@MAHealthEquity

Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity unites healthcare workers, public health & community leaders advocating for equity in response to COVID19

 Boston, MA
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Joined March 2021
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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
JAMA Network Open@JAMANetworkOpen1 Dec 2024
Stopping universal masking and SARS-CoV-2 testing at 10 US hospitals was associated with a substantial increase in hospital-onset COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. ja.ma/3Z5fdn7
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Protect people's right to housing. Take action today to call on your State Senator to reject new provisions which would severely limit shelter access in the state. Send a letter, then call your state senator. actionnetwork.org/letters/ur…

Urge Your State Legislators to Protect the Right to Shelter in Massachusetts

We need your help in defending Massachusetts’ vital Right to Shelter—a policy that has protected vulnerable residents for over 40 years. Recently, Governor Maura Healey proposed a series of drastic...

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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
Lara Jirmanus, MD MPH@larazjmd9 Aug 2024
Yesterday we urged @MassGovernor to come to the table with housing services experts to find a solution that doesn’t throw kids and pregnant people on the streets. wbur.org/news/2024/08/08/lar… @CityLife_Clvu @homesforallmass @MAHealthEquity @MassLawReform #NoKidsOnTheStreet

Calls grow for Gov. Healey to end 5-day cap on overflow shelter stays

Medical providers, homelessness prevention workers and immigrant advocates rallied at the State House Thursday to call on state leaders to reverse a controversial cap on stays in overflow shelters....

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Massachusetts must create safer schooling options for children and staff. Sign our petition calling on the state to support opt-in public schooling that uses layers of protection like universal masking, air filtration and more. mahealthequity.substack.com/…
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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
Lara Jirmanus, MD MPH@larazjmd4 Apr 2024
New study findings suggest that #Israel has been intentionally decimating healthcare, schools & other civilian targets in #Gaza. This level of destruction was clear by November & has only gotten worse... 🙏🏽@Yara_M_Asi @JamonVDH @coreymaps @sawsanAUB @NadineBahour @AKayumAhmed1
Yara Asi, PhD@Yara_M_Asi2 Apr 2024
🧵New paper in @Conflict_Health: We used satellite imagery to detect damage to critical civilian infrastructure in #Gaza from 7 Oct through 22 Nov. We find widespread, clustered damage around these sites, which are afforded special protections under IHL: conflictandhealth.biomedcent…

‘Nowhere and no one is safe’: spatial analysis of damage to critical civilian infrastructure in the...

Conflict and Health - Since the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023, the Israeli military has launched an assault in the Gaza Strip, which included over 12,000 targets struck and over 25,000...

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Letter to the editor: Good masks still needed in health care to prevent Covid. February 25, 2024. gazettenet.com/Letter-to-the…

David Alpern: Good masks still needed in health care to prevent Covid - Daily Hampshire Gazette

We are writing to emphasize the critical need for retaining mask mandates in health care facilities, specifically promoting the use of N95 and KN95 masks, in our ongoing fight against COVID-19. This...

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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran15 Mar 2024
Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Protests in the US, UK, Australia, Spain & around the world. Long COVID is a public health crisis that is killing people, preventing people from working, & excluding people from society. Governments need to stop their denial & start acting!
Long COVID protest in Washington DC, US Photo: @JoshuaPribanic

