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Pratik Pawar

@pratik-p.bsky.social
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Covering health, biomedicine, and science @vox.com. Signal: pratik.11 More info: pratik.work

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Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is the fastest growing Ebola outbreak on record
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If 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. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
When 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:
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Vox: What really happened after Trump slashed HIV funding by by Pratik Pawar @vox.com @pratik-p.bsky.social bit.ly/4cS1VRI
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Vox @vox.com · 13/04/2026
Ozempic 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.
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Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ozempic 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...
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Ozempic just got cheap enough to change the world
Why the $14 drug could reshape global health.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New 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...
The US slashed medical research grants in nearly every field, Pratik Pawar/Vox - https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/482363/nih-medical-research-grants-cut-2025?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImJsVWFZMk1PSzEiLCJwIjoiL2Z1dHVyZS1wZXJmZWN0LzQ4MjM2My9uaWgtbWVkaWNhbC1yZXNlYXJjaC1ncmFudHMtY3V0LTIwMjUiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ2MTkyOTIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzQwOTY5Mn0.DntsxOVbCb9ha3Xw0ZBEvzobSo4z6K2EWfc1qfJk728&utm_medium=gift-link
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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New 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...
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America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
RKF Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.
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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Dengue 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...
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The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem
No one wants to make it.
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
On 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...
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For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight
The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Check 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/...
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When 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.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I 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.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
From 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.
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Pratik Pawar @pratik-p.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
25 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:
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The World Is Not Prepared for Another Cholera Wave
Sanitation and vaccination can prevent cholera. But recent outbreaks highlight obstacles to stopping the disease.
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