As @Eugenia_South underscores, #HealthEquity isn’t hard, but it does take intentional work to overcome the inequitable inertia of the status quo. This weekend in Chicago, our Oak Street Health team vaccinated 2000 Latinx people in Belmont-Cragin. Here's how we made it work. 🧵

#Naloxone is a lifesaving medication that can reverse an opioid #overdose. This International Overdose Awareness Day, help protect your loved ones from a fatal overdose by keeping lifesaving naloxone with you & at home. Learn more: bit.ly/3KlORp7 #EndOverdose #IOAD2023

Clinicians: #RSV is increasing in the Southeastern U.S. RSV can cause severe disease in infants, young children, older adults. Talk to patients about new prevention tools available to those most at risk. bit.ly/45ZF3uA

On 9/11, we unite in memory of victims, survivors, and their families. Let's honor them by supporting our first responders and envision a brighter future for all. #September11 #Remembernce

[6/7] Eve Bloomgarden MD 🟦 🟧🎗️: "To me, empowerment means having the courage to #speakup, the strength to challenge barriers, and a network to amplify and #inspirechange." @impact4hc

Best #SciComm i’ve seen so far from the one and only Drew Comments modified nucleosides to get inside your cytoplasm for 3 reasons remind refine re-up LFG! #Boosters #DrewComments

It’s been done before. Congress needs to act now to #BanAssaultWeapons nationwide.

So glad we got our updated covid boosters today! I’ve been seeing a ton of patients with covid in the ED lately, and glad we can have a updated round of protection against recent strains. #getboosted IMPACT4HC

I got chills 🥶 They're multiplying 🐰 And I'm losing control 🫨 'Cause the power you're supplying 💪🏽 It's electrifying ⚡️ I better shape up...✊🏽 #COVIDMonovalent #FluShot #YoureTheOneThatIWant #ThisIsOurShot #MakeHealthPrimary #VacunateYa #FMRevolution #FMRising 🔥

Seeing a lot more people masking at the airport today than past months. 👍🏽👍🏽 Wearing a mask when traveling, when indoor in crowded spaces, in healthcare settings to protect myself from #Covid19 and all the other respiratory viruses out there! IMPACT4HC #MaskUpIndoors

Esther Choo, MD MPH @WIMSummit #GetUsPPE Eve Bloomgarden MD 🟦 🟧🎗️ Vinny Arora MD MAPP Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP Nancy Spector Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 And there are other amazing organizations like IMPACT4HC ThisIsOurShot @blackequitypgh and so many others. We as a community have seen a need, done an intervention, and intersected with old power. And we have given ourselves hope Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 #WIMStrongerTogether @wimsummit

Shout out to IMPACT4HC and our partner ThisIsOurShot and the import of new power structures to advance change during challenging times! Read more about our work using a place based approach to new power jmir.org/2022/10/e38949 #WIMStrongerTogether

Shoutout to IMPACT4HC ThisIsOurShot and @blackequitypgh this morning from Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 at @WIMSummit. Keynote this morning 🔥 #NewPower #LiftAsWeRise #WIMStrongerTogether

"Misinformation kills, and there will be more pandemics in our lifetime." -- Regina Royan, MD MPH, of UMich EM Residency, discussing Facebook's failed attempt to stamp out COVID-19 vaccine #misinformation. rachael robertson medpagetoday.com/special-report…

Following a great weekend at @WIMSummit the ISMS Women in Medicine Committee would like to spotlight Dr. Shikha Jain for her efforts! #BeHeard #WIMMonth #WIMStrongerTogether

It’s hard enough to battle medical misinformation. Nearly 60% of doctors now report a deplorable result of their advocacy: disgusting online attacks. ama-assn.org/practice-manag… (via AMA) Vinny Arora MD MAPP Regina Royan, MD MPH

Please join Amnesty International USA tonight at 7 p.m. central for a screening of "Save A Child, Secure Your Gun" #safestorage Amnesty International Brave New Films Illinois Attorney General Eric Rinehart @newmarienewman Zachary Rubin, MD Doctors for America IMPACT4HC PFSS Brady | United Against Gun Violence UIC School of Public Health

According to the latest CDC COVID-19 wastewater data, we are currently in the second-biggest surge of the pandemic. It will peak in the next week, with ~2 million infections per day. During this surge, ~100 million people total (~1 in 3 people in the US) will likely get COVID.

Extreme heat is on the horizon across Illinois this week. Prepare now to help keep everyone cool and healthy. Find more tips to beat the heat from ReadyIllinois at ready.illinois.gov/hazards/extrem… 📸 Image from Illinois State Climatologist

The best and safest way to protect against #measles is the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR). The #MMR vaccine is recommended as part of the national routine immunization schedule for children and adults. #ImmunizationAwareness Doctors for America