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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

4 years

Notre Dame launched a site for students to snitch on each other for COVID-19 violations. Instead, they awesomely have used it to report the university president for shaking hands and not wearing a mask at the White House, demanding his resignation.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

New CDC isolation guidance seems to be a top down, corporate-driven, poorly coordinated decision. 1) Delta Airlines asked for this. 2) CDC staff I spoke with wasn’t aware of this guidance change until it dropped, says staff is now being asked to write scientific justification.

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Andrew Goldstein

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4 years

And for what it's worth: Punitive public health systems are bad. Clogging the gears of bad systems is good. Targeting powerful, hypocritical people running bad systems is GREAT.

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Andrew Goldstein

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4 years

Admire these students' civic action? Follow their lead by working to vote Trump out! @CTCTogether deep canvassing PA door knocking + calls @PplsAction deep canvassing calls @WorkingFamilies PA street canvassing @CPDAction texting + calls @UniteThePoor voter reg + poll monitor

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

CDC mask guidance change 🧵 1) Hospitalizations lag test positive cases which lag actual cases 2) Guidance based more on hospitalizations means willfully abandoning critical windows to act 3) So this guidance is less about new science or better public health, and more about…

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4 years

If you hate wearing a mask, you would *really* hate being intubated.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

“No one is speeding now that we implemented a 200mph speed limit”

Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH

@CDCDirector

3 years

NEW: Updated COVID-19 Community Levels as of March 3, 2022. More than 90% of the U.S. population is in a location with a low or medium COVID-19 Community Level. Find your COVID-19 Community Level:

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Cloth masks should not be allowed in healthcare settings.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

This is – in contrast to "evidence-based policymaking" – policy-based guidancemaking. It is irresponsible and inappropriate for health experts and public health authorities to create this or champion it in their messaging work.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

... both justifying the relaxation of public health protections now and about justifying too little, too late policy responses in the future when surges re-emerge.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

3) Delta ask included testing. CDC guidance doesn’t include it. White House cherry-picked “health experts” celebrating this guidance are all mousily addending it “but wish they had included testing.” Was testing dropped in haste? Improper drafting? Because of testing scarcity?

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Rush to reopen shopping Rush to reopen bars and restaurants Rush to reopen schools and keep them open Rush to get infected workers back to work Rush past the preventable mass death and suffering, don’t think about it, just work, just spend, just work, just spend

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Leana Wen, your responsibility is public health. Not making pseudopublic health justifications for bad policies.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Scott Gottlieb, your responsibility is public health. Not making pseudopublic health justifications for bad policies.

Scott Gottlieb, MD

@ScottGottliebMD

3 years

#CDCs move to base its guidance on measuring hospitalizations for Covid, and not just the number of cases, is a sound step that will allow us to better target public health measures to risk. It reflects a growing wall of immunity that’ll hopefully diminish COVID’s overall impact.

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

I'm one of the #PeopleForBernie . I'm a primary care doctor in a health system that financially exploits all, while excluding many from care they need and deserve. It's barbaric. I'm also worried about climate crisis, racism, & fascism. We need #MedicareForAll & a #GreenNewDeal .

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3 years

Rochelle Walensky, your JOB is public health. Not making pseudopublic health justifications for bad policies.

Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH

@CDCDirector

3 years

Overall risk of severe disease due to #COVID19 is generally lower with widespread population immunity through vaccination, boosters & prior infection. We also have more tools: ➡️Testing ➡️High quality masks ➡️More treatments ➡️Improved ventilation

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3 years

@DrLeanaWen "Zero COVID" is a strawman. We're not opposed to relaxing protections. Relax once control is achieved via aggressive containment. This requires more suppression than achieved by the approaches of too little, too late action and of premature relaxation. 1/

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Yes to this! Pseudopublic health justifications for bad policies are about caving "to the impatience of the rich and powerful."

Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran

3 years

All but one state has transmission levels above the current CDC threshold for masking. Rather than wait to ensure everyone is safe, the CDC is going to cave to the impatience of the rich and powerful, putting many at risk, and prolonging the pandemic.

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There's very unsettling news at @MountSinaiNYC , and I'm going to write a long thread about it. With it, I plan to share a relevant experience I've never publicly discussed and I will offer ideas of action steps. I hope you'll to read this thread, share what's happened, and act.

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3 years

Recent messaging and guidance from the CDC and White House are about as terribly anti-public health as the mask relaxation moves in May 2021, but the ones now are contextually worse given that cases were quiet then and are massively surging now. Shame on @CDCDirector and @POTUS .

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3 years

4) Corporate CEO, political donor, and unqualified lead of @WHCOVIDResponse got pressure from governors.

Justin Feldman

@jfeldman_epi

3 years

AR Governor cites group of (Republican) governors asking Zients and friends to reduce isolation time, no mention of testing or vaccination requirements

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt , your responsibility is public health. Not making pseudopublic health justifications for bad policies.

In the Bubble

@inthebubblepod

3 years

Masks have become a symbol reminding us that we are still in the middle of a pandemic. Now Governors across the country are thinking about removing indoor mask-mandates. But is now the right time? @ASlavitt asks @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky. Listen:

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@DrLeanaWen Specifically: 1) Mask mandates when containment breaks 2) More outreach for primary vax + boosters 3) More ventilation infrastructure investment 4) Edu on higher quality masks 5) Provision of rapids test + higher quality mask 6) Maximize global vaccine production + delivery 2/

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Yes to this! Mask mandates are about preventing or at least shrinking future surges. Relaxation now and slower action later are strategies we've seen fail time and time again.

Dr. Julia Raifman

@JuliaRaifman

3 years

As we anticipate new CDC mask guidance, the basics remain the same Mask *mandates* help ensure all the people with COVID in a room wear a mask, reducing COVID in the air Individual mask recommendations do little to reduce transmission Mask **mandates** can help reduce surges

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@AndrewMakeTweet

5 years

Bernie supporter feeling the Super Tuesday blues? Totally understandable. Worth confronting. But not the end of the story. This is a thread for you. #NotMeUs 1/

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

No! Masks aren't like umbrellas, only to be used once rain appears. Because umbrellas don't affect the likelihood or severity of future storms. But masking use does prevent or limit the size of future surges.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

@JohnsHopkinsSPH

3 years

“I welcome the decline in cases that we are seeing in the US and a number of other countries, and I think you can both celebrate the sunshine while also keeping an umbrella close by for the possibility that rain could occur,” said @JenniferNuzzo

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Wrong. You have power @POTUS 1) Message the urgency and ability to save lives 2) Fund vaccine outreach 3) CDC guidance on mask mandates, mask/test provision, venue protections 4) Vaccine patent waivers and tech transfer 5) OSHA worker safety standards

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@W7VOA

3 years

"There is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level," @POTUS tells state governors.

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@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Biden could: 1) Clearly communicate this is a crisis 2) Announce a plan for a shutdown w/ social supports incl $2,000 for all 3) Call on Congress to have emergency session tomorrow 4) Pass a plan (because federalism) that finances all states meeting criteria for shutdown

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3 years

Yes to this! Masks are not a sign of continued failure, they're one of the few things we're doing that's right.

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@mattbc

3 years

"the Scarlet Letter of this pandemic is the mask"– @CDCDirector Are you ashamed to wear a mask? I'm not. It's unclear why Director Walensky thinks we should be ashamed, but it does make it easier to understand why @CDCgov is retreating from this safe, effective, lifesaving tool

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3 years

Let's highlight how "civility politics" operates in pandemic discourse. 🧵 1) Highly platformed health "experts" drive policy negligence with their incorrect, harmful messaging. They get bylines, journalist interviews, TV appearances, book deals, and wide rightwing celebration.

