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May 17, 2021

I felt compelled to paint a plague mask over the weekend, so here's a (very preliminary) glimpse of my latest artwork-in-progress. Software: @AdobeDrawing's #AdobeFresco Brushes: Oilpaint Short (Live)

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You Have a Week to Stock Up on Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

REMINDER: This is the last week you can stock up on free COVID tests. The program will end when the Public Health Emergency ends on May 11.

time.com

The public health emergency ends May 11

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Parents urged to check children's MMR vaccine records following rise in measles cases

Measles vaccination rates in the UK have been falling. Today,

@UKHSA

warned of a rise in measles cases, with nearly as many cases from Jan.-April as in all of 2022. Predictable as night following day.

gov.uk

Parents are being asked to check children are fully up to date with their measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccinations by checking their vaccine record in their red book.

On May 2, our team will be answering questions about the use of artificial intelligence/#AI in modeling disease transmission & public health interventions! There’s no question too big or small. Retweet to get the word out & submit your questions here: pipp-pilot.org/virtual-town-h 1/

Brooke Foucault Welles

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‘Professor Moms’ & ‘Hidden Service’ in Pandemic Times: Students Report Women Faculty more Support...

I'm waiting for someone to connect these findings (students perceived women faculty to be more supportive and accommodating during the pandemic; universities have undervalued this care work) to the current reviewer crisis in academic publishing. 1/

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Innovative Higher Education - Emerging data suggests the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated preexisting, long-documented gender inequities among U.S. faculty in higher education. During the initial Spring...

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Two important new papers on women in science: 1. Big meta analysis: no evidence of discrimination against women in hiring and promotions. Fantastic! 2. Combining career and family is the major issue. Women with kids are half as likely to get tenure as women with out. Thread:

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Alice Evans

@_alice_evans

Apr 29

“Women and men are just as likely to be promoted, controlling for publications” But listen, a survey of 50,000 US scientists finds that motherhood inhibits output. So controlling for publications omits a major gendered obstacle to career progression. By @PMoserEcon et al

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Dr. Julia Raifman (@JuliaRaifman@med-mastodon.com)

@JuliaRaifman

Apr 26

As a policy expert, it is not just rational but critical to recognize policy decisions drive public health outcomes & equity. By recognizing the importance of policy decisions, leaders can begin to make better, more equitable policy decisions. We have much better to do.

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my ex (we're still friends) is a criminal defense lawyer and until february '23, masks were required in the county courtrooms. now masks are optional, judges and DAs don't wear them, and he's doing a trial maskless because it will give his client a better chance of avoiding jail

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Health Effects of Involuntary Displacement of Homeless Individuals Who Inject Drugs

Involuntary displacement of people experiencing homelessness will likely lead to a substantial increase in mortality and morbidity. This new study adds to a large body of evidence linking homelessness and housing instability to adverse health outcomes.

jamanetwork.com

This modeling study examines the potential long-term health effects of involuntary displacement among unsheltered people experiencing homelessness who inject drugs in 23 US cities.

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David Christopher

@MLS_Dave

With the growing number of fungal infections rising since the pandemic I couldn't help but notice the 2 nursing home patients whose urine samples were inundated with massive numbers of budding yeast with long branches of pseudohyphae yesterday. Some of the worst I've ever seen.

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This quote sums it up for me: “Something clearly went wrong. And I don’t know exactly what it was. But the reason we know it went wrong is that we are the richest country in the world, and on a per-capita basis we’ve done worse than virtually all other countries.”

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Dr. Saskia Popescu

@SaskiaPopescu

Apr 26

Dr. Fauci Looks Back on the Pandemic and What Went Wrong - The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20

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This event will be asynchronous, which means that all questions submitted between now & 12p EST on May 2 are eligible to be answered! We'll take a 90-minute period on May 2 to answer as many questions as possible, & answers will then be posted here: pipp-pilot.org/virtual-town-h 2/

Brooke Foucault Welles

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We hope your Eid al-Fitr is filled with friendship, kindness and love! Eid Mubarak!

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Dr. Julia Raifman (@JuliaRaifman@med-mastodon.com)

@JuliaRaifman

Apr 19

"Mask use by health care providers should be codified into the definition of standard & universal precautions & become the 'new normal' for all healthcare institutions" - @IbukunMD (Duke), David Henderson (NIH), David Weber (UNC), Sarah Haessler (UMass) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36762631/

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The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database

A Q I've seen: "How did this stay quiet so long?" Quote from the article: "Many sources who spoke to Science declined to be named out of fear of legal action from Bogner or of losing GISAID access." Scientists depend on GISAID access. Fear is powerful.

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GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future

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Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again

👋I’m back. And I wrote about the current wave of attempts to downplay long COVID—less outright denial & more "it’s real but no big deal". Except: it very much is. It’s a substantial and ongoing crisis that still demands our attention. 1/

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What was once outright denial has morphed into a subtler dismissal.

