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Nirmala Parajuli, MD

@parajulinirmala.medsky.social
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Mom, Pediatrician, passionate about child health and safety #EndGunViolence #VaccinesSaveLives “Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see” - Mark Twain

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MassShootingTracker @massshootingtrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
America's gun psychopathy continues: *413* mass shootings so far in 2026: 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Anchorage, Alaska: www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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4 hurt in shooting outside Spenard bar after closing, owner and Anchorage police say
The shooting took place in an alley behind Chilkoot Charlie’s after the bar closed at 3 a.m., said Doran Powell, one of the watering hole’s owners.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ Our Bluesky friend Ashley is fighting Stage 4 cancer, and her insurance company refuses to pay for most procedures, calling them experimental. Let’s get Ashley across the finish line. Please chip in $28, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000—or whatever you can. Click: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-mom...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Me again. Ashley desperately needs help b/c she can't get the testing and treatment she needs for her Stage 4 cancer b/c her insurance company turns her down! We need to raise $750 by this Sunday so can you chip in only $10 or $18, $25, $50, $100 or more? Click: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-mom...
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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐆 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🌻🦋 @dougieg633.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👀 👇 🌹 💙 🌹 🫂
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MassShootingTracker @massshootingtrk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
America's gun psychopathy continues: *407* mass shootings so far in 2026: 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Mesa, Ariz.: www.abc15.com/news/local-n...
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3 men, 1 woman hospitalized following shooting in Mesa
Four people were hospitalized and a person has been detained following a shooting in Mesa Tuesday, according to the Mesa Police Department.
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Ashley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Paid sick leave doesn't exist, including for #cancer patients like me. #MitchMcConnell took 92 PAID days off (and frankly continues to), directly benefiting from a policy he denies the rest of us. Meanwhile I'm teaching 5th grade every day so I don't lose benefits & income. Please help & SHARE! ❤️
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 18/09/2026
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” - Dr. Jill Biden💖✨ #Pinks
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RFKJr clearly feeling confident about the changes he can continue make and accelerate as he goes full anti-vaccine at the Children’s Health Defense conference
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RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, I wonder why there aren't more headlines about this imaginary thing that does not happen?
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What happened A study published in JAMA Network Open found that immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) reduced 97% of intensive care admissions in infected infants.
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RSV vaccination reduced ICU admissions in babies by 97% - Sinaptica
What happened A study published in JAMA Network Open found that immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) reduced 97% of intensive care admissions
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Two doses of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine are recommended, the first between ages 12 and 15 months and the second between ages 4 and 6. One dose is 93% effective, and two doses are 97% effective against measles. abcnews.com/Health/hospi...
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How hospitals, clinics in Pennsylvania are responding to the measles outbreak
Doctors working in measles-hit areas of Pennsylvania discuss with ABC News how they are responding as the state battles an outbreak.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A heartwarming moment where a stranger patiently connects with an abandoned stray dog ​​who didn't trust humans. Calm, kindness, and love ultimately prevail. Original post
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/09/2026
Dr. Sloan shares her personal story as abortion meds face another court challenge: A miscarriage is not a political event for women experiencing it… It’s a medical event, often an emotionally devastating one. Been there. I’ve had two miscarriages, and this medication potentially saved my life.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Three Dead in Pennsylvania Measles-linked deaths since Health and Human Services RFK Jr. took office have surpassed those recorded in the previous 20 years combined. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Pennsylvania reports apparent third measles-related death amid outbreak
Jefferson county coroner says 40-year-old woman died on Saturday, while two infants died with disease in August
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SaxAddict 🎷 🇺🇸 @saxaddict.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cuteness overload.
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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
School bans on smartphones get real. #pediatrics
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Beauty without AI
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to meet my new friend…
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Awesome ❤️
A mother elephant and her baby hugging each other with their trunks
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is pediatrics great? No question. Are children just little adults with little problems. No, not at all, actually. So it’s easy then? I’d say to answer that properly, ask a pediatric med student or intern who’s met a few infants and kids. #graphicmedicine
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yep.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My books on poliovirus and the race between Salk, Sabin, Kiprowski on the vaccine
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The secretary had no business ​interfering in the normal process. He has an anti-vaccine agenda and he's using this to play out his anti-vaccine agenda.” -Dr. Georges Benjamin, CEO of @apha.org. And I’m sure RFK Jr. didn’t “ask”. He ordered the CDC Director to remove the deaths. And she did it.
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EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease c...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sometimes I can’t even fully process the catastrophe that RFK Jr. has unleashed upon the United States. It is infuriating and demoralizing that tens of thousands of scientists and healthcare professionals banded together to oppose his confirmation, and Republicans just blithely ignored us all.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 29/08/2026
people.com/newborn-baby...
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Pa. Mom Says Her Newborn Was Exposed to Measles in Hospital NICU: ‘He’s Already Had to Overcome So Many Battles’
Brittany Nicole Sponenberg’s newborn was exposed to measles while in the NICU at Geisinger Medical Center. The hospital has since updated its visitor screening protocols as measles cases in the U.S. r...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I had to oversee my late grandmother’s affairs when she was on hospice care. She was put on hospice care and then taken off it when she sufficiently recovered, put back on it again months later, and then eventually passed. RFK is mad hospice is helping keep people alive.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“As a physician, I want to make sure that people understand that the MMR vaccine is safe and provides the best protection we have against measles.”
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Because measles was largely eliminated in the Commonwealth for more than three decades, people are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity of the illness,” Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen wrote in a statement.”
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Horrible news. “Two people have died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s health department confirmed Tuesday. Both people were unvaccinated. They are the first such deaths in the U.S. this year, and the first in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 35 years.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak
The deaths are the first measles-related fatalities in the U.S. this year. Both people had not been vaccinated against the illness.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trust Fund Terry (@trustfundterry)

Funny prank idea: make people study for 15+ years while putting them in extreme debt and then replace them with AI
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/08/2026
NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/08/2026
NEWS: Trump has signed an executive order overhauling the childhood vaccine schedule, pushing to separate vaccines into multiple appointments and split up the MMR shot. Medical experts warn the changes could leave children vulnerable to dangerous diseases for longer.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Meanwhile, people have started dying from explosive diarrhea but Republicans refuse to demand that RFK fixes that shit.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.
cnn.com
Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics
Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
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I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They were hero’s to us, they worked nonstop in a hellish landscape of uncertainty & death. RFK Jr belittles them every time he opens that pus filled trap hole. Covid happened & it was horrific.This morning’s FU is dedicated to him & every MAGA that says otherwise - bunch of cuntwombling toads
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Thank You Frontline Workers
Alt: Thank You Frontline Workers
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We are all just lucky that #cyclospora is generally not fatal and people recover. Absolutely if there’s another #virus with a case fatality rate >5% in the next 3 years we will have #bubonicplague in #Europe level deaths and #healthcare workers won’t even have trash bags to wear
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 31/07/2026
All due respect, if you didn’t look like this in the spring of 2020, I don’t really care about your opinion of Dr Fauci
3/2020: me in the ICU about to intubate a COVID patient for the first time
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
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