Dr. Richard Pan
@drpanmd.bsky.social
Doctor, Health Advocate, Former State Senator, Candidate for Congress in CA-06.
Anti-vaccine wins cost lives, harms, and money. "Among 100 confirmed measles cases and 2,946 identified contacts, the total societal cost of the outbreak was estimated at $5.4 million, equivalent to approximately $53,500 per case and $1,800 per contact. ." www.2minutemedicine.com/new-mexico-m...
New Mexico measles outbreak associated with significant costs
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President Trump disagrees as he pardoned convicted criminals cheating taxpayers of billions of dollars. #DrainTheSwamp www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
Trump’s pardons included health care execs behind massive frauds
The list of some 200 Trump pardons or commutations, most issued as he vacated the White House this week, included at least seven doctors or health care entrepreneurs who ran discredited health care en...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoDr Oz: "When you steal money from the federal government, you ought to go jail and go to jail for a long time"
An analysis finds that New Mexico's measles outbreak cost $5.4 million last year. NM had 100 cases. AZ outbreak is more than 3x larger; Utah's is more than 7x larger. TX and SC are each 10x larger. Welcoming back measles is going to be very expensive. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Economic Impact of the 2025 New Mexico Measles Outbreak: Highlighting the Cost of Efforts to Prevent Future Outbreaks | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: In 2025, the United States experienced its highest measles case count since 1992. In New Mexico, 100 confirmed measles cases (99 outbreak-related cases), including 1 death, occurred across...
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">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...
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During a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.
A Doctor Fact-Checks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CNN Interview
A public health expert fact checks RFK Jr.'s recent contentious interview on CNN with facts on vaccines, COVID-19 and measles.
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Enjoyed to getting to meet @drpanmd.bsky.social, a very strong candidate in the newly drawn CA-6, who has battled RFK Jr. and will stand up for science when elected 👇3/ www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/meet-dr-ri...
Meet Dr. Richard Pan, Who Is Working Hard To Make Newly Drawn CA-06 Blue This November
California voters created this new district last year. Now we need to finish the job we started then and win this very winnable seat this November.
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The CDC has linked four more states to a multistate cyclospora outbreak tied to shredded iceberg lettuce from central Mexico. Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania join Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Learn more: spr.ly/63322BELlYa
Largest known U.S. cyclospora outbreak has now spread to nine states
The newly linked states - Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania - join Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.
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RFK Jr’s has concepts of a plan for a #pandemic like Trump’s health care proposal and his Iran War. #1MdeadAmericans youtu.be/Z8xUH6HdNYs?...
'I Have Concepts Of A Plan...': Donald Trump Pressed On If He Has Health Care Proposals | Debate
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
Trump cut health care for millions of Americans but pardons criminals defrauding Americans and now wants taxpayers to pay pardons criminals convicted of assaulting police because they supported him. #DrainTheSwamp
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d agoPresident Trump said that he would “push hard” to enact legislation that would offer payouts to people “badly treated” by the Obama and Biden administrations, his latest threat to resurrect the controversial fund.
Honored to have the support of 37 Members of California's congressional delegation committed to flipping CA-06, stopping the extreme Trump and Kevin Kiley agenda, and building a House majority that puts working families first. #DrPanforCongress #CA06
The U.S. eliminated #measles a quarter century ago, but now unvaccinated children are bringing measles into our community from outbreaks in other parts of our country thanks to RFK Jr. Six cases in our region already this year. #Ivax2protect www.placer.ca.gov/10712/UPDATE...
(UPDATED) Placer County measles cases part of multi-jurisdictional outbreak | Placer County, CA
Placer County Public Health is reporting three measles cases, all teenagers in a single family linked through household exposure. An additional fourth case is suspected, also a family member. They are...
