Priya Pal MD PhD
@priyapal.bsky.social
Infectious disease physician. HIV basic and translational science researcher. @ WashUMed
Views are my own and do not represent my employer
Views are my own and do not represent my employer
Are you a healthcare worker, watching all these attacks on our patients and wanting to make a difference?
It's time for us IN Healthcare to take back healthcare! Our collective voices have the power to make a difference.
Join @protecthealthcare.medsky.social
It's time for us IN Healthcare to take back healthcare! Our collective voices have the power to make a difference.
Join @protecthealthcare.medsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Are you a healthcare worker, watching all these attacks on our patients and wanting to make a difference?
It's time for us IN Healthcare to take back healthcare! Our collective voices have the power to make a difference.
Join @protecthealthcare.medsky.social
It's time for us IN Healthcare to take back healthcare! Our collective voices have the power to make a difference.
Join @protecthealthcare.medsky.social
Missouri Republicans are hell bent on gerrymandering the state to strip YOU of YOUR vote
They also plan to remove the initiative petition process, our only ability to influence policy when state legislators refuse to do their job
If you're not OK with this, join the fight @mojwjva.bsky.social
They also plan to remove the initiative petition process, our only ability to influence policy when state legislators refuse to do their job
If you're not OK with this, join the fight @mojwjva.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Missouri Republicans are hell bent on gerrymandering the state to strip YOU of YOUR vote
They also plan to remove the initiative petition process, our only ability to influence policy when state legislators refuse to do their job
If you're not OK with this, join the fight @mojwjva.bsky.social
They also plan to remove the initiative petition process, our only ability to influence policy when state legislators refuse to do their job
If you're not OK with this, join the fight @mojwjva.bsky.social
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Without changes, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley fears the "big beautiful bill" would mean "there’s going to be a lot of rural hospitals in Missouri that close." #moleg #mogov
GOP senators warn mega-bill’s new Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals • Missouri Independent
GOP senators have debated the tax and spending cut legislation for weeks, with concerns about Medicaid cuts lingering.
missouriindependent.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Our breakdown of the MAHA report:
We shouldn't sanction unnecessary, inhumane deaths from lack of access to healthcare #SaveMedicaid
Details matter
Vaccines are one of the greatest gifts of medicine
@protecthealthcare.medsky.social @drrobdavidson.bsky.social
#PagingAmerica
youtu.be/tQkd2GbsyfI?...
We shouldn't sanction unnecessary, inhumane deaths from lack of access to healthcare #SaveMedicaid
Details matter
Vaccines are one of the greatest gifts of medicine
@protecthealthcare.medsky.social @drrobdavidson.bsky.social
#PagingAmerica
youtu.be/tQkd2GbsyfI?...
“Everybody Dies” and Other GOP Hot Takes
YouTube video by Paging America
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June 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Our breakdown of the MAHA report:
We shouldn't sanction unnecessary, inhumane deaths from lack of access to healthcare #SaveMedicaid
Details matter
Vaccines are one of the greatest gifts of medicine
@protecthealthcare.medsky.social @drrobdavidson.bsky.social
#PagingAmerica
youtu.be/tQkd2GbsyfI?...
We shouldn't sanction unnecessary, inhumane deaths from lack of access to healthcare #SaveMedicaid
Details matter
Vaccines are one of the greatest gifts of medicine
@protecthealthcare.medsky.social @drrobdavidson.bsky.social
#PagingAmerica
youtu.be/tQkd2GbsyfI?...
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frustrating, but I'm not particularly worried. Sup Ct. didn't say the judge was wrong, but that they're adopting a new rule specific to enjoining statutes (that comes from a federal abortion case). don't see a ton of difference, so I think judge will apply different caselaw & reach the same result
Missouri Supreme Court puts state abortion ban back into effect for now
Two rulings from a Kansas City judge had allowed abortions in the state to resume while a challenge to its near-total ban proceeded to trial.
www.stlpr.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
frustrating, but I'm not particularly worried. Sup Ct. didn't say the judge was wrong, but that they're adopting a new rule specific to enjoining statutes (that comes from a federal abortion case). don't see a ton of difference, so I think judge will apply different caselaw & reach the same result
A lot of people can talk, but actions speak louder.
