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Eglantine Luna

@eglantine-luna.bsky.social
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covid realist and clean air aware parent, artist, writer, zinestress and sorcerex

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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells"

 Jeimy says that many infants and toddlers admitted to hospital with rare infections since 20225 weren’t yet born when pandemic restrictions were in place, and they therefore couldn’t be experiencing immunity debt. They were, however, likely exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. He wonders whether the virus leaves lasting scars on the immune system’s T cell defences. “But that’s just (my) hypothesis,” he emphasises in an email.

Immunity reset?

SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells...
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"One study found that 10-20% of children with a history of COVID-19 develop Long COVID. The same study estimated nearly six million children have Long COVID in the U.S. as of 2024 and that it surpassed asthma as the most common chronic health problem in children." thesicktimes.org/2026/10/05/k...
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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times
Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.
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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“What would policy change mean for Bowser? “We could protect our kids from getting a permanent disability, and that is a huge impact for people individually and society as a whole,” Bowser said.” www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
University of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like I’m going to throw up
Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
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Eglantine Luna @eglantine-luna.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What if we stopped calling children germ factories/disease vectors/petri dishes and started talking about how the places we are expected to send our children are unclean, unsafe, and improperly ventilated?
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Darren Parkinson @greendarrenshipley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"It's had a devastating impact on my life - everything I used to enjoy doing, I can no longer do." Both the BBC and Yorkshire Post have carried my story today. It's time for government action on #LongCovid - are you listening @andyburnham.bsky.social?
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The State Parks With The Most Tick-Borne Illness www.worldatlas.com/state-parks/...
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The State Parks With The Most Tick-Borne Illness
A tick behind the knee can turn a hike into a months-long illness. Here are the state parks where Lyme and other tick-borne diseases hit hardest.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The kids are not alright. Emily was only 9 when she got Covid, and she’s been disabled ever since. She’s 14 and struggling with the crushing loneliness and isolation that comes from living with chronic illness. We must do better. Mask up. Clean the air. Protect the kids.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
For the millionth time… CHILDREN THAT NEEDED SCHOOLS FOR FOOD, SHELTER, SAFETY, ALSO NEEDED TO BE KEPT SAFE FROM DISEASE. It was never one thing or another. We should have worked a lot harder to make schools a lot safer much earlier on.
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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember how fast the planet started to heal when we shut shit down…ish, 6 years ago now? They do it’s why they work so hard to make you hate that time. We had a chance, and global capital fucked us right out of it.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
They pushed a novel viral disease onto kids saying it’s good for them, and today on the radio they are discussing the governments plan to withdraw support for kids with autism and other special needs. It’s almost like we want to mess up their brains and then not pay for it…
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Eglantine Luna @eglantine-luna.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My 1st grader, who is very caring by nature and has an age-appropriate understanding of what Covid can do to the body and why we mask, has started to express the weight of feeling uncared for by our extended family, school, and society at large. He’s not mad about masking. He’s mad no one else is.
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Oh when the kids are old enough to understand that the entire world, including their parents, sacrificed their health and well-being to maintain this exploitive, inequitable, fake normal. 💔
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Eglantine Luna @eglantine-luna.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“When you tell people they aren’t worth protecting, you are telling them they aren’t worthy of love.” And that’s it. The most efficient use of language to explain why it feels like a bomb went off in all of my relationships over the last six years.
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Kathryn @kathrynas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh, chronic absenteeism after the pandemic has risen to over 60% for high school students in Ontario? That’s because IT’S NOT AFTER THE PANDEMIC Kids are missing school because they are sick, and this is happening on a global scale. @globalnews.ca apple.news/A59EHd4IQS-O...
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High school attendance drops to 40% in Ontario as government considers changes — Global News
The Ford government is currently considering giving students in grades 9 to 12 credit on their final marks if they attend class as part of new legislation.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/12/2025
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
motherjones.com
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the host say he's a hypocrite.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
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In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
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Eglantine Luna @eglantine-luna.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Choose your own color for 2026! Mine is “I’m-Not-Buying-Any-New-Shit-Anyway Green.”
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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Yes, mental health and bullying play a role. Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency. Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Kids are missing more school. Experts say mental health is a factor | CBC News
A CBC investigation finds that school time lost due to reported illness is up in all districts that provided data — more than tripling in some places compared to five years ago. While the data doesn’t...
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Andrew Dobbie @a-dobbie11.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Everyone must have access to safe vaccination. Novavax is the safest option for those with Long COVID. Please help bring back access to this excellent vaccination tool for all Canadians: www.change.org/p/demand-acc...
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Sign the Petition
Demand Access to NovaVax for All Canadians
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
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COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If you are making plans to buy, travel, or do anything else this holiday season in the same way as you have in previous years, you do not understand the assignment. The holidays are the beating heart of American capitalism. It's how they get most of the money they get from us. This year, we say no.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I find that statement “kids are germiest“ utterly infuriating. Children are meant to be cared for by adults. If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in. They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