ALT Long COVID protest in Washington DC, US Photo: @JoshuaPribanic

Long COVID protest in London, UK Photo: @FoggBrain

ALT Long COVID protest in London, UK Photo: @FoggBrain

Long COVID protest in Melbourne, Australia Photo: @MiquetteAbercr2

ALT Long COVID protest in Melbourne, Australia Photo: @MiquetteAbercr2

Long COVID protest in Madrid, Spain Photo: @sebajones

ALT Long COVID protest in Madrid, Spain Photo: @sebajones

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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran11 Mar 2024
4 years ago today, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic. Today we will rightfully remember tens of millions who have died. We must never forget. But we must also remember COVID is still killing, disabling, and excluding too many. We are still in a pandemic. We still need to act.
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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
National Nurses United@NationalNurses8 Mar 2024
Once again, @CDCgov is making terrible recommendations regarding the spread of Covid-19 & other respiratory viruses! People with Covid infections often remain infectious well beyond 5 days, but CDC thinks 24 hours of isolation is plenty. Here's why nurses are outraged. 🧵 (1/5)
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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
People's CDC@PeoplesCDC14 Feb 2024
Everyone posting about @CDCgov proposed change to isolation TAKE YOUR CRITIQUE TO THE PUBLIC SPHERE. ➡️Write letters to the editor of your local papers ➡️Call and write your elected representatives ➡️Talk about this within your unions.
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SOMERVILLE RESIDENTS ACTION ALERT CALL TODAY your city councilors and ask them to support free masks and rapid tests for Somerville residents. Use this guide for phone numbers and scripts: docs.google.com/document/d/1… #BringBackMasks
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Like many others, we were shocked to hear about the new 1- day COVID Isolation policies in California and Oregon. We appreciate @MADPH for NOT abiding to CA's new policy. bostonglobe.com/2024/01/23/n…

‘I don’t know how they came up with this’: Mass. scientists question California’s new COVID-19...

Experts say rapid testing is the best way to know if you need to stay away from others.

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Ultimately, though, federal and state governments are still not doing enough to address the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic.
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CA's 1-day COVID-19 policies underscore the need for free PCR testing, improved indoor air quality standards in line with ASHRAE 241, keeping masks in healthcare facilities, and further R&D on long Covid treatment, next gen vaccines, and antiviral medication.
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“Testing and masking is needed because it’s our ethical responsibility to protect our patients,” - Infectious Disease physician @theodorepak "This is a civil rights and equity issue," - Disability Advocate @killickwrites The @MassDPH must #BringBackMasks in Healthcare
masslivenews@masslivenews20 Nov 2023
Medical professionals warn of COVID-19 surge during holiday season masslive.com/news/2023/11/me…

Medical professionals warn of COVID-19 surge during holiday season

Doctors and other health advocates are expecting numbers to spike over the next few weeks. They say there are ways to combat the spread.

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Just as there is never going to be a good time to stop wearing gloves in hospitals, I can’t understand why we oughtn’t continue using a basic simple intervention that results in the patients being safer,” said Colin Killick, of Disability Policy Consor. gazettenet.com/Massachusetts…

Coalition of health care workers demand hospitals return to masks, take other precautions amid...

Before the pandemic, Dr. David Alpern, like many health care workers at the time, didn’t think twice about going to work with a runny nose or cough.But since symptoms of COVID-19 are indistinguisha...

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TODAY at 11.30 AM Join us for an online press conference on rising COVID cases and the impacts of a holiday surge without public health infrastructure in place. Experts will ask @MassDPH: where is the plan? Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… Details: mahealthequity.substack.com/…
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Call your representatives and demand a ceasefire now!!!!
People's CDC@PeoplesCDC10 Nov 2023
Sound the Alarm: the Shifa hospital in Gaza is under attack. Call your representatives, take action within your healthcare unions, raise your voices for a ceasefire. #StopGazaGenocide
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Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity retweeted
People's CDC@PeoplesCDC10 Nov 2023
Sound the Alarm: the Shifa hospital in Gaza is under attack. Call your representatives, take action within your healthcare unions, raise your voices for a ceasefire. #StopGazaGenocide
HCWforPalestine@HCWforPalestine10 Nov 2023
🚨 🚨 SHIFA UNDER ATTACK This was received from a member of our group who works for MSF from Dr. Nidal Hadrous, at Al Shifa this morning. Israeli airstrikes have hit the hospital and are in imminent danger! Call your reps and demand a ceasefire now! #NotATarget #StopGazaGenocide
This was received from a member of our group who works for MSF from Dr. Nidal Hadrous, Director of surgery at Al Shifa this morning. Israeli airstrikes have hit the hospital and are in imminent danger #NotATarget #StopGazaGenocide

ALT This was received from a member of our group who works for MSF from Dr. Nidal Hadrous, Director of surgery at Al Shifa this morning. Israeli airstrikes have hit the hospital and are in imminent danger #NotATarget #StopGazaGenocide

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“But if COVID taught us anything, it's that turning a blind eye to a problem and hoping it will go away can have devastating consequences. The ongoing long COVID crisis won't cure itself. We need our leaders to give us the right prescription.” -@KimberlyEAtkins Thank you!!
Boston Globe Opinion@GlobeOpinion11 May 2023
As nation moves on from COVID-19, it can’t leave long haulers behind | @KimberlyEAtkins trib.al/D3b79uM
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