The Frozen Child: Public Charge, the Chilling Effect, and the Hidden Costs to US Citizen Children https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308707?af=R

Channel
Public health Updates
@Public_Health_Updates
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,864subscribers
+108 since we began measuring on 28 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001213821389 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Public_Health_Updates |
| Created | Between 1 April 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 28 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 22 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 22 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Public_Health_Updates |
Topic
Health & wellness — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 15 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 94% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026, 17:38 | 2,864 | -3 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 19:50 | 2,867 | +7 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 06:26 | 2,860 | +6 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 16:40 | 2,854 | +9 |
| 11 Oct 2026, 15:37 | 2,845 | +14 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 00:59 | 2,831 | +18 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 06:18 | 2,813 | +18 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 13:38 | 2,795 | +11 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 03:58 | 2,784 | +3 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 06:42 | 2,781 | +7 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 03:36 | 2,774 | +4 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 09:54 | 2,770 | +14 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 12:00 | 2,756 | no change |
| 28 Aug 2026, 11:45 | 2,756 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 21 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 28 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Key Elements of a Community-Engaged Approach to Evaluating a Nationwide Community Health Worker Program https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308659?af=R
Implementation Experiences From the Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities Initiative https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308714?af=R
The Costs of Disruption https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308736?af=R
“Invest in Us!” Exploring the Well-Being and Sustainability of the Community Health Worker Workforce https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308713?af=R
Community Health Workers: CCR Was the Foundation, Not the Finish Line https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308757?af=R
Shaping the Future: A CHW-Led Movement to Achieve Sustainability https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308617?af=R
Conflicts of Interest https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308809?af=R
Characteristics and Congruence of the Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities Workforce and Communities Served, United States, 2024 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308734?af=R
Best Practices for Integrating Community Health Workers Into Care Teams and Organizations: Lessons From the Front Line https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308685?af=R
Results From and Preliminary Validation of the Workplace-Related Community Health Worker Common Indicators in a Large-Scale Sample https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308641?af=R
A Community Health Worker–Led Model of Training and Technical Assistance to Support National Community Health Worker Program Implementation for COVID-19 Response: United States, 2021–2025 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308665?af=R
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @Public_Health_Updates. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@ILETS_SPEAKING_PRACTICE · 20,655
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 26 September 2026
@Obs_gynee · 25,409
Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 26 September 2026
@mrcp1material · 46,224
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 28 August 2026
@lraq_ed · 18,822
Telegram ranks this channel #72 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 5 October 2026
This channel appears in 4 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Public health Updates” (@Public_Health_Updates), 2,864 subscribers as measured 22 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Public_Health_Updates.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.