Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 14 of 2022. I. COVID-19 therapeutics: Challenges and directions for the future “This pandemic has put a strain on the global community that we have not seen outside wartime. In our interconnected world, we have seen that none of us are safe […]

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 13 of 2022. I. This is such an important article from Nature on Lessons from the COVID data wizards II. We know public health workforce is getting burnt out. And now we have the data that confirms it as well. De Beaumont […]

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 11 of 2022. I. How AI is going to influence our diets. An insightful NY Times piece here. II. III. Paid sick leave protects businesses, health care, and the public. Why Paid Sick Leave is Essential from Dr Tom Frieden. Disclaimer: Posts […]

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 10 of 2022. I. Dr Eric Topols careful critique of where we are and where we should be with the pandemic. Read it from here. “Now is the wrong time to become complacent. Our vaccination and booster rates have left us in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]