The MO GOP thinks Missourians
-don't deserve access to comprehensive healthcare
-nor the ability to care for their loved ones when sick
-nor a liveable wage
-nor the right for their vote to count
Remember this at the ballot box
The MO GOP thinks Missourians
-don't deserve access to comprehensive healthcare
-nor the ability to care for their loved ones when sick
-nor a liveable wage
-nor the right for their vote to count
Remember this at the ballot box
Missouri Republicans turned to a rarely-used rule on Wednesday to shut off debate in the Senate and pass bills repealing paid sick leave and banning abortion. #MOleg #mogov
Missouri Republicans shut down Senate debate to pass abortion ban, repeal sick leave law • Missouri Independent
Missouri Senate Republicans shut down a Democratic filibuster to overturn the abortion rights amendment passed by voters in November.
missouriindependent.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A lot of people can talk, but actions speak louder.
The MO GOP thinks Missourians
-don't deserve access to comprehensive healthcare
-nor the ability to care for their loved ones when sick
-nor a liveable wage
-nor the right for their vote to count
Remember this at the ballot box
The MO GOP thinks Missourians
-don't deserve access to comprehensive healthcare
-nor the ability to care for their loved ones when sick
-nor a liveable wage
-nor the right for their vote to count
Remember this at the ballot box
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Cutting Medicaid means cutting off care for the most vulnerable.
Dr. Christine Crader joined fellow MI doctors, leaders, & advocates yesterday to urge @RepJames: protect the care your constituents rely on — don’t take it away.
#ProtectMedicaid #PatientsOverProfits
Dr. Christine Crader joined fellow MI doctors, leaders, & advocates yesterday to urge @RepJames: protect the care your constituents rely on — don’t take it away.
#ProtectMedicaid #PatientsOverProfits
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Cutting Medicaid means cutting off care for the most vulnerable.
Dr. Christine Crader joined fellow MI doctors, leaders, & advocates yesterday to urge @RepJames: protect the care your constituents rely on — don’t take it away.
#ProtectMedicaid #PatientsOverProfits
Dr. Christine Crader joined fellow MI doctors, leaders, & advocates yesterday to urge @RepJames: protect the care your constituents rely on — don’t take it away.
#ProtectMedicaid #PatientsOverProfits
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Missouri’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, the voter-approved law expanding paid sick leave set to go into effect Thursday.
It was a unanimous opinion but one judge dissented on the reasoning. #moleg #mogov via @clarabates.bsky.social
It was a unanimous opinion but one judge dissented on the reasoning. #moleg #mogov via @clarabates.bsky.social
Missouri Supreme Court upholds voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
Missouri’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, the voter-approved law expanding paid sick leave and increasing the minimum wage.
missouriindependent.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Missouri’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, the voter-approved law expanding paid sick leave set to go into effect Thursday.
It was a unanimous opinion but one judge dissented on the reasoning. #moleg #mogov via @clarabates.bsky.social
It was a unanimous opinion but one judge dissented on the reasoning. #moleg #mogov via @clarabates.bsky.social
Working at a tertiary care referral center in the Midwest, we have the privilege of meeting and caring for so many: lawyers to rural farmers. We see urban and rural poverty.
There are a lot of forces that work to pit urban vs rural communities
Medicaid is a lifeline to both and must be saved.
There are a lot of forces that work to pit urban vs rural communities
Medicaid is a lifeline to both and must be saved.
April 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Working at a tertiary care referral center in the Midwest, we have the privilege of meeting and caring for so many: lawyers to rural farmers. We see urban and rural poverty.
There are a lot of forces that work to pit urban vs rural communities
Medicaid is a lifeline to both and must be saved.
There are a lot of forces that work to pit urban vs rural communities
Medicaid is a lifeline to both and must be saved.
Everybody has bad days, what you don't want is someone having a bad day with a gun in their hand making unmodifiable decisions they will regret and cant take back.
More guns don't save lives
This could have just been a fist fight, now people are dead
More guns don't save lives
This could have just been a fist fight, now people are dead
Columbia sorority party turned to a horrific shooting: "'One minute it was a party, the next it was a shootout,' a witness said. According to multiple witnesses, one shot was fired into the air before a series of nonstop gunshots." We don't have to live like this #moleg abc17news.com/news/2025/04...
One critically injured, one seriously injured in Cosmo Park shooting Saturday night
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editors note: Early reports suggested the shooting happened during a party hosted by a local sorority. That has not been confirmed. We chose to omit the name of the sorority until...
abc17news.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Everybody has bad days, what you don't want is someone having a bad day with a gun in their hand making unmodifiable decisions they will regret and cant take back.
More guns don't save lives
This could have just been a fist fight, now people are dead
More guns don't save lives
This could have just been a fist fight, now people are dead
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When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one.
