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Cathy Healy🇨🇦🍁❤️
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Former French Immersion teacher, Speech-Language Pathologist, ESL teacher 🔸wife, mother, grandmother 🔸swimmer,cyclist, yogi, knitter, reader🔸 advocate
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"Decision-based evidence-making" — that's how one former #CDC leader described the approach to scientific decision making under the HHS secretary in a meaty examination of Kennedy's unprecedented tenure by several @statnews.com colleagues. www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Adelita Grijalva is being sworn in at 4:00 today. She can vote on the Epstein discharge petition any time after that.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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You can't be serious, JD.
JD Vance Just Tried To Blame MAGA's Election Losses On Biden—And It Didn't Go Over Well
www.comicsands.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Trump on food stamp recipients: "It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they want. The people that say, 'Well, I don't think I'll work. I'll just collect this money.'"
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Here's the video: @hcrichardson.bsky.social asked the questions, and I did my best to answer. A fascinating, out-of-the-box conversation about what the Constitution allows and how we protect our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Live with Heather Cox Richardson and Me
A recording of our live video
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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If only there were a way to prevent #measles infections. Oh, wait.... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sask. measles case sends patient to intensive care | CBC News
Saskatchewan has recorded one new case of measles, and health officials say the patient required intensive care.
www.cbc.ca
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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You know we're in uncharted territory when a former acting director of the #CDC, a scientist who spent years at the agency, says Americans can no longer look to the current CDC, under the current HHS leadership, for accurate vaccine guidance. www.statnews.com/2025/10/18/r...
Former acting CDC director calls public health cuts ‘absolutely heartbreaking’
Public health leaders “have to figure out how to reach” those who are open to persuasion on vaccines and more, says former acting CDC director Richard Besser.
www.statnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Barney Graham, one of the chief architects of the technology that gave the world #Covid & #RSV vaccines, is among 100 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine. nam.edu/news-and-ins...
National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members - NAM
The National Academy of Medicine has announced 100 new members for the Class of 2025.
nam.edu
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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If people think the attack on scientific advances is going to stop with #mRNA vaccines, they should think again, a co-founder of Moderna warned last week at the #STATSummit. This is going to make it harder to treat a raft of common diseases, Noubar Afeyan warned. www.statnews.com/2025/10/20/m...
Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan issues warning: Assault on science ‘isn’t going to stop at mRNA’
Noubar Afeyan tells the STAT Summit that political moves to replace facts with opinions won't stop with mRNA vaccines. "It’s going to go to every medicine."
www.statnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The countdown to the end of DRC's most recent #Ebola outbreak has begun with the release from hospital of the last known patient. Of 64 cases (53 confirmed, 11 probables), there have been 45 deaths & 19 survivors. +35,000 people were vaccinated in this response. www.afro.who.int/news/last-eb...
Last Ebola patient in Democratic Republic of the Congo discharged
The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was discharged today, marking an important milestone in the efforts to end the outbreak.
www.afro.who.int
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Long COVID.
An increasing problem.
the only way to prevent it is to prevent COVID infection.
There is no cure.
@cancovsoc.bsky.social @wailofatale.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Hey US of A people who care about other people.

There are more of you than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I've never seen and felt as much love for America as we're seeing across the country today.
October 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
www.statnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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This is not how science is supposed to work: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social interviews #FDA staffers on how the agency is being asked to investigate issues of interest to Health Secretary Kennedy. “It’s like the tail wagging the dog.... Go find data to support this." www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...
Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work
Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.
www.statnews.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
futurism.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Donald Trump melted down this morning when I told the truth on CNBC about how his economy is devastating working families.

This ought to be good.
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The #USPSTF, which is under fire from the HHS secretary, lowered the age at which it recommended colorectal cancer screening to 45 from 50 in 2021, because more cases of advanced cancer were being seen in younger adults. New studies suggest the new policy is working. www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/c...
Screening guideline change led to more colorectal cancers being detected early in younger adults
Two new studies show that colorectal cancer screening sharply increased for people ages 45 to 49 after the age recommendation changed in 2021.
www.statnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Alberta’s measles outbreaks surpass case counts reported for entire U.S.

CBC News
July 14, 2025
By Jennifer Lee

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/albe...

#Alberta #measles
Alberta’s measles outbreaks surpass case counts reported for entire U.S.
stillcoviding.ca
July 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...
Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases
A new large study from Denmark finds no evidence that aluminum salts used in vaccines are tied to a higher risk of childhood diseases.
www.statnews.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Wow! The pediatric death toll for the 2024-25 flu season keeps climbing. #CDC was informed of +3 deaths last week; they occurred between early Feb & mid April.
The total is now 253 pediatric deaths (& more reports could still come). 90% of these kids weren't vaxed.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Nearly 12 million Americans will lose health care coverage under the current iteration of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill www.statnews.com/2025/06/29/1...
11.8 million to lose health insurance under Senate Republican tax bill, CBO projects
Senate GOP version of the tax bill would strip 11.8 million people of health insurance over the next decade, CBO estimated.
www.statnews.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM