Chris Amidon she/her/hers
@AmidonChris
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I believe in: nursing, vaccines, equity, gun safety, & public health. 🌈College nurse practitioner, MSN, FNP-C. 😷
Indiana, USA
Joined February 2013
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Congrats to this hard-fighting team! Finished the game 7 hours after it was scheduled to start. Special thanks to @CvilleAD & @gerold66, the MVPs whose hospitality made it possible to finish under the lights.
In an unorthodox change of plans, weather has forced us to play the remainder of the game at Crawfordsville Highschool. Game will resume shortly! #WAF
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‘Continue to talk to and trust the person you’d trust on any other issue you or your children have — your primary care physician, your pediatrician. Ask them what they think, what their societies are recommending.’ Jerome Adams on COVID vaccine guidance
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There is growing confusion about who can get a vaccine for COVID-19. Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams talks about the changes in guidance from the federal government.
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Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had less than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 90,000. Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have 10 gun deaths per year; the US has nearly 50,000. It’s the guns.
RFK JR on Mass Shootings: There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs… there could be connections with video games
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Instead of trying to rein in Trump’s authoritarian urges, the justices have become his accomplices. Commentary: https://t.co/I8Z5ycheZF
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And meals on wheels.
They cut SNAP benefits.
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Staggering numbers by the Lancet. Vaccinations have: - Averted 154 million deaths - For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average = 10.2 billion years total - Accounted for 40% of the observed decline in global infant mortality
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This is not the time for political games or unqualified leadership. It is the time to ensure that the CDC remains the trusted, science-driven agency that has protected and improved the health of millions for more than 75 years. RFK can't defend CDC chaos
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As surgeons general, we took an oath to protect Americans. It includes speaking up when public health is in danger. We see that danger now at the CDC.
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I wrote a primer on access to COVID-19 right now. It's too long for here, so I put it as a Google Doc and it can be found here:
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I send a version of this to my faculty a few days ago, and since I'm still getting questions, I revised it to be not California specific and am posting it, hoping it helps: I've been getting a lot of...
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We will spend $1 billion for absolutely nothing.
National Security expert Glenn Ignazio says it's going to cost nearly $1 billion to rename the Department of Defense to Department of War, won’t change how it operates, and it's mostly symbolic.
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RFK Jr grew up as an untouchable rich kid who introduced his younger siblings to hard drugs & avoided consequences for being a degenerate because of his name. Reminder that his younger brother, David, fatally overdosed at the age of 28, while his first wife killed herself.
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Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE: White House reveals it will bring back the Department of War name for the Department of Defense.🚨🚨
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Wild—Bernie Sanders asks: “On one side we have the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Public Health Association experts saying vaccines safe and effective, who is on your side? RFK Jr: um um… [names a few whackos] https://t.co/VUkh36stqo
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Public health protects us all — often quietly, behind the scenes. Now, it needs our voices. Eight former CDC directors and I, spanning Presidents Carter to Trump, share why recent actions put America’s health security at risk.
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A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial https://t.co/OpjuNu72Wo
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