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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH

@caitlinryus.bsky.social
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emergency medicine | addiction medicine | housing, homelessness, and health equity researcher | amateur native plant gardener 🌱| they/she/dr | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | views my own

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PLOS Medicine @plosmedicine.org · 02/06/2026
In this Perspective, Caitlin Ryus and colleagues discuss the #NIH 2025 Public Access Policy, highlighting that while expanding who can read science, the policy risks creating new barriers to who can afford to perform and publish their science 🧪 #MedSky #openscience #openaccess plos.io/4fVTyri
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The NIH 2025 Public Access Policy: Immediate access, unequal costs
In this Perspective, Caitlin Ryus and colleagues discuss the NIH 2025 Public Access Policy, highlighting that while expanding who can read science, the policy risks creating new barriers to who can af...
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today is World Homeless Day Honored to join the podcast: “Our Shared Challenges: International Perspectives on Homelessness” Grateful to Porchlight, Jihad Malasi, Joe Tay Teck, and Tom Neumark for such a rich and hopeful exchange #WorldHomelessDay #HousingFirst #HealthEquity #Homelessness
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Our Shared Challenges Video
Porchlight CEO Tom Neumark sat down with Dr Jihad Malasi, GP & ICB Mental Health lead, Dr Joe Tay Teck (Glasgow GP and Harkness Fellow), and Caitlin Ryus (associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health & Emergency Doctor) to discuss what global approaches can teach us about supporting people experiencing homelessness to live happy, healthy lives.
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day” Let’s prove him wrong Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK #VaccineTrust #PublicHealth #MedSky
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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health
When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“Morally wrong and politically suicidal” Even Sen. Josh Hawley is sounding the alarm on Trump’s slash to #Medicaid. @mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social explain why rural Republican voters will pay the price @thehill.com @defendpublichealth.bsky.social in the house!
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MJ of Everything is Public Health Production @everythingisph.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A practical plan to fight back towards the end. youtu.be/VULp8JuYZoQ?...
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how the left lost the internet
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Pride marchers light up a Jacksonville Bridge www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-de...
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors
LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2025
NEW: Kennell Staten filed a complaint with HUD, saying he was denied an apartment for being gay — a complaint the agency had long taken seriously. Two days later, HUD informed him that it did not view allegations like his as subject to federal law. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are…
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It’s so strange seeing oneself on camera… but this really speaks to why I do what I do! Hot take: probably more accurately representative than The Pitt 🤓🏥🚑 #EMsky #SAEM25 #MedSky
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
His crusade at #HHS is a masterclass in dressing up conspiracy theories in lab coats. Sorry #RFKJr, but sounding like science isn’t the same as sound science #MakeAmericaSmartAgain
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you care about #healthequity, #emergencymedicine, or #housingjustice — this one's for you! Let's replace stigma with structure Let's meet people where they are Let’s move from reaction to transformation #HousingIsHealth
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Exploring the complexity of homelessness in emergency medicine: Dissecting myths, evidence, and solutions
Background Emergency departments serve as critical-access points for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). These patients face significant health disparities and are subject to stigmatization and ...
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Structural competency means understanding health as shaped by policy, power, and infrastructure We make the case for embedding this approach into medical education and EM practice. #MedEd
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Biases in care—including assumptions about drug use, personal responsibility, or "ED misuse"—can lead to missed diagnoses, premature discharges, and moral distress for providers. We need a shift in training, perspective, and policy. #homelessness #unhoused
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New in @aemet.es: Our team breaks down persistent myths about homelessness in emergency medicine and offers a #structuralcompetency framework to guide better care, research, and advocacy #EMSky #SocialEM #MedSky #PublicHealth @yale-em.bsky.social
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Exploring the complexity of homelessness in emergency medicine: Dissecting myths, evidence, and solutions
Background Emergency departments serve as critical-access points for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). These patients face significant health disparities and are subject to stigmatization and ...
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” In the face of authoritarian overreach, Harvard chose the Constitution over capitulation. This is a line in the sand. Let’s make integrity ordinary again. #AcademicFreedom #DefendDemocracy #HigherEd
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Opinion | Harvard’s Strength and How Far We’ve Fallen So Quickly
The thrill over its response to the Trump administration is a measure of how low, and how fast, our expectations have fallen.
