@aaronecarroll.bsky.social of @academyhealth.bsky.social says, "The capacity to collect, analyze, and share high-quality, nonpartisan data is essential to good governance, accountability, and the health of every community...” Thanks, @josh-caplan.bsky.social.
#defenddata #HHSstrong #NCES

surprised there hasn’t been more discourse around the illegal firing of NCHS leadership, including those in vital statistics.

which are vital

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

Great story by my colleague Bill Cummings that answers some lingering questions around the Connecticut State Police ticket scandal, particularly around town tickets. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

No words

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Obvy same w MD, DC, northern VA. I don’t see how this doesn’t leave a stink on republicans for generations for people living in these communities (which are large & populous)

Like closing the factory in a factory town changes people’s politics for generations. In addition to weakening US’s ability to prevent disease and death (and world leadership in public health, medicine, & science) we need to make this tied to all R’s going forward.

Georgians (& esp Atlantans) are fairly proud of the CDC. I have to see the destruction of the CDC as playing a pivotal role in elections (e.g., Ossoff’s seat) in the near term against Republicans. The network effects of people this hurts and people who know someone this hurts has to be high.

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1% of total #Medicaid spending, even in states with large undocumented populations.

ja.ma/4mZsZSf

One in five working adults don't have paid sick leave. They're supposed to take three times as many days off to go to the pediatrician, with no pay and potentially getting fired, so these anti-vax weirdos can pretend they care about kids' health?

Ahab answered—“Aye.”

Next time I’m on rounds in the hospital I’m closing w “Let’s do the fucking medicine!”

BRB, putting up a post-it that says "LET'S DO THE FUCKING NEWS" over my desk.

⚡ A new analysis by KFF’s Jared Ortaliza finds that more than half of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in Republican congressional districts, concentrated in the South. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/48bH774

Carceral control/confinement without due process. Expands the carceral state and ensures a indefinite, even lifetime confinement. Shame on the Dems who are supporting this.

The false idea that Democrats, in pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts, are advocating for an expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants is maybe the biggest health policy distortion since the supposed "death panels" in Obamacare.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Bad for science, bad for fairness

"Maryland groups targeting Avelo have collected more than 8,000 petition signatures, urging [Gov. Wes] Moore to cancel the state contract with the airline."

"Avelo operated about 20% of the deportation flights in the U.S. in August."
#Maryland #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

More kids died from flu last season than in any non-pandemic season since monitored began 20 years ago. Almost 90% were unvaccinated. Parents: talk to your doctor about getting your kids vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

This is the analysis that I was hoping to find - people receiving H1B's absolutely are a core part of the US healthcare system (in training and beyond). Especially in rural areas. The US does not train enough people to meet the need of the number of physicians our country needs.