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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

3 months

Full text of my paper about human rights violations during the ongoing pandemic through lack of mitigations in schools is now available online via @ManchesterUP False Divisions and Dubious Equivalencies: Children’s Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic

False divisions and dubious equivalencies

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of the current crisis in children’s rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically how and why children’s fundamental rights to life, health, and...

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

3 months

This is why pandemic mitigations were terminated even though the pandemic never ended. The social welfare precedent being set directly contradicted the austerity of neoliberal regimes.

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“In light of the accumulating evidence, we propose a new paradigm for COVID-19: COVID-19 is a disease that has an acute and chronic phase. Both phases can be asymptomatic or symptomatic, and the severity and nature of symptoms in either phase depends on the host immune

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Judge gives go-ahead to COVID-deaths lawsuit against Ontario “This kind of lawsuit will send an important message to governments, not only in Ontario but right across the country, that they have to really take the precautionary principle seriously.”

'Gross negligence': Judge gives go-ahead to COVID-deaths lawsuit against Ontario

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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Clear, factual, and timely messaging regarding Covid, Long Covid, and how to protect oneself & others while enjoying large, crowded events. Comms team at @CDCgov , please take note.

hey shit-ass, wear a fucking mask!

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“Pride, Free Palestine & Disabity justice including COVID safety are all interconnected." -taipeiqueen (ig)

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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Every other person in SF’s Chinatown is wearing a medical mask right now. Relatively more masking is observed in working class communities of color in Oakland, too. The racial & class bias of mask bans are so clear. So is the cruelty of targeting communities hit hardest by Covid.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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@LauraMiers If people realized Covid is a multi-systemic, vascular, neurotropic disease w/ significant chances of developing long-lasting impairments, often even when vaxxed, they would behave cautiously. It’s governmental & institutional betrayal that so many do not.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

9 months

Reminder: presidential candidate Biden’s #1 platform was controlling the pandemic, a key promise being to “get COVID-19 under control,” incl. via mask requirements. He’s presided over the 2 biggest surges + 2/3 of US Covid deaths, and his admin is hostile to relevant queries.

Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine

@joaquinlife

9 months

People are dying and becoming disabled from an airborne virus during this ongoing airborne pandemic and our government has dismantled public health to the point that now more airborne pathogens are causing more harm. White House: “No comment.”

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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Staying evidence-based hopeful. “Detects COVID-19 with Excellent Accuracy” “A breathalyzer based on Nobel Prize-winning frequency-comb technology combined with machine learning techniques can accurately detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in human breath.”

JILA’s Frequency Comb Breathalyzer Detects COVID-19 With Excellent Accuracy

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

8 months

Apparently, the CDC has now un-hidden this comment. Thank you for speaking out. They should not hide factual comments supporting vaccination *and* masking to protect against Long COVID. They should generate and disseminate reliable health information + fight disinformation.

Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

8 months

@CDCgov Notice how the Long Covid expert protects against Long Covid. "How do we prevent long covid? The best way is to prevent covid in the first place." 😷

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

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The Covid nurses I know tell me that their N95s have kept them Covid-free while they’re “doused in Covid all day” in the Covid ward. One reported only catching it while forced to snack quickly indoors due to no food breaks. ⬅️ That’s the problem, not respirators. Anecdotes like

Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧

@_CatintheHat

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This is Prof Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSA, explaining why she doesn’t think that FFP3 masks should be recommended (instead of fluid resistant surgical masks) in hospitals - even when there is an accepted risk of airborne transmission. 🚨Paging @trishgreenhalgh

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

8 months

Someone just shared with me that ⁦ @CDCgov ⁩ hid this comment. When I attempt to view the original, Twitter claims that it was hidden by the post’s author. It was not, and I stand by it.

Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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@CDCgov Notice how the Long Covid expert protects against Long Covid. "How do we prevent long covid? The best way is to prevent covid in the first place." 😷

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A foreboding line from this paper: “The oncoming burden of long COVID faced by patients, health-care providers, governments and economies is so large as to be unfathomable, which is possibly why minimal high-level planning is currently allocated to it.”

The immunology of long COVID

Nature Reviews Immunology - SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to a diverse array of chronic symptoms, collectively termed ‘long COVID’. In this Review, Altmann and colleagues explore...

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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@CDCgov Notice how the Long Covid expert protects against Long Covid. "How do we prevent long covid? The best way is to prevent covid in the first place." 😷

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@pjavidan

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“What we found is really undeniable: It’s very clear in our data that reinfection contributes additional risk of long Covid… If you’ve had Covid previously and dodged a bullet and did not get long Covid the first time around and you’re getting another infection now, you’re

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

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1 year

My interview with @statnews about covid reinfection and long covid #LongCovid #reinfection Thanks @cooney_liz !

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

I was cavalier at the very start of the pandemic. One Zoom meeting with my much wiser colleagues in the early weeks changed my mind. They warned about long-term effects, so I learned to look beyond the acute phase, play the long game. So grateful for their precautionary approach.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

1 year

May every cancer patient survive and be celebrated in a safe, supportive environment in this ongoing pandemic. #BringBackMasks in healthcare.

Jamie Raskin

@jamie_raskin

1 year

Tuesday I thanked nurses, doctors & pharmacists at @MedStarGUH who serve with splendid kindness—and saved my life over 5 months. I finished 6 rounds of 5-day chemo sessions—which they organized so I didn’t have to miss votes or hearings—and I rang the bell! A new chapter begins.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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CDC has repeatedly claimed they’re just “meeting the public where it’s at,” but the American public did not ask for an unregulated pandemic. The majority of Americans demanded a well-coordinated pandemic response, but got deregulation instead.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

“If you're not worried about long Covid” is not how Long COVID works. What is going on with some doctors these days? Long COVID susceptibility is not a psychological state. It’s an objective reality independent of your feelings, with a 1:8 - 1:5 risk, depending on the study.

Dr. Tom Frieden

@DrTomFrieden

2 years

Masking up is a risk/benefit calculation. If you’re young, healthy, up-to-date on your vaccinations and you're not worried about long Covid, it may be reasonable to unmask. But if you're medically vulnerable or around people who are, or worried, you might want to adjust. 2/

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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New study showing significant long-term effects of Covid, especially on immune systems of children & adolescents, should put the false claim to rest that its effects on the young are negligible. But bad policy & beliefs based on this falsehood are now entrenched. Study finds

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Remember all those 'scientists' who ranted and raved and swore blind that Covid infections didn't affect the immune system? Now, obviously we knew they were wrong, but this study shows that they were a whole new level of wrong.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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@ashishkjha Recent studies have suggested that COVID-19 can lead to long-term damage and alterations in the immune system. Research funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases found that severe COVID-19 may cause long-lasting alterations to the innate immune system,

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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This is systemic abnegation—when a system or government denies responsibility and refuses remedy, particularly when the harm is so pervasive or large-scale that the cost or effort to fix it would be immense, even when they are responsible for causing the harm in the first place.

Laura Casey

@LauraAnneCasey

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“"The court recognized that employers and the courts would be overwhelmed" if it allowed take home COVID lawsuits, Bogdan said.”

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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Full clip of public comments from @CDCgov HICPAC meeting today regarding proposed changes to infection control guidance in healthcare settings that risk reducing infection control protections, esp. re: aerosol transmission & multidrug-resistant organisms:

CDC HICPAC Meeting - Public Comment - Aug. 22, 2023

This video is a recording of the CDC Public Comment Section regarding proposed recommendations to prevent spread of infectious disease. Many speakers appear...

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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@NYCLU How were they able to provide legal rationale when pubic health departments recommend wearing masks, especially when Covid wastewater data shows high community transmission levels?

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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@BlakeMMurdoch If it were all so true and obvious that this is behind us, there would not be so much evidence against that claim, and it would not require this much media work to keep convincing everyone that everything is fine. It is a classic case study in Gramscian hegemony.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

No justice: City of Flint is under federal court order to remove lead pipes, yet still won’t. Criminal manslaughter charges against Flint officials for their role in mass poisoning were dropped. Like in Jackson, Mississippi, majority Black & Brown populations are left suffering.

Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

2 years

Reminder - More than 8 years after the Flint water crisis, Flint still hasn’t replaced all of its lead service pipes that provides water to residents. And now bottled water distribution has ended at help centers in Flint while the 8-year water crisis continues into 2023. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

1 year

Ineffective Mask Recommendations: The claim that plain surgical masks are as effective as N95s is contradicted by preponderance of scientific evidence.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

1 year

I regularly re-share this excellent PSA. Imagine if this had been running on major outlets throughout the pandemic. We would truly be in a better place by now, in terms of public education, awareness, policy priorities, attitudes, behaviors, infrastructure, morbidity, mortality.

The John Snow Project

@JohnSnowProject

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Don't breathe it in. #COVIDisAirborne

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@pjavidan

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@marcrebillet @NYCParks Thank you for documenting this and doing something about it. Police are out of control. Excessive force is strictly prohibited in arrest of children (was arrest even necessary for a non-violent offense?) + police are required to ensure child safety & minimize potential trauma.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

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Study highlights detrimental impact of Covid on students' intellectual ability & performance, underscores importance of preventing infection among young populations to safeguard their educational outcomes. RQ: impact of Covid on undergrad academic

Association between COVID-19 and outstanding academic performance at a Spanish university -...

Background SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of COVID-19 identified in December 2019, an acute infectious respiratory disease that can cause persistent neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms such...

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

The mental health of children orphaned by the death of their primary caregivers from COVID-19 is never discussed by self-proclaimed “experts” who have made false claims about negative mental health impacts of masking in schools.

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@pjavidan

3 months

According to Ashish Jha, the following official public health organizations are promoting “fringe” leftist conspiracy theories because they promote masking indoors while COVID is rampant.🧵

Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran

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In an interview with @ChrisCuomo former White House COVID Response Coordinator Ashish Jha says that it's a fringe position to still be masking indoors. This is misinformation and an example of prioritizing personal centrist politics above public health.

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This is extremely unethical from a medical professional. It is the fabrication of a mental health disorder and diagnosis, and promotion of infection with #COVID19 as a cure. And just as the medical community learns more each day about the long-term harms of this disease.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

4 months

A major purpose of anti-“lockdown” AKA “reopening” campaigns was to end the safety net required for an adequate pandemic response. Neoliberal, libertarian & far right alike felt threatened by the social welfare precedent being set and social solidarity/collectivism writ large.

Suzanne Kahn

@SuzMKahn

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Latest reminder that we should never not be thinking about the fact that people's economic security peaked in 2021 when we had a robust emergency social safety net and then it went away. No wonder people are angry.

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@ashishkjha Recent research has shown that COVID-19 can cause immune dysregulation, affecting both the innate and adaptive immune systems. A study published in the journal Immunity in March 2023 examined how the immune system responded to SARS-CoV-2 infection, highlighting the impact on

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@pjavidan

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@ashishkjha You said “It really doesn’t,” in response to whether Covid can damage the immune system. Now you’re saying “For most, not immune damaging disease.” Those are not the same things, and the difference is important. Covid is shown to cause both dysreg and damage. (See other comments)

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

1 year

Candidate Biden ran on a platform of following science to mitigate the pandemic. The admin went the MAGA way of fend-for-yourself instead, presiding over 2/3 of US Covid deaths, and chose a merely optical end to the pandemic through anti-masking & data manipulation.

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@WalkerBragman

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The Biden administration has utterly failed in its handling of the coronavirus. All it has done is normalize a level of sickness and death previously thought unimaginable. Not going to sugarcoat it. It’s alarming.

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@educationgovuk @ChristmasRowena @NHSuk Define “well-being,” please, and let’s assess whether sending kids to school with infectious diseases fits the definition. If you are going to build an entire argument on a concept, you have to first define what the concept means, then measure outcomes against it.

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Australia’s excess deaths caused by COVID-19 and not the vaccine, new evidence conclusively shows | The West Australian

Australia’s excess deaths caused by COVID-19 and not the vaccine, new…

archived 28 Jul 2024 09:51:36 UTC

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

@TODAYshow @ErinNBCNews @NBCNews @DrJohnTorres Thank you for your responsible and important coverage, and for clarifying that COVID is not a cold but a vascular virus capable of causing heart attacks and blood clots. Thank you for encouraging people to avoid re/infections by using a layered approach: vaxx + mask.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

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Scientists may interpret this as someone lacking knowledge, but based on trial experience and given what is known about the role of this witness in the context of the Inquiry, this can reasonably indicate struggling to generate a response that avoids self-implication.

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I think this must be THE most awkward moment of the Covid Inquiry so far. I’ve dubbed it ‘The Long Pause’. I’d love to know what was going on in Dr Ritchie’s head here. I’d like to think she had a moment of reflection of how many lives were lost due to her flawed IPC guidance.

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I think about the sociological implications of this every day. What are the socio-economic and psychosocial consequences of this much accelerated brain aging among the majority of the population experiencing repeat reinfections, including young people with mild acute infections?

Ryan Hisner

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It seems more certain than ever: getting Covid is bad for your brain. This study, which found cognitive effects at 1 year post Covid to be equivalent to brain aging from age 50 to 70, looked only at hospitalized patients. But as Dr. Topol says.... 1/7

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This is exactly why I will not stop researching & writing about pandemic policy. Pandemic laissez-faire is an extremely dangerous but largely unrecognized & uncontested precedent against social solidarity, public interest, and civil & human rights.

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@frozen Just in case any officials would like to base policy on empirical facts: According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, more than 70% of COVID-19 transmissions in US households originated with a child

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests

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@pjavidan

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@DrEricDing Unfortunately, “public health” agencies & media already minimizing it without even attempting the thoughtful queries or analysis you’re doing. Thanks for countering their denialist default mode with factual inquiry.

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@pjavidan

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"It is abundantly clear now that it is not simply a respiratory virus …it is causing long term harm to the health of individuals throughout the population, including the huge numbers of people who were not hospitalised in the acute phase of infection.”

Long COVID can cause long-term damage to multiple organs, study finds

Scans of long COVID patients show a third have multiple organ injuries months after leaving hospital, a new study shows.

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@pjavidan

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@yaneerbaryam @lisa_iannattone Translation: your primary goal should be to work, spend, and consume. Your secondary goal can be to protect your child, so long as it does not interfere with our primary goal for you.

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@pjavidan

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CDC to Reduce Funding for States’ Child Vaccination Programs $50M cut to CDC child vaxx programs, further damaging public health, immunization infrastructure, C0VlD response. Vaxx programs long underfunded, pandemic exposed gaps. Horrific time for this.

CDC to Reduce Funding for States’ Child Vaccination Programs - KFF Health News

Citing the recent debt ceiling deal, the CDC is trimming its funding to child vaccination programs that focus on communities vulnerable to disease outbreaks. The cuts come despite data showing the...

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@pjavidan

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Violet is now the target of coordinated online attacks by right-wing accounts calling her “unhinged” for promoting public health mitigations. At the same time, a high-profile neoliberal technocrat calls such demands “fringe.” A sad alliance against science & public interest.

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Violet Affleck holding it down at the LA County Board of Supervisors demanding mask availability, mask mandates in hospitals, and clean air in all government buildings including jails and detention centers. Go Violet! 😷🍉

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In the genre of “another brick in the wall,” it is now officially institutionalized and being socially normalized to coerce children to attend school while unwell, just as their parents are expected to labor through illness. Inhumane and unsustainable.

Parents MUST send their children into school even if they have a cold

Nick Gibb says that pupils missing out on even a couple days of class could have a 'detrimental effect' on academics, exam results and social skills. He urged parents to 'take a stand on absenteeism'.

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Effects of the virus on mental health & the brain never figured into campaigns to reopen unsafe schools New study: children w/ Covid experienced 78% higher risk of developing new conditions, incl. significant risks for mental health & neurological issues

Acta Paediatrica | Paediatrics Journal | Wiley Online Library

Aim Children have largely been unaffected by severe COVID-19 compared to adults, but data suggest that they may have experienced new conditions after developing the disease. We compared outcomes in...

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@NohaAboelataMD Because they are now policing the order they won. They are patrolling to ensure conformity with the new order; to make it impossible for anyone to protect themselves.

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“It’s hard to do your job when you’re exhausted, in pain, or emotionally depleted” Long COVID Is Keeping So Many Young People Out of Work

Long COVID Is Keeping So Many Young People Out of Work

It’s hard to do your job when you’re exhausted, in pain, or emotionally depleted.

