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Elizabeth Grisham 💙🗳🗽
@elizabethgrisham.bsky.social
Historian. Science communicator. Journalist. I have studied epidemics & public health policy for 24 years. Not here for dates or arguments. Resist. 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉😷🧷 🇺🇦
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AIDS didn’t end with protease inhibitors. And, as Tony Kushner reminds us: “We must not leave the transforming of the world to the indifferent, the greedy, and the cold of heart.” We remember, along with the people of MCC San Francisco. Because AIDS still isn’t over. slate.trib.al/96YenUW
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
slate.trib.al
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Forgot to share this amazing sunrise for my Friday #seaswim luckily the torrential rain came later. So lucky to live here #Dorset
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Meissner: "The fact that hepatitis has not occured in someone who has received the Hep B series is about the best proof you're going to get that the vaccine is effective."
#ACIP
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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If ACIP chooses to ignore evidence, when it comes to vaccines, parents and clinicians must ignore ACIP and look to those who continue to offer data-based guidance, especially our medical societies.
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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It was a perfect storm of nastiness.
www.iflscience.com/how-a-myster...
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.

Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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RFK.Jr has a surprise for YOU!

Measles is roaring back.

Polio’s poking its head up again.

Chikungunya’s surging.

Whooping cough is back in schools.

Years of falling vaccination rates cracked the door open — now old viruses are walking right through it. The past isn’t gone, it’s contagious.
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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We have an eruption in progress! #Hawaii #Volcano #Eruption
[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
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November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I think about this all the time…
When we spoke in 2020, Alice Wong wondered if a million Covid deaths would drive Americans to care.

By 2022, a million Americans had died of Covid.

To read the full transcript of this interview, visit tinyurl.com/5ez375t9
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Ms. Fletcher, Tulsa, and America always deserved so much more
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Second U.S. bird flu death of 2025. The last one was in January.
Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans | CNN
A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said on Friday.
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I’m sorry but this seems bad
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What do these corporations all have in common?

-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile

They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A Ponzi schemer stole roughly $35M from dozens who believed they were investing in Covid-19 masks, baby formula, & first aid kits for Ukraine. trib.al/tqfJ6y4

For whatever reason, Trump decided to include him in the whopping 143-person pardon issued the day before he left office in 2021.
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The DOJ has been pressing states since May for their registration rolls, which include sensitive personal information of every single voter, claiming the agency wants to ensure compliance with federal voter laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
States Want to Know: Why Does the DOJ Want Their Voter Rolls, Really?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Border czar: ICE operations planned for New York City #TheHill
thehill.com
Border czar: ICE operations planned for New York City
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November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at UN climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”
Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
From George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication and Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media: Public engagement with climate change and health: A global literature review link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Public Engagement with Climate Change and Health: A Global Literature Review - EcoHealth
With the impacts of climate change on health becoming increasingly severe and far-reaching, effective communication to diverse audiences is more crucial than ever. This review analyzes 93 studies publ...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"case involves a person who lives in Grays Harbor County on the Olympic Peninsula"

Water water everywhere

Many of the PB2 seqs from 2025 H5N5 water fowl in US and Canada have E627K

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
New form of bird flu hospitalizes Washington state resident
A person in Washington has been infected with a new form of bird flu virus.
www.yahoo.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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“This is a severely ill patient,” state epidemiologist Scott Lindquist said during a briefing

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state
The U.S. has reported its first human case of bird flu since February, with a confirmed infection in Washington state
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM