Just Gerver
@gerver.bsky.social
synagogue finance manager; freelance writer/editor/educator/translator; interested in non-profit management, public transit, history, science, Jewish texts, urban planning, and public health #FBLC
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I am a NIH RECOVER Patient Rep. Something that comes up frequently is the question of how to inform doctors so they will both take precautions and inform patients. Do you have any suggestions for how to get doctors to act on the knowledge of airborne pathogens?
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I am a NIH RECOVER Patient Rep. Something that comes up frequently is the question of how to inform doctors so they will both take precautions and inform patients. Do you have any suggestions for how to get doctors to act on the knowledge of airborne pathogens?
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Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
kffhealthnews.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.
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🚨New peer-reviewed commentary that I co-authored with Chris Beyrer is now out in the journal Vaccine, gift link below
We show the ways in which the MAHA & MAGA guys—RFK Jr, Makary, Bhattacharya, Prasad—have dismantled the US vaccine regulatory framework
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbDt,60n7...
1/5
We show the ways in which the MAHA & MAGA guys—RFK Jr, Makary, Bhattacharya, Prasad—have dismantled the US vaccine regulatory framework
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbDt,60n7...
1/5
August 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🚨New peer-reviewed commentary that I co-authored with Chris Beyrer is now out in the journal Vaccine, gift link below
We show the ways in which the MAHA & MAGA guys—RFK Jr, Makary, Bhattacharya, Prasad—have dismantled the US vaccine regulatory framework
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbDt,60n7...
1/5
We show the ways in which the MAHA & MAGA guys—RFK Jr, Makary, Bhattacharya, Prasad—have dismantled the US vaccine regulatory framework
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbDt,60n7...
1/5
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DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.
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DHS has effectively reinterpreted (also illegally) “reasonable suspicion” as racial profiling, so now here it is making a statement that it uses racial profiling to arrest and cuff people, even Americans abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...
Lawsuit filed against immigration authorities after U.S. citizen's arrests in raids
A U.S. citizen who is a construction worker in Alabama has filed a federal lawsuit after he says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks
abcnews.go.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
DHS has effectively reinterpreted (also illegally) “reasonable suspicion” as racial profiling, so now here it is making a statement that it uses racial profiling to arrest and cuff people, even Americans abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.
www.inquirer.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...
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I used to lose 6-8 weeks out of every year to respiratory viruses. As a massage therapist, I already can’t handle more than part time but losing gigs around the holidays and Valentines really, truly hurts my annual take home. Since masking, I’ve lost zero days to being sick. None. Anxiety? Money!
September 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I used to lose 6-8 weeks out of every year to respiratory viruses. As a massage therapist, I already can’t handle more than part time but losing gigs around the holidays and Valentines really, truly hurts my annual take home. Since masking, I’ve lost zero days to being sick. None. Anxiety? Money!
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Shame on the Daily Mail for psychologizing Violet Affleck.
Being a lone masker is hard.
It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you.
It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus.
It’s adaptation.
Being a lone masker is hard.
It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you.
It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus.
It’s adaptation.
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Shame on the Daily Mail for psychologizing Violet Affleck.
Being a lone masker is hard.
It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you.
It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus.
It’s adaptation.
Being a lone masker is hard.
It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you.
It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus.
It’s adaptation.
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streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!
September 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!
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🚨🧵 by Jammer aka @acrossthemersey on Twitter:
"A recent study published in Frontiers found that 7.7% of US healthcare workers have LongCOVID, causing high levels of burnout, depression and anxiety..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19632...
"A recent study published in Frontiers found that 7.7% of US healthcare workers have LongCOVID, causing high levels of burnout, depression and anxiety..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19632...
September 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
🚨🧵 by Jammer aka @acrossthemersey on Twitter:
"A recent study published in Frontiers found that 7.7% of US healthcare workers have LongCOVID, causing high levels of burnout, depression and anxiety..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19632...
"A recent study published in Frontiers found that 7.7% of US healthcare workers have LongCOVID, causing high levels of burnout, depression and anxiety..."
Full 🧵:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19632...