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3 years

Very telling that the “the pandemic is over” people got real quiet for Omicron but not for 1,000+ death per day.

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3 years

Many of us are utterly sick of this pandemic but are relentlessly demanding aggressive containment because stronger than that feeling is our being appalled by preventable mass death and suffering.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

@RuthMarcus We all want more people to be vaccinated but discriminatory care violates medical ethics, degrades trust in medicine, and is counterproductive for public health. It is essential for triage to be based on who would benefit most, not who supposedly deserves it.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Don't conflate pandemic fatigue & public health protection backlash. The backlash is a fringe, rightwing-funded astroturfing effort. Pandemic fatigue seems more like exhaustion from *inadequate* public health action repeatedly causing preventable surges, mass death, suffering.

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6 years

@bhamcivilrights Angela Davis is on the right side of history and civil rights, and this move unfortunately puts @bhamcivilrights on the side of oppressive ethnoreligious nationalist regimes...

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

@kidney_boy Hard to read this without thinking of trainee suicides and other mental suffering in medicine. Feels callous, judgmental, dismissive. Health workers/trainees are human beings w needs, who deserve boundaries on taxing work, and who often face coercive hierarchies & exploitation.

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

THREAD I dove into the FEC data, and it's pretty clear: Grassroots health professional donors far prefer Sanders and Warren to Biden and Buttigieg. 1/

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3 years

@DrLeanaWen This represents a poor understanding of the social dynamics at play and ignores that universal masking is more protective than personal use alone.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

New paper in the Lancet: COVID-19 elimination was the best strategy. That's in terms of lives saved, livelihoods affected, *and* how freely people could live. Check out these graphs. Link:

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

@RuthMarcus "Deservedness" policies require human beings to be perfect, and keep people from care they need and deserve. This approach has a deep history in racist, eugenicist, and classist projects. We must not tolerate this logic anywhere in medicine.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Yes to this! This guidance shift is by no means public health consensus.

Sonali Rajan

@sonalirajan

3 years

In light of this pending change in guidance, I'd like to underscore that hundreds of public health experts are calling instead for an evidence-informed approach to COVID-19 policy (particularly with regard to keeping our children and schools safe).🧵

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3 years

@j_g_allen @DrLeanaWen Consumer-driven public health is what you're calling for @DrLeanaWen ? What Koch-funded libertarian think tank dreamed this up...

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

@Bob_Wachter Bad news you miss: mask mandates and use are relaxed, most are unaware of or can’t access KN95s, contact tracing has been decimated, venue crowding protections are gone, air travel lacks vaccine mandates, politicians complacent with tool existence & suggestions ignoring policies.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Here's a 🧵 reviewing this op-ed from @MonicaGandhi9 and @LeslieBienen . Spoiler: incoherence, obfuscation, and omission that feeds pandemic inaction + promoting a data reporting approach that destroys opportunities to save lives and prevent suffering.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Important framing to note: 1) "Normal" isn't good. Normal has been very bad. Normal was massive preventable death and suffering, all normalized. We can do better than "returning to normal."

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

First, recognize a few things: Dividing progressives is a tactic. Demoralizing supporters is a tactic. Claiming the banner of pragmatism is a tactic. Claiming the banner of presumed candidate is a tactic. We can go with their narratives, or not. That's our choice. 2/

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Their answer to Omicron will be boosters. Their answer to 1000+ deaths daily and cases rising now has been crickets. There is no political force organizing for the public health approach we need and deserve. It's on us. That sounds scary but is liberating. Don't wait, step up.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

A few Omicron communications thoughts: 1) More transmissible ≠ “everyone will get it.” Containment is possible. Fatalism here is dangerous and irresponsible.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

And yes to this! The social and behavioral impacts of ending mask mandate protections are poorly thought out.

Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine

@joaquinlife

3 years

When do you expect an emerging variant will change your masking guidance, again, @CDCDirector ? Have you considered the harassment and violence staff at organizations implementing masks will experience? Have you considered long covid and the number of deaths from dropping masks?

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

First off, why is the NYTimes continuing to platform voices that have consistently been incorrect? Premature optimism, essentially calling the pandemic over, has driven real harm by degrading policy protections and public behavior. Who was the editor here?

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

I am beyond weary. But I don't want a break from public health protections. I want a break from preventable deaths, from preventable cases of long COVID, from variants, and from preventable surges that stress us all out, disrupt our relationships, and hurt livelihoods.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

And yes! What about children ineligible for vaccination? Why are they being so inadequately considered and protected.

Kendra 🍉🇵🇸

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3 years

Kids under 5 remain completely unprotected.

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

Natasha Anushri Anandaraja Holly Atkinson Emilie Bruzelius Mary Caliendo Humale Khan Geraldine Llames Amanda Misiti Stella Safo You have my deepest admiration.

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Andrew Goldstein

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11 months

Sadly seeing many who have been writing about and advocating for health justice for years Who are now silent on Palestine, who are leaving the spaces which are vocal on Palestine Please know this is noticed by others, and I hope you'll reconsider

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

The new CDC metrics do still use cases! *But* the threshold is 200 per 100,000 over a week. This is equivalent to 94,000 cases in the US per day. With such a ridiculously high threshold, they've turned cases from a leading indicator into a relatively useless one...

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And yes to this! There seems to be no reckoning with the history of mistaken public health justifications of bad policies. E.g. mask relaxation May 2021, isolation/quarantine shortening, etc.

Jorge Caballero, MD

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3 years

We’ve learned *nothing* from our past mistakes 🤦🏻‍♂️

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3) If anyone actually wants to relax protections like mask mandates but doesn't want preventable mass death and suffering (like long COVID), they should focus now on championing: – aggressive containment – enhanced vaccine outreach – more ventilation system transformation

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3 years

2) Wanting certain stronger protections now is *not* about wanting people isolated and restricted. It's about substantively responding. Stopping spread allows true reopening. Prematurely relaxing makes us hit harder down the road. Shortsightedness is deadly.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

As over a million have died in the US from pandemic policy negligence (over 100,000 recently). It's shameful that our political leaders are doubling down and that careerist health "experts" are providing cover. We must shine a light of this deadly bullshit machine.

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

Second, recognize this: Biden actually did *not* do great. He had the whole Dem machine working for him (Obama, donors, etc.). He's had positive media bias, and *tons* of media inattention for his weaknesses. And he did worse than Hillary in 2016. 3/

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Andrew Goldstein

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2 years

@wsbgnl "CDC recommends people who smoke cigarettes continue smoking because that's how they are living already"

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Truly cannot imagine being a highly platformed “health expert” or pundit and using it to successfully manufacture a narrative of fatalism and complacency as hundreds of thousands needlessly die here in the US and millions needlessly die globally… It’s sociopathic.

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Andrew Goldstein

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11 months

Medical institutions are making themselves complicit in genocide through their retaliation, intimidation, and speech suppression. @MontefioreNYC OBGYN "canceled grand rounds this morning 2 hrs before the fact because the speaker had posted a singular post calling for ceasefire."

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

(Unavailable) RAPID TESTS FOR ALL (who can pay for them upfront, get a receipt, keep the receipt, navigate their insurer's reimbursement process, get notice of reimbursement rejection without more information, spend 25 minutes on hold, wait for a call back, get a letter in the ma

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3 years

@ashishkjha FIXED IT: Infections are starting to rise Hospitalizations are inching up The holidays are approaching The data is becoming increasingly clear It is time for policy solutions: mask mandates, enhanced vaccine outreach, KN95s and rapid tests free to everyone.

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3 years

And this! The general guidance and the messaging machine run in contrast to what we know benefits those who are immunocompromised.

