Marcia Cohen Zakai
@cozamarsh.bsky.social
Former Senior Commission, City of San Jose
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Marcia Cohen Zakai
@cozamarsh.bsky.social
· Nov 11
The results of the CDC’s upcoming HICPAC meeting will surely be consequential for infection control standards in healthcare.
Will you join me in going on record by emailing the Committee?
Here’s what I emailed HICPAC (HICPAC@cdc.gov) and copied NNU:
Hello HICPAC members:
Will you join me in going on record by emailing the Committee?
Here’s what I emailed HICPAC (HICPAC@cdc.gov) and copied NNU:
Hello HICPAC members:
Take action and join nurses from across the country: Hospitals are for healing, not harm! act.medicare4all.org/signup/feb19...
Take action and join nurses from across the country: Hospitals are for healing, not harm!
In the wake of the horrific murder of Alex Pretti, RN, thousands of nurses and our allies in the community stood up to demand Congress stop funding ICE — and our lawmakers took notice. Now nurses acro...
act.medicare4all.org
February 14, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Take action and join nurses from across the country: Hospitals are for healing, not harm! act.medicare4all.org/signup/feb19...
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CalCare, explained: A single payer system costs less & provides more care, for more people.
AB 1900 is a "policy framework bill," not a fiscal one.
Democrats opposing it on the basis of the latter demonstrate their allegiance to insurer interests over those of the people.
youtu.be/TTTK7P60XXs
AB 1900 is a "policy framework bill," not a fiscal one.
Democrats opposing it on the basis of the latter demonstrate their allegiance to insurer interests over those of the people.
youtu.be/TTTK7P60XXs
CalCare Bill AB 1900 Explained
YouTube video by Single Payer Now CA
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February 13, 2026 at 3:26 AM
CalCare, explained: A single payer system costs less & provides more care, for more people.
AB 1900 is a "policy framework bill," not a fiscal one.
Democrats opposing it on the basis of the latter demonstrate their allegiance to insurer interests over those of the people.
youtu.be/TTTK7P60XXs
AB 1900 is a "policy framework bill," not a fiscal one.
Democrats opposing it on the basis of the latter demonstrate their allegiance to insurer interests over those of the people.
youtu.be/TTTK7P60XXs
Thank you, Assembly member Ash Kalra, CNA & NNU @nationalnurses.bsky.social for giving us more than hope that real change is coming to California with CalCare, AB1900, single-payer healthcare.
Which of the candidates for governor will support it?
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/assemb...
Which of the candidates for governor will support it?
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/assemb...
Assemblymember Ash Kalra, California Nurses Association reintroduce CalCare legislation
Act. AB 1900, also known as CalCare, would enact a comprehensive framework for a single-payer health care coverage system in California at a time when California voters are ready to champion transform...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Thank you, Assembly member Ash Kalra, CNA & NNU @nationalnurses.bsky.social for giving us more than hope that real change is coming to California with CalCare, AB1900, single-payer healthcare.
Which of the candidates for governor will support it?
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/assemb...
Which of the candidates for governor will support it?
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/assemb...
I just sent a message of solidarity to the nurses at Fort Walton-Destin. Please join me in supporting them by sending yours! act.medicare4all.org/survey/send-...
Send a message of solidarity!
Big news: Florida nurses at HCA Fort Walton-Destin Hospital are bringing their fight to address chronic short-staffing, unsafe floating practices, and workplace violence to the bargaining table! Suppo...
act.medicare4all.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I just sent a message of solidarity to the nurses at Fort Walton-Destin. Please join me in supporting them by sending yours! act.medicare4all.org/survey/send-...
@johanvawe.bsky.social
Why does Buonsenso (Lancet) claim NPIs like masks "might be useful" for prevention? Why is improved IAQ described as "still in the early stages of evidence building"?
We do know that BOTH can decrease new Long Covid cases AND prevent worsening symptoms in people already ill.
Why does Buonsenso (Lancet) claim NPIs like masks "might be useful" for prevention? Why is improved IAQ described as "still in the early stages of evidence building"?
We do know that BOTH can decrease new Long Covid cases AND prevent worsening symptoms in people already ill.
🧪 #LongCOVID is here to stay—even in children - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Long COVID is here to stay—even in children
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex,
multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact
the daily life of those...
www.thelancet.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
@johanvawe.bsky.social
Why does Buonsenso (Lancet) claim NPIs like masks "might be useful" for prevention? Why is improved IAQ described as "still in the early stages of evidence building"?
We do know that BOTH can decrease new Long Covid cases AND prevent worsening symptoms in people already ill.
Why does Buonsenso (Lancet) claim NPIs like masks "might be useful" for prevention? Why is improved IAQ described as "still in the early stages of evidence building"?
We do know that BOTH can decrease new Long Covid cases AND prevent worsening symptoms in people already ill.
