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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jul 10

Multiple responses to last month's article by FDA on restricting COVID vaccination policy. Authors from our group are some of the respondents, showing how Prasad and Makary misrepresent international policy in their original article.

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An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM

To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article (June 26 issue),1 Prasad and Makary ignore the fact that the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection extend beyond acute outcomes such as hospitalization and de...

www.nejm.org

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jul 4

Op ed by one of our members on the ways this ugly bill will impact patients and healthcare.

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The Danger of the Not-So-Beautiful Bill

Today, I was asked by Newsweek to comment on the adverse impact of the not-so-beautiful bill to dismantle America’s safety net.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 29

GOP majority senate, under the veil of Saturday night, moves forward to vote on an unpopular budget bill that will:

- give most of the tax cuts to the wealthy
- cut Medicaid and SNAP
- increase deficit by >$2 trillion

Call your representatives to vote no!!

Summary on AP
apnews.com/article/sena...

What's in the latest version of Trump's big bill now before the Senate

At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 27

More info:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-coming...

The Coming Health Care Apocalypse

One chart on the Big Ugly Bill

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 27

Doesn't need any further elaboration. Big ugly bill needs to be shot down

Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our second billboard is up! On I-95, outside Philly near exit 6. Also will be up in Western PA soon.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

Urgent! Submit public comment to save access to the COVID vaccine by midnight tonight 6/20 at 11:59PM!

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RFK Jr. and Trump Administration is Limiting Access to Vaccines. Tell them by Friday, June 20, Everyone Must Have Access

Public Comment at the CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.

peoplescdc.substack.com

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

A poignant op-ed by one of our members.

Programs like PEPFAR were absolutely life changing for people around the world. For Trump administration to stop these projects is damaging for countless people and wasteful for science.

www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insi...

Paul C. Holden: What happens to people America helps when the aid suddenly stops

In a crowded ward in Malawi, a man died — his life lost in part because lifesaving HIV medications and diagnostics, funded by USAID, were suddenly...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 16

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 14

Happy no kings day #pittsburgh! Hope you see your there

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NO KINGS Pittsburgh · Mobilize

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** ## Join 50501 in partnership with local Indivisible groups and other grassroots organizations for Pittsburgh's NO KINGS Protest. NO KINGS is a na...

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 9

Please consider adding your signature to the Bethesda Declaration below: in support of what the NIH stands for and our colleagues who push science forward!

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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 6

Republicans keep trying to gut health insurance and safety net programs to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

Well if that's what they want, we can help them publicize it.

If you're driving East on I-76 near Bedford, keep an eye out for the billboard we put up!

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 4

#Pitt leadership responded after our second letter, where we sent actionable items to work together on. Read the full letter below.

Our goals remain aligned: defending scientific freedom and protecting our academic community.

Please join us on the webinar on June 11th!

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Jun 2

thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Op-ed from @mirandayaver.bsky.social explaining how Trump's budget will harm our rural communities by gutting their insurance coverage and closing down at-risk hospitals.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · May 30

www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/l...

This hurts all of us; our parents and grandparents, family who care for them, the hospital systems that will be overwhelmed by the lack of long-term care options.

We need a better plan to care for our sick and elderly. And GOP's bill is definitely NOT IT

Long-term care in the U.S. faces two existential threats: an immigration crackdown and Medicaid cuts

The combined impacts of an immigration crackdown and slashing Medicaid budgets could create an exodus of long-term care workers.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · May 27

Keep us posted! Members of our group have also submitted a response to this. Hopefully they will publish one of, if not multiple, responses that call out that article.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · May 22

Since our open letter, we’ve had productive discussions with the Pitt leadership in town halls and face-to-face meetings.

However, the attack on public health and science continues. We need more institutional resistance.

Read our follow up letter below where we call for three actionable steps.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · May 13

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨

In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk.

Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)

A protest graphic titled “TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS” with bold red blocks reading “SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE.” Black paint drips from the top, and a grayscale crowd of protestors hold signs like “Save Science,” “Keep Your Hands Off Our Pipettes,” and “No Science, No Future.” A U.S. flag waves on the right.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 28

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.

Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.

HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.

99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.

Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Apr 26

Scientific journals, especially those as prestigious as NEJM, have strict peer review and editorial processes that make them a trustworthy and reliable source of information.

Another example of trump administration attacking a scientific pillar, without any base

www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...

New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias

Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, NEJM has received a similar inquiry as well.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Apr 26

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Apr 23

Chancellor and Provost of #Pitt responded to our letter yesterday (full response below), and this morning we spoke with the Provost. It was a productive conversation and we look forward to continuing to work together. We are aligned on this:

A university is a community, a university is its people.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 22

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight...

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Pitt scholars urge resistance to Trump attacks on higher ed

As the Trump administration makes demands of Harvard and other universities, local scholars and their allies asked Pitt to ‘stand up.’

www.publicsource.org

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PGHS - Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers and Scientists @pgh-health-science.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thank you again to everyone who signed the open letter to #Pitt!

Today, we are delivering the letter - electronically and in person - to the university leadership.

The link remains active for anyone who didn't have a chance to sign previously: tinyurl.com/PittLetter

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