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

Trump’s CDC is cancelling $11 billion in COVID funding allocated to health departments and nonprofits, claiming the grants are no longer necessary because the pandemic is over.

This is wrong. COVID is a continuing threat and millions have Long COVID. We still need to do more to mitigate its harms.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna198006

The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.

This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.

Must read deep dive by Gina Kolata into the chaos at the National Institutes of Health that the Trump administration is causing.

“This is like Russian roulette. You don’t know what’s coming.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/health/nih-doge-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.xIk-.1e8zMaiQI38t&smid=url-share

AOC = Anti Oligarchs Club

If you want to fight authoritarianism, one of the worst things you can do is restrict people’s ability to exercise their first amendment rights. Yet by trying to push through a mask ban, that’s exactly what some New York Democrats are doing.

Customs and Border Patrol denied a French scientist entry to the U.S. because they found messages on his phone criticizing Trump’s science cuts.

Apparently saying that canceling cancer research is bad can now be classified as terrorism. Chilling.

NEW: New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul is reviving her push to ban masks and is urging New York State lawmakers to include a mask ban in the upcoming state budget.

This move endangers public health and threatens civil liberties.

Head of EPA, Lee Zeldin: “Today is the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history. Today the green new scam ends, as the E.P.A. does its part to usher in a golden age of American success.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/climate/epa-zeldin-rollbacks-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k4.xHaI.8Tncvj43xY2N&smid=url-share

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.

Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

At the start of COVID, we all learned how to beat airborne viruses like the flu: by wearing masks and staying home when we are sick. It's a real shame we haven't translated those important lessons into long-term behavioral change.

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

Please sign me up for this political movement!

You can no longer order free COVID tests from the government. Despite still having $500 million worth of COVID tests stockpiled, covidtests.gov is closed.

Some cities in Texas are running out of the MMR vaccine due to high demand.

While this is encouraging, it’s tragic that it’s only finally happening after a couple of preventable deaths due to anti-vax disinformation.

When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience

So great to see groups practicing community care. We need to do this more than ever in light of mass dismantling of government institutions. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972628/masks-required-covid-cautious-concerts-oakland-bay-area

Now is not the time for the scientific community to self-censor. We need to all unite together and get behind grassroots efforts like #standupforscience if we are to effectively overcome the attacks on science!

Grateful and proud of the work the #standupforscience team is doing to reinvigorate science advocacy at a time we need it most. Please participate in a rally near you tomorrow if you can! https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/06/stand-up-for-science-rallies-in-32-cities-on-friday-to-protest-trump-cuts-research/

So is transgenic also going to be a banned word? Because if so, it’s going to be extremely hard to write any research paper that contains any basic molecular biology work. 🙄