2022 Public health stories #1

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 1 of 2022. I. An excellent summary of how the magic of our immune system boosted by vaccines can fight variants by Dr Eric Topol. Read it from his blog here. II. Accountable, technically sound, country-level mechanisms are needed to channel resources […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #52

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 52 of 2021. I. Source: https://twitter.com/ScienceMagazine/status/1474115103587020805?s=20\ II. 7 important lessons for fighting any pandemic by Dr Frieden Read it from here. III. Last post with some nuanced brevity. Hopefully, the next year will bring us less COVID news (because it no longer […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #51

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 51 of 2021. I. An excellent piece by Ed Yong on “Why America is not ready for Omicron” Read the Atlantic piece from here. II. A great review of COVID-19 diagnostic tests from The Lancet. Available here. III. What would it cost […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #50

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 50 of 2021. I. A good list of 11 epidemiological fallacies from preventepidemics.org. COVID-19 is used as an example, but its applicable for any health threat. Read about it from here. II. A comprehensive comparison of vaccination progress compiled by JHU Access […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #49

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 49 of 2021. I. More people died of malaria in 2020 than in 2019. Want to know why? Read about it from here. II. “If the world is going to beat the pandemic, countries need policies that promote a basic, but increasingly […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #48

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 48 of 2021. I. Global vaccine inequity summarized by this FT article. II. Blind spots in US genomic surveillance hinders our ability in detecting variants sooner? Read about it from here. III. “As Antiviral Pills Arrive, Can Testing Keep Up?” Read the […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #47

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 47 of 2021. I. A new six-month progress report from The Independent Panel outlining how we’re losing time to make the world safer from pandemics. Read it from here. II. A very important issue of vaccine supply inequity in lower income countries. […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #46

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 46 of 2021. I. A set of open-source digital tools to empower public health teams to boost the efficiency of outreach and support services developed by https://preventepidemics.org/. These can be easily translated for use for other health emergencies as well. II. A […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #45

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 45 of 2021. I. What we know about waning vaccine effectiveness from NY Times II. The landmark paper on NEJM discusses ” the U.K. 100,000 Genomes Project is in the process of investigating the role of genome sequencing in patients with undiagnosed […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #44

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 44 of 2021. I. Great graphical abstract of how multi mitigation measures in a US public school system, pre-vaccination helps control COVID transmission II. Wealthy nations have received more than 16 times the amount of vaccines delivered to poor nations, according to […]