This Exec Order does several things to get around #SCOTUS#RoeVsWadeOverturned :
1.) Sec @HHSGov has 30 dys to submit to @POTUS a list of actions "to protect and expand access to #abortion care, including medication abortion"
2.) HRSA must expand "free or reduced cost- "
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2/ "...reproductive healthcare services through Title X clinics
3.) promote "awareness of & access to the full range of contraceptive services, as well as know-your-rights info"
4.) "ensure that all pregnant women & those experiencing pregnancy loss, such as miscarriages..."
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3/ "...and ectopic pregnancies -- receive the full protections for ER medical care afforded under the law"
5.) the Attorney General and the Counsel to the President are ordered to convene legal experts to provide pro bono aid to women & their health & contraception providers
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4/ 6.) "address the potential threat to patient privacy caused by the transfer & sale of sensitive health-related data & by digital surveillance related to reproductive healthcare"
7.) instruct Attorney Gen & Chair of the FTC to investigate fraudulent women's health services
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5/ 8.) Attorney Gen "shall provide technical assis concerning Federal constitutional protections to States seeking to afford legal protection to out-of-State patients"
My read: These should be codified into law by Congress.
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On July 4, 1852 the good people of Rochester, NY invited abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass to deliver the speech of the day. He spoke to the white audience of "YOUR independence..."
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2/ "Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me."
3/ "The sunlight that brought life & healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This #FourthofJuly is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous..."
The Congressional Subcomm has finished it's questioning of Deborah Birx, whose most damning comments were directed at Dr. Scott Atlas.
Atlas testified in closed session -- transcript was released: coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrat…
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2/Key points of Atlas testimony:
- "investigation uncovered internal memoranda used by Dr. Atlas to push the #Trump Admin to jettison proven mitigation measures & deliberately reduce testing—months before the first #coronavirus#vaccines were available to the public."
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3/ - "memo criticized #pandemic resp strategy advocated by mainstream publ hlth officials: 'Stopping all cases is not necessary, nor possible. It instills irrational fear into the public.' And "widespread testing 'sets up an unattainable goal that is harming this president.”
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2/ It begins with a June 8 press release investors.modernatx.com/news/news-deta…
which describes a "bivalent #COVID booster candidate, mRNA-1273.214, containing mRNA-1273 (Spikevax) and a vaccine candidate targeting the #Omicron variant."
Further details about this Spikevax are proprietary.
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3/ Now @moderna_tx tells us in only 3 paragraphs of real info that this mysterious ultra-booster #Omicron#vaccine in clinical trial, " mRNA-1273.214 boosted neutralizing titers against BA.4/BA.5 by 5.4-fold above baseline"
Sounds exciting...BUT:
- what's the "baseline"
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While the Jan6 hearing is underway, other members of #Congress released dox proving that #Trump admin delayed actions to control #COVID19 because they were pushing bogus "herd immunity" schemes. coronavirus.house.gov
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2/ "The embrace of this strategy enabled #Trump Admin officials to justify forgoing meaningful action to curb the spread of the virus when no #Vaccines were available & treatments were limited, likely contributing to many preventable deaths in the fall & winter of 2020-21."
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3/ "senior officials in the previous Admin embraced a dangerous & discredited herd immunity via mass infection strategy promoted by non-expert advisers like Dr. Scott Atlas & recklessly allowed the #coronavirus to infect Americans before vaccines were widely available."
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LIVE now: U.S. Senate
Update on the Ongoing Federal Response to #COVID19: Current Status and Future Planning
Witnesses:
Rochelle Walensky @CDCDirector
Anthony Fauci @niaid director
Robert Califf @US_FDA commissioner
Dawn O'Connell @HHSGov assist secretary help.senate.gov/hearings/an-up…
Tough questions from Sen. Burr -- "Tell me what the plan is for ending this epidemic."
Action steps?
As usual, @SenRandPaul is asking #Fauci hostile questions. His issue today is questioning whether there is any evidence that any #COVID19#vaccines benefit children in any way. "Where is the proof?"
And now he's onto side effect risks...
I pulled that chart, @dominiqus -- forgetting it was from a David Leonhardt @nytimes column that @gregggonsalves correctly disputed. I acted hastily and apologize.
But many public health leaders, from the @WhiteHouse down, have been fighting to address..
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2/...the racial & economic divides in US healthcare & social determinants that are at the root of wide disparities, to our collective national shame. #COVID19 lifted some eyelids, but as you said, we need to tackle far more.
Do you think any PH efforts have helped at all?
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