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#3 for sure. 7 inches is enough to teleport to the other side of a locked door… 😇
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Senators Bill Cassidy and Bernie Sanders have summoned RFK Jr. to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to ‘splain himself. I suspect that Cassidy will once again be snowed by RFK Jr.’s penchant for exceptionally skilled lying. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Senate committee leaders ask RFK Jr. to testify on HHS overhaul
The HELP Committee’s top Republican is describing his invitation to the HHS secretary as routine amid mass layoffs at the agency.
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Over the past four years, 97 percent have either remained at the Lenniger or moved to other housing." In-depth reporting on life in PSH in @nytimes.com with key messages 🧵 Two Years in a Place Where Homelessness Ends www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Permanent Supportive Housing Spotlights Challenges After Homelessness
A reporter and photographer documented the lives of residents and staff at the Lenniger, a permanent supportive housing complex in New York City.
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
​“‘Leadership won’t matter,’ he said. ​‘What will really matter and make a difference is a response from the ground up.’ That is, for the citizens of this country to rise up and defend democracy…We won’t be saved by leaders, but by ourselves”
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Oy Canada: Three Yale Profs Pack Their Bags
In late February, I took a seat at the extended table of a Hamden scholar who hosted a group of locals: donors to the annual LEAP fundraiser. And, along…
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 30/03/2025
Also worth noting Biden’s DoJ had brought a suit against Idaho for violating EMTALA (by banning abortions even in emergencies). The Tr*mp regime has dropped the case, so pregnant people in Idaho can continue to be die from being denied life-saving abortions
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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is one of my favorite graphics to use in demonstrating vaccine effectiveness against measles. There’s a tendency to think that our local situation is different (better) than elsewhere so that maybe vaccines aren’t as helpful. Nebraska is the line between ND and NH (alphabetical by abbreviation)
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Science communication is never neutral — especially now. This piece digs into how researchers are navigating vaccine skepticism, disinformation, and the urgent need to communicate #science with rigor, clarity, and courage. 💉🦠 #DefendPublicHealth #VaccineTrust #PublicHealth #MedSky
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Amid political shift, Yale experts weigh vaccine skepticism and scientific integrity
As vaccine sentiment fluctuates and political scrutiny increases, Yale researchers weigh in on scientific transparency, funding shifts and how best to communicate emerging finding.
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Mental health and addiction funding on the federal chopping block #addictionmedicine #publichealth #DOGE
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Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care
The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal funding is risky and could put patients at risk.
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Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
From @wsj.com, RFK Jr./DOGE are planning to cut 10,000 technical & scientific experts from HHS on top of the 10,000 who have left amid the Trump administration's efforts to silence experts, shroud these agencies in further secrecy, & promote disinformation. 3500 or 19% of FDA will be fired. #MedSky
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Senate confirms Trump’s nominee to run NIH
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed health researcher Jay Bhattacharya as the next leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Bhattacharya was confirmed on a party- line vote, 53 to 47.  …
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Honored to be featured alongside @gregggonsalves.bsky.social in this piece on @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and the growing movement of clinicians, researchers, and advocates pushing back against attacks on #science and #publichealth We’re just getting started! #Medsky #Episky #ScienceNotSilence
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Yale epidemiologist rallies experts to ‘Defend Public Health’ against proposed Trump cuts
Mirroring his activism on AIDS and COVID, a Yale researcher has mobilized a group of 3,000 concerned citizens taking action as Defend Public Health.
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
☎️ ☎️ Get those phones out folks! Protect #CDC #HIVPrevention Division Defunding/eliminating the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division, jeopardizes decades of progress in fighting #HIV/AIDS. #DefendPublicHealth #ActionAlert #IDsky #Episky #Medsky #PublicHealth click and call 👇
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Protect the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division ⭑ 5 Calls
Amid broad threats to slash Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staffing, the Trump administration is reportedly considering slashing …
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
HUD's work profoundly affects people’s lives: HUD backs loans for homes, apartments, and nursing homes, helps seniors and people with disabilities on fixed incomes stay in their homes, finances new affordable buildings, helps prevent discrimination, and more. www.startribune.com/cuts-to-hud-...
