Notices by Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com), page 3

If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

This is bad. Atlanta is proposing a blanket ban on masks. (It sounds like healthcare workers and religious face coverings might be exempt)

There is no evidence mask bans reduce crime. But mask bans do increase disease spread, violate free expression rights, and are misused to stop and frisk people of color.

Powerful. In Brooklyn, activists from the Illuminator collective projected the names of all 4,000+ children killed in Gaza and Israel so far.

(Video by @fabheen)

Friendly reminder: This is the only home we have.

UN human rights experts:
“We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide. The time for action is now. Israel’s allies also bear responsibility and must act now to prevent its disastrous course of action.”

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide

And we ask ourselves why world governments failed to contain COVID

Refugees are not collateral damage.

Children are not collateral damage.

Healthcare workers are not collateral damage.

Patients are not collateral damage.

Aid workers are not collateral damage.

Journalists are not collateral damage.

#CeasefireNOW

I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/31/middleeast/jabalya-blast-gaza-intl/index.html

If you think a ceasefire is an extremist position, then you might want to check what famously radical organizations like the United Nations, World Health Organization, UNICEF, and Doctors Without Borders are saying.

The World Health Organization says nearly two-thirds of Gaza’s health facilities have ceased functioning.

We need a ceasefire now!

Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.

That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.

“If there is not immediate intervention, thousands of Gazans will die of infections, malnutrition, and dehydration, in addition to the bombardment.

Creating a public health crisis is no way to hold people’s grief or pursue peace. We need a cease-fire now.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-public-health-ceasefire/

“The most powerful sociological force in the world today is normalisation. Through a captured media, the ruling class can make us absorb a pandemic, accept climate collapse and shrug at apartheid.”
— Nate Bear

WHO: "Health workers are now facing an agonizing choice: abandon critically ill patients amid a bombing campaign, put their own lives at risk while remaining on site to treat patients, or endanger their patients’ lives while attempting to transport them to facilities that have no capacity to receive them.

Overwhelmingly, caregivers have chosen to stay behind & honor their oaths as health professionals to “do no harm,” rather than risk moving their critically ill patients during evacuations."

Wow. This email from a UK hospital instructs healthcare workers not to test for COVID because it might keep them out of work for longer. What happened to "do no harm"?

(Source: Prof. Stephen Griffin)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_source=reddit.com

Twitter/X is now removing headlines from links and Threads/Meta is prohibiting searches of public health terms like Covid and vaccines.

Billionaires are dangerously restricting people’s access to news.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23903859/x-elon-musk-headlines-links-image-twitter

"During the two years of analysis, we estimated that 85.6 million years of life were lost due to COVID-19 in the 49 countries studied."

85.6 million years of life lost due to #COVID, but sure let's continue pretending that COVID is "just a cold."

https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0002172

5 more hospitals in New Jersey are reinstating their mask mandate due to a rise in #COVID cases.
https://abc7ny.com/make-mandate-nj-hackensack-meridian-new-jersey-hospitals/13838083/