No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.
No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.
April 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one.
No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.
No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.
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From STL to Springfield, Columbia to KC — workers rallied to defend what we fought for. @moworkers.org
Prop A wasn’t a gift. It was won by hard-working Missourians who organized, voted, and showed up.
We’re not letting them take it away. #ProtectPropA #MOleg #POPSRally
Prop A wasn’t a gift. It was won by hard-working Missourians who organized, voted, and showed up.
We’re not letting them take it away. #ProtectPropA #MOleg #POPSRally
April 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
From STL to Springfield, Columbia to KC — workers rallied to defend what we fought for. @moworkers.org
Prop A wasn’t a gift. It was won by hard-working Missourians who organized, voted, and showed up.
We’re not letting them take it away. #ProtectPropA #MOleg #POPSRally
Prop A wasn’t a gift. It was won by hard-working Missourians who organized, voted, and showed up.
We’re not letting them take it away. #ProtectPropA #MOleg #POPSRally
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🎉 Today, #MOworkers and allies with @mojwjva.bsky.social from Kansas City to St. Louis came together to celebrate and spread the word that #PaidSickDays will go into effect starting May 1!
April 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🎉 Today, #MOworkers and allies with @mojwjva.bsky.social from Kansas City to St. Louis came together to celebrate and spread the word that #PaidSickDays will go into effect starting May 1!
Good job investing in public schools KC!
Kansas City voters tonight approved more than $474 million in higher property taxes for Kansas City Public Schools to update classrooms and fund longstanding maintenance needs.
It’s the district’s first successful bond measure in 60 years.
It’s the district’s first successful bond measure in 60 years.
Kansas City voters approve $474 million bond to fix KCPS buildings — its first in nearly 60 years
Voters overwhelmingly approved the measure that will provide nine charter schools and traditional Kansas City Public Schools campuses with nearly $500 million to address longstanding maintenance needs...
www.kcur.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Good job investing in public schools KC!
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Written by one of MO JwJ's leaders, Priya Pal @priyapal.bsky.social
"Proposition A provided critical health benefits while economically uplifting Missourians."
Lawmakers shouldn’t undermine Missouri’s voter-approved paid sick leave law missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
"Proposition A provided critical health benefits while economically uplifting Missourians."
Lawmakers shouldn’t undermine Missouri’s voter-approved paid sick leave law missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
Lawmakers shouldn't undermine Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
In health care, we know the cost of a lack of access to care, we see the daily impacts people suffer from. We frequently see patients with illnesses that have progressed beyond simple interventions. W...
missouriindependent.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Written by one of MO JwJ's leaders, Priya Pal @priyapal.bsky.social
"Proposition A provided critical health benefits while economically uplifting Missourians."
Lawmakers shouldn’t undermine Missouri’s voter-approved paid sick leave law missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
"Proposition A provided critical health benefits while economically uplifting Missourians."
Lawmakers shouldn’t undermine Missouri’s voter-approved paid sick leave law missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
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"respiratory infection and gastrointestinal infection outbreaks were nearly 40% lower in nursing homes that offered paid sick leave to employees"
by @priyapal.bsky.social:
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
by @priyapal.bsky.social:
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
Lawmakers shouldn't undermine Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
In health care, we know the cost of a lack of access to care, we see the daily impacts people suffer from. We frequently see patients with illnesses that have progressed beyond simple interventions. W...
missouriindependent.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"respiratory infection and gastrointestinal infection outbreaks were nearly 40% lower in nursing homes that offered paid sick leave to employees"
by @priyapal.bsky.social:
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
by @priyapal.bsky.social:
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
Proposition A is a Missouri-made solution that puts workers and businesses on the path to long-term prosperity. We must stand firm against efforts to roll back this progress. A stronger, healthier Missouri benefits us all.
March 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Proposition A is a Missouri-made solution that puts workers and businesses on the path to long-term prosperity. We must stand firm against efforts to roll back this progress. A stronger, healthier Missouri benefits us all.
Proposition A is a Missouri-made solution that puts workers and businesses on the path to long-term prosperity. We must stand firm against efforts to roll back this progress. A stronger, healthier Missouri benefits us all.
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
Lawmakers shouldn't undermine Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
In health care, we know the cost of a lack of access to care, we see the daily impacts people suffer from. We frequently see patients with illnesses that have progressed beyond simple interventions. W...
missouriindependent.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Proposition A is a Missouri-made solution that puts workers and businesses on the path to long-term prosperity. We must stand firm against efforts to roll back this progress. A stronger, healthier Missouri benefits us all.
