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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 […]
Read More 2022 Public health stories #5Curated 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 […]
Read More 2022 Public health stories #4Curated 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 #3Curated 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 […]
Read More 2022 Public health stories #2Curated 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 […]
Read More 2022 Public health stories #1Curated 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 […]
Read More 2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #52Curated 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 […]
Read More 2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #51Curated 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 […]
Read More 2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #50Curated 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 […]
Read More 2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #49Curated 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 […]
Read More 2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #48
Jina Dcruz 