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Happy to report the UN has fantastic indoor air quality! But I did get questioned by multiple security guards about why I was wearing a mask. I told them we were attending meetings about preventing pandemics 🤷🏻‍♂️

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There were a few of us wearing high quality masks including one of the lead organizers, Dr. Bronwyn King!

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Just casually bumping into @who.int Director General @drtedros.who.int at the UN. No more pandemics!

Dr. Lucky Tran wearing a black mask with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2026

Joining global advocates for clean air at the UN today! ✊

Lucky at the Healthy Indoor air event at the UN

Advocates at Healthy Indoor Air in schools at the UN

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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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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/09/2026

New pin unlocked 📌 Happy Climate and UNGA week y’all!

Holding a pin that says NO MORE PANDEMICS

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026

Ok fine, Zohran did not fix everything

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026

It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.

EPA Finalizes Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Regulations, Delivering $300+ Billion in Savings, Proposes Repeal of All Remaining Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Power Plants

Trump EPA delivers reliable and affordable energy in the largest power sector deregulatory action in U.S. history

September 14, 2026

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/09/2026

Giants and Jets both win on opening weekend. Zohran really is a miracle worker!

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Here’s the chart for Cyclospora cases linked to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce that was processed in Mexico and recalled in July.

Chart of Cyclospora cases linked to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce that was processed in Mexico and recalled in July.

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25 years ago. Utter devastation. New York rose up from the ashes, because that’s what New York always does and will always do. But the world changed forever from that point. It isn't enough to talk about peace. We must all work at it.

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This was the US-Aussie mashup I never knew we needed 🇦🇺🇺🇸

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/09/2026

Wow. They are doing an indigenous land acknowledgment at an NFL game. Great work, Melbourne!

Indigenous Australians speak on a stage with the aboriginal flag at the NFL game held in Melbourne

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Zohran Mamdani just created an Office of Worker Power, and launched it on Labor Day

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/09/2026

I did not have Tetris needing to put out anti-fascist statements on my bingo card, but here we are

At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we're grateful to have you in our community.

P.S. The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of 'Build the Wall.
P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.

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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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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2026

“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”

Newspaper clipping:

Thr Rodnen & Otamatea Times
WAITEMATA & KAIPARA GAZETTE
PRIOE~10s perannum in adrance
WARKWORTE, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 1912
3d per Copy.
Science Notes and News.
COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECT.
ING CLIMATE.
The furnaces of the world are now
burning about
2,000,000,000 tons of
coal a ycar.
When this is burned,
uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the carth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026

Climate change is a moral catastrophe because countries like Nepal who are least responsible for causing it suffer the most.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

Me rocking up to work this morning

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton supported so many important causes, among them donating a million dollars to COVID vaccine research early in the pandemic, which saved millions of lives. She will always be remembered as a champion of the people.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026

Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026

Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.

Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/08/2026

Spoken like someone who has never taken a biology class in their life

@elonmusk
Despite its obvious misuse during Covid, mRNA has tremendous promise for curing diseases.

Artificial RNA essentially makes curing diseases a software problem.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/08/2026

"The Overton window has skewed to the right. If you dare suggest that privatization isn't the best thing, healthcare for instance, you get labelled a communist, which is in my opinion idiotic." @countbinface.bsky.social speaks more sense about American politics than 99% of US politicians.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/08/2026

Note that today the CDC claimed that MMR vaccination rates are still high, as data shows only a 0.1% overall decline. But this data lacks the granular detail of the Washington Post investigation. State-wide totals often mask localized pockets of low immunization, where outbreaks occur.

Today, CDC released vaccination data for the 2025-2026 school year showing overall vaccination rates among kindergarteners remained high. The latest data show a 0.1 percent decline in vaccination coverage among children entering kindergarten.

CDC continues to encourage parents to discuss vaccination options with their doctors.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

AI has loads of problems, but at least it still self-owns racist anti-vaxxers

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/08/2026

Our Mayor has Indian parents, was born in Uganda, is Muslim, and speaks Mandarin. You can’t get more New York than this!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/08/2026

Look at the size of the ballot for the Clacton by-election. If you think there are too many joke candidates, you’re right: Farage should not be allowed to run.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/08/2026

Come to the US @countbinface.bsky.social, American politics desperately needs you! 🗑️🇺🇸

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Statement from WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int on US vaccination policy. “Vaccination policy should be guided by rigorous, independent and transparent review of the best available science, not by political influence.”

Every parent wants to keep their children safe, and vaccines are among the most powerful tools for doing that, making deadly diseases preventable.
WHO is concerned that recent changes to US immunization policy are not aligned with decades of evidence that show when children are most vulnerable to disease, when vaccines provide the strongest protection, how many doses are needed, and which vaccines can be given together safely.
That evidence is reviewed continuously as new data emerge from across the globe. The current evidence is unequivocal: vaccines - including the MMR vaccine - are safe and do not cause autism.
Delaying vaccines or separating doses unnecessarily does not make vaccination safer and can leave children unprotected.
Global evidence and recommendations, including from @WHO, inform national experts, who consider local disease patterns, health systems and population needs, to determine which vaccines and schedules are best for their country.
Vaccination policy should be guided by rigorous, independent and transparent review of the best available science, not by political influence.

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It’s times like these I’m grateful for Kornacki Cam

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I’d rather have more vaccines than baby graves.

@MikeOkuda
X.com
Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s?
After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone.

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