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Scientists discover troubling brain changes in Covid patients who lost sense of smell, showing alterations in brain functionality & even physical structure during recovery. Study among first to link Covid-related loss of smell to significant brain changes

Scientists discover troubling brain changes in COVID-19 patients who lost sense of smell

COVID-19 patients who experienced loss of smell showed long-term brain changes, including structural thinning, decreased white matter integrity, and altered decision-making behavior, suggesting...

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@JeremyWingert79 It is difficult to process traumatic experiences when they are ongoing, and particularly without institutional support. Gaslighting by government, agencies, media, and community members exacerbates these, but having worked w/ survivors of genocide & severe trauma, we can overcome

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This article contains one of the most important lessons of our time. Many are baffled by how Sweden—an exemplary social welfare nation—became allied with the global far right via the pandemic. This explains how a combination of 3 decades of neoliberalism (state abdication of

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@UHNM_NHS This requirement should never have ended since Covid never ended. Just like we never stopped washing hands, never stopped sterilizing equipment, never stopped wearing gloves regardless of the case rate of infections.

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No one wanted an unregulated pandemic and unsafe schools.

Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉

@Globalbiosec

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The community did not want the abolition of COVID isolation.

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A note that I support @CDCgov ’s post warning the public about Long Covid and to get vaccinated & boosted. Their post was so close to getting it right; they should also state that wearing a well-fitted high-filtration mask is another necessary layer of protection.

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@mavisclare This is a case study in “woke-washing”—bad faith misuse of progressive concepts for regressive aims. Equity has always been about resource redistribution in ways that benefit all; never about pulling everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

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Wow- promotion of clean air in schools by an official + acknowledgement that masks are a preventive measure “similar to asking people to get annual checkups or wear a seatbelt…he believes there should be mandatory masking in closed, indoor public spaces.”

B.C. Green Party names Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi as second deputy leader | CBC News

The British Columbia Green Party has named a second deputy leader in a move leader Sonia Furstenau says is key to preparing for the next provincial election.

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@pjavidan

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@dgurdasani1 It’s b/c anti-mask harassment has ever been about freedom of choice; it’s to create division, erode social solidarity & gov power for social good such as public health measures, & render self-protecting people an easily targeted minority. Their aim is conformity w/ “let it rip.”

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Incredibly irresponsible, patently false statement + false equivalency based on lack of understanding of power. Name 1 policy victory impacting everyone’s lives by Long COVID disability advocacy group “on par with” mainstreaming disinfo + destruction of vaccine & mask mandates.

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“The case raises questions about workers' rights and what constitutes a safe work environment.”

She says her boss told her she can’t wear a mask, so she quit

A Montreal restaurant worker says she was forced to quit after her boss told her she can’t wear a mask at work. The restaurant says it doesn't require workers to be mask-free, but the case raises...

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@pjavidan

2 years

Anti-masking has always been a disinformation campaign and astroturf “movement” whose origins are traceable to a cluster of right-wing libertarian organizations and anti-lockdown extremists who claimed we can reach “herd immunity” by allowing the mass infection of children.

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

@lisa_iannattone

2 years

It’s wild how many have fallen for this anti-PH disinformation campaign. Absolutely no basis in science and “masks + PH measures are bad” was always the logical conclusion. They brought it out specifically to prevent us from protecting kids when 💩 hit the fan. What a tragedy.

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@pjavidan

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Using the phrase “common sense” to justify abdication of duty to the public in favor of capital is exactly what every essay on deconstruction theory warns about: what is called common sense is often just a reflection and reinforcement of values serving the power structure.

Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH

@CDCDirector

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ICYMI: CDC updated recommendations on how to protect yourself + others from common respiratory illnesses like COVID, flu, & RSV. We're giving clear, commonsense solutions that are easy to understand and follow. Check it out 👇

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Lack of Vital Control Measures: The proposals fail to include essential tools like ventilation, UV disinfection, and HEPA filtration.

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@pjavidan

2 years

Thank you, Amu @BernieSanders for wearing a mask during an airborne pandemic. @MarkedByCovid #sotu2023 #CovidIsntOver #MaskUpCongress

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@pjavidan

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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Demand CDC and HICPAC Require Airborne Precautions in Healthcare Settings. Health equity in action. Send one here:

Demand CDC and HICPAC Require Airborne Precautions in Healthcare Settings

On August 22nd, community members unanimously urged the CDC's HICPAC members to recognize airborne transmission of SARS-2 and to require airborne precautions that include respirators, ventilation,...

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@pjavidan

2 months

@AcrossTheMersey “It’s about freedom of choice” is literally a MAGA talking point deployed to destroy containment, mitigation, and vaccination efforts.

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@pjavidan

2 months

Let the record show that the pandemic never ended but was merely brought to a sociological end. “We have long warned that the end of the crisis would come as a sociological construction rather than as a meaningful end to Covid’s ongoing burden on public health.”

wsbgnl

@wsbgnl

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Biden "got us out of a pandemic" in the sense of ripping up public health protections and social supports while methodically breaking down any notion of collective responsibility as over 700,000 Americans died of covid, including hundreds of new deaths every week

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@CDCgov @NASEM_Health This says, “COVID-19 vaccination is the best available tool to prevent Long COVID,” but studies show N95 masks are better at preventing infection—the best way to prevent Long COVID. “N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne COVID-19.”

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@pjavidan

1 year

@PeterHotez @nypost When legitimate experts engage quacks and grifters, only the quacks and grifters gain from it. They gain legitimacy from the moniker of “debate,” which implies some integrity (that they don’t possess) as well as from your credentials and qualifications. They don’t deserve that.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

9 months

“Absenteeism in schools is on the rise, with one in three public school students chronically absent. A recent study found that the risk of long Covid for children is 16 percent after just one infection.” Democrats Can’t Keep Ignoring Covid in 2024

Democrats Can’t Keep Ignoring Covid in 2024

A sudden surge of the virus is a stark reminder of two things: The pandemic isn’t over, and it could be part of the referendum on the Biden presidency.

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@pjavidan

3 months

Quick summary My research is about the causes and consequences of the crisis in children’s rights during the ongoing Covid pandemic—specifically, how and why children’s fundamental rights to life, health, and safety are besieged in the context of education and schooling. I

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@pjavidan

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Excerpt of my testimony: “….speaking on behalf of myself as an academic who researches the inequities of pandemic policy, and who's deeply concerned for loved ones suffering from Long COVID or who've been diagnosed with chronic conditions such as cancer during the pandemic,

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

7 months

It’s doublespeak, with tortured and unconvincing rationale. They twist and turn uncomfortably to attempt to make the logic fit the desired outcome.

Myra Batchelder

@myrabatchelder

7 months

"'So the folks who are more vulnerable were top of mind when we did this,' CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen told CBS News." 👀

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 months

Please let this be a stark reminder and lesson that “personal choice” in a framework of neoliberal deregulation or far right politics is the gateway to fascism. I said it 2 years ago and repeat: pandemic policy went the way of MAGA and they are now policing the order they won.

Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran

2 months

Nassau County, NY just passed a mask ban and now residents say they are going to take pictures of anyone wearing a mask and send them to police. This is why we need to stop any kind of mask ban legislation. They empower vigilantes to harass and surveil people wearing masks.

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Please also note that the disingenuous players who claimed to be pushing for the reopening of schools & workplaces with inadequate mitigations for the sake of low-income families were nowhere to be found in the fight for these measures that directly assist low-income families.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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Quick read on similarities between disinformation campaigns regarding COVID-19 and those historically used by the tobacco industry: Questioning Scientific Consensus: Both COVID-19 disinformation and tobacco industry tactics have involved casting doubt on established scientific

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@pjavidan

2 years

@VirpiFlyg I am terribly sorry this has happened to you. Forcing families to choose between school and their health has to be one of the greatest injustices of our time.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

@PublicHealth The ethics, quality, and integrity of the voices we choose to elevate matter, and are a reflection of values. How does Leana Wen advance the stated values of public health and equity?

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@pjavidan

1 year

Experts, industrial hygienists, academics are united in opposition, calling for transparency, inclusion, focus on scientifically supported measures. Main problems:

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@pjavidan

2 months

@KashPrime Seeing him suffer in this clip is incredibly sad and heartbreaking. Truly a tragic and entirely avoidable system failure.

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@pjavidan

2 years

*Thankfully, I was wise enough only to be cavalier in attitude (and only initially), not in action. Very grateful we had that meeting so it never translated to risky behavior. The bravado of “young and healthy” translated to humility and realism very quickly.

