Es Kay
@runsonspite.bsky.social
Current hobbies include reading, olympic weightlifting, napping, rewatching LotR, and dialing in the perfect espresso shot.
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🤰$5K for having a baby? That’s cute.
Giving birth (with insurance) costs an average of $19K, with women paying $3K out of pocket. 💸
Caring for an infant in the first year costs $10-23K. 💰💰💰
(www.newyorklife.com/articles/bre...)
These are not serious ideas.
Giving birth (with insurance) costs an average of $19K, with women paying $3K out of pocket. 💸
Caring for an infant in the first year costs $10-23K. 💰💰💰
(www.newyorklife.com/articles/bre...)
These are not serious ideas.
Health costs associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Pregnancy is one of the most common reasons for a hospitalization among non-elderly people. In addition to the cost of the birth itself, pregnancy care also involves costs associated with prenatal vis...
www.healthsystemtracker.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
🤰$5K for having a baby? That’s cute.
Giving birth (with insurance) costs an average of $19K, with women paying $3K out of pocket. 💸
Caring for an infant in the first year costs $10-23K. 💰💰💰
(www.newyorklife.com/articles/bre...)
These are not serious ideas.
Giving birth (with insurance) costs an average of $19K, with women paying $3K out of pocket. 💸
Caring for an infant in the first year costs $10-23K. 💰💰💰
(www.newyorklife.com/articles/bre...)
These are not serious ideas.
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One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.
March 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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The more I think about this, the funnier it gets.
Imagine proclaiming that academia is broken and journals are dead, but your new model is just getting a bunch of your mates to publish their garbage preprints that no one else will accept in exchange for $1000 a pop.
Imagine proclaiming that academia is broken and journals are dead, but your new model is just getting a bunch of your mates to publish their garbage preprints that no one else will accept in exchange for $1000 a pop.
There's "being wrong in early in a pandemic" wrong and then there's "doubling down over and over again until you find yourself in bed with RFK Jr. and founding a whole-ass journal to discredit all of academic publishing along with all of medicine" wrong.
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
Journal of the Academy of Public Health
publichealth.realclearjournals.org
February 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The more I think about this, the funnier it gets.
Imagine proclaiming that academia is broken and journals are dead, but your new model is just getting a bunch of your mates to publish their garbage preprints that no one else will accept in exchange for $1000 a pop.
Imagine proclaiming that academia is broken and journals are dead, but your new model is just getting a bunch of your mates to publish their garbage preprints that no one else will accept in exchange for $1000 a pop.
After a few years together, they're learning to coexist peacefully 🤍🤎
February 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
After a few years together, they're learning to coexist peacefully 🤍🤎
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Can I come over and stare at you like this?
February 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Can I come over and stare at you like this?
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Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
February 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
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We are still learning about all the webpages that have been taken down, but they include: contraception and reproductive rights, STI treatment guidelines, youth risk behavior survey data, CDC's health education analysis tool, resources for the LGBTQ community, and intimate partner violence. 💔
February 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We are still learning about all the webpages that have been taken down, but they include: contraception and reproductive rights, STI treatment guidelines, youth risk behavior survey data, CDC's health education analysis tool, resources for the LGBTQ community, and intimate partner violence. 💔
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The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
January 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
Told my colleagues. They are still under the impression it's just for a short period of time until the new administration reviews each topic...
Banging my head on the wall.
Banging my head on the wall.
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Told my colleagues. They are still under the impression it's just for a short period of time until the new administration reviews each topic...
Banging my head on the wall.
Banging my head on the wall.
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RFK Jr. is not "questioning science"--he is lying about clinical trials, he is lying about the mountains of *reproducible* available data, and he is lying about safety and efficacy findings.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
RFK Jr. is not "questioning science"--he is lying about clinical trials, he is lying about the mountains of *reproducible* available data, and he is lying about safety and efficacy findings.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
"I'm just asking questions" is a lazy and cheap way to grab people's emotions and attention.
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RFK Jr. should know that vaccines have the most rigorous safety testing possible, because they are administered to an otherwise healthy population. He’s claiming otherwise, repeatedly, and he’s wrong.
January 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
RFK Jr. should know that vaccines have the most rigorous safety testing possible, because they are administered to an otherwise healthy population. He’s claiming otherwise, repeatedly, and he’s wrong.
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MAHA has a white savior problem.
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
MAHA has a white savior problem.
1/ Thank you to @pocan.house.gov for hosting a town hall in Madison. I work in public health and tried to remain hopeful after the election. I was wrong to assume things wouldn't change on day one.
January 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
1/ Thank you to @pocan.house.gov for hosting a town hall in Madison. I work in public health and tried to remain hopeful after the election. I was wrong to assume things wouldn't change on day one.
Loving her poster presentation
Maggie Hassan (D-NH) NIH: $128M, 1158 jobs. Dad was a pediatrician. Sen Hassan comes out swinging, rightly noting RFK Jr wants to end the vaccine schedule. #rfkjrhearings
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
ACIP develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control disease in the United States.
www.cdc.gov
January 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Loving her poster presentation
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RFK Jr. appears to be getting even more squirmy than usual as Senator Warner asks how the federal funding freeze helps all of the people RFK Jr. is faux-crying about, and how suspending NIH funding helps people. RFK Jr. cannot or will not answer.
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
RFK Jr. appears to be getting even more squirmy than usual as Senator Warner asks how the federal funding freeze helps all of the people RFK Jr. is faux-crying about, and how suspending NIH funding helps people. RFK Jr. cannot or will not answer.
But he was quoting an NIH paper /s
Another BINGO! RFK Jr pedaled racist bullshit about COVID claiming Jews and Chinese engineered it. Claimed Lyme disease was a bioweapon.
January 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
But he was quoting an NIH paper /s
Measles IS deadly. The fact that RFK Jr. cannot simply say yes to this question but rather ramble through epidemiological data and tell a revisionist history of his time in Samoa tells you everything you need to know.
January 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Listening to the RFK jr confirmation hearing on CSPAN. He talks a good talk but it's still lip service. He's demonstrated he's anti-vax despite saying otherwise. He talks about the importance of a healthy diet but hasn't mentioned the consequences of removing free school lunches and meals on wheels.
January 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Listening to the RFK jr confirmation hearing on CSPAN. He talks a good talk but it's still lip service. He's demonstrated he's anti-vax despite saying otherwise. He talks about the importance of a healthy diet but hasn't mentioned the consequences of removing free school lunches and meals on wheels.
This is the opposite of protecting children.
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is the opposite of protecting children.
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Upgraded my coffee bar over the weekend. FB marketplace is really the only reason I haven't deleted the app yet.
January 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Upgraded my coffee bar over the weekend. FB marketplace is really the only reason I haven't deleted the app yet.