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Priya Pal MD PhD

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Infectious disease physician. HIV basic and translational science researcher. @ WashUMed Views are my own and do not represent my employer

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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Are you a healthcare worker, watching all these attacks on our patients and wanting to make a difference? It's time for us IN Healthcare to take back healthcare! Our collective voices have the power to make a difference. Join @protecthealthcare.medsky.social
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Missouri Republicans are hell bent on gerrymandering the state to strip YOU of YOUR vote They also plan to remove the initiative petition process, our only ability to influence policy when state legislators refuse to do their job If you're not OK with this, join the fight @mojwjva.bsky.social
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 18/06/2025
Without changes, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley fears the "big beautiful bill" would mean "there’s going to be a lot of rural hospitals in Missouri that close." #moleg #mogov
missouriindependent.com
GOP senators warn mega-bill’s new Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals • Missouri Independent
GOP senators have debated the tax and spending cut legislation for weeks, with concerns about Medicaid cuts lingering.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Our breakdown of the MAHA report: We shouldn't sanction unnecessary, inhumane deaths from lack of access to healthcare #SaveMedicaid Details matter Vaccines are one of the greatest gifts of medicine @protecthealthcare.medsky.social @drrobdavidson.bsky.social #PagingAmerica youtu.be/tQkd2GbsyfI?...
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“Everybody Dies” and Other GOP Hot Takes
YouTube video by Paging America
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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
frustrating, but I'm not particularly worried. Sup Ct. didn't say the judge was wrong, but that they're adopting a new rule specific to enjoining statutes (that comes from a federal abortion case). don't see a ton of difference, so I think judge will apply different caselaw & reach the same result
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Missouri Supreme Court puts state abortion ban back into effect for now
Two rulings from a Kansas City judge had allowed abortions in the state to resume while a challenge to its near-total ban proceeded to trial.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A lot of people can talk, but actions speak louder. The MO GOP thinks Missourians -don't deserve access to comprehensive healthcare -nor the ability to care for their loved ones when sick -nor a liveable wage -nor the right for their vote to count Remember this at the ballot box
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Committee to Protect Health Care @protecthealthcare.medsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cutting Medicaid means cutting off care for the most vulnerable. Dr. Christine Crader joined fellow MI doctors, leaders, & advocates yesterday to urge @RepJames: protect the care your constituents rely on — don’t take it away. #ProtectMedicaid #PatientsOverProfits
Large quotation mark in a coral color at the top of a graphic with quotes listed below that say: There is simply no way to make cuts the size they want to make without taking Medicaid away from seniors; without taking health care away from children; without taking health care away from veterans with chronic conditions." and the Committee to Protect Health Care's logo is centered at the bottom of the image.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 29/04/2025
Missouri’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, the voter-approved law expanding paid sick leave set to go into effect Thursday. It was a unanimous opinion but one judge dissented on the reasoning. #moleg #mogov via @clarabates.bsky.social
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Missouri Supreme Court upholds voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
Missouri’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition A, the voter-approved law expanding paid sick leave and increasing the minimum wage.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Working at a tertiary care referral center in the Midwest, we have the privilege of meeting and caring for so many: lawyers to rural farmers. We see urban and rural poverty. There are a lot of forces that work to pit urban vs rural communities Medicaid is a lifeline to both and must be saved.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Everybody has bad days, what you don't want is someone having a bad day with a gun in their hand making unmodifiable decisions they will regret and cant take back. More guns don't save lives This could have just been a fist fight, now people are dead
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one. No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.
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MO Jobs with Justice Voter Action @mojwjva.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
From STL to Springfield, Columbia to KC — workers rallied to defend what we fought for. @moworkers.org Prop A wasn’t a gift. It was won by hard-working Missourians who organized, voted, and showed up. We’re not letting them take it away. #ProtectPropA #MOleg #POPSRally
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 11/04/2025
🎉 Today, #MOworkers and allies with @mojwjva.bsky.social from Kansas City to St. Louis came together to celebrate and spread the word that #PaidSickDays will go into effect starting May 1!