Charis Hill | they/them | Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@BeingCharisBlog

3 years

Also CDC (paraphrased): "We're giving completely different guidelines to immunocompromised people, but we aren't telling that to the general public because we want to enable nondisabled people to weaponize our ableist policies."

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

Bernie has basically no Dem machine support. Bernie has tons of media bias working against him. Yet, Bernie did better than he did in 2016. 4/

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Andrew Goldstein

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4 years

Expect to see another wave. 22 states are now having case resurgences.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

At what point will there be calls for a mass strike for safer schools?

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

Ok, whatever, that's Super Tuesday. What now? This is a totally new moment. No longer a crowded stage. Just a head to head competition. It is a brand new moment. And in this moment, Sanders is much, much stronger. 5/

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Extremely irresponsible TV ad from @nysut and NYS @AmerAcadPeds . "kids always learn better in classrooms" Not if transmission is rampant. "doctors & health advisors say schools are safe with health protocols in place" But they aren't in place.

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Andrew Goldstein

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4 years

4 easy things you can do to help win the US Senate 1. Donate to key local, grassroots groups via @winbothseats 2. Invite others to donate 3. Deep canvassing phone calls with @PplsAction 4. Recruit others to make calls with you!

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Andrew Goldstein

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4 years

In a wasteland of deeply flawed research, they appeared to be pioneers of meta-research, champions of evidence rigor, guardians of causal inference. But in a pandemic, they show their true nature: egotistical heterodoxical contrarians crowdsurfing on rightwing media grifters.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

And similarly irresponsible are the health "experts" who RT this news without comment but based on their history of anti-mask messaging we can assume they are echoing supportively.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

This is just a sample of the highly amplified, concerted messaging aimed at supporting guidance which is aimed at supporting anti-public health policies, AND of the overwhelmingly ignored but widespread views of health experts & people generally who know it's wrong.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

7 in 10 favor mask mandates yet we lack them. 6 in 10 favor legal abortion yet we’re on a path toward its illegality. Fascists (composed of an alliance of reactionaries and wealthy) grab power and don’t care about democracy, the will of the majority, or rights.

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Andrew Goldstein

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“But what can Biden do?” 🧵 1) Expand OSHA standards to all workers as originally intended 2) At least guidance on mask mandates + highlighting absence, at most attempt implementing a federal mask mandate 3) Use federal authority + diplomacy to expand global vaccine production

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

And if Biden only has inertia 3 things will sink his campaign. 1st, his endless misstatements, lies, & gaffes 2nd, the fading glow of Super Tuesday results & endorsements 3rd, us continuing to show up, door by door, call by call, friend by friend, fighting for what we need 9/

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

So that's why I'm hopeful. The future is full of possibility. The possibility that we make. We just have to do the work. Every vote counts. Every conversation to make votes happen counts. Let's get on it! 11/11

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

5-11 year olds will likely soon be eligible to get vaccinated. This is great news! But some like @MonicaGandhi9 are championing an end to school masking once this happens. The logic is that ending mask rules promotes vaccination. But is that supported by any evidence? 1/

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

9) This is civility politics, shifting the focus from valid criticism (and important calls for truth & better policies), to "how critical people are being mean." It deflects from accountability and instead denigrates the very people asking for it.

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Andrew Goldstein

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4 years

I'm a health worker who thinks that education workers deserve to get vaccinated immediately.

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

Why is Bernie stronger in this new moment of the primary? Because the issues are what matters. Because real people facing real issues matter. Because real solutions that are urgently needed are what matters. Biden isn't great in addressing these things and Bernie is. 6/

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Public health protections for “leaders” but not the people

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

And yes, this! Crafting public health guidance based on what governors want is like prescribing ice cream to someone with diabetes just because they want it.

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

The war against mask mandates gets a lot of attention, and at least some pushback. But there have been other – more silent – attacks on and losses of public health protections. Most notably contact tracing, quarantine/isolation, and their enabling social/economic supports.

