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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Yesterday, federal HHS announced on social media that the COVID-19 vaccine would not be recommended for healthy children or pregnant persons without the review by the ACIP. While at this time, we’re not entirely sure what the ramifications of this announcement will be, I felt it would be in my best

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

outbreak. If you want to make Americans healthier, maybe start listening to the people with the expertise, rather than just the person with the loudest microphone.

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

doesn't. Look, I'm all for making Americans healthier - it's kind of my life’s work - but this isn’t the way. You can’t say you care about health and then have a budget that guts Medicaid and Medicare, SNAP, funding to NIH, and questions the safety and effectiveness of vaccines during a Measles

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This report seems to place the blame on individuals rather than decades of bad policy decisions and under-investment into children and families. I made numerous notes on the pages about WHY these proposals wouldn’t work, because I’ve touched grass. I know how this works on the ground. And how it

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Losing access to Medicaid. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Honestly, reading this report was difficult, because if you don’t understand anything beyond the surface of WHY these statistics are what they are, this report seems to make sense. When you do understand, this report is infuriating.

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

ignores the impact of social and political determinants of health. They mention repeatedly that they want to focus on the root causes of these problems, but the policies and the budget coming out of this administration seem to do the exact opposite. Cutting SNAP. Loosening EPA regulations.

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

are problems and they have a public health solution. However, what I didn’t read in this report, NOT ONCE, was WHY are children on SNAP less likely to eat whole foods. WHY are kids getting less exercise. WHY are we seeing children with higher rates of suicide ideation. This report completely

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Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Interest to read about the administration’s other plans for public health, so as not to be caught off guard. So, I spent a good chunk of today reading The MAHA Report. First, let me say, there are points within this report that I don’t disagree with. Yes, I agree it is important for kids to eat

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