Dr. Lucky Tran

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Science comms, public health, climate justice. PhD in biology from Cambridge. @WHO Fides, @grist Fixer, Creative Change alum. Opinions my own, not employer.

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The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire. Video: StuPal

Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline. No place is safe from climate change. We all suffer the consequences. We must all take action. We are all in this together.

Wildfire smoke is enveloping NYC, and AQI is over 200, meaning hazardous air quality. Please protect your health and mask up!

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

COVID killed people in prisons at disproportionately higher rates, and has been the leading cause of US police deaths over the last few years. Yet, police officers are ripping masks off protestors.

Capitalism fueled the climate crisis. A stunning video of Times Square during the peak of the wildfire smoke. Credit:

NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world. The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.

Kaylee McKeown, don't ever change!

"Air that's clean. Water that's pure. Communities that are safe." Tim Walz Yes! But also, clean air should include INDOOR air that is clean from COVID.

Hungary banned Pride marches. This is the response ✊🏳️‍🌈

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

Stand Up for Science in Paris! 🇫🇷

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New album just dropped: My Mayor's still Muslim My bagel's still Jewish The Pope's on our side Knicks in 5!!!

Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

It's official: Mask ban in Nassau County, New York passes along party lines, 12-0 (7 abstentions). It makes wearing a mask a misdemeanor (with unclear health and religious exceptions) and gives police the power to fine people wearing a mask $1,000 and sentence them to jail time.

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about COVID &amp; Long Covid, &amp; advocated for masks &amp; clean air at the UN today!

👋 Scientist here. Here are some science-backed tips that will help protect your health against wildfire smoke:

BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is discussing a mask ban for protests with the City Attorney.

Céline Dion has a rare autoimmune neurological disorder that causes muscle stiffness called stiff person syndrome. There is no treatment and she has not performed in 4 years. She just opened the Olympics with this stunning performance. Magnifique.

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are a key part of public health.

Meet the Press: Do you think billionaires have a right to exist? Zohran Kwame Mamdani: I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality &amp; ultimately what we need more of his equality across the city, the state &amp; country .

Fauci to BBC: "Even though you'll find the vulnerable will will fall by the wayside, they'll get infected, they'll get hospitalized, and some will die. It's not going to be this tsunami of cases that we've seen." So disappointing. Never ok to minimize the harm of any community.

Dr. Katalin Karikó who won a Nobel Prize for developing mRNA vaccines responds to RFK Jr: "When you are sick, you wouldn't ask for advice from a lawyer like Kennedy. You ask experts, your physician, for advice."

At the Knicks parade, a woman saved a life by leaping onto a roof to administer narcan to someone who had fallen unresponsive. New Yorkers are super heroes! Video: Lydia

"The burden of disease and disability from Long COVID is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease. The best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent COVID in the first place. There is no Long COVID without COVID." Brilliant testimony by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD! #HELPLongCovid

A sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water. Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater

This is what the sunrise over New York looked like today due to wildfire smoke coming over from Canada. Air quality levels are at unhealthy, at over 10 times the guidelines recommended by the WHO. This is the reality of living through the climate crisis.

Today NYC Mayor Eric Adams said he hoped recent events would accelerate implementation of a mask ban. Reminder: There is no evidence that mask bans stop crime. Mask bans make cities more unsafe because preventing people from wearing masks increases the spread of diseases.

Here's the video of one of these incidents. Nassau County Legislators cut off someone speaking against the mask ban, and security officers are intimidating people wearing masks. #NoNYMaskBan

South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker are storytelling geniuses! I highlight their remarkably simple but effective "but/therefore rule" in every science communication lecture I give.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a media briefing on 10 December 2024: "We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks & clean air at the UN today!

Meet the Press: Do you think billionaires have a right to exist? Zohran Kwame Mamdani: I don't think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality & ultimately what we need more of his equality across the city, the state & country .