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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Are you in Ohio? Know someone who is? Step up. Let Senator Jon Husted hear from you!

Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing again for Ohio folks as we will be printing these Husted "thank you" cards early next week for Columbus delivery. I know many folks here have thoughts about his votes re PH & healthcare. Please take 60 seconds to write so we can share them with his staffers, and please share w/ Ohio friends!

Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Tell Jon Husted what you think about his track record on health and healthcare in #Ohio. Letters will be printed on note cards and hand delivered to his office on October 15th.

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 1d

An important and personal, heartfelt op-ed from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy We Must Stand with Our #Trans Neighbors.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/we-m...
I couldn't agree more. Thank you, Bruce

We Must Stand with Our Trans Neighbors | Defend Public Health

Most of us have some hobby or favorite activity we do to keep ourselves sane amid the pressures of daily living and the increasing political madness that is the USA. For me, it’s performing in communi...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 16h

Dear NYT: When an anti-education fuckwit billionaire submits an op-ed on why we should dismantle higher education as we know it, you aren't obligated to print their nonsense.

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 6d

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14d

In a partnership with the Coalition for Health Resilience, Defend Public Health has a new blog post up about how vaccines are tested.

Vaccines Haven’t Been Tested? Let’s Clear That Up. | Defend Public Health

In a partnership with the Coalition for Health Resilience, Defend Public Health shares the facts about how vaccines are tested.

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 15d

Great article by
Gregg Gonsalves www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents

The president’s dangerous misinformation about Tylenol is only the latest threat this government poses to infant and maternal mortality.

www.thenation.com

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 16d

believe that pathogens really cause diseases. Really, America this man must be paid no attention, he must be removed from Office. Here is a link to a podcast I did about pathogen survaillance and pandemic preparedness. www.infectiousdose.com/post/jim-alw...

Surveillance, Research Rules, and Real Preparedness: A Conversation with Jim Alwine, PhD.

Virologist Jim Alwine on pandemic surveillance, research rules, lab-leak politics, and how to rebuild smart public health systems—before the next crisis hits.

www.infectiousdose.com

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 16d

to hide from us that harmful and deadly pathogens are rising or on the way. This is not a surprise since Kennedy, vaccine denier and master of the goat rodeo, doesn’t

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 16d

potentially pandemic pathogens has fallen. The US is becoming blind to the the pathogens (viruses and bacteria) that are now harming us and those that may harm us in the future. It’s as if Kennedy/Trump want

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 16d

show and goat rodeo is not being monitored. Additionally, monitoring the rising cases of vaccine-preventable diseases is slowing getting worse in the US. And around the world US funding of monitoring for the appearance of

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 16d

remember is that climate change is allowing more mosquito-born diseases, usually thought of as being tropical diseases, to move north and enter the US. Zika, Chikungunya, Dengue and others, even yellow fever, are probably on their way. And under the Kennedy/Trump public health clown

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 16d

VIRUSES ARE COMING. I live in Pima County Arizona where an announcement was sent out about cases of West Nile Virus infections and a death. West Nile is a mosquito-born virus which is not new to Arizona, but the point to

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 18d

going to blam Tylenol we could have added Tylenol as NOT being a factor.
www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/ris...

Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder: What We Already Know From Scientific Evidence | Defend Public Health

With Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising to announce what he believes are the causes of autism this month, Defend Public Health is preemptively warning the public not t...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 18d

A few weeks ago Defend Public Health posted a report called “Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder: What We Already Know From Scientific Evidence”. The report discusses all the factors and shows why vaccines are not a factor. If we had known that RFKJr was

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 22d

before your developing immunity catches up. Vaccines can induce immunity without all of this. See how Kuperwasser is decieving you?

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 22d

infection. So when you first get infected you have NO immunity and the disease will have its way with you until your natural immunity developes. This takes time and during that time the disease can make you very sick, cause permanent damage and can kill you

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 22d

Dr. Charlotte Kuperwasser, who will be a presenter at the ACIP meeting on the topic of COVID19 vaccines, states that natural immunity following infection is better than that from the vaccine. Well there is something she isn’t telling you. You only get natural immunity AFTER infection, any

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25d

OpEd by @jimalwine.bsky.social and me asking Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to take control of all vaccines and to join The Rebellion…err..the West Coast Health Alliance along with CA, WA, OR, and HI.

Governor Hobbs: Please don’t stop at the COVID vaccine | Arizona Capitol Times

For the health of all Arizonans, young and old, it is essential to reject the vaccine misinformation and lies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

azcapitoltimes.com

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 26d

Let’s get it straight. The vaccine does not stop infection but it does reduce the severity of infection that reduces the amount of viruses produced and the length of time they are produced so that lowers spread.

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 27d

get vaccinated yourself, avoid the lasting harm of a viral infection.

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 27d

that appear months to years after measles and
influenza infections, respectively.

There are not yet vaccines for all viruses that can perminately harm us. But there are for many, get your children vaccinated as soon as vaccines are recommended for them,

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 27d

there are no mild viral infection. In the last few days, we heard news of a case of SSPE (Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) and a case of ANE (acute necrotizing encephalopathy). Both are terrible neurological conditions that are nearly always fatal. Both are rare conditions

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 27d

VIRAL INFECTIONS. All viral infections leave you damaged in greater or lesser ways. Maybe it’s lasting lung damage, development of cancer, loss of immunity, MS, long COVID, paralysis, shingles, loss of cognitive function. The list can go on, but the take home lesson is

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · Sep 9

necessasy if people are healthy and have healthy immune systems, but many healthy young people died from the 1918 flu. Kennedy is a psycho, delusional, ignorant liar. He must be remove from being the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a danger to the health of all Americans.

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · Sep 9

it and could not protect us, the virus had its way. It was particularly deadly among healthy young adults. Robert F Kennedy, jr has said that deaths from the 1918 flu were due to the vaccine, but there was no vaccine. He says that vaccines are not

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