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Peste is a magazine of health journalism and human rights. Send tips and medical debt cases to 857-242-0630 (signal) or editors@pestemag.com.
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Nov 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Today, we are publishing a small series on medical debt.

Please read, share, and contact us if you or someone you know is struggling with medical debt. We are a nonprofit with expert resources and work for free.

🧵 The hospital didn’t tell him the price. His insurance wouldn’t pay. Then they put him nearly $17k in debt.

Here’s how we helped him erase nearly all of his debt.
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Mar 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A growing chorus of prominent journalists and pundits have taken aim at proponents of a more vigorous public health response to the pandemic. From Anne Sosin (@asosin) and Martha Lincoln (@heavyredaction). pestemag.com/featured-posts… “Reflecting the pandemic’s sharply uneven impacts, Black and Hispanic Americans as well as individuals with a disability have consistently voiced greater concern about COVID and supported a stronger policy response.” pestemag.com/featured-posts…
Feb 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Vivek Murthy, the @Surgeon_General, should clarify his relationship with @calm, a software company. pestemag.com/large-scale-me… The @Surgeon_General has repeatedly plugged his partnership with the enterprise behind the meditation app @calm — a corporate software company recently valued at $2 billion. pestemag.com/large-scale-me…
Feb 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Here are questions for @AshishKJha46. We look forward to his answers.

1. You said, “In October, we’re going to reach the elderly, nursing homes, and other high-risk settings.” But by December, only 46% of nursing home residents were up to date on vaccinations. What happened?

🧵 2. @AshishKJha46, are you committed to keeping vaccines, masks, and tests free through the federal government, or does the administration still plan to "get out of that business" in 2023, as you said back in August?
Dec 30, 2022 • 31 tweets • 14 min read
The Worst Covid Takes of 2022.

How did so many in the US end up desensitized to mass death and disability, angrily opposed to almost all means of mitigating an occasionally fatal airborne virus, and willing to accept so little from the powerful? This list helps explain.

🧵 1/7/22: @DrTomFrieden: “18 months ago it was irresponsible and wrong to say: Covid is similar to the flu…Omicron is different. Now, that's basically correct.” @JuliaRaifman reminded him that day hospitalizations were at the highest of the entire pandemic:
Dec 29, 2022 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
Politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale, and so, yes, @NateSilver538, public health is about politics and power.

Here is some of our reporting on who lives, who dies, and who has blood on their hands.
🧵 Biden and public health leaders who haven’t invested in a layered approach — of masks and testing and ventilation and vaccines — blame your behavior, not theirs, for the continuing pandemic. @heavyredaction pestemag.com/large-scale-me…
Dec 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
.@TRyanGregory on the @PesteMagazine Public Health Disservice Awards: "One might imagine that when the stakes are extremely high, as they surely are when it comes to public health during a global pandemic," (1/5) "a record of accuracy, self-reflection, humility, and integrity ought to determine who is revered as an expert and given a wide platform." (2/5)
Dec 28, 2022 • 37 tweets • 18 min read
Presenting the first Public Health Disservice Awards, aka The Snowzzies, hosted by @NeoliberalSnow. We convened an advisory committee and held a public nomination process. We then invited experts to honor the recipients with essays.

Here are your winners. 🧵 Peste Magazine Public Health Disservice Awards, hosted by Ne He has no relevant expertise or knowledge. But still he wrote in the NYT things like Omicron is mild, which justified lifting mitigation efforts. His cruelty born out of hubris earns him the Snowzzie for Being Center of the Universe. He is David Leonhardt.
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Dec 16, 2022 • 24 tweets • 15 min read
He incited violence against Fauci. He predicted close to zero covid cases by April 2020. Hundreds of covid cases were reported at the Tesla Bay Area plant when he reopened despite a stay at home order. He was nominated for a Public Health Disservice Award. He is @ElonMusk. Elon Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex offender and .@ElonMusk's prediction about the end of Covid-19 by the end of April 2020, a predication which was slightly off
Sep 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
Does your university have a Covid-19 policy that seems like it was written by the Covid-19 virus itself? Let’s try to collect them all. Please share it by replying to this tweet. Curious about your schools...@prof_goldberg, @KarenGrepin, @EpiEllie, @OlufemiOTaiwo, @Ethnography911, @MonicaLPonder, @knightktm, @heavyredaction, @s_j_prins, @bbolman, @DrZackaryBerger, @joeamon, @jonlevyBU, @JuliaRaifman, @ztsamudzi