Artie Vierkant (@avierkant) / X

Artie Vierkant

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Artie Vierkant

@avierkant

host/producer @DeathPanel_ | wrote HEALTH COMMUNISM (Verso 2022) w/ @realLandsEnd | forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket 2027/8)

patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Joined August 2008

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Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Dec 23, 2025
Death Panel
@DeathPanel_
Dec 22, 2025
Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it patreon.com/posts/146389479
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Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Aug 12, 2022
New CDC guidelines just dropped
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Jan 11, 2022
I wonder where it got that “reputation”
The New York Times
@nytimes
Jan 11, 2022
Despite its reputation for causing mild illness, the Omicron coronavirus variant is fueling a staggering rise in hospitalizations across the U.S. What are doctors on the front lines seeing? Listen to today’s episode of The Daily. nyti.ms/3tdfcPC
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Feb 18, 2020
My favorite f— off moment in the new Yale study is when they show that we could give all 1.5 million health insurance industry workers 2 years severance pay after we pass Medicare for All and it would literally still be cheaper than what we have now
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Mar 11, 2022
Two years ago today the WHO officially declared Covid a pandemic, and while it could be temping to say something totalizing about the last two years of politically motivated state failure, it seems pretty clear that some of the most truly evil stuff is still yet to come
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Jan 11, 2022
pure death cult shit
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Dec 5, 2022
Try telling me “one way masking works” one more time I stg
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Jul 21, 2024
There is a certain poetry in Biden’s covid infection having basically erased any chance he had to bounce back at a time when he seemed ready to double down. For a president who tried to wish the pandemic away to have his political career end with a covid infection.. priceless
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
Jul 21, 2024
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Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Feb 16, 2023
Moderna said they’d make it free through a patient assistance program, which is very different from saying they won’t raise the price. This is a classic pharma industry move to look more beneficent than they are, and we’d best not take victory laps over it
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
Feb 15, 2023
BREAKING: Moderna says it will keep its Covid vaccine free for all people in the U.S.—reversing course on its planned 400% price increase—one day after Bernie Sanders said he would force the CEO to testify.
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Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Jan 30, 2022
Everything you need to know about treating David Leonhardt as a trusted source on covid in four images (Feb 11 2021, May 21 2021, Oct 4 2021, Jan 19 2021)
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Jan 10, 2023
I think we are underprepared for what it will actually mean for covid vaccines and treatments to go to the private market. The fragmented state of disease-based advocacy in the US should be a warning that allowing this to happen will make things much worse
Biden team eyes end of Covid emergency declaration and shift in Covid team
From politico.com
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Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Sep 25, 2022
Who fact checks the fact checkers
Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Jun 11, 2023
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra this week: “if you’re dying of Covid today, you didn’t take precautions” Not only is the Biden administration still victim blaming, their push to declare mission accomplished made it more difficult to “take precautions,” as we documented this week
Death Panel
@DeathPanel_
Jun 8, 2023
In our latest, we look at some of the impacts of the end of the public health emergency one month out, and share listener stories that directly contradict the prevailing narrative that the pandemic "tools" are still free and readily accessible on.soundcloud.com/pTY7TYEBSDuQX2…
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Artie Vierkant
@avierkant
Nov 23, 2022
When you look back it’s amazing how successful the anti-mask push has been in the last year. Between December 2021 and now it became a mainstream liberal position to assume masks “no longer” do anything and that we should have ended mask mandates even earlier