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Andrea Waner

@andreawaner.bsky.social
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Pizza Enthusiast. Public Health Nerd. Wife. Mama. Deputy Director, @healthjournalism.org. Former City Councilwoman. RT≠endorsement, opinions are my own.

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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Senate confirmation hearing for Surgeon General is live. Pay attention. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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WATCH LIVE: Casey Means testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for surgeon general
Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement, will appear before the Senate health co...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The FBI is now searching homes of journalists. Don't stop paying attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
JD Vance shamelessly lies: "You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator. Nobody debates that. I can believe her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it's a tragedy of her own making."
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"Her death was a tragedy of her own making." That's a direct quote from the VP of the United States about the death of Renee Good.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Reminder: "Propaganda" is defined as the "the systematic dissemination of information, especially in a biased or misleading way, in order to promote a political cause or point of view." guides.library.jhu.edu/evaluate/pro...
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Guides: Evaluating Information: Propaganda, Misinformation, Disinformation
How to evaluate information, from social media to scholarly articles.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc... ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
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RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Dear journalists: please do not make it sound like he was coherent.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 30/09/2025
Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.” Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement. rsf.org/sites/defaul...
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Uh... White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, and Deal With Pfizer Natalie Andrews & Liz Essley Whyte / WSJ 🎁: www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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Exclusive | White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, and Deal With Pfizer
President Trump is expected to unveil the measures with Pfizer’s CEO on Tuesday
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Stacey Hauff @staceyhauff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Go to www.hud.gov right now. Just trust me.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you have a question about Trump's autism announcement ... it's probably answered somewhere here
Screenshot of STAT's homepage with several stories about Trump's autism announcement
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The meeting of RFK Jr.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) starts in less than 24 hours. The materials still haven’t been posted, which is highly unusual. They want to ambush the American public with false claims about COVID19 vaccines.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Kennedy asserted that “there are no cuts to Medicaid.” In fact, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Medicaid provisions would increase the number of people without health insurance by 7.8 million in 2034. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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Update from Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
Bennet runs out of patience with RFK Jr and yells at him that "I'm asking the questions on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership! That's what this conversation is about."
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Kennedy says he does not know how many people died of Covid and whether the vaccines prevented Covid deaths. “The problem is they didn’t have the data,” he said. In fact, the data are readily available.
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Update from Apoorva Mandavilli
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
In case you were curious, a charlatan is someone who falsely claims to have knowledge or skill, particularly in medicine or business, to decieve others for personal gain. #cdc
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
He is intentionally avoiding a huge swath of his constituents because their county is democratic-leaning. Going to a town with 200 people, without also going to a town in the county that has 30k+ constituents, doesn’t deserve applause.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How are homelessness advocates responding, and could other cities follow? Join AHCJ to learn how reporters can cover this story locally, with insights from a national reporter, an addiction researcher, a veteran activist and a journalist who spent a year investigating homelessness.
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Reporting on 'sweeps' and the criminalization of homelessness: How to handle the story
This webinar will equip reporters to cover the Trump administration's criminalization of homelessness in their own cities and towns.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Disgusting.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
We the People of the United States [...] establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Ah yes, taking away health care from 17 million people is super "immaterial."
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We don't have updated and detailed CBO scores and the final language for the just-passed Senate reconciliation bill isn't yet available. But the devastating impact will likely be about $1 trillion/10 years in #Medicaid cuts and about 17 million more uninsured.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Now it goes back to the House.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Nearly 12 million people would lose their health insurance under President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," an erosion of the social safety net that would lead to more unmanaged chronic illnesses, higher medical debt and overcrowding of hospital emergency departments.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Budget reconciliation bill passed the Senate 51-50 with Vance casting the tie breaker. The bill goes back to the House. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s Policy Bill Amid Deep G.O.P. Divisions
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
As #SCOTUS opinions are rolling in today - particularly around transgender care for minors - this is relevant.
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Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org · 11/06/2025
We stand with the journalists working tirelessly to report on the events unfolding in Los Angeles. A free press is essential to a functioning democracy, and any use of unlawful force against reporters is unacceptable.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"IUDs and BBLs are gender affirming care." -- love this quote from the trans health session at Health Journalism 2025. #HJ25
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I just need you all to know that I just met @maryroach.bsky.social and she complimented my prosthetic fun eye and we had a good conversation about her next book - which is about prosthetics - and I, like the nerd I am, took out my eye and everything was awesome. Such a fan girl moment! #HJ25
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 25/04/2025
NEW: AG Pam Bondi has revoked media protections instituted by former AG Merrick Garland, according to a memo seen by NBC News. More to come.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Reminiscing about the good old days when the federal public health infrastructure was staffed and information was easier to obtain? Me too. Register for #HJ25 and chat with former HHS Secretary Xavier Bacerra.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I'm a nobody, so take it with a grain of salt: There are so many people making decisions solely to cover their own asses. We have to shift to making decisions for the greater good — or we're fucked as a country.
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Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org · 10/04/2025
TL;DR: Take a break from the chaos. Find your people. Get inspired. And leave with more story ideas than you’ll know what to do with. Join us at #HJ25 in L.A., May 29–June 1. 🎟️ Register now: healthjournalism.org/training-eve...
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Health Journalism 2025
Get ready to join us on the West Coast! AHCJ is thrilled to announce HJ25 will take place in Los Angeles from May 29 to June 1.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Why you should come to Health Journalism 2025: A love letter. #journalism #publichealth #healthcare
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is happening in Missouri, too.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wasn’t sure if I was up to watching Dying for Sex — me being a rare and aggressive cancer haver and all — and I wasn’t, but I don’t regret it. It’s so beautiful and weird and profound and I’m dehydrated from all the tears I’ve shed. www.npr.org/2025/04/09/1...
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In 'Dying For Sex,' pleasure and grief collide : Pop Culture Happy Hour
The premise might be a tough sell: a young woman attempts to finally own her sexuality following a terminal diagnosis. In the new show Dying For Sex, Michelle Williams stars as a cancer patient confro...
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I really love watching a blue dot in the middle of Missouri absolutely crush a mayoral election where an unqualified man spent $256k to get trounced by a liberal woman. Byeeeeeeeee.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Public health is in all things: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Veterinarians working on bird flu, pet food safety are fired in HHS purge
Among those laid off were employees in a center that has played a key role in the response to the bird flu outbreak, according to three FDA staffers.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Running list of offices that have been eliminated or rendered non-functional due to reduction in force measures #medsky #publichealthsky #episky #scienceskyhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1_HNSEowQOkojkTM5MjXdNdXzNjPK79Q4BXO8VU83A0w/edit?usp=sharing
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This has massive implications for health journalism and transparency in general.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: "They are trying to humiliate people." Some HHS layoff notices included an offer to transfer to remote Indian Health Service locations. While RFK says he cares about NA health, many see this as a way to fire folks + it won't fill pressing vacancies at NIH. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Laid off HHS leaders offered transfers to remote Indian Health Service regions
Some HHS officials who received layoff notices were offered the chance to instead transfer to the Indian Health Service.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The mass firings at HHS are absolutely cruel and reckless. This doesn't make us healthier as a nation.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is horrific. I don't know what else to say.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
MO’s sole Title X provider served 44k people in 2024 for things like cancer screenings, annual exams, family planning, and infertility. The reality of this decision is nothing beyond cruelty.
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Andrea Waner @andreawaner.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Anyone know if this absolute insurance mess with the University of Missouri and Anthem would constitute as a Qualifying Life Event to modify another insurance plan?
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