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
While MO GOP Reps vote to gut MO Medicaid which covers 1 in 5 MO adults and 40% MO children, state GOP reps are working to divert your hard earned tax dollars to crisis pregnancy centers (pursue non- evidenced based practices that have landed women in the hospital)
By
@bridgettedunlap.bsky.social
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@bridgettedunlap.bsky.social
Me on how Missouri is already too dysfunctional to be giving more millions of tax credits to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers and further cutting taxes by $1.3 billion.
That is true without the Trump/Musk impoundments and Rs plans for massive cuts:
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/17/t...
That is true without the Trump/Musk impoundments and Rs plans for massive cuts:
missouriindependent.com/2025/03/17/t...
Tax proposals would make Missouri even more anti-life and anti-child • Missouri Independent
Missouri Republicans do a whole lot of grandstanding about being “pro-life,” but consistently refuse to put our money where their mouth is.
missouriindependent.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
While MO GOP Reps vote to gut MO Medicaid which covers 1 in 5 MO adults and 40% MO children, state GOP reps are working to divert your hard earned tax dollars to crisis pregnancy centers (pursue non- evidenced based practices that have landed women in the hospital)
By
@bridgettedunlap.bsky.social
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@bridgettedunlap.bsky.social
Yes!
A People's Town Hall in MO-02 since Ann Wagner hasn't held one in 12 years!!
A People's Town Hall in MO-02 since Ann Wagner hasn't held one in 12 years!!
💥 Dems have finally figured out that they need to take advantage of the vacuum GOP Reps left because they’re too damn cowardly to hold Town Halls!
If you have questions or know folks who are disallusioned w/ their GOP Rep, share these upcoming DEM Town Halls!
More dates to be added.
Link below…
If you have questions or know folks who are disallusioned w/ their GOP Rep, share these upcoming DEM Town Halls!
More dates to be added.
Link below…
March 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes!
A People's Town Hall in MO-02 since Ann Wagner hasn't held one in 12 years!!
A People's Town Hall in MO-02 since Ann Wagner hasn't held one in 12 years!!
Paid sick leave is an important public health policy that allows workers to care for their families during unanticipated illnesses.
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support
The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold the November passage of a measure that raised the state’s minimum wage and mandated paid sick leave for some employees.
Missouri Supreme Court weighs whether to uphold vote on minimum wage, sick leave
Voters approved Proposition A by 15 percentage points and more than 445,000 votes.
www.stlpr.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Paid sick leave is an important public health policy that allows workers to care for their families during unanticipated illnesses.
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
Paid sick leave is an important public health policy that allows workers to care for their families during unanticipated illnesses.
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support ⏬️
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support ⏬️
March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Paid sick leave is an important public health policy that allows workers to care for their families during unanticipated illnesses.
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support ⏬️
The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters.
If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support ⏬️
Not only is this a waste of taxpayer dollars, but will fuel undue skepticism in safe vaccines and lead to more outbreaks like the ongoing measles outbreak
abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-s...
abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-s...
CDC to study vaccines and autism, despite several studies already finding no link
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines cause autism, despite numerous existing studies already showing there is no link.
abcnews.go.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Not only is this a waste of taxpayer dollars, but will fuel undue skepticism in safe vaccines and lead to more outbreaks like the ongoing measles outbreak
abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-s...
abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-s...
Healthcare access for rural America is already limited. Many drive >1hr for care
Medicaid/CHIP provides 79 mil Americans access to healthcare & prop up many rural hospitals
Republican proposed cuts would gut rural healthcare just to provide billionaires higher tax breaks.
Medicaid/CHIP provides 79 mil Americans access to healthcare & prop up many rural hospitals
Republican proposed cuts would gut rural healthcare just to provide billionaires higher tax breaks.
Today in @jama.com , @codymullens.bsky.social & team find it is increasingly harder for Medicare rural beneficiaries to get common operations done. In 2020, 44% of rural Medicare recipients had to travel >60min for care, up from 37% in 2010.
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February 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Healthcare access for rural America is already limited. Many drive >1hr for care
Medicaid/CHIP provides 79 mil Americans access to healthcare & prop up many rural hospitals
Republican proposed cuts would gut rural healthcare just to provide billionaires higher tax breaks.
Medicaid/CHIP provides 79 mil Americans access to healthcare & prop up many rural hospitals
Republican proposed cuts would gut rural healthcare just to provide billionaires higher tax breaks.