curaffairs. "We live simultaneously with a vision of the future that may be purgatory, heaven, or hell."
https://t.co/UXPIUxMKSs