Dr. Brown suggests watching it not for entertainment but to make viewers "ask what it would take to make the ED a place where clinicians can do their jobs without being asked to normalize the unacceptable."
How about starting with guaranteed healthcare for all?
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...
How about starting with guaranteed healthcare for all?
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...
Opinion | No, I Won't Watch 'The Pitt'
But you probably should
www.medpagetoday.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Dr. Brown suggests watching it not for entertainment but to make viewers "ask what it would take to make the ED a place where clinicians can do their jobs without being asked to normalize the unacceptable."
How about starting with guaranteed healthcare for all?
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...
How about starting with guaranteed healthcare for all?
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...
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When hospitalized detainees can’t be found by family members or attorneys, advocates say, it leaves patients vulnerable to abuse and isolation and deprives them of their constitutional right to counsel.
‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees - KFF Health News
Some hospitals are registering patients detained by federal immigration officers under pseudonyms and prohibiting staff from contacting family members. Attorneys and health care workers say the practi...
kffhealthnews.org
January 31, 2026 at 12:10 AM
When hospitalized detainees can’t be found by family members or attorneys, advocates say, it leaves patients vulnerable to abuse and isolation and deprives them of their constitutional right to counsel.
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Celebramos la regularización extraordinaria que arrancamos al Gobierno para que medio millón de personas migrantes en situación irregular en nuestro país pueda acceder a los derechos más básicos.
Porque frente al fascismo, papeles para todas.
📽️ @ionebelarra.bsky.social
Porque frente al fascismo, papeles para todas.
📽️ @ionebelarra.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Celebramos la regularización extraordinaria que arrancamos al Gobierno para que medio millón de personas migrantes en situación irregular en nuestro país pueda acceder a los derechos más básicos.
Porque frente al fascismo, papeles para todas.
📽️ @ionebelarra.bsky.social
Porque frente al fascismo, papeles para todas.
📽️ @ionebelarra.bsky.social
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We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.
This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u
This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u
National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE
NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:06 AM
We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.
This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u
This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u
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Have our Congressional representatives had a chance to see the "incontrovertible video evidence"? Have governors in other states had a chance to see it? Do they think what we see with our own eyes won't happen in their states and cities?
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Have our Congressional representatives had a chance to see the "incontrovertible video evidence"? Have governors in other states had a chance to see it? Do they think what we see with our own eyes won't happen in their states and cities?
Tell Congress: Oppose the Dept. of Education’s proposal to exclude nurses from professional graduate degree loans. act.medicare4all.org/sign/profess...
Tell Congress: Oppose the Dept. of Education’s proposal to exclude nurses from professional graduate degree loans.
The Trump administration has proposed redefining which graduate degrees qualify for a higher level of federal government loans, excluding graduate nursing students from professional degree loans. This...
act.medicare4all.org
January 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Tell Congress: Oppose the Dept. of Education’s proposal to exclude nurses from professional graduate degree loans. act.medicare4all.org/sign/profess...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a threat to patients. act.medicare4all.org/sign/remove-...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a threat to patients.
As Health and Human Services (H.H.S) Secretary, RFK, Jr. has gutted essential public health care programs through mass layoffs and cuts, undermined scientific integrity on vaccines and other public he...
act.medicare4all.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a threat to patients. act.medicare4all.org/sign/remove-...
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Nurses are on Capitol Hill today to flex our nurse advocacy muscle! 💪🏛️
We talked to our reps about the threat RFK Jr. poses to public health, how NIOSH protects nurses, union rights for federal workers, and the danger of recategorizing nursing as a non-professional degree.
We talked to our reps about the threat RFK Jr. poses to public health, how NIOSH protects nurses, union rights for federal workers, and the danger of recategorizing nursing as a non-professional degree.
January 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Nurses are on Capitol Hill today to flex our nurse advocacy muscle! 💪🏛️
We talked to our reps about the threat RFK Jr. poses to public health, how NIOSH protects nurses, union rights for federal workers, and the danger of recategorizing nursing as a non-professional degree.
We talked to our reps about the threat RFK Jr. poses to public health, how NIOSH protects nurses, union rights for federal workers, and the danger of recategorizing nursing as a non-professional degree.
There's value in honestly sharing personal preferences on masking, but you-do-you isn't public health. Nor is it "unbiased science."
My short thread on this piece & the need for layered, community-based strategies to reduce health harms from COVID & other airborne viruses.
bsky.app/profile/coza...
My short thread on this piece & the need for layered, community-based strategies to reduce health harms from COVID & other airborne viruses.
bsky.app/profile/coza...
I’m going to keep being honest about what I do and why. I’m going to keep sharing the evidence about the incredible effectiveness of masks. I’m going to keep trying to reach the people who might actually change their behavior.
I posted about masks. Here’s what happened.
On harm reduction, psychological reactance, and why the discourse is failing us
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January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
There's value in honestly sharing personal preferences on masking, but you-do-you isn't public health. Nor is it "unbiased science."