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@pjavidan

1 year

Non-Inclusive Process: The process of guideline formation lacks transparency and inclusion, with no consultation from experts in aerosol transmission, ventilation, occupational health, worker protections, or healthcare worker representatives.

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@pjavidan

1 year

Patients asked a CDC advisory panel to be more transparent. Then their comments disappeared. Thank you @austieJFish for the coverage. 🧵 via @Source_NM

Patients asked a CDC advisory panel to be more transparent. Then their comments disappeared. •...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re-posts YouTube recording of public meeting after taking it down

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@pjavidan

10 months

It’s a mystery no one could have foreseen! New York Times “The Case of the Never-Ending Illness Post-pandemic, winter has become one big blur of coughs and colds. Did something change?” By Knvul Sheikh Dec. 15, 2023

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

3 months

This is, at best, an intellectually lazy attempt to horseshoe-theory public health activism with far right conspiracism. It is, at worst, the continual mainstreaming of actual fringe beliefs that go against scientific consensus on Covid mitigations, endangering the public.

Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran

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In an interview with @ChrisCuomo former White House COVID Response Coordinator Ashish Jha says that it's a fringe position to still be masking indoors. This is misinformation and an example of prioritizing personal centrist politics above public health.

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@mehdirhasan @wsbgnl Proponents of unmitigated reopening of schools strategically deploy concepts of equity & trauma/mental health, and after victory, are nowhere to be found for the causes they supposedly champion such as equitable educational attainment for working-class children of color.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

@amandalhu @lisa_iannattone I’ve been paying attention to use of the word “resilient,” and as with all psychologically empowering ideas that gain popularity, it has been weaponized against people of color, women, and children in order to minimize systemic harms, claim that putting up with them = “strength.”

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@pjavidan

1 year

Watered-Down Guidelines: The proposed revisions by HICPAC could reduce infection control protections, especially concerning aerosol transmission and multidrug-resistant organisms.

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@pjavidan

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Opposition from Experts: Over 900 experts in various fields signed a letter opposing the new draft guidelines, asserting that they would weaken protections for healthcare workers.

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@pjavidan

1 year

Manipulated Literature Review: Concerns over the committee’s literature review being selective (cherrypicked) and manipulated.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

@SamanthaStrudel Yikes! What study is this? Honestly, as a researcher of child sex trafficking laws from a human rights perspective, I’ve come across too many peer-reviewed publications doing more to perpetuate the problem than interested in solving it, so I’m not surprised but it’s demoralizing.

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@pjavidan

1 year

Limited Public Participation and Transparency: Despite an invitation for public participation, no meeting notes, minutes, transcripts, or draft policies have been provided. A Freedom of Information Act request was denied.

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

2 years

As someone who’s spent years doing discourse analysis and studying the social construction of ideas and concepts of governance & discipline, “pandemic fatigue” fits the profile of such a construct, which has done a lot of ideological work to excuse and normalize mass harms.

Anton Vikström

@Anton_Vikstrom

2 years

People have lived thru plagues and wars that have lasted way longer than 2-3 years. "Pandemic fatigue" set in when pundits start saying on the TV that people have it. In Sweden, they talked about it from day 1 and people bought into it. In parts of Asia, they still haven't.

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@ravenscimaven @FrontiersIn Um, many of those are not real words? 🤔

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

@pjavidan

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There’s no limit to the clownery of the lockdown blame game. It’s integral to the long con of attributing the effects of Long/Covid to literally anything but the effects of Long/Covid.

The Vertlartnic

@TheVertlartnic

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A Growing Body Of Evidence Shows That The Impact Of Lockdown Will Affect All Known Life In The Universe For All Eternity, Maybe Even Longer Than That.

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@pjavidan

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The science has not changed, so the idea of reducing isolation to 1 day (and only if symptomatic) is not based on science. And we’re aware that 10-day isolation was cut in half at the behest of the airline industry. Thank you, Dr. @larazjmd , CBS anchors

Doctor on possible revision to CDC's COVID guidelines: "No change in the science"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may revise its COVID-19 isolation guidelines to more closely match those for flu and other respiratory diseases, according to a report by the Washington...

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