Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity

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

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/urge-y…

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/2024/08/0… @CityLife_Clvu @homesforallmass @MAHealthEquity @MassLawReform #NoKidsOnTheStreet

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/p/sign-our-pet…

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

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

@MassGovernor wants to cut to personal care attendant services paid for by @MassHealth and impacting 6,000 disabled people. We must oppose cuts to MassHealth. Call Healey 617-725-4005. Tell her: "No Cuts to MassHealth." Join us at a protest at the State House W. Mar 20 @ 1pm

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!

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.

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)

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.

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/1XT… #BringBackMasks

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.

Ultimately, though, federal and state governments are still not doing enough to address the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic.

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/nat…

“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

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-…

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/regist… Details: mahealthequity.substack.com/p/join-us-toda…

Call your representatives and demand a ceasefire now!!!!

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