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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h
This guy just kind of being erased from popular US political history is still wild to me.
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Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
The Illinois Republican, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after leaving Congress for scheming to cover up child molestation accusations.
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A GUY OVERDOSED ON KETAMINE IN THE CHI PHI HOUSE EARLIER THAT DAY
The Sun reached out to CUPD to clarify procedures including the timeline between an arrest and referral to the Office of Student Conduct and when the University became aware of the arrest. CUPD did not respond to a request for
comment.
When asked how soon after a CUPD arrest the Office of
Student Conduct is notified of a referral, a University spokesperson responded, "No comment."
A recently released hearing panel decision from Cornell's Title IX investigation into the alleged assault noted that an individual overdosed at Chi Phi.
"Ketamine was a substance used by multiple individuals in the Chi Phi house at the time, including [redacted] who had overdosed on or about Oct. 18, 2024," according to the investigation document.
Multiple sources familiar with the situation verified with The Sun that there was a drug-related health concern that night.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This site is one of the most contaminated sites in the entire country. It's a former military barracks where forever chemicals in drinking water have been found to be 575,000x over the federal limit. It's run by LaSalle Corrections foundation, the "charitable" arm of the LaSalle.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/10/2026
"Along the US's southeastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth." www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
bbc.com
The American coast that refused to let African culture die
Along the US's South-eastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Doctors still have many questions about immune amnesia, such as whether children should be revaccinated after having measles, said Healy… Doctors can’t easily predict “which parts of the immune system have been wiped out by the measles infection,” Titanji said” @boghuma.bsky.social
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Immune amnesia resulting from measles is often overlooked. “People get measles, and then afterwards they will have recurrent ear infections or pneumonia, but they don’t tie it back to measles. They think, ‘Oh, this is just bad luck that I happen to have this ear infection or that I got pneumonia.’”
cidrap.umn.edu
Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brazilian government calls for probe into US funding of far-right causes www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10... #Brazil
aljazeera.com
Brazilian government calls for probe into US funding of far-right causes
Report stating that Trump administration directed funds towards right-wing groups comes ahead of presidential election.
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Rose Broderick @rosebroderick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The CDC wants to redesign its annual health survey. Their proposed changes would make people with intellectual and developmental disabilities "invisible." www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...
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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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alberta's Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
thetyee.ca
Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In a small kidney cancer trial, nine people received an experimental vaccine tailored to their own tumors. None experienced a recurrence during a median follow-up of roughly three years and four months after surgery. www.sciencealert.com/nine-patient...
sciencealert.com
Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence.
How do you teach the immune system to recognize a cancer cell? Researchers are taking clues from the tumor itself, selecting unusual protein fragments and putting them into a vaccine.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People w Long COVID are stigmatized & ignored throughout society. In prison, it's a situation of almost total silence. Despite very high COVID infection rates, there's no talk abt Long COVID cases. That's a result of the way prisons treat medical needs in general. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
thesicktimes.org
I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is quite the graph from a new retrospective cohort study in Neurology: “In conclusion, football is the leading cause of sports-related traumatic brain injury in children and young adults, and its risks are amplified by institutional promotion despite decades of accumulating evidence of harm.”
Figure one: age breakdown of traumatic brain injuries by activity. The graph clearly shows that American tackle football has the highest number of traumatic brain injuries.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Trump has been obsessed with "good genes" for decades. If you need proof, check his record of eugenicist and ableist comments he has espoused all the way back to the 1980s.
motherjones.com
Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics
A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tip of the iceberg www.newsweek.com/one-in-eight...
newsweek.com
1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide linked to infections
One in eight of the cancer cases worldwide in 2024 are believed to have been caused by infections, a new study by the IARC found.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"John Richard Green, who is imprisoned in Texas, wrote that, w/ Long COVID, his health is “more messed up than the floor of a New York cab...Now I am bedbound, sick, and all alone." Vital feature by @octoberk.bsky.social about the disease's invisibility in prison. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
thesicktimes.org
I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds" #COVID19 #LongCOVID www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
cidrap.umn.edu
More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 28/09/2026
On this day in 1868, violence erupted in Opelousas, Louisiana, when white residents resentful of African Americans' new voting rights attacked and killed hundreds of people.
calendar.eji.org
Sep. 28, 1868 | White Mobs Massacre Black Community in Opelousas, Louisiana
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:
jezebel.com
Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...
npr.org
The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits
In the 1950s and 1960s, doctors gave the drug thalidomide to pregnant patients without telling them — and without FDA approval. Now those patients' children want recognition.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tragic. “”None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The learning curve among doctors, he said, is “very steep.””
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Ingwit @ingwit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
POIROT: Peruse if you will the Lady Sinema's record of voting. Poirot he notices the mademoiselle, she is not exactly the art lover 𝘱𝘢𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘯𝘰𝘯? CHIEF INSPECTOR JAPP: [speaking entirely through his nose] Now look 'ere Pwaahroh,
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AfD bans Stolpersteine: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I cannot ignore this now, as I have never been able to ignore it before, because getting the science wrong leads to the wrong policy frame: if you believe that you can prevent every outbreak simply by living in harmony with nature, there is no reason to invest in preparedness or health systems.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This narrative is part of a broader one that places the blame for pandemic risk on the Global South, and demands that they think less about how colonialism has entrenched poverty and denied them vaccines, and think more about how to responsibly manage their rainforests and wildlife populations.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In reality, we now also know that persistent viral infection in Ebola survivors is not only a possible source of new outbreaks, but in fact a very serious problem - one that gets worse when we have major outbreaks, such as the 2014 epidemic in West Africa, or the current Bundibugyo virus outbreak.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1. A basic, and massive, scientific error. David states unambiguously that Ebola outbreaks end with the last human case, and cannot re-emerge without zoonotic spillover. This is categorically false, and has been consequentially false in just the last few years.
Some human-infecting animal viruses are known to spill over into humans and spill back into nature. The Covid virus has spread somehow from human carriers into white-tailed deer across the American Midwest. But there’s no evidence that Ebola virus has ever spilled back into the forest. Under natural circumstances, the outbreak lineage comes to a dead end when the last human patient recovers or dies.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Greenfield Recorder did a follow up, and unlike the Globe actually provided decent info on Long COVID/COVID instead of mocking disabled people for clicks. recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...
recorder.com
Greenfield takes stock of viral attention: Businesses, officials weigh in after coverage of lesbian bar Last Ditch takes national spotlight - Greenfield Recorder
Local leaders and business owners defend Greenfield's Last Ditch bar amid a viral dispute over Saturday night masking policies.
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Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks so much to the great science writer George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for once again covering the ongoing systemic neglect and abuse of patients w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis Essential reading for #pwME, #MedSky, and allies: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Examples of researchers talking about how many people volunteering for studies as healthy controls turn out to have Long Covid:
Tweet from Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab

Of all the "COVID-recovered" people who are kindly emailing us to participate in our study (meaning they had COVID >12 weeks ago and feel recovered), only about 1 in 5 are actually passing our screening questionnaire. The rest actually have persistent symptoms. #LongCOVID

1:18 PM • 2/23/22 From EarthScreenshot from CNN Health

Putrino said they had the most difficult time, in some respects, recruiting people to their control groups. "We had all of these people saying, 'I had Covid, and I'm fully recovered. Can I be in your study?' "

Upon further questioning, however, Putrino says they'd tell him things that would suggest they weren't really back to normal. "They'd say, I'm fully recovered. I just don't go to the gym anymore.' " Why don't you go to the gym anymore? 'Well, when I exercise, I feel really terrible," he said. Disabling fatigue after exercise is a common symptom of long Covid called post-exertional malaise.

He says that ultimately, about 50% of participants who were screened to be part of the control group couldn't be included because of continuing symptoms.Tweet from Alba Azola, MD
@AzolaAlba

For those doing LC research... around you having trouble finding controls? We are experiencing that most of our "HC" volunteers, when further assessed, end up having post COVID symptoms

9:56 AM • 8/8/24 From Earth • 6.2K Views
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am so desperate for someone to publish their data on how many of “healthy control” volunteers screened positive for Long Covid. I’ve been hearing of this problem for years, I think it would be so valuable to document it.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
“Members often don tattoos with their gang’s logo. The “Compton Executioners” tattoo depicts a skeleton sporting a helmet and holding a rifle with flames in the background. The tattoo is reportedly earned when a deputy kills a civilian while on duty.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
“Since 1973, 27 gangs or subgroups have been identified through lawsuits & reports compiled by the department’s independent oversight bodies. The gangs have operated out of patrol stations & inside the county’s jails, giving themselves names like the “Banditos,” “Regulators,” and “Lynwood Vikings.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
npr.org
How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These wooden beads will turn you into Matthew McConaughey
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lack of insurance coverage for RSV immunization in hospitals leaves newborns unprotected publications.aap.org/aapnews/news... via @ameracadpeds.bsky.social
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Lack of insurance coverage for RSV immunization in hospitals leaves newborns unprotected
As RSV season approaches in much of the country, the AAP and others are fighting for more babies to get immunized before leaving the hospital at birth instead of waiting for a pediatrician visit. But hospitals are running into roadblocks like the high cost of the immunizations and a struggle with insurance companies to negotiate a new payment structure for them.
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