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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

@ashishkjha

Physician, researcher, advocate for notion that an ounce of data is worth a thousand pounds of opinion Views here are my own

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Air pollution from burning coal and other fossil fuels causes about 70,000 to 80,000 American deaths every year due due to increased heart attacks and strokes So switching to clean energy — solar, wind, nuclear — isn’t just smart policy It’s critical for your health

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Not great people Not great for seniors who need nursing homes Not great for their families Not great for people who use hospitals that will now get much more crowded Just not great

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17 million Americans will lose their health insurance 600 nursing homes and hundreds of rural hospitals will shut down We will put a lot more pollution into the air causing more asthma, heart attacks, and strokes So what is our Health Secretary tweeting about?

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Billions of doses later, imaginary risks cited to overrule science Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots nytimes.com/2025/07/02/hea…

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Among many other provisions, today's bill cuts the provider tax in half in the coming years. Why does this matter? Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH explains: - Nursing homes close - People who should be discharged to nursing homes crowd emergency rooms - Your local ER is full time.com/7300067/budget…

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America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the

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One way most Americans will feel the OBBB law is through crowded ERs No, not because uninsured folks will flood ERs But because the law will close a lot of nursing homes Which will create a backlog in the system overcrowding ERs I explain in @time time.com/7300067/budget…

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One of the ways America has made the world a better place is in global public health American ingenuity and generosity has saved literally hundreds of millions of lives No other country comes close Yet too much of the left denies it and the right works to undermine it

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Of all the other things in the OBBB, There's also this Drugmakers Notch a $5 Billion Win (in taxpayer dollars) in the Republican's Policy Bill nytimes.com/2025/07/03/hea…

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A President who did so much for global public health Launched PEPFAR that has saved probably 30 million lives Invested heavily in pandemic preparedness and biosecurity risk mitigation And a lot more The world is better for his leadership

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The Fonz asks the question that needs to be asked Why yes we did wipe out Measles like a quarter century ago But it’s back! Because we have people, including our health secretary, who spread falsehoods about vaccines