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Cuts to HUD are cuts to homes
In this time of uncertainty, my thoughts turn to all that’s at stake for Minnesotans and others.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Trump administration has cut off federal funding to nonprofits that are key enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. Last year there were more than 34,000 fair-housing complaints, a record high for the third year in a row. @jenniferludden.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
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HUD choked funding to enforce fair-housing laws. Legal aid groups may not survive
Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Restraints/sedation carry risks of physical injury, cardiac events, & psychological trauma Unhoused individuals already experience ⬆️ rates of mental health disorders, chronic conditions, and mortality Disproportionate restraint/sedation use may further marginalize and harm unhoused people end
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Cross-sectional study of 2.97 million ED visits at 8 hospitals in New England (2013-2021). Restraint orders were found in 3,160 (5.7%) visits by unhoused patients, compared to 44,155 (1.5%) for housed patients Housed vs. unhoused patients Adjusted odds ratio =  1.45 (95% CI 1.36-1.54) 2/
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🧵New Article Congratulations to @leah-robinson.bsky.social on a phenomenal paper on disparities in restraint use and chemical sedation by #housing status in the ED Honored to coauthor with this rising star 💫 and Ambrose Wong @yale-em.bsky.social #EMedsky #Medsky #HealthEquity #homelessness 1/
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Disparities in use of physical restraint and chemical sedation in the emergency department by patient housing status
Background A growing body of research has found there to be disproportionate physical restraint and chemical sedation use for historically marginalized populations in the emergency department (ED). Th...
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
That's a win! Keep up the momentum @defendpublichealth.bsky.social #Episky #PublicHealth #vaccines #STEM #science
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White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director
Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.
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Strategies to End Homelessness @endhomelessness.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"The rise is especially sharp for those who aren't staying in shelters. STEH President Kevin Finn told Cincinnati Edition that number has doubled." #EndHomelessness
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More people are without housing in Hamilton County — including families and those not staying in shelters
Data from Strategies to End Homelessness suggests the number of people without housing who are not staying in local shelters has doubled in the last two years. There is evidence the number of…
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🍰Fantasy baking for the resistance Abolish ICE Cream Cake Defundant the Police Yes We CANnoli No Justice No Peach Pie Ryes Up Bread LGBTea Cakes Collective Bargainache Gingerbread Housing Justice Not for Profiteroles Together we Flan Cake Back the Night Drop your best cake/bakery name below!👇
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Also anti-choice- in case you need more reasons!
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 URGENT: Say NO to Anti-Vax Dave Weldon as CDC Director! 🚨 📞 Call your senators & demand they REJECT Weldon! ☎️ Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 📋 Call script & details: bit.ly/RejectWeldon 🔥 Call DAILY (March 10-13) 📢 Science over politics. Reject David Weldon! #RejectWeldon #DefendPublicHealth
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just so you know, up to 60,000 children go blind from measles every year
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I grew up in central Illinois and this speech by @govpritzker.illinois.gov made me proud. Read the whole 🧵
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#newhaven @aaup.bsky.social
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Succumbing to defeat and assuming that no one will listen is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Those who fight for change see others doing the same, and that shared effort fuels our collective resolve. Public outcry shapes judicial sentiment. Protest matters! #resist @defendpublichealth.bsky.social
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🪧📣 Meet you in the street! 🪧📣 Show up! Make noise! Find an action near you today: #publichealth #STEM #academicsky #medsky #EMsky
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Labor for Higher Education
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Adult one too while we are at it… #vaccinessavelives
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The childhood vaccine schedule for the record 💉
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Kennedy announced a new commission to “investigate vaccines, pesticides, and antidepressants to see if they have contributed to a rise in chronic illnesses” We already know what illnesses cancelling vaccines WILL give rise to! #medsky #publichealth #pediatrics #vaccines #RFKJr #sciencematters
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Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told agency employees that a commission formed by President Donald Trump will investigate the childhood vaccine schedule.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On Friday Night Musk fired 2,200 people at the Indian Health Service, including 100 docs and 350 nurses and other healthcare workers. Tribes demanded that he rethink this, so he did, and now “only” 950 have been fired. IHS is already chronically understaffed. ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr. rescinds Indian Health Service layoffs
The last-minute decision to rescind the layoff order for IHS came as healthcare workers waited for bad news
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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🎁 gift link here (my bad)
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Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies. (Gift Article)
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
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