Some have given up on masking as they think there's no point if masks can't singlehandedly eradicate a virus (a right wing talking point). What they're missing is that higher risk people can't even get healthcare due to a lack of masking. Masks make essential spaces accessible.
Notices by Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com), page 4
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 03:25:03 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: -
Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 23:36:04 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: City of Hope in Duarte, California, has maintained masking requirements, and this has prevented hospital-acquired #COVID19 there entirely, according to Vijay Trisal, MD, chief medical officer at City of Hope.
“Our policies enabled us to achieve zero nosocomial infections, zero outbreaks.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 19:14:43 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Great news: Free KN95 masks are now available from public health vending machines in NYC.
This is amazing work! Not everyone can afford to buy high quality masks regularly. If we want more people to wear masks, high quality masks should be available for free everywhere. Having them in public health vending machines in NYC is a great first step!
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 14:39:19 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: As #COVID rates rise, new variants spread, and hospitals, schools, and workplaces are reinstating mask mandates, the CDC is preparing to weaken guidelines for infection control in healthcare settings (again). https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/08/21/cdc-poised-to-weaken-masking-infection-control/?sh=e3e6a3525174
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 15:46:05 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Heartbroken for Maui. How much longer will we sit and watch things burn before we truly act like our house is on fire?
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 18:53:33 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: "The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.
The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.
Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."
— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Jul-2023 16:03:20 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: What motivates antivaxxers? Their harmful grift is extremely profitable.
RFK Jr earned $1.5M from suing Merck over their HPV vaccine, and he earned over $500K from his "non-profit" Children’s Health Defense, which spreads disinformation about vaccines.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 01:55:17 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Reminder: The tools that protect us from #COVID — masks, air filters, and structural policies like expanded healthcare access — are the tools that we need to protect us from the #climate crisis, which is causing a decrease in air quality and increase of disease outbreaks.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 16:33:39 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: When a billionaire wants to tell you what is morally wrong, always ignore them. Their goal is to pit workers against each other so that they can preserve their own wealth and power.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/elon-musk-work-from-home-morally-wrong/
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 06:09:38 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: In the UK they are stopping people who are wearing a mask from voting. It’s unacceptable to exclude high risk people from democracy.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 01:28:05 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: "The goal of oppressors is to limit your imagination about what is possible without them, so you might never imagine more for yourself and the world you live in. Imagine something better. Get curious about what it actually takes to make it happen. Then fight for it every day." — Ashley C. Ford
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 07:36:43 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Great illustration of how astroturf groups and unchecked opinion pieces create doubt in science. Sound familiar?
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 01:44:03 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Wanting more #COVID-19 protections because the pandemic isn't over is not an extremist position.
The real extremist position is to allow mass reinfection, death, and chronic illness to continue and exclude higher risk people out of society indefinitely.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 15:53:53 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: “I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.” —Gus Speth
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 16:25:36 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: We should always prioritize equity and justice over finding "middle ground," when middle ground continues to harm the people and communities who are most vulnerable.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 16:32:10 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Moderna says it will keep its #Covid vaccine free for all people in the U.S.—reversing course on its planned 400% price increase—one day after Bernie Sanders said he would force the CEO to testify.
Thank you, Bernie!!!
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 03:30:18 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: People who benefit from the status quo often attempt to silence the people being harmed or excluded. That's why some are horrifically punching down at immunocompromised and higher risk people right now. Don't let them stop you speaking truth to power.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 03:29:46 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: It's easy to give in to fatalism & think #COVID advocacy has achieved nothing, but that's wrong. Vaccine access, free tests & masks, funding #LongCOVID treatment, & even the reinstatement of mask mandates in some essential settings, is all the result of organizing & speaking up!
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 03:29:45 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: It's true that the government's #COVID response is far from adequate. And we could do with a lot more people and orgs helping us fight back. But we should be appreciative of the organizing that has happened, which has slowed policy from backsliding more and kept more people safe.
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 03:29:44 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Thank you to everyone who has been organizing and continues to speak up for the need for COVID protections. You have kept so many safe, and made society more accessible to everyone. Don't give up, you are making a difference!