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Andrew Dobbie @a-dobbie11.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
So much for those trusted, educated individuals trying to tell us COVID is just the flu. They had no clue. They lied.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 01/11/2025
We're kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year by participating in NewsMatch, a national campaign to support newsrooms across the US run by the Institute for Nonprofit News. We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
ID 1: Purple background with white text reads: Your support powers every Long COVID story we tell. DONATE TODAY. The Sick Times + NewsMatch.
ID 2: Purple background with white text reads: New donations (followed by a thermometer reaching $60K). New monthly supporters (followed by a thermometer reaching 200). Until December 31, NewsMatch and the Philanthropic Access Partner Fund will match new donations from our readers, up to $1,000 a person! At the bottom is a graphic showing how financial impact is doubled.
ID 3: Purple background with white text reads: In spring 2024, we were lucky to receive a grant that has funded much of our work over the last two years.
But that grant concludes this fall. We’ll be honest: we really need more reader support to help keep operating in 2026. The Sick Times + NewsMatch.ID 5: Purple background with white text reads: Other ways to support us. We understand that many people in our community aren’t able to donate. This is why we’ll never have a paywall — our stories will always be completely free to read. If you aren’t in a position to donate yourself, here are a few ways you can help:
Share this email/this post with a friend/family member
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Lady DEADtera, Wee Ghostie Edition 👻🍁😷 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We need politicians who are willing to reintroduce and enforce masking mandates if any of us are going to survive this
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crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social @crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Sometimes music does more than lift the spirit — it cleans the air. Winter Reflections — 29 Nov 2025 A unique online concert featuring world-class musicians who support clean air for all. 🎟️ Tickets: go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh #AirMadeAudible #MusicThatCleansTheAir
An image in Corsi-Rosenthal Blue saying 'Winter Reflection' with a subheading of '29 November 2025'
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Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"Some patients with migraines co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 also reported experiencing more severe pain that is often less responsive to standard analgesics... These new headache issues...may have further complicated an already pressing public health issue, the study found."
medicalxpress.com
Migraines and headaches are a global burden that needs greater recognition, international study finds
Modern lifestyles including stress, sedentary activity, caffeine, alcohol and poor-quality sleep remain widespread triggers for migraines and headaches, which affect more than a third of the world's p...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 31/10/2025
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 30/10/2025
if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one. your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Y'all are not upset enough about THE SNAP situation for my liking. This is the intentional starvation of a civilian population that is dependent in the first place because the government manufactured conditions of deprivation. We don't have a lack of food. We have a surfeit of greed and evil.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I just want to make this *abundantly clear*. When “experts” say COVID-19 is mild for kids… THEY HAD, AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TEN YEARS WORTH OF INFECTIONS WILL CAUSE.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I try to be professional on this platform but there are times, like now, when it hits me hard on a visceral level that we are in the midst of a catastrophic global public health crisis and it seems, as a species, we've somehow decided that ignoring it is the best plan we've got.
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Dr. med. Hank Schiffers @leanhealth.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Effect of SARS-CoV-2 on perinatal outcomes by disease severity & trimester of pregnancy: prospective study +60% risk of small for gestational age newborns risk of iatrogenic preterm birth⬆️ & maternal intensive care unit ⬆️ particularly in severe cases & infection in 1st trimester
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
made the quoted thread, a response to a few of @jamellebouie.net’s recent posts, into a video, because sometimes it’s nice to see people’s faces, hear people’s voices, on an ever colder internet. this is part one. full video at normal speed: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If you are fed up with social media suppressing info on Covid, other viruses and Long Covid, give this a like and repost. Let's make our voices be heard LOUD and clear all across everyone's feed!!
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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A mouse-sized mask. Even little muffins deserve to be able to protect themselves and others! 🩶🤍
A pencil sketch of a mouse in mid-stride, wearing a coat and respirator mask. Art by me.
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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
(1) I’ll never forgive schools and healthcare systems that had years to fix the air and didn’t. They had the money. The science. The time. They chose denial instead of duty. #AirborneAIDS #LongCovid
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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
“Whichever figure you use, the numbers are enormous, rivaling conditions like ADHD and autism as one of the most common chronic diseases in American youth today.” - we really have created an enormous problem, yet don’t seem ready to face it. 1/
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The average person is not informed that Covid is not confined to the respiratory system and infects blood vessels, immune cells, and the brain. We rolled the dice and have exposed everyone to SARS2 repeatedly, and the idea that this has been determined safe through rigorous study is patently false.
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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“Extreme fatigue that turned mornings into catatonic nightmares. Brain fog that made memories slippery. Incessant vomiting. It all kept her out of class, stuck in the nurse’s office — or out of school entirely.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Reality is forcing its way past the Thin White Line of professional collusion shielding institutional medicine's management class from accountability. 👉We knew this was happening, and how to prevent it!👈 How many kids have been sacrificed to #longCOVID to protect a few bad people at the top?
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
it’s so wild like folks he wrote down his promises !!! and we can compare it with the political reality we all lived through !!!
Table 1
Timeline of End Dates for Key Health-Related Flexibilities Provided Through COVID-19 Emergency Declarations, Legislation, and Administrative Actions

