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Adam Gaffney
@awgaffney
Pulmonary & ICU doctor, assistant professor @HarvardMed, researcher @LabCambridge, past president @PNHP, tweets do not represent my employer or any affiliation.
Boston, MA
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Mar 30, 2025
    Felony charges for sticking gum on a car. Felony charges. A life potentially ruined. One thing should be clear: they will throw the book at people for actions, crimes, protests with the “improper” political inflection.
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    New York Post
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    Mar 29, 2025
    Florida woman slapped with felony charge for vandalizing Tesla with ‘large wad’ of chewing gum: report trib.al/gJ1SPY5
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Mar 2, 2024
    This looks like a straightforward assault on a Harvard student — is the university taking this seriously? It’s interesting that people are instead discussing the propriety of interrupting or using curse words as part of a political protest.
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Mar 27, 2025
    They kidnapped a Fulbright scholar off the streets of Somerville & absconded her to Louisiana with zero due process & no known criminal charges, very likely in response to bogus anti-semitism allegations stemming from an op-ed she wrote critical of atrocities by Israeli state.
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    Kelly Garrity
    @kellygarrity3
    Mar 26, 2025
    An update on the Tufts student who was detained by federal immigration authorities via her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai. #mapoli
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    Adam Gaffney
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    May 17, 2025
    It’s hard to overstate how extraordinary this is. Aid organization trucks are all lined up and ready to enter and Israel has not allowed them into Gaza for ~75 days. There is no way to describe this as anything other than the active, intentional, planned starvation of a people.
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    Tom Fletcher
    @UNReliefChief
    May 16, 2025
    Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza. We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work. bit.ly/3S7M0oo
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Mar 22, 2022
    Federal coverage for COVID-19 treatment and testing for the uninsured ends today. Coverage for vaccine administration for the uninsured ends in about two weeks. The rationing of COVID-care by ability to pay begins.
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Sep 29, 2022
    The depiction of the Empire in Andor as not just a big bad mean dictatorship but as a sprawling colonial and commercial enterprise — positioned over a powerful but ultimately subordinate corporate quasi-state — is so much more interesting than its portrayal elsewhere in Star Wars
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    Adam Gaffney
    @awgaffney
    Jul 20, 2024
    Devastating read in @politico by two US surgeons who saw unspeakable horrors in a Gaza hospital. While there are many deeply disturbing details, the number of children they saw with gunshot wounds to the heads stands out. “They’d go on to slowly die, only to be replaced…
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    Adam Gaffney
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    May 3, 2024
    What possible explanation could there be for the fact that this prominent surgeon — 50 years old and working at the time he was swept up by the IDF in Gaza — died in an Israeli prison? amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/03…
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Dec 11, 2020
    According to the new CBO report, under single-payer, we could cover ~100% of the population, make medical services free at point of use, and expand benefits — without spending a dollar more. And healthcare providers would still do perfectly well.
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    Adam Gaffney
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    May 23, 2022
    An important new study is out. Baseline findings from the NIH's longitudinal, intramural Long COVID study — perhaps the most detailed, controlled, comprehensive investigation of multiple health metrics in this setting thus far conducted — were just published in @AnnalsIM A🧵 1/
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    Adam Gaffney
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    May 5, 2024
    Two weeks ago, settlers attacked a village in the West Bank. Medics evacuated two villagers who were shot. IDF soldiers then fired into their ambulance, sirens wailing, on the way to the hospital, killing its volunteer driver. haaretz.com/israel-news/tw…
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Jan 14, 2021
    The CBO estimates that under a M4A system w/long-term care, people would have annual out-of-pocket spending averaging: -$6 for hospital care -$84 for doctors / clinicians -$13 for prescription drugs -$0 for long-term care. -$152 for "other services" (e.g. OTC drugs)
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    Adam Gaffney
    @awgaffney
    Apr 16, 2025
    "the mass invasion of the country my ancestors built with their bare hands" is just total fascist claptrap
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    JD Vance
    @JDVance
    Apr 16, 2025
    I hate this smug, self-assured bullshit. "I know I'm right, and people must be dumb or immoral to disagree with me." It's an easy way to go through life, because then you never have to think seriously about why your worldview is a justification for the mass invasion of the
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    Adam Gaffney
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    Dec 28, 2020
    If the United Kingdom could enact the National Health Service amidst the rubble and ruin and austerity of the post World War II moment, the United States can enact Medicare for All in the midst of the COVID-19 recession. The notion that we “can’t afford it” is a lie.