My short thread on this piece & the need for layered, community-based strategies to reduce health harms from COVID & other airborne viruses.
bsky.app/profile/coza...
My short thread on this piece & the need for layered, community-based strategies to reduce health harms from COVID & other airborne viruses.
bsky.app/profile/coza...
On VISION ZERO and ZERO COVID
Jess Steier claims to offer a reasonable, imperfect, & honest approach to masking based on her own personal risk tolerance. She favors meeting people where they are rather than shaming or coercing them, which has the opposite effect. Unfortunately, her strategy 1/6
Jess Steier claims to offer a reasonable, imperfect, & honest approach to masking based on her own personal risk tolerance. She favors meeting people where they are rather than shaming or coercing them, which has the opposite effect. Unfortunately, her strategy 1/6
January 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM
On VISION ZERO and ZERO COVID
Jess Steier claims to offer a reasonable, imperfect, & honest approach to masking based on her own personal risk tolerance. She favors meeting people where they are rather than shaming or coercing them, which has the opposite effect. Unfortunately, her strategy 1/6
Jess Steier claims to offer a reasonable, imperfect, & honest approach to masking based on her own personal risk tolerance. She favors meeting people where they are rather than shaming or coercing them, which has the opposite effect. Unfortunately, her strategy 1/6
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Vaccine policy, class and the erosion of public health protection: An interview - Kennedy has been dismantling both good governance and expert agencies, which previously required substantial accomplishments from members. www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social @WSWS.org
Vaccine policy, class and the erosion of public health protection: An interview with legal scholar Dorit Reiss
This interview is the second extended discussion between Professor Reiss and the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> examining the accelerating assault on vaccines and public health in the United States...
www.wsws.org
December 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Vaccine policy, class and the erosion of public health protection: An interview - Kennedy has been dismantling both good governance and expert agencies, which previously required substantial accomplishments from members. www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social @WSWS.org
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In just the past month, #MedicareForAll has gained 7 new cosponsors, bringing us to 17 in the Senate and 111 in the House.
More members of Congress are joining us to recognize that the only solution to our health care crisis is Medicare for All. Our movement is growing!
More members of Congress are joining us to recognize that the only solution to our health care crisis is Medicare for All. Our movement is growing!
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In just the past month, #MedicareForAll has gained 7 new cosponsors, bringing us to 17 in the Senate and 111 in the House.
More members of Congress are joining us to recognize that the only solution to our health care crisis is Medicare for All. Our movement is growing!
More members of Congress are joining us to recognize that the only solution to our health care crisis is Medicare for All. Our movement is growing!
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AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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It is rich to hear Makary decrying the loss of trust in public health institutions as he spreads misinformation on COVID, flu and hep B vaccines. Trust is important, but trust is predicated on competence, integrity and good faith, all of which he lacks.
NPR: FDA commissioner on public's growing mistrust in the government's health advice
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Marty Makary
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Marty Makary
FDA commissioner on public's growing mistrust in the government's health advice
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks FDA Commissioner Marty Makary about recent controversies around the COVID and Hepatitis B vaccines, and the lack of trust in the government's medical advice.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is rich to hear Makary decrying the loss of trust in public health institutions as he spreads misinformation on COVID, flu and hep B vaccines. Trust is important, but trust is predicated on competence, integrity and good faith, all of which he lacks.
@steveinskeep.bsky.social I get that you're a lay person like me, & it's hard for you to refute some of Dr. Makary's anti-vaccine views & conspiracy theories, but how could you fail to question some of his blatant, easily fact-checked lies about school closures or toddler masking "for 3 years"?
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@steveinskeep.bsky.social I get that you're a lay person like me, & it's hard for you to refute some of Dr. Makary's anti-vaccine views & conspiracy theories, but how could you fail to question some of his blatant, easily fact-checked lies about school closures or toddler masking "for 3 years"?
Do you @lacountybos.bsky.social @mayor.lacity.gov REALLY want input from older ppl & ppl with disabilities?
Do you REALLY want to hear from their healthcare providers, caregivers, ppl who live, study, travel & work with them? 1/2
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Do you REALLY want to hear from their healthcare providers, caregivers, ppl who live, study, travel & work with them? 1/2
ad.lacounty.gov/about-us/cam...
Aging & Disabilities Department websitePublic Hearings 2026 – Los Angeles County Aging & Disabilities
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December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Do you @lacountybos.bsky.social @mayor.lacity.gov REALLY want input from older ppl & ppl with disabilities?
Do you REALLY want to hear from their healthcare providers, caregivers, ppl who live, study, travel & work with them? 1/2
ad.lacounty.gov/about-us/cam...
Do you REALLY want to hear from their healthcare providers, caregivers, ppl who live, study, travel & work with them? 1/2
ad.lacounty.gov/about-us/cam...
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BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc