Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is the fastest growing Ebola outbreak on record 111
Reposted by Pratik PawarAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)giveinmay.orgSupport Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In MayAlex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS. 13935181500
Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 30/04/2026When Trump began dismantling foreign aid last year, a lot of people were rightly worried about PEPFAR - the US program that has provides HIV care around the world. We finally have (some) official data, and I tried making sense of it here Story link below: 100
Reposted by Pratik PawarGreg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Vox: What really happened after Trump slashed HIV funding by by Pratik Pawar @vox.com @pratik-p.bsky.social bit.ly/4cS1VRI 031
Reposted by Pratik PawarVox @vox.com · 13/04/2026Ozempic is now significantly cheaper in India than in the US. Why? The patent on semaglutide expired in India, allowing drugmakers to start making their own version at a fraction of the cost. 32616
Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Ozempic just got a lot cheaper in India, as low as $14 vs $349 in the US For a country with 100 million diabetics and some of the highest heart disease rates in the world, this is kind of a big deal. @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...vox.comOzempic just got cheap enough to change the worldWhy the $14 drug could reshape global health. 0219
Reposted by Pratik PawarJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026New reporting on what has happened to science under the Trump administration and HHS leadership, building on publicly available NIH grants data. Take-away: across-the-board cuts are reducing our capacity to discover & serve. Out today, via @pratik-p.bsky.social 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe... 12112
Reposted by Pratik PawarSeth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026New piece from @pratik-p.bsky.social on the frightening increase in parents now declining the Hep B vaccine for their newborns. www.vox.com/health/48175...vox.comAmerica’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health dataRKF Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened. 022
Reposted by Pratik PawarPaige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Dengue already kills thousands every year and by 2080, nearly 60% of the world’s population will be vulnerable. So when a company walks away from a drug w/ major promise—bcuz they won't make enough $$ from it—the stakes are much higher. @pratik-p.bsky.social/@vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...vox.comThe biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problemNo one wants to make it. 04714
Reposted by Pratik PawarMIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025On the GPSW website today: @pratik-p.bsky.social's story for @vox.com on a historic flip in child malnutrition: www.vox.com/future-perfe...vox.comFor the first time, more kids are obese than underweightThe year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart. 011
Reposted by Pratik PawarMIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Check out the results of the Class of 2025's investigation into health inequities in Boston. The first installment from @Anika Jane Beamer, Nanticha Ocharoenchai, @pratik-p.bsky.social, and Paulina (Paula) Rowińska was just published on @gbhnews.bsky.social: www.wgbh.org/news/health/...wgbh.orgWhen you’re sick in Mattapan, where do you go?A new report highlights the lack of critical care facilities in Mattapan, as health disparities persist despite decades of promises. 011
Reposted by Pratik PawarAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why. 93759798
Reposted by Pratik PawarDeborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down. 15347933070
Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 16/08/202325 countries have reported cholera outbreaks since the beginning of this year. Researchers say that public health officials have all the tools necessary to stop cholera. If that’s the case, why are cholera outbreaks still a thing in 2023? I report for Undark:undark.orgThe World Is Not Prepared for Another Cholera WaveSanitation and vaccination can prevent cholera. But recent outbreaks highlight obstacles to stopping the disease. 050