Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf.
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“The coronavirus is amplifying racial, class and other disparities, just as HIV has been doing for decades.”
On this World Aid’s Day, we are also reminded why a comprehensive public health strategy to deal with multiple pandemics. This Scientific American opinion piece lays out a compelling case for it.
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Vaccine equity is equally important as vaccine development and roll out. Fairness and transparency of vaccine distribution across the world is super important. This article is a good reminder why.
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“If you want to really understand what’s going on in a city on a basic chemical, biological level, you should be looking at the wastewater,” says Eric Alm, a co-director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at M.I.T. and the scientific director of Biobot Analytics, a company that collects health data from sewage.
Sewage surveillance systems can be a novel source to detect, track and monitor disease outbreaks. Thinking outside the box- read more about it here.
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Jina Dcruz 