Lindsay Diamond
@neurdy.bsky.social
Health Mis/Disinfo, Vaccine 💉 Advocacy // Community Immunity // UF Biomed PhD; CU InfoSci MS // 2018 CDC Immunization Champion // She/Her
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So, I am no stranger to bipartisan cooperation. But RFK Jr. is an ideologue. He's never going to operate in good faith and this is the mistake of those touting the need to "work with him." 25/
January 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
So, I am no stranger to bipartisan cooperation. But RFK Jr. is an ideologue. He's never going to operate in good faith and this is the mistake of those touting the need to "work with him." 25/
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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It is utterly *essential* that reporters + influencers, podcasters & other new-mainstream media content producers accurately convey #RFK Jr.'s beliefs about #vaccines. Coverage of his #anti-vaccine advocacy must be continuous up to & thru confirmation hearings.
healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...
healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...
What to know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s anti-vaccine advocacy
Audiences need ongoing, accurate information about Kennedy's beliefs on vaccines and health policy — and what he could do as HHS Secretary.
healthjournalism.org
December 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM
It is utterly *essential* that reporters + influencers, podcasters & other new-mainstream media content producers accurately convey #RFK Jr.'s beliefs about #vaccines. Coverage of his #anti-vaccine advocacy must be continuous up to & thru confirmation hearings.
healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...
healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...
Great chat with The Guardian’s Jessica Glenza about RFK Jr, vaccine hesitancy, and “wellness” in Colorado!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Even in blue Colorado, vaccine advocates worry about RFK Jr’s appeal and ‘medical freedom’ movement
Growing rates of infectious disease in state’s most populous region could indicate increased ‘vaccine hesitancy’
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Great chat with The Guardian’s Jessica Glenza about RFK Jr, vaccine hesitancy, and “wellness” in Colorado!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Vaccines are tremendously powerful at preventing disease - including cancer.
When working with hesitant parents & families, I consistently find that redirecting the emphasis from *how* HPV is spread to focusing on cancer prevention in both sexes for long-term health helps move the needle. 💉
When working with hesitant parents & families, I consistently find that redirecting the emphasis from *how* HPV is spread to focusing on cancer prevention in both sexes for long-term health helps move the needle. 💉
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. A remarkable achievement.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Vaccines are tremendously powerful at preventing disease - including cancer.
When working with hesitant parents & families, I consistently find that redirecting the emphasis from *how* HPV is spread to focusing on cancer prevention in both sexes for long-term health helps move the needle. 💉
When working with hesitant parents & families, I consistently find that redirecting the emphasis from *how* HPV is spread to focusing on cancer prevention in both sexes for long-term health helps move the needle. 💉
He’s a wood turner and potato peeler. 💯
November 28, 2024 at 7:27 PM
He’s a wood turner and potato peeler. 💯
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly an obsession with “wellness” can turn into actual health risk. Pasteurization is a good thing. 💯
November 27, 2024 at 9:15 PM
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly an obsession with “wellness” can turn into actual health risk. Pasteurization is a good thing. 💯
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When I said Kennedy Jr. could eventually kill millions, I meant it. As ever, Trump privileged money and power over everything else in promising DHHS to a madman in exchange for his endorsement.
The death toll America could experience due to the greed of Donald Trump is staggering. Read this report.
The death toll America could experience due to the greed of Donald Trump is staggering. Read this report.
Opinion | I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu.
Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 PM
When I said Kennedy Jr. could eventually kill millions, I meant it. As ever, Trump privileged money and power over everything else in promising DHHS to a madman in exchange for his endorsement.
The death toll America could experience due to the greed of Donald Trump is staggering. Read this report.
The death toll America could experience due to the greed of Donald Trump is staggering. Read this report.
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Not sure this is on the incoming administration's radar, but it ought to be. #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows — and poultry, and people — isn't going away. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
Opinion | I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu.
Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Not sure this is on the incoming administration's radar, but it ought to be. #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows — and poultry, and people — isn't going away. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
A little elephant’s toothpaste fun when school is out! Next time, I need to find my narrower glassware and stronger hydrogen peroxide! 😀 🧪
Here’s an easy at-home recipe, if you’d like to make some!
aglab.ars.usda.gov/let-s-get-to...
Here’s an easy at-home recipe, if you’d like to make some!
aglab.ars.usda.gov/let-s-get-to...
November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
A little elephant’s toothpaste fun when school is out! Next time, I need to find my narrower glassware and stronger hydrogen peroxide! 😀 🧪
Here’s an easy at-home recipe, if you’d like to make some!
aglab.ars.usda.gov/let-s-get-to...
Here’s an easy at-home recipe, if you’d like to make some!
aglab.ars.usda.gov/let-s-get-to...
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The stories will keep coming as long as doctors, nurses, & hospitals are told that they have to worry about the courts instead of to their medical judgement.
Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion is healthcare.
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:35 PM
The stories will keep coming as long as doctors, nurses, & hospitals are told that they have to worry about the courts instead of to their medical judgement.
Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion is healthcare.
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Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% in 2019 to 57% in 2023.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
November 24, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% in 2019 to 57% in 2023.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
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Great explainer on hepatitis B vaccine at birth!
This paper suggests scaling up HepB birth dose vaccination to 90% of newborns in 110 LMICs could prevent 710,000 deaths in the 2020-30 birth cohorts. Delays in planned scale-up ➡️ additional 580,000 deaths globally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This paper suggests scaling up HepB birth dose vaccination to 90% of newborns in 110 LMICs could prevent 710,000 deaths in the 2020-30 birth cohorts. Delays in planned scale-up ➡️ additional 580,000 deaths globally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 22, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Great explainer on hepatitis B vaccine at birth!
This paper suggests scaling up HepB birth dose vaccination to 90% of newborns in 110 LMICs could prevent 710,000 deaths in the 2020-30 birth cohorts. Delays in planned scale-up ➡️ additional 580,000 deaths globally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This paper suggests scaling up HepB birth dose vaccination to 90% of newborns in 110 LMICs could prevent 710,000 deaths in the 2020-30 birth cohorts. Delays in planned scale-up ➡️ additional 580,000 deaths globally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is your friendly neighborhood marine biologist with a regularly scheduled reminder:
Megalodon was real, but is unequivocally super-duper extinct now.
Mermaids are not real.
Narwhals and giant squid are real.
Megalodon was real, but is unequivocally super-duper extinct now.
Mermaids are not real.
Narwhals and giant squid are real.
November 21, 2024 at 8:10 PM
This is your friendly neighborhood marine biologist with a regularly scheduled reminder:
Megalodon was real, but is unequivocally super-duper extinct now.
Mermaids are not real.
Narwhals and giant squid are real.
Megalodon was real, but is unequivocally super-duper extinct now.
Mermaids are not real.
Narwhals and giant squid are real.
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National COVID-19 vaccination rate less than 20 percent: CDC survey
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
National COVID-19 vaccination rate less than 20 percent: CDC survey
Just 17.9 percent of U.S. adults have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, and 34.7 percent have received an influenza vaccine during the 2024-25 respiratory disease season, according to a new report from th…
thehill.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 AM
National COVID-19 vaccination rate less than 20 percent: CDC survey
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases
www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...
www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...
I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.
Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
November 10, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases
www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...
www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...
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And the 95% target isn’t just a random goal. It’s the level of community protection that is needed to stop a single case of measles from turning into an outbreak.
Over Three-Quarters of States Had MMR Vaccination Coverage Rates For Kindergarteners Below the Healthy People Target of 95% During the 2023-2024 School Year
www.kff.org/policy-watch...
www.kff.org/policy-watch...
November 19, 2024 at 4:19 PM
And the 95% target isn’t just a random goal. It’s the level of community protection that is needed to stop a single case of measles from turning into an outbreak.
It’s a good time to remind folks to peel below RFK Jr’s superficial attempts to appear as a BIPOC ally. He sits atop an organization & movement that directly targeted the Black Twitter community with disinfo invoking medical racism during the pandemic.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
November 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
It’s a good time to remind folks to peel below RFK Jr’s superficial attempts to appear as a BIPOC ally. He sits atop an organization & movement that directly targeted the Black Twitter community with disinfo invoking medical racism during the pandemic.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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November 17, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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If you’re sexually active & in a higher risk group (MSM), now’s a great time to get your #mpox vaccine!
💉 #VaccinesWork
mpoxvaccine.cdc.gov
💉 #VaccinesWork
mpoxvaccine.cdc.gov
November 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
If you’re sexually active & in a higher risk group (MSM), now’s a great time to get your #mpox vaccine!
💉 #VaccinesWork
mpoxvaccine.cdc.gov
💉 #VaccinesWork
mpoxvaccine.cdc.gov
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@kylec.bsky.social - you’re a national treasure. Thank you for this.
2020: Colo. Gov Jared Polis (D) chokes up as anti-vaxxers liken his pandemic orders to the Holocaust
2022: RFK Jr likens pandemic measures to the Holocaust
2023: RFK Jr says COVID could've been genetically engineered to spare Jews
2024: Polis cheers RFK Jr's HHS nod
www.9news.com/article/news...
2022: RFK Jr likens pandemic measures to the Holocaust
2023: RFK Jr says COVID could've been genetically engineered to spare Jews
2024: Polis cheers RFK Jr's HHS nod
www.9news.com/article/news...
Polis emotionally responds to comparison between Nazism and stay-home orders
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was choked up after he was asked about people who compare COVID-19 stay-home orders to Nazism.
www.9news.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:24 AM
@kylec.bsky.social - you’re a national treasure. Thank you for this.