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Good job investing in public schools KC!
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MO Jobs with Justice Voter Action @mojwjva.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Written by one of MO JwJ's leaders, Priya Pal @priyapal.bsky.social "Proposition A provided critical health benefits while economically uplifting Missourians." Lawmakers shouldn’t undermine Missouri’s voter-approved paid sick leave law missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
missouriindependent.com
Lawmakers shouldn't undermine Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
In health care, we know the cost of a lack of access to care, we see the daily impacts people suffer from. We frequently see patients with illnesses that have progressed beyond simple interventions. W...
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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"respiratory infection and gastrointestinal infection outbreaks were nearly 40% lower in nursing homes that offered paid sick leave to employees" by @priyapal.bsky.social: missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
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Lawmakers shouldn't undermine Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
In health care, we know the cost of a lack of access to care, we see the daily impacts people suffer from. We frequently see patients with illnesses that have progressed beyond simple interventions. W...
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Proposition A is a Missouri-made solution that puts workers and businesses on the path to long-term prosperity. We must stand firm against efforts to roll back this progress. A stronger, healthier Missouri benefits us all.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Proposition A is a Missouri-made solution that puts workers and businesses on the path to long-term prosperity. We must stand firm against efforts to roll back this progress. A stronger, healthier Missouri benefits us all. missouriindependent.com/2025/03/21/2...
missouriindependent.com
Lawmakers shouldn't undermine Missouri's voter-approved paid sick leave law • Missouri Independent
In health care, we know the cost of a lack of access to care, we see the daily impacts people suffer from. We frequently see patients with illnesses that have progressed beyond simple interventions. W...
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
While MO GOP Reps vote to gut MO Medicaid which covers 1 in 5 MO adults and 40% MO children, state GOP reps are working to divert your hard earned tax dollars to crisis pregnancy centers (pursue non- evidenced based practices that have landed women in the hospital) By @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Yes! A People's Town Hall in MO-02 since Ann Wagner hasn't held one in 12 years!!
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Paid sick leave is an important public health policy that allows workers to care for their families during unanticipated illnesses. The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters. If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Paid sick leave is an important public health policy that allows workers to care for their families during unanticipated illnesses. The MO legislature is trying to undo paid sick leave and the will of voters. If you're a MO healthcare worker, please consider signing on with your support ⏬️
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Not only is this a waste of taxpayer dollars, but will fuel undue skepticism in safe vaccines and lead to more outbreaks like the ongoing measles outbreak abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-s...
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CDC to study vaccines and autism, despite several studies already finding no link
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines cause autism, despite numerous existing studies already showing there is no link.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Healthcare access for rural America is already limited. Many drive >1hr for care Medicaid/CHIP provides 79 mil Americans access to healthcare & prop up many rural hospitals Republican proposed cuts would gut rural healthcare just to provide billionaires higher tax breaks.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Public education is not for sale Our postal service isn't for sale Public parks aren't for sale Social security & Medicare aren't entitlement programs If you want to know what happens when public goods are sold to corporations, look no further than Britain under Tory rule youtu.be/qj-gAUaUF-4?...
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The Corporate Con.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Nice job DOGE, way to reduce a waste of taxpayer dollars 😞
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
abcnews.go.com/Health/texas...
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Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, largest in over 30 years
A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 90 cases, mostly among unvaccinated children, state health data published Friday shows.
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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is better than I would have guessed, sadly. Half of Congress doesn’t seem to know there are three branches of government.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excellent piece!
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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Me on our representatives’ refusal to represent us as Trump and Musk burn everything down: missouriindependent.com/2025/02/17/w...
