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Geeta Sood MD ScM

@geetasood.bsky.social
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Assoc Hospital Epidemiologist, Assistant Prof Johns Hopkins, ID doc, New York State medical director, public health advocate, opinions my own

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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thank you. Important study
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Thank you. Important study
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 25/01/2026
Non-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/01/2026
This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE
Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Thank you
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Thank you aclu! Please send a link so we can support real action
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midwesterner 🦬 @paradaxiom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Human beings. You don't need to restrict this to just Americans. "Before they kill any more human beings."
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A lot of Americans make decisions like they have guaranteed access to healthcare
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The difference is dramatic!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Excerpt from a Zeteo article quoting one of Alex Pretti's old colleagues:

Shaukat, for her part, said it speaks to Pretti’s character that he would stand up for his neighbors in Minneapolis amid Trump’s incursion.

“You could not think of a kinder, gentler, sweeter person, but I could see that, you know, he was probably trying to defuse the situation or defend somebody or protect somebody, or had run up because of his nursing role,” she said. “And he was a very principled person and very righteous.”

Shaukat continued: “Knowing Alex, I know there’s no way he would have provoked or done anything to bring this on.”

The last time Shaukat saw Alex, she said, was last year. “He was very happy. He had been going along on his nursing career, and he was feeling like things were falling into place. He was looking forward to getting better jobs, and finally paying off his student loans, getting his own place and his car, and kind of moving up in life. So we were very happy for him.”

“His life was just starting,” said Shaukat. “He was on his way up, and this was like the sweetest point in his life. All the effort he had put in was now starting to pay off, and he was seeing it unfold. And he could not be more excited about his future.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 24/01/2026
Another person in Minneapolis shot and killed by feds minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/24/a...
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Another person in Minneapolis shot and killed by feds • Minnesota Reformer
Over 10 shots can be heard in the video, but it’s unclear if more than one agent fired a weapon.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Warning: Reports indicate immigration checkpoints along major interstates in Oklahoma, with Interstate 40 most impacted.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The death of any child is tragic. We always think it will not be my child, they are healthy. Severe influenza can be unpredictable & deadly. Getting vaccinated considerably reduces dz severity and deaths. Please make sure you are vaccinated & your children are too. people.com/alabama-boy-...
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Boy, 11, Dies After Severe Case of the Flu: ‘Jace Never Even Got to Open His Christmas Gifts’
Jace Watkins, 11, of Alabama died on Dec. 27 after being hospitalized due to complications from the flu.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Thank you! California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced today that the state will send its own observers to keep an eye on federal election monitors sent out by the Trump administration before the upcoming election.
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Attorney General Rob Bonta says California will have its own observers on Trump's election monitors
As the Trump administration's Department of Justice prepares to send election monitors to California for next week's election, California's attorney general on Monday said the state will have its own ...
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 02/10/2025
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thank you New York!
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🚨8 New England & Mid-Atlantic states have formed their own coalition to address CDC shortfalls led by RFK Jr misinformation & lies: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania. What State is really missing? NEW HAMPSHIRE! vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/w...
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With CDC in chaos, Vermont joins regional coalition to navigate public health challenges - VTDigger
Eight Northeast states band together to prep for uncertainties amid sudden departures of high-level federal officials and concerns about the CDC’s vaccine recommendations.
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Andrew Pavia @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, until recently head of NIAID and Dr. Kathy Neuzil (incredible public servants and scientists!) document the extent of political interference with science at NIAID. Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...
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Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/09/2025
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
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Trump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, judge rules
The ruling is a legal victory for Harvard but the White House says it will appeal the decision.
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Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Everyone in Congress should read this statement.
Final paragraph of joint statement calling for resignation of RFK Jr.
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
That is pretty powerful coming from so many professional societies. Thank you @idsainfo.bsky.social
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ASM @asm.org · 04/09/2025
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
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Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/09/2025
Great news coming out of the #bestcoast. Until we #FireRFK, it falls to the states to protect us.
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Washington, Oregon and California will issue their own vaccine recommendations, separate from CDC
Citing a lack of faith in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's CDC, Washington, Oregon and California will issue their own vaccine recommendations.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
More of this.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
California, Oregon and Washington State have launched a west coast health alliance to uphold the integrity of science and public health. With CDC compromised states are taking matters into their hands to safe guard the health of their populations. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...
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California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/09/2025
🚨🚨 Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation. When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure. #SaveHHS #DemandRFKJrResign #USAnotRFK
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More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies
Letter says Kennedy installed ideologues, endangered US health and ignored pleas as resignations mounted at CDC
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2025
NEWS: Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding. (Bloomberg)
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Harvard $2 Billion Funding Freeze by US Was Illegal, Judge Says
Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Thank you
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Geeta Sood MD ScM @geetasood.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Thank you!
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 22/08/2025
This is an absolutely horrifying headline to read ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Everyone deserves help accessing mental health support and treatment. If you know or think someone is struggling, please try getting them help or resources. Mental Health silent battles are brutal and often unseen.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
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First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15/08/2025
🧠🪱's only goal is to weaponize HHS. This ruling is good news, but it's temporary. #FireRFKJ
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Judge orders RFK Jr.'s health department to stop sharing Medicaid data with deportation officials
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 08/08/2025
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Audrey John MD PhD @odomjohnlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
Kaplan Meier curve showing efficacy of mRNA vaccine against COVID-19
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/08/2025
Florida officials are warning the public about the risks of consuming raw milk after over 20 people have gotten sick.
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Florida officials warn about risks of drinking raw milk after 21 infections
There have been 21 cases of Campylobacter and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections linked to raw milk from the same farm, health officials said. Of those, six have been in children under the age of 10.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates
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