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And now for some good news 😃🌈👊🏻🌟😃🌈👊🏻🌟 Vaccines still work!!! 💉🩺🦠🧪🔬 Please continue to vaccinate your children, especially those under 2, on time, every time. 👨🏻‍⚕️🧑🏽‍⚕️🧑🏻‍⚕️👩‍⚕️👩🏿‍⚕️👨🏽‍⚕️ Contact your pediatrician for well visit guidance during the pandemic. And don't believe the haters,science is cool! "Over less than a 15-year period, overall invasive pneumococcal infections among children under 5 years of age were reduced from 100 cases per 100,000 to about nine cases per 100,000. Infections caused by vaccine serotypes were reduced from about 90 cases per 100,000 to two cases per 100,000. These results are a remarkable testimony to the benefit of the pneumococcal vaccine." @tuftsmedicalcenter @cdcgov @healthychildrenaap #doctorMicah #covid19 #loveinthetimeofcorona #parenting #motherhood #momsofinstagram #blessed #aap #who #quarantine # stayhome # flattenthecurve #COVID19 #Coronavirus #HealthcareHeroes #Healthcare #Medicine #MedicalCare #PatientCare #NYC #NewYorkCity #Manhattan #shabbatshalom (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-z4Wc8DMTb/?igshid=liw6yqq42ec0

And all of a sudden my daughter is in Pre-K. 🥰😂😭😳🤫 Daddy drop off!!! #parenting #doctormicah #pediatrics #longdaysshortyears #bepresent #lanaruth #blessed (at PS 59 Elementary School) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2MVZbSnK4C/?igshid=vu6nynepwpln

Honored to be attending @ameracadpeds District meetings. Such critical words from Nelson Mandela and Frederick Douglass reminding us, driving us, sustaining us. The message today: NO COMPLACENCY @aapca3 @aapca1 #peds #pediatrics #doctormicah #bordercrisis #bringbackNelsonMandela #noguns #schoolsnotprisons #blacklivesmatter #kids (at AAP Pediatrics) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0YtvK0H8L1/?igshid=7lpn9rr7p562

We all benefit when fathers are involved - society, families, children, everyone. #pediatrics #doctormicah #parenting #dads #fathers #worldsfathers https://www.instagram.com/doctor_micah/p/ByqOnO3nAF3/?igshid=nblye1r30ye

That feeling when you get your first holiday card from a patient! Thanks Chris, Kalli & Miles #doctormicah #happyholidays #pediatrics (at MT. SINAI HOSPITAL OF QUEENS)

What is systemic racism? What is structural violence? One example I see in my field is that black patients continue to receive less pain medication for broken bones and cancer. Black children receive less pain medication that white children for appendicitis. Many people INACCURATELY believe that blacks literally have thicker skin than whites and experience less pain. This failure to recognize the pain of black patients traces back to the origins of American medicine and Dr. James Marion Sims, who performed heinous experiments on un-anaesthetized black female slaves. Listen to this story from NPR http://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513764158/remembering-anarcha-lucy-and-betsey-the-mothers-of-modern-gynecology #Pediatrics #OBGYN #Complicit #StructuralViolence #DoctorMicah #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #TakeTheStatueDown #ToppleThePatriarchy #StayWoke @hiddenbrain @renee.klahr @nprhiddenbrain @npr Illustration: Robert Thom, courtesy of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Pearson Museum. Pearson Museum, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

We take Lana to protests! We want her engaged! When we are not in the streets, fighting white supremacy and structural violence and institutional racism, we read her books about protesting and activism to keep the conversation going. Keep up the passion! Keep up the fire! These books will help ● The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt ● Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin ● A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara ● Rosa by Nikki Giovanni ● ¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! by Diana Cohn ● Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel ● Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh ● Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words by Karen Leggett Abouraya ● Swimmy by Leo Lionni ● We March by Shane Evans ● The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ● Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote by Tanya Lee Stone ● Miss Paul and the President by Dean Robbins #WokeBaby #Pediatrics #DoctorMicah #Activism PHOTO: GeekMom

The Global Breastfeeding Scorecard, which evaluated 194 nations, found that - only 40 per cent of children younger than six months are breastfed exclusively (given nothing but breastmilk) - only 23 countries have exclusive breastfeeding rates above 60 per cent I support #breastfeeding #WBW2017 #TheOriginalOrganicFood #Pediatrics #DoctorMicah @who @unicefusa