Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.com
Scientist, science communicator, public health and climate justice advocate.
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum.
New Yorker/Aussie.
Opinions my own & do not reflect employer.
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WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum.
New Yorker/Aussie.
Opinions my own & do not reflect employer.
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.
January 6, 2026 at 6:07 AM
With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.
Reposted by Dr. Lucky Tran
If this makes you mad…turn your anger into action.
There are articles of impeachment against RFK jr. in the House.
Sign the petition, call your rep, send a quack-o-gram, and share with LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
This isn’t going to stop unless we make it.
Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
There are articles of impeachment against RFK jr. in the House.
Sign the petition, call your rep, send a quack-o-gram, and share with LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
This isn’t going to stop unless we make it.
Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
If this makes you mad…turn your anger into action.
There are articles of impeachment against RFK jr. in the House.
Sign the petition, call your rep, send a quack-o-gram, and share with LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
This isn’t going to stop unless we make it.
Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
There are articles of impeachment against RFK jr. in the House.
Sign the petition, call your rep, send a quack-o-gram, and share with LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
This isn’t going to stop unless we make it.
Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Antivaxxers like RFK Jr love to cherry pick policies from countries like Denmark so they can falsely justify reducing vaccines in the US, while ignoring context.
If they really wanted to learn effective health policy from Denmark, they would be pushing for universal single-payer healthcare.
If they really wanted to learn effective health policy from Denmark, they would be pushing for universal single-payer healthcare.
January 5, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Antivaxxers like RFK Jr love to cherry pick policies from countries like Denmark so they can falsely justify reducing vaccines in the US, while ignoring context.
If they really wanted to learn effective health policy from Denmark, they would be pushing for universal single-payer healthcare.
If they really wanted to learn effective health policy from Denmark, they would be pushing for universal single-payer healthcare.
While vaccines for diseases that no longer carry a universal recommendation will still be covered by federal health insurance programs, RFK Jr’s schedule change will increase confusion and distrust in vaccines, lower vaccination rates, and increase disease and death.
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
While vaccines for diseases that no longer carry a universal recommendation will still be covered by federal health insurance programs, RFK Jr’s schedule change will increase confusion and distrust in vaccines, lower vaccination rates, and increase disease and death.
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
PSA: It’s not too late to get your flu shot, as the record-breaking flu season will continue for several months.
While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!
While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!
January 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
PSA: It’s not too late to get your flu shot, as the record-breaking flu season will continue for several months.
While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!
While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!
So… they cut funding for research into cures for cancer but are going to spend loads of money *checks notes* running a whole other country?
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 PM
So… they cut funding for research into cures for cancer but are going to spend loads of money *checks notes* running a whole other country?
I’ve seen enough. The Rangers should play the rest of the season in Central Park.
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 AM
I’ve seen enough. The Rangers should play the rest of the season in Central Park.
Pro tip: If you are attending a crowded event in winter, wearing a well-fitting mask like an N95 can serve double duty by keeping your face warm and keeping viruses away.
(yes, transmission can still happen outdoors in crowds or with close and sustained contact to someone who is sick).
(yes, transmission can still happen outdoors in crowds or with close and sustained contact to someone who is sick).
January 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Pro tip: If you are attending a crowded event in winter, wearing a well-fitting mask like an N95 can serve double duty by keeping your face warm and keeping viruses away.
(yes, transmission can still happen outdoors in crowds or with close and sustained contact to someone who is sick).
(yes, transmission can still happen outdoors in crowds or with close and sustained contact to someone who is sick).
Make masks FIT and FREE! As we experience a record breaking flu surge and the ongoing effects of COVID, now would be a great time to ramp up efforts to make high quality N95 masks free and widely available. Really wish free mask distribution was a regular feature of progressive events for example.
January 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Make masks FIT and FREE! As we experience a record breaking flu surge and the ongoing effects of COVID, now would be a great time to ramp up efforts to make high quality N95 masks free and widely available. Really wish free mask distribution was a regular feature of progressive events for example.
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
edition.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
Reposted by Dr. Lucky Tran
I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
December 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Thank you for writing about this!
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thank you for writing about this!
Reposted by Dr. Lucky Tran
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.
Reposted by Dr. Lucky Tran
In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health.
If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense.
Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!
If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense.
Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!
December 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health.
If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense.
Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!
If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense.
Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!
For example
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For example
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
And yet still too few are wearing a mask to reduce viral spread.
NYC school attendance drops, parents freak out as flu season foils Christmas plans https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-school-attendance-drops-parents-freak-out-as-flu-season-foils-christmas-plans
NYC school attendance drops, parents freak out as flu season foils Christmas plans
Doctors urged parents to vaccinate their kids amid a surge in flu, COVID and other illnesses.
Educators reported lots of absences as the nation’s largest public school system limped into the holidays. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
And yet still too few are wearing a mask to reduce viral spread.
One of the most dangerous persistent myths is that planes are safe due to ventilation.
In reality ventilation is only on part of the time, and there is bad ventilation before and after take off.
And viruses can still spread easily in crowds over short distances regardless of ventilation status.
In reality ventilation is only on part of the time, and there is bad ventilation before and after take off.
And viruses can still spread easily in crowds over short distances regardless of ventilation status.
December 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
One of the most dangerous persistent myths is that planes are safe due to ventilation.
In reality ventilation is only on part of the time, and there is bad ventilation before and after take off.
And viruses can still spread easily in crowds over short distances regardless of ventilation status.
In reality ventilation is only on part of the time, and there is bad ventilation before and after take off.
And viruses can still spread easily in crowds over short distances regardless of ventilation status.
Many get sick while traveling.
One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions.
To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!
One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions.
To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Many get sick while traveling.
One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions.
To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!
One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions.
To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!
(For those who’d like to use this, art is by me)
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
(For those who’d like to use this, art is by me)