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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
Meet Dr. Richard Pan, our great candidate working hard to make the newly drawn CA-06 blue this November. "We've got to take all those seats that we redistricted to be sure that we can have a Congress that will hold this administration accountable." @drpanmd.bsky.social with @simonwdc.bsky.social
"...you can’t separate MAHA from the antivaccine movement, nor... the motley assortment of 'health influencers,' quacks, antivaxxers, & grifters who see the movement as a vehicle that will let them profit selling supplements, unproven treatments... & 'health freedom' to the masses..." 🛟😷🧪 Sociology
Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!
Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate
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100 days until Election Day! Great day talking with voters and hitting the doors with our amazing volunteers. #100days #DrPanforCongress #CA06
#ICYMI “they blocked a medical-misinformation detector that had noticeably reduced the reach of anti-vaccine campaigns, the former researcher told me.” @technologyreview.com #Ivax2protect www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1...
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
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Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w agoDoctors pointed to social media as the main driver of vaccine hesitancy. Not religion. Not even politics, although that accounts for why so little is being done to reverse the trend. My story on Utah's ongoing outbreak delves into this new era of measles. kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
‘The Child Is Terrified’: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out - KFF Health News
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous diseas...
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Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 2w agoF.D.A. Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on 4 Peptides, Over Scientists’ Objections: Kennedy claimed he's against conflicts of interests. But he intentionally appointed conflicted members to achieve this result. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/h... @by-cjewett.bsky.social @smithdanag.bsky.social
Instead of rewiring grocery shopping; rewire Congress and the federal government this election. #DrPanForCongress #Affordable #Election2026 abcnews.com/amp/US/wireS...
Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years
Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits
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When Trump appointed RFK Jr. to oversee America’s health agencies, RFK Jr. had campaigned on allowing the sale of unsafe food. #FoodSafety #publichealth
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoRegulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
From the Grifter-in-Chief: “Kevin is going to be a MAGA Champion in Congress and has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” #DrainTheSwamp #DrPanForCongress #CA06 www.kcra.com/article/form...
Former President Trump endorses Rocklin's Kevin Kiley for Congress
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Kevin Kiley for a new California congressional district.
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Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social · 3w agoHow Trump became the grifter-in-chief — and why nobody is cracking down on his multi-billion-dollar White House haul: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The re-escalation of the Iran war has sent jet fuel prices climbing again, with some aviation experts warning of likely airfare hikes in coming months.
Surging Jet Fuel Costs Mean Higher Airfares Are Coming, Experts Warn
The re-escalation of the Iran war has sent jet fuel prices climbing again, with some aviation experts warning of likely airfare hikes in coming months.
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One former FDA official said if the agency lifted restrictions on peptides, “it would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.” (Published April)
RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.
The agency's 2023 decision to place 19 peptides on the “unsafe” list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, there's been little new science.
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@drpanmd.bsky.social #DrRichardPanForCongressCA-06 Dr Pan is an experienced public servant that will fight for the 99% in Sacramento, California and the USA. Donate. Vote. Let’s turn this tide to lift all boats. (Unlike the wolf in sheep’s clothing, “Rep” Kevin Kiley). Thank you, Dr Pan.
“As of the most recent CDC update, 34 new measles outbreaks have been declared this year, with 44 jurisdictions reporting cases” www.themirror.com/news/health/...
Worrying new data shows US measles cases surge to highest number in 30 years
The U.S. will face a review of its measles elimination status later this year, but experts already believe it will exceed last year's number of cases
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We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Trump and his MAGA Republican Congress just don’t care that food, gas & health care are even more expensive because of Donald Trump. #TrumpTax #unaffordable
Politico@politico.com · 2w agoTrump finalizes new tariffs on dozens of countries
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago“A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
20% of Trump voters say gas prices would have risen less under a Democratic president, our new poll found. It’s an indication that Americans are more willing to assign blame to Trump for the state of the economy. 🔗 politi.co/4yuZVsx
Here’s what the guys who “would have” perfectly controlled COVID delivered when given an opportunity to prove their real world mettle and competence.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 4w agoIt’s going to be a covid alternative universe where Jay Bhattacharya “would have” tamed COVID, but for YouTube and villains at the NIH.