Julie Williamson, MD
@jwilliamsonmd.bsky.social
Hematology/oncology fellow @Huntsmancancer | Runner | Plant-based | Safe streets & clean air advocate. Views are my own.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is what makes community great and improves health overall. Hoping to continue to see more positive changes like the 9 line in SLC!
Hard to overstate how transformative the 9 Line Trail has been for Salt Lake City. This May, sensors recorded 37,000 trips by walkers, cyclists, and runners. That’s almost 1,200 people per day, on average. So many cool businesses are popping up along the trail. Kudos to @slcmoves.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is what makes community great and improves health overall. Hoping to continue to see more positive changes like the 9 line in SLC!
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August 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
As an oncologist, this is a horrible idea. Will undoubtedly see increased rates of lung cancer
June 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As an oncologist, this is a horrible idea. Will undoubtedly see increased rates of lung cancer
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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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#Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements ever.
☠️ #Smallpox killed ~30% of those infected
📆 300 million lives lost in the 20th century
🚫 Eradicated by 1980 thanks to vaccines
That’s the power of science. #VaccinesWork #PublicHealthWin
☠️ #Smallpox killed ~30% of those infected
📆 300 million lives lost in the 20th century
🚫 Eradicated by 1980 thanks to vaccines
That’s the power of science. #VaccinesWork #PublicHealthWin
June 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
#Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements ever.
☠️ #Smallpox killed ~30% of those infected
📆 300 million lives lost in the 20th century
🚫 Eradicated by 1980 thanks to vaccines
That’s the power of science. #VaccinesWork #PublicHealthWin
☠️ #Smallpox killed ~30% of those infected
📆 300 million lives lost in the 20th century
🚫 Eradicated by 1980 thanks to vaccines
That’s the power of science. #VaccinesWork #PublicHealthWin
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🦽 Polio: paralysis (1 in 200)
🤒 Measles: pneumonia & brain swelling (1/5 hospitalized)
🎗️ HPV: causes >90% of cervical cancers
⏳ Meningitis: fatal in 10%
😮💨 Pertussis: deadly for 1/100 infants
🤐 Tetanus: 10% fatal even with treatment
💉 Vaccines prevent all of this. This is what winning looks like.
🤒 Measles: pneumonia & brain swelling (1/5 hospitalized)
🎗️ HPV: causes >90% of cervical cancers
⏳ Meningitis: fatal in 10%
😮💨 Pertussis: deadly for 1/100 infants
🤐 Tetanus: 10% fatal even with treatment
💉 Vaccines prevent all of this. This is what winning looks like.
June 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
🦽 Polio: paralysis (1 in 200)
🤒 Measles: pneumonia & brain swelling (1/5 hospitalized)
🎗️ HPV: causes >90% of cervical cancers
⏳ Meningitis: fatal in 10%
😮💨 Pertussis: deadly for 1/100 infants
🤐 Tetanus: 10% fatal even with treatment
💉 Vaccines prevent all of this. This is what winning looks like.
🤒 Measles: pneumonia & brain swelling (1/5 hospitalized)
🎗️ HPV: causes >90% of cervical cancers
⏳ Meningitis: fatal in 10%
😮💨 Pertussis: deadly for 1/100 infants
🤐 Tetanus: 10% fatal even with treatment
💉 Vaccines prevent all of this. This is what winning looks like.
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Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.
May 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.
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44% of all American children benefit from Medicaid or SNAP.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
May 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
44% of all American children benefit from Medicaid or SNAP.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
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You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.
May 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.
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New reality: ICE agents are allowed to conduct raids in hospitals & clinics. ICE agents may pretend they're police to gain access to information or private spaces or lure people to public spaces, but they do not have the authority to do this or to bypass warrant requirements! Essential reading 👇🏾
Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making
Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.
www.statnews.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
New reality: ICE agents are allowed to conduct raids in hospitals & clinics. ICE agents may pretend they're police to gain access to information or private spaces or lure people to public spaces, but they do not have the authority to do this or to bypass warrant requirements! Essential reading 👇🏾
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April 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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With the CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'. Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
With the CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'. Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
I worry about the consequences this will have, especially for all those at high risk of complications from the flu
It is unlikely 🇺🇸 will develop flu vaccines for the 2025-26 flu season
“'It’s a 6-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
>70% 🇺🇸 seniors received 2023 flu vaccine to protect themselves (source:CDC)
@aarpfoundation.bsky.social
“'It’s a 6-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
>70% 🇺🇸 seniors received 2023 flu vaccine to protect themselves (source:CDC)
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F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I worry about the consequences this will have, especially for all those at high risk of complications from the flu
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Some cities that signed on this amicus brief to block Trump's NIH cuts:
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Harris County, Texas
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Gainesville, Florida
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Harris County, Texas
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Gainesville, Florida
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Houston Public Media: 'Harris County joins legal fight against spending cuts to National Institutes of Health'
'Harris County is part of a coalition of local governments that signed on to an amicus brief..arguing NIH’s funding cuts are unjustified..'
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'Harris County is part of a coalition of local governments that signed on to an amicus brief..arguing NIH’s funding cuts are unjustified..'
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Harris County joins legal fight against spending cuts to National Institutes of Health | Houston Public Media
Harris County is part of a coalition of local governments that signed on to an amicus brief filed this week in a federal court in Massachusetts, arguing NIH’s funding cuts are unjustified and would de...
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February 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Some cities that signed on this amicus brief to block Trump's NIH cuts:
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Harris County, Texas
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Gainesville, Florida
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Harris County, Texas
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Gainesville, Florida
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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These weren’t lazy bureaucrats doing unimportant work. They were working hard, and often for less money than they could get in the private sector, on key life-saving public health programs.
They were fired to give more money to billionaires.
#DOGEkills
#medsky
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They were fired to give more money to billionaires.
#DOGEkills
#medsky
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
These weren’t lazy bureaucrats doing unimportant work. They were working hard, and often for less money than they could get in the private sector, on key life-saving public health programs.
They were fired to give more money to billionaires.
#DOGEkills
#medsky
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
They were fired to give more money to billionaires.
#DOGEkills
#medsky
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...