2022 Public health stories #5

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 […]

2022 Public health stories #4

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 […]

2022 Public health stories #3

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 […]

2022 Public health stories #2

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 […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #35

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 35 of 2021. I. “Compared with other highly vaccinated countries, large parts of the United States have many vulnerable seniors, helping spur hospitalization and death.” II. “While health care spending plummeted early in the pandemic, recent analysis show that health care spending is rebounding. Overall […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #14

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 14 of 2021 I. “It’s a miracle. This is probably the single greatest biomedical triumph in history, a rabbit-out-of-a-hat story.” Dr Eric Topol Read about the mystery of breakthrough COVID-19 infections here. II. CDC declares racism as a serious public health threat. […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #10

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 10 of 2021 I. We knew COVID incidence had racial disparities among older adults, but new evidence also shows how it disproportionately impacted young adults too– especially in Native and Hispanic communities. Read the MMWR article from here II. There have been […]

Public health stories #7

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf I. Last week was huge for everyone expecting good news from the vaccine front. Everything you need to know about the AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines in a condensed format here. II. Healthcare costs in US needs to be reduced to meet Institute of […]

Public Health Stories #6

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf I. I had been amiss at posting for a little while. I had the privilege of being part of the COVID response for the past few months and it had been an experience like no other. I am grateful for the front line health […]

Public health stories #5

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf I. Success story from New Zealand in eliminating COVID transmission “There are several lessons from New Zealand’s pandemic response. Rapid, science-based risk assessment linked to early, decisive government action was critical. Implementing intervention at various levels (border-control measures, community-transmission control measures, and case based […]