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🚨 Massachusetts overrides FDA & CDC limits: Gov. Healey orders COVID boosters available to all residents 5+ at pharmacies. A direct challenge to federal restrictions. For kids 6m–5y available via pediatricians.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
Healey counters FDA, makes COVID boosters widely available in Mass. - The Boston Globe
Healey essentially wrote a prescription for COVID boosters for every person in the state over the age of 5.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 Massachusetts overrides FDA & CDC limits: Gov. Healey orders COVID boosters available to all residents 5+ at pharmacies. A direct challenge to federal restrictions. For kids 6m–5y available via pediatricians.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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"I've already been disabled by one COVID infection, and cannot afford another. Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day."
This is so good!
Thank you, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social!
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…zero. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will.“
Thank you, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social!
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…zero. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will.“
The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"I've already been disabled by one COVID infection, and cannot afford another. Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day."
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Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
What is Long COVID?
A Beginner's Guide
www.thegauntlet.news
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
This is so good!
Thank you, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social!
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…zero. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will.“
Thank you, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social!
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…zero. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will.“
The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This is so good!
Thank you, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social!
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…zero. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will.“
Thank you, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social!
open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…zero. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will.“
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I'm on a team that's doing a gigantic review of PEM-provocation studies:
the #MECFS Research Network Data Management and Coordinating Center, #NIH (NINDS), #CDC -- Post-exertional Malaise CDE Working Group (quite a mouthful!)
Join me as I post the most interesting PEM study of the week. 🧪
the #MECFS Research Network Data Management and Coordinating Center, #NIH (NINDS), #CDC -- Post-exertional Malaise CDE Working Group (quite a mouthful!)
Join me as I post the most interesting PEM study of the week. 🧪
July 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This #MEAwarenessDay, I'm sharing an artwork inspired by my beautiful partner and a hero @me-cfs.bsky.social !
REST IS RESISTANCE.
Cure ME/CFS, Cure Long Covid.
I dare to care and I ask you to care.
I am with #MillionsMissing who are #StillSickStillFighting for an another #WorldMEDay
REST IS RESISTANCE.
Cure ME/CFS, Cure Long Covid.
I dare to care and I ask you to care.
I am with #MillionsMissing who are #StillSickStillFighting for an another #WorldMEDay
May 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This #MEAwarenessDay, I'm sharing an artwork inspired by my beautiful partner and a hero @me-cfs.bsky.social !
REST IS RESISTANCE.
Cure ME/CFS, Cure Long Covid.
I dare to care and I ask you to care.
I am with #MillionsMissing who are #StillSickStillFighting for an another #WorldMEDay
REST IS RESISTANCE.
Cure ME/CFS, Cure Long Covid.
I dare to care and I ask you to care.
I am with #MillionsMissing who are #StillSickStillFighting for an another #WorldMEDay
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World ME Day - May 12, 2025
We need good health care, up-to-date medical education and immediate research funding!
I have suffered from ME/CFS since 2009.
#StandByMEcfs #StillSickStillFighting #MEcfs #EndMEcfs
#MEAction #MillionsMissing #TeachMETreatME #pwME
We need good health care, up-to-date medical education and immediate research funding!
I have suffered from ME/CFS since 2009.
#StandByMEcfs #StillSickStillFighting #MEcfs #EndMEcfs
#MEAction #MillionsMissing #TeachMETreatME #pwME
May 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
World ME Day - May 12, 2025
We need good health care, up-to-date medical education and immediate research funding!
I have suffered from ME/CFS since 2009.
#StandByMEcfs #StillSickStillFighting #MEcfs #EndMEcfs
#MEAction #MillionsMissing #TeachMETreatME #pwME
We need good health care, up-to-date medical education and immediate research funding!
I have suffered from ME/CFS since 2009.
#StandByMEcfs #StillSickStillFighting #MEcfs #EndMEcfs
#MEAction #MillionsMissing #TeachMETreatME #pwME
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🌠On #MEAwarenessDay we fight for visibility, research, and justice.
🛌Millions are missing. We deserve to be seen, believed, and treated.
🧪We need urgent biomedical research to make progress.
#MillionsMissing
🛌Millions are missing. We deserve to be seen, believed, and treated.
🧪We need urgent biomedical research to make progress.
#MillionsMissing
May 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🌠On #MEAwarenessDay we fight for visibility, research, and justice.
🛌Millions are missing. We deserve to be seen, believed, and treated.
🧪We need urgent biomedical research to make progress.
