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Eddie Gorry, MPH (they/them)

@eddiegorry.bsky.social
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Public health, economic justice, house plants, Star Trek, and stuff! Opinions are my own. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19h
Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...
GiveWell makes explicit cost effectiveness estimates (based in part on those of the Disease Control Priorities report) for both organizations: ~$545 per infant death averted for Village Reach, and ~$150-750 per death averted for Stop TB. These are roughly comparable, but don't take into account the fact that Stop TB mainly treats adults, while VR mainly treats infants and children. I feel that adults are capable of deeper and more meaningful experiences than are infants, and also deeper connections with other people, so an adult death seems worse to me than an infant death (though both are of course bad). Trying to quantify exactly how much worse is very subjective and can also seem calculating ("how many babies would you kill to save an adult?i, but on a practical level one is forced to make difficult decisions with limited funds, and in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death. Thus, adjusted for my personal values, Id say that Stop TB is ~2-3 times more cost-effective than VR, though I understand that others may validly disagree with this subjective assessment.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h
solidarity forever at the end was a real chef's kiss moment
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Once a day I’m reminded that several leading left intellectuals spent the first Trump term claiming that the admin wasn’t fascist.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Even with limited data (ie cases are undercounted), and workers spraying and checking for standing water all summer, Florida’s ongoing dengue outbreak is the worst in the US since the 1940s, & locally-acquired cases have surpassed travel-acquired. “There's a good chance that this is the new normal”
medpagetoday.com
Florida's Dengue Outbreak Is Now the Largest in the Continental U.S. in Decades
'There's a good chance that this is the new normal,' says expert
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STAT @statnews.com · 01/10/2026
A proposed redesign of the federal government’s annual health survey would result in significant undercounting of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/cdc-hea…
statnews.com
As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Some good news.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.
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Eddie Gorry, MPH (they/them) @eddiegorry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🙄 That tracks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/09/2026
Contact info for the Equality Caucus chair, Mark Takano. Melt the phone lines. DC (202) 225-2305 Local office (951) 222-0203
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2026
Of course one of the best science fiction directors of all time understands the science of airborne virus transmission! Steven Spielberg is wearing a high quality mask during the California COVID surge.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/09/2026
The Ohio Democratic Party is repeatedly deleting criticism of Marcy Kaptur, who has released an ad calling transgender people an “ideology” that should be banned in schools. Still think Dems can’t become Labour?
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Eddie Gorry, MPH (they/them) @eddiegorry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s me.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
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Eddie Gorry, MPH (they/them) @eddiegorry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Accurate.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
I just want to say, the fact that so many Dems are coming out and saying shitty things about trans people in the last two weeks is a case in point of what I have been working so hard to sound the alarm on. I've been so hard on each individual dem who breaks for years now. I feared this.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
The sad thing is, its only going to get worse. This is what these dems are saying before the ad spend cranks up. Just wait until the debates, the ads, the consultants sweep in. Buckle up everyone.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Right. Like, MAHA isn’t a push for equitable access to care. It’s eugenics under the guise of “healthy living.” There’s plenty of somewhat normalizing woo and almond mom and ~natural~ in the mix, but that’s just noise. The signal is the strongest survive, and no regard for the lessers who don’t.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/09/2026
21 states, led by Attorney General Bonta, are suing the federal government to block a medicaid ban for those under 19 from taking effect. The new rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks. They raise novel legal issues, and have been successful before. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
21 States Sue Federal Government To Block Anti-Trans Under-19 Medicaid Ban
The rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
September 5, 2023:
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Elon Musk is an antisemite
His attack on the Anti-Defamation League is just the latest evidence of his insidious feelings about Jews.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/09/2026
Mamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round. This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
inquirer.com
The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2026
The US government is canceling several cyclospora research studies in the midst of the biggest cyclospora outbreak ever which has made tens of thousands sick and killed two people. Make America Healthy Again.
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Eddie Gorry, MPH (they/them) @eddiegorry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There could have been zero measles deaths, and RFK Jr. is lying once again to the American people regardless. There have been FIVE measles deaths. And death is not the only endpoint that matters—there have also been about 200 hospitalizations.
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Eddie Gorry, MPH (they/them) @eddiegorry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1.2 million? 🤨 He really likes his made up numbers. And who does he think is responsible for food safety exactly?
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
First in my bloodline to utter the phrase “rabid baby goats at a mobile petting zoo” www.cnn.com/2026/08/29/u...
cnn.com
Baby goats with rabies at North Carolina mobile petting zoo prompt calls across multiple counties to contact health officials | CNN
Several baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials about potent...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
life comes at you fast
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