Thread by @tallyardstick

Folks, it's my birthday. Please sign this petition as a birthday gift to me.
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Rural America needs your voices to reach lawmakers. Please retweet and ask your followers to sign.

A quarter of the physician workforce is on a visa. 70% of those work in underserved and rural areas. Think about those numbers. Do this for your physician colleague who may die at a ripe old age as a "temporary worker" despite serving Americans for decades.

Almost a whopping 10% of COVID-19 in the US has been reported in healthcare workers. This colleague is putting their life and families' legal status at risk during this pandemic. Without them, the physician infrastructure will collapse in many hospitals.

I do not have as many followers, but those with more followers, please ask your followers, employers to sign. @MKIttlesonMD @BldCancerDoc @DrSidMukherjee @IDdocAdi @laxswamy @ShariqShamimMD @VincentRK @gradydoctor

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Thanks to everyone who has signed and retweeted. UPDATE: The Senate and the house are both considering measures to provide immigrant physicians some form of relief thanks to your advocacy.

Keep spreading the word and signing this link. Need the lawmakers to understand that American citizens care about the essential healthcare that immigrant physicians have been providing them for years.

Each one of you will encounter immigrant physicians if you need any form of healthcare; please do this for them. They need you and you need them. #ImmigrantHealthHeroes

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