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We need our senators to choose Missouri over MAGA in Trump’s war on the Constitution • Missouri Independent
Trump won big in our state, but that does not relieve Hawley and Schmitt of their obligation to defend what is owed to Missourians.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Evening on Karl Johan Street, by Edvard Munch, 1892
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
After a couple of injuries, so excited to be getting back the muscle💪 ✅️ clapping push-ups Next real pull-ups!
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Committee to Protect Health Care @protecthealthcare.medsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our love language? Accessible and affordable health care for all. 💖 This Valentine's Day, let's show some love for the policies that protect our health and our loved ones' health.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, protect Medicaid so it can protect you." text on a lavender purple background, with conversation heart candies with "xoxo" printed on them as a border around the text. 5 larger conversation hearts are below the text and say "protect seniors' care," "ACA is bae," "healthy hearts," "healthy families," and "protect kids' care."
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Bridgette Dunlap @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It's happening! Legal abortion in Missouri is happening!!!!!!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/02/2025
BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols - a Trump appointee - announced he will pause Trump’s effort to gut USAID. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Judge to pause Trump administration effort to gut USAID's workforce by thousands
Two labor groups had sued the Trump administration after it said that thousands of USAID employees would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's been a rough 2wks for the nation, but now is not the time for complacency. We cannot afford to gamble with the health of our patients. Call your senators now and urge them to reject RFK Jrs. nomination for HHS secretary
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Committee to Protect Health Care @protecthealthcare.medsky.social · 02/02/2025
Not all ingredients belong in your cake… such as avian flu 😬 #H5N1 #ScienceMatters #RFKJr #BakeandLearn #MedSky
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
She lost her life serving our country and because of the smears by the President her family doesn’t want us to know her name. It’s two weeks and this Administration is the most shameful imaginable. — Army withholds name of Black Hawk helicopter crew in D.C. crash www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
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Army withholds name of Black Hawk helicopter crew in D.C. crash, 2 others identified
A U.S. military official told NPR on Friday that at the request of the family the Army is not going to release the name of the female crew member. The withholding of the name is a highly unusual move.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My ride or die crew for the last 25yrs A lot has changed over the last quarter century, but my love for them has not. We all live in different cities and only get to meet up ~once a year now, but it fuels my soul
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Why would RFK advise the public to not get the HPV vaccine (a vaccine which has prevented 90% HPV assoc cancers: oropharyngeal, vaginal, rectal, cervical, vulvar, penile) ->because he has earned >1 million from referral fees, benefits and salary on the lawsuit against Merck
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Today the largest cost of healthcare comes from those that contribute little to actually health delivery, middlemen like insurance companies and PBMs. If every doctor worked probono. It would only reduce national costs by 8%
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Alcohol is our generations tobacco, will we be brave enough to embrace that?
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Raw /unpasteurized milk contains bacteria & parasites that cause disease. Pasteurization* removes the pathogens w/out changing nutritional content. There is an ongoing H5N1 outbreak among dairy cattle with 37 people infected. Loosening restrictions will hurt your constituents
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
We've lost a moral giant who embodied humility. President Jimmy Carter was a visionary leader and a singularly good person, and his remarkable lifetime of service—from Plains, Georgia to the White House and beyond—exemplified the best of what America could be.
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Priya Pal MD PhD @priyapal.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
There has been no scientific discovery that has had a greater positive impact on human health than vaccines. www.who.int/news/item/24... We need scientists/ physicians/ public health experts running HHS not RFK Jr. His appointment would have devastating consequences around the globe
who.int
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
A major landmark study reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast m...
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Jason Hancock @jasonhancock.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
. @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social writes this morning in an opinion piece that after arguing Amendment 3 would lead to “unregulated, and unrestricted abortions" in Missouri, the attorney general's office now says the state can continue to regulate abortion. #moleg #mogov
missouriindependent.com
Missouri anti-abortion officials lied to multiple courts (and voters) about Amendment 3 • Missouri Independent
Anti-abortion officials in Missouri like Attorney General Andrew Bailey lied to multiple courts (and voters) about Amendment 3.
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