#MillionsMissing
🛌Millions are missing. We deserve to be seen, believed, and treated.
🧪We need urgent biomedical research to make progress.
#MillionsMissing
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#MillionsMissing SOS
#MECFS stole my life.
#MECFSis my cage. I have moderate to severe ME. It is a serious, chronic, multi-system, complex neuroimmune disease. My quality of life is low.
There is no cure. Very few doctors know how to help. We don't have any approved treatments or diagnostic tests.
#MECFS stole my life.
#MECFSis my cage. I have moderate to severe ME. It is a serious, chronic, multi-system, complex neuroimmune disease. My quality of life is low.
There is no cure. Very few doctors know how to help. We don't have any approved treatments or diagnostic tests.
May 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#MillionsMissing SOS
#MECFS stole my life.
#MECFSis my cage. I have moderate to severe ME. It is a serious, chronic, multi-system, complex neuroimmune disease. My quality of life is low.
There is no cure. Very few doctors know how to help. We don't have any approved treatments or diagnostic tests.
#MECFS stole my life.
#MECFSis my cage. I have moderate to severe ME. It is a serious, chronic, multi-system, complex neuroimmune disease. My quality of life is low.
There is no cure. Very few doctors know how to help. We don't have any approved treatments or diagnostic tests.
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Favor to ask!
Today is #MillionsMissing, recognizing the debilitating neuro disease I have, ME/CFS. It has no approved treatment and is NIH’s most underfunded disease by impact.
Could you help us change that by joining this call for funding? Takes 1 min, open globally, wins my eternal gratitude <3
Today is #MillionsMissing, recognizing the debilitating neuro disease I have, ME/CFS. It has no approved treatment and is NIH’s most underfunded disease by impact.
Could you help us change that by joining this call for funding? Takes 1 min, open globally, wins my eternal gratitude <3
Research Roadmap Petition | Take Action
We reached 7,000 signatures on our last letter. This time, our goal is 10,000. Please sign the letter today and share it with your friends and family.
www.meactions.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Favor to ask!
Today is #MillionsMissing, recognizing the debilitating neuro disease I have, ME/CFS. It has no approved treatment and is NIH’s most underfunded disease by impact.
Could you help us change that by joining this call for funding? Takes 1 min, open globally, wins my eternal gratitude <3
Today is #MillionsMissing, recognizing the debilitating neuro disease I have, ME/CFS. It has no approved treatment and is NIH’s most underfunded disease by impact.
Could you help us change that by joining this call for funding? Takes 1 min, open globally, wins my eternal gratitude <3
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💙 It's May 12th, International ME/CFS Awareness Day 💙
My ME/CFS onset was in Jan 1990
🚨 Many recent ME/CFS cases have been triggered by COVID 🚨
In this thread I plan to post about 3 main things:
1. My ME/CFS story (briefly)
2. Helpful resources for […]
[Original post on disabled.social]
My ME/CFS onset was in Jan 1990
🚨 Many recent ME/CFS cases have been triggered by COVID 🚨
In this thread I plan to post about 3 main things:
1. My ME/CFS story (briefly)
2. Helpful resources for […]
[Original post on disabled.social]
May 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
💙 It's May 12th, International ME/CFS Awareness Day 💙
My ME/CFS onset was in Jan 1990
🚨 Many recent ME/CFS cases have been triggered by COVID 🚨
In this thread I plan to post about 3 main things:
1. My ME/CFS story (briefly)
2. Helpful resources for […]
[Original post on disabled.social]
My ME/CFS onset was in Jan 1990
🚨 Many recent ME/CFS cases have been triggered by COVID 🚨
In this thread I plan to post about 3 main things:
1. My ME/CFS story (briefly)
2. Helpful resources for […]
[Original post on disabled.social]
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Me in my natural habitat - with nurse Eddie ;). I was diagnosed with ME/CFS after EDS and dysautonomia. It’s the most disabling of my conditions. Today as part of the #mecfs community I ask congress to ensure future funding for the #millionsmissing . This is an #sos moment. @meactnet.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Me in my natural habitat - with nurse Eddie ;). I was diagnosed with ME/CFS after EDS and dysautonomia. It’s the most disabling of my conditions. Today as part of the #mecfs community I ask congress to ensure future funding for the #millionsmissing . This is an #sos moment. @meactnet.bsky.social