#Health

1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in : Today, in lieu of a daily in-person update to the media, I have issued a Monday statement you can read in full here:
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Quiet revolution taking place under the surface .That's 1.3Cr families where people will have time to do something extra rather than collect water.1.3cr families relatively safer from waterborne disease &
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Today, we've teamed up with @mariecurieuk, @age_uk, @IndependentAge, & @CareEngland to get our urgent message out there.The Government needs to produce a plan on how they're going to support care
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The #NHS is trash.Imagine feeling so low & worthless in tears in a hospital ward, waiting aimlessly for 4 hrs just to be told to face that you won't be
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#SheDecides PH movement compiled #SRHR services & #GBV survivor support available around the country! #EssentialServices #telemedicine #telehealth Protecting Her Right to Decide During COVID191. Commission on Population and Development
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I'm gonna add onto this - Yes, but in case anyone didn't know, being fat isn't a risk factor for Covid. It's moreso that fat people are denied healthcare and
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The new EO, which doesn't hold legal weight, "includes a ...commitment to...protecting individuals w/ pre-ex conditions...ensuring they have access to the high-quality healthcare," stating "no American should have to risk
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For weeks now, my team has worked closely with the Trump Administration and our federal counterparts to mitigate the impact of #coronavirus in Georgia. Our decisions and direction are informed
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I agree with @BartAndrews that all mental health professionals should be required to have training in helping patients with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Suicidality appears across a diversity of mental
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Mental Health Awareness Week, mental illness and me: a thread It is Mental Health Awareness Week. Schemes like this are well meaning but can make me uncomfortable as I think
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Couple thoughts as we kick off a new week:1. Couple days of improvement data-wise in the number of infections and deaths. Hard to tell if this is β€œweekend effect” we’ve
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An admission: I am finding it far more relevant to my educational justice politics to read about organizing among/by health care workers & the unhoused than 99% of what I
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Researching for a new blog piece on equity & doing stuff in the virtual space. (Almost done...)Some of this stuff is hard to read...https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/supporting-lgbtq-students-during-social-distancing "Research suggests that
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Warning!!!! Unpopular #COVID19 opinion:Testing is not an interventionDiagnosis is not an interventionTesting and diagnosis will only have as much public health and clinical impacts as they facilitate decreasing onward transmission
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At his press conference, @CityCynthia just asked Premier Ford why he's still pursuing half measures (if that) on workplace COVID-19 outbreaks.He responded by saying β€œthe variants in the workplaces are
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Thread: While UFCW 655 is out here (rightfully) urging the governor to classify grocery employees as first responders, they are failing to put pressure on Schnucks & Dierbergs to give
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