Health-related flexibilities & end dates / Determination of end date

Mar 31, 2023
End to Medicaid continuous enrollment provision / CAA

May 11, 2023
End to Medicaid option to cover uninsured for COVID-19 vaccines, tests, treatments End to Medicaid Disaster-Relief State Plan Amendments
End to Medicaid Section 1135 Waivers
End to requirement that private insurers and Medicare provide 8 free at-home COVID-19 tests/month
End to requirement of no cost sharing for PCR/provider-ordered tests and testing visits for those with private insurance and Medicare Advantage
End to requirement of no cost sharing for testing-related visits for those with traditional Medicare
End to requirement that private plans/issuers cover out-of-network COVID-19 vaccines without cost sharing
End to 20% Medicare payment increase for COVID-19 hospitalizations
End to certain telehealth flexibilities (e.g., prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine)
End to HHS authority to require reporting of COVID-19 laboratory data
End to Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) food benefits for children under 6|
End to Child and Adult Care Food Program for young adults in shelters
End to Title 42 border restrictions / End of the PHE 

End to FEMA Public Assistance Support / End of Stafford Act incident period


NOTE: CAA is Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. PHE is public health emergency. CMS is Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. PREP is the Public Readiness & Emergency Preparedness Act. ARPA is the American Rescue Plan Act. HHS is Department of Health & Human Services. FEMA is Federal Emergency Management Agency. SNAP is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. HCBS is home & community-based services.

SOURCE: KFF analysis of C19 emergency declarations, & and administrative actions.

continued in alt text holder later in postMost of those deaths, some 600,000, happened after Biden took office in January 2021 at the peak of a major wave of the disease.

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One Million COVID-19 Deaths under Trump and Biden
THE U.S. HITS A GRIM MILESTONE

COVID-19 deaths peaked in the United States soon after the inauguration of Joe Biden, dropped significantly as millions were vaccinated and then climbed again thanks to new variants and politically motivated vaccine resistance.

399,200 COVID-19 deaths under President Trump

601,157 COVID-19 deaths| under President Biden

bar graphs showing deaths during date range:
March 1, 2000 - Jan 20, 2021 - May 11, 2022

Source: Reuters COVD-19 Tracker; State, county and territory government/public health department websites
John Emerson | Reuters, May 12, 2022
tweet from Joe Biden @JoeBiden
United States government official

“220,000 deaths.
If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this: Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States.”

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June 9, 2023
End to College Student SNAP benefits / End of PHE

July 10, 2023
End date for Medicaid Section 1115 Emergency Waivers, if not already ended / End of PHE

August 9, 2023
End to FEMA Public Assistance for demobilization, disposition, disposal costs / end of Stafford Act incident period

September 30, 2023
End to Medicare New COVID-19 Treatments Add-on Payments
End to Pandemic EBT food benefits for school children

November 11, 2023
End date for Medicaid Section 1915c Appendix K Waivers for HCBS, if not already ended / End of PHE

December 31, 2023
End of enhanced federal matching payments tied to Medicaid continuous enrollment provision / CAA

April 30, 2024
End of hospital COVID-19 data reporting requirements / CMS regulations

September 30, 2024
End to requirement that at-home COVID-19 tests be provided for free to Medicaid enrollees
Frovided wire me cost sharing to Medicaid enile-ordered tests and treatments be End to 100% federal Medicaid matching payments for vaccine administration / End of PHE

December 31, 2024
End of expanded telehealth coverage under traditional Medicare / CAA
End to liability protections for pharmacists, pharmacy interns & techs to administer COVID-19 and flu vaccines to those ages 3 and older and to administer COVID-tests Egret nis or rely conduced by 1e storersenes provided through Federal / PREP act

September 30, 2025
End to FEMA COVID-19 funeral assistance / ARPA

NOTE: CAA is Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. PHE is public health emergency. CMS is Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. PREP is the Public Readiness & Emergency Preparedness Act. ARPA is the American Rescue Plan Act. HHS is Department of Health & Human Services. FEMA is Federal Emergency Management Agency. SNAP is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. HCBS is home & community-based services.

SOURCE: KFF analysis of C19 emergency declarations, & and administrative actions.
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
what folks fail to see is biden’s role; his choice to pursue austerity, to ignore covids ongoing challenges, is the crumbling foundation into which RFK swung an axe. imagine if he’d followed thru (see promises⬇️), if harris did more than barely nod to SARS2s harms campaigning…things could be better.
The national strategy is organized around seven goals:
1. Restore, trust with the American people.
2. Mount a safe, effective, and comprehensive vaccination campaign.
3. mitigate spread through expanding masking, testing, data, treatments, healthcare workforce, and clear public health standards.
4. immediately expand emergency relief & exercise the defense production act.
5. Safely, reopen, businesses, schools, travel while protecting workers.
6. protect those most at risk in advance equity, including across racial, ethnic and rural/urban lines.
7. Restore US leadership, globally and build better preparedness working for threats.
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