Troy Tassier
Public health, health equity, economic inequality, complex systems, social networks
Economist at Fordham
Author: The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (JHU Press)
Book webpage: troytassier.com
- "...for most Americans, this initiative represents not a solution to our prescription drug price dilemma, but rather a distraction... TrumpRx won’t help most Americans bc it is designed for cash-paying, uninsured patients rather than the... 85% of Americans w/ prescription drug insurance coverage."
- In which age was infectious disease mortality more unequal? The Gilded Age w/ its wealthy mansions set apart from lower Manhattan tenements or today's NYC? The answer surprised many of my students. How about you? Bonus question, why aren't we working to do something about it?
- Even when I’m feeling great, my day always feels a bit brighter and lighter after reading one of Megan’s posts.
- I don’t think their journalist’s “stuff” is the problem, it’s that the Post’s readers hate Jeff Bezos and his ass kissing of Trump. Then, like me, cancelled subscriptions. “In a staff meeting in 2024, Mr. Lewis warned… “Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff.””
- “When non-White voters of minority counties in battleground states were exposed to voter suppression ads, their turnout rate was 14.2% lower when compared to the complete counterpart segment, White voters in nonminority counties of nonbattleground states who were not exposed to suppression ads”
- The only surprise is the lack of brazenness to make this public from the start. Grifters gonna grift. “Months after Tahnoon purchased the $500 million stake, the U.S. agreed to give the UAE access to 500,000 of America's most advanced AI chips per year.”
- Feels like Trump saving face after the EU and India announced a much bigger and more important deal last week.
- No one wants to play for Trump. “Now, w/ his hostile takeover leading to artists’ withdrawals and declining ticket sales, he is covering up his failures by shuttering a national landmark that belongs to the American people.”
- "Women who changed their name when they got married may also face a logistical nightmare: reports show that as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse's name don't have a birth certificate that matches their legal name."
- Women are increasingly disenchanted with Republicans and conservative thinking, so instead of addressing their concerns, the GOP is turning to the SAVE Act, in an attempt to keep them from voting. Please call your reps and ask them to vote against it. www.alternet.org/save-act-mid...
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- Political theater that will cause suffering illness disability and death in the population that needs us most, kids! Absolutely foolish and cruel in one move. I hope with all my heart that the state legislature steps up and ends the madness.
- 2 doses of polio vaccine (given @ 2,4 mos) result in 90% efficacy. A 3rd reaches 99% (6mo) w/ a 4th at ~1.5 yrs. Even vaxed kids have a window to be infected Majority of polio cases display no or min symptoms. Hard to know if exposed =Even vaxed kids will be infected bc of this foolish decision.
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- “U.S. producer prices increased by the most in five months in December amid some pass-through from import tariffs, suggesting inflation could pick up in the months ahead”
- Reposted by Troy TassierNew survey from Pew 🧵 Trump's approval is down to 37. He's 24 points underwater. Only 27% of Americans support most/all of Trump's policies. By two-to-one margins, Americans say the Trump administration has made their life worse, not better.
- Reposted by Troy TassierThousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
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- Contrary to pandemic era calls for public health to stay out of politics, we need to recognize that PH must be political to do its job. Great history lesson and guidance for the future from @craigspencer.bsky.social
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- The measles outbreak in SC was entirely preventable. The TX outbreak drifted to SC & the SC outbreak will drift somewhere else and turn into another catastrophe. Each of these outbreaks are entirely preventable & religious/ personal belief exemptions to vaccine mandates are the heart of the problem
- For profit healthcare in a nutshell. A Biden era law requiring min staffing in nursing homes hurt profits. A few million $ in donations to Trumps pac, a kiss-ass lunch, & now seniors are at risk of not getting care. Not abt Trump as much as abt profits determining if people get reasonable care.
- Theme of the day: America first = America alone. “the economic case for an EU-India agreement has been clear for years, closing the deal required overcoming special interests... What tipped the balance… was the fact that both parties are looking for ways to pivot away from trade with America.”
- “The world is moving on. America first increasingly seems to be America alone.”
- “Why the sudden change of pace after 20 years…?The answer has everything to do w/Donald Trump. The EU-India free trade agreement unveils the emerging silhouette of a post-US world order amid relentless threats to territorial sovereignty, punitive tariffs & the weakening of multilateral institutions”
- “Why the sudden change of pace after 20 years…?The answer has everything to do w/Donald Trump. The EU-India free trade agreement unveils the emerging silhouette of a post-US world order amid relentless threats to territorial sovereignty, punitive tariffs & the weakening of multilateral institutions”
- Reposted by Troy TassierThis is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
- @megtirrell.bsky.social thank you for mentioning the role of religious exemptions on your @cnn-news.bsky.social spot a moment ago. As you stated the epicenter of this outbreak is Spartanburg County which has the largest rate of religious exemptions in the state.
- “The real economics of pediatric vaccination.” No, pediatricians are not getting rich pushing childhood vaccines, quite the opposite actually. (Link to study in first comment.)
- Reposted by Troy TassierIf you wonder why Stephen Miller is orchestrating ICE hate into the streets of the US, emails that show who he really is may have been forgotten but here they are, sitting in plain sight Neo-nazism and White Nationalism support feature strongly www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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- Reposted by Troy TassierEvery administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired. Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
- Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
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- “Right wing media, CEOs the Trump to stop deadly ICE crackdown.”
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- If this is what happens in plain view with cameras rolling, imagine how ICE behaves along the border with no one watching.
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- "Knowledge is increasingly being redesigned around extractable outputs: test answers, summaries, bullet points. But this misses the point. Books and conversations aren’t just tokens to be processed efficiently by our eyes and ears. They are journeys in thinking and experiencing."
- Let's directly state the obvious: Dropping tariffs on Chinese EVs from 100% to 6% is simply Carney's FU to Trump. He's saying, "if you make US trade difficult, we'll find another trade partner. We don't need you as much as you think. And you need us more than you realize." And he's right.
- Good questions from @josiahbates.bsky.social, “now that violence is falling... We’re not hearing as much about the decline or the harder, more important question of why it’s happening. ...little critical reporting on what might be working, what didn’t work before, and what lessons can be learned.”
- For those of us that strive to be better writers, this looks fantastic.
- One page detail of the RFK led changes to the childhood vaccination schedule and the one STILL recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. English and Spanish versions below. Nice public service by @yourlocalepidemiologist.skystack.xyz
- The consumer financial protection bureau was funded at abt $650M/yr since inception in 2011, totaling $11 billion. It regained $19 billion+ to consumers and $5B in civil penalties. A nice ROI for the fed gov. Yet Trump gutted it & claims to be a champion for consumers bc of a 10% cc int cap. 🤷♂️
- Trump reiterated the idea of a 10% cap on cc interest rates again today. If he really cared about consumers & wanted to prevent predatory lending, he shouldn’t have gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