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Andrew Goldstein

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10 months

As an assistant professor at NYU’s school of medicine it is my personal opinion that Robert Grossman is not fit to lead our institution. We must have leadership committed to healthcare, education, research, and employment free of mistreatment and discrimination.

Maya Kaufman

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11 months

Also in this lawsuit: Emails between NYU Langone CEO Robert Grossman and Benjamin Neel (the cancer center director who was fired) about Israel-Palestine. In one example, in reference to NYU students protesting Israel, Grossman wrote: "They should take away their scholarships"

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Andrew Goldstein

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5 years

Bernie's campaign is fueled by issue-focused, people-powered movements. Biden is a fragile candidate with a bad record and inadequate policies. Bernie has the right policies and people who are willing to volunteer. 7/

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

Cases are surging. School is about to start. Do you care about *all* harm to children, e.g.: – High community transmission disrupting in-person schooling – Pediatric ICUs full of severe COVID – MIS-C – Death of adult loved ones Or just the harms of virtualized schooling?

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Andrew Goldstein

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3 years

2) The health "experts" face a backlash. Some of it is admittedly unkind and personal, but most was civil, valid criticism or very fair sharing of real and raw emotion from people who have endured awful policy violence these experts have fostered.

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Andrew Goldstein

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2 years

As a NY doctor, this is a terrible idea for patients, for us health workers, and for our communities.

COVID Advocacy NY

@COVIDAdvocacyNY

2 years

🚨 @HealthNYGov Acting Commissioner says mask mandate for medical settings will not be renewed. "We're not asking the Public Health and Health Planning Council committee to renew the emergency regulation on masking and health care settings. It will expire on February 12, 2023."

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

@DrLeanaWen @PostOpinions Why are you individualizing this? Putting all responsibility on people you yourself acknowledge are most vulnerable? It’s like you telling people to bring their own ramps instead of you fighting for accessible infrastructure. These things society’s responsibility.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

5 years

You know what I think? I think Biden got everything possible before Super Tuesday and now he is nearly maxed out on establishment support. And that the media bias can't get any worse. Which means: Biden only has inertia from here on out. 8/

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

5 years

@darakass @DrDooleyMD @AbdulElSayed @DrSriram @DoctorsforPete @Docs_4_Bernie For nurses, the results were even more stark: Sanders overwhelmingly received the most donations, unsurprisingly given his endorsement by @NationalNurses and nursing support for #MedicareForAll . #NurseTwitter #Nurses #Nursing #Nurse 4/

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

5) This is operationalized as aggressively blocking, as conflating all responses they got as uncivil and demanding civility, and even as running away from Twitter and asking for following in more echo chambery (and profitable) places like their Substack.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

White House surge responses Delta – 2 months too late – predominantly vaccine mandates, a tool that couldn't take effect that surge, was legally frail Omicron – 1 month too late – offered ~1.5 rapid tests per American, mostly after the surge ended BA.2 – ???

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

4 years

1972 Stanford marshmallow experiment for kids except it's 2021 and instead of kids it's for mayors and governors and instead of eating marshmallows it's reopening high risk venues.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

5 years

Joe Biden's healthcare plan: – 10 million uninsured – Lack of insurance killing 15,000 yearly – Millions facing financial havoc and medical bankruptcy – Millions battling for-profit insurers keeping you from care – Workers' pay getting siphoned to insurer/pharma/hospital profits

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

@DrLeanaWen @wolfblitzer As we've seen time and time again, premature relaxation of protections will drive spread. This will worsen or even create the next crisis, when we should be working to prevent it. Please stop with the awful guidance and irresponsible use of your position.

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Andrew Goldstein

@AndrewMakeTweet

3 years

Zients must go. 350,000+ deaths since Biden in office. Now cases are surging again and there's a new variant. Corporate CEO & political donor Jeff Zients is utterly unqualified and has been failing in his role leading the @WHCOVIDResponse team. @POTUS @WHCOS : replace him now!

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