Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 9 of 2022. I. Read the Atlantic article “The Pandemic Is Following a Very Predictable and Depressing Pattern“ “As with diseases such as malaria and HIV, rich countries are “moving on” from COVID while poor ones continue to get ravaged.” II. The […]

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Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 8 of 2022. I. Such a profound loss to public health and especially the global health community- Dr Paul Farmer will always be a shining light to all of us! NY Times obituary here. Also a wonderful profile of Dr Farmer by […]

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Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 7 of 2022. I. Today 2.7 billion people have yet to receive their first vaccine shot against COVID-19. Article on “Mapping the unvaccinated world” here. II. “When questions for science (“how many lives can we save by doing X?”) clash with questions for democracy […]

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Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 6 of 2022. I. The largest and longest follow up of teens with #LongCovid (N>6,600) and matched controls (>21,000): higher odds of symptoms, more sick days and school absences published in The Lancet II. Surprising (and beautiful) SARS-CoV-2’s family tree from NPR […]

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Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 5 of 2022. I. Definitely a time for reality check. Read the article from here. II. Such a fascinating source of data to detect new COVID (and maybe other) infections. For the past year, scientists have been looking for the source of […]

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Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 4 of 2022. I. “Thinking that endemicity is both mild and inevitable is more than wrong, it is dangerous: it sets humanity up for many more years of disease, including unpredictable waves of outbreaks. It is more productive to consider how bad […]

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Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 3 of 2022. I. Wastewater surveillance leading to COVID surveillance clues. Amazing how we get critical data from the most unlikely of sources. Read it from here. II. A new @KFF brief looks at the implications of the #HelmsAmendment for access to […]

Read More 2022 Public health stories #3

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 2 of 2022. I. Great view point articles in JAMA about strategy, policy, and practice for life after COVID-19 A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID A National Strategy for COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures The First 2 Years of […]

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