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1. This is so interesting! Seasonal patterns of #flu are reasonably well charted in temperate zones, but less well known in tropical ones. A

@CDCgov

study of a decade's worth of data from 25 African countries found unexpected (for me!) patterns of seasonality.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky, JD

@LaSeletzky

Apr 16

“[H]ospitals cannot necessarily avoid liability by arguing that patients consent to unmasked care. Many patients cannot voluntarily consent to this…. Moreover… courts have generally rejected the argument that patients can consent to medical malpractice.”

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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure | Bill of Health

Science, law, and the principle of “do not harm” all concur about the path to keeping patients safe from disease and hospitals safe from liability.

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In counties with more Black doctors, Black people live longer, ‘astonishing’ study finds

A team of data analysts has found the presence of Black primary care docs in a county, even a single one, means Black residents in that county live longer. Even veteran researchers call the finding stunning

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The study is the first to link a higher prevalence of Black doctors to longer life expectancy and lower mortality in Black populations.

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has issued an update on the #Marburg outbreak in Equatorial Guinea. It is not reassuring. A 🧵 Before getting into it, a note on the Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. WHO says the case count remains at 8, with 5 deaths. If accurate, this outbreak doesn't seem to be growing.

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Deaths from pregnancy increased 40% in 2021 compared to 2020, our first full year of both COVID and vaccines. Yet this high-risk group died at a rate we've haven't seen in recent history. If COVID is gonna remain with us, we have to figure out how to keep birthing people alive.

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Tiffany Green

@Tiffany_L_Green

Apr 14

Grateful to my coauthor @Theresa_Chapple, the Hill for publishing this, and our colleagues who gave us such amazing feedback. We will not restore Black autonomy and joy without keeping Black birthing people and babies safe. thehill.com/opinion/health

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joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@reluctantlyjoe

Apr 14

Holy fuck. In the US, almost 90% of MPOX deaths were in Black men. Nearly 95% of those deaths were in people with untreated HIV. If you think MPOX is over, ask yourself FOR WHOM? cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7

86.8% occurred in non-Hispanic Black or African American (Black) persons. The median interval from symptom onset to death was 68 days (IQR = 50–86 days). Among 33 decedents with available information, 93.9% were immunocompromised because of HIV. Public health actions to prevent mpox deaths include integrated testing, diagnosis, and early treatment for mpox and HIV, and ensuring equitable access to both mpox and HIV prevention and treatment, such as antiretroviral therapy (ART) (5).

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Evictions and Infant and Child Health Outcomes

7 years ago

and I were PhD students wondering why there wasn’t much academic research on evictions + child health. Flash forward to today and there’s a whole systematic review on the topic! (thanks

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@NatalieSlopen

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jamanetwork.com

This systematic review without meta-analysis synthesizes and assesses data from studies examining the associations of eviction exposure with infant and child health outcomes.

How pandemic publishing struck a blow to the visibility of women’s expertise

For male academics (who are 4x more likely to have a partner at home doing domestic care), the start of the COVID pandemic was a publishing boon. Of the 45 most prolific medical journal authors (60+ papers) during the 1st 18 months, just 5 were women.

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The biases in scientific publishing during the pandemic damaged women’s visibility, recognition, and career advancement, reports Jocalyn Clark Before covid-19, Reshma Jagsi had a thriving clinical...

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It's huge the White House is funding next gen vaccines better at reducing transmission. But it also comes at the same time the COVID emergencies are ending. As we wait for new vaccines, we still need public health protections & social supports to make society accessible to all.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, MA PhD

@Arrianna_Planey

Apr 10

Why I still mask: "The mortality risk of pregnant patients with COVID-19 infection at delivery was approximately 14 times higher compared with those without (64.0 vs 4.3 per 100 000 deliveries; aOR, 13.91 [95% CI, 6.36-30.42]"

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Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality of Pregnant Patients With COVID-19 Infection

This cohort study examines the patient characteristics and maternal outcomes associated with COVID-19 infection among pregnant patients at delivery during the early pandemic period in the US.

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Dr. Bernie Lim, MD, MS (she/her)

@drbernielim

Apr 3

Too many of y’all are still hyper-intellectualizing “health equity” w academic jargon and big fancy graphs. We need more people willing to embody health equity, which is resting, healing, and divesting from these systems that do not care about our health, healing, and well-being!

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The Unspoken Reason Why Many Doctors and Nurses Are Quitting

My friend

just published this brilliant piece in

@TIME

about the unspoken fear that is driving many docs, nurses, & other #healthcare providers out of clinical care. It’s not what you think. Take a read.

time.com

Malpractice litigation is a thorny topic to discuss openly. Even among doctors, it carries an air of shame and secrecy.

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I was asked if I cared that I’ll lose my legacy blue check tomorrow. Nope. But tomorrow millions of Americans are at risk of losing health insurance, after a pandemic provision ends today. That I really care about. A lot. It hurts to see how broken healthcare is in this country

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With the public health emergency ending soon, testing for COVID will become even less accessible. Stock up on all the free rapid test you can get now.

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“Non-White” scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn

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In the lab: A nasal spray developed in Finland protects against #SARSCoV2 infection, including recent immune-evasive variants. When administered nasally the experimental molecule—TriSb92—developed at Univ of Helsinki blocks transmission & spread of #SARS2 nature.com/articles/s4146

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Women were already unequal in the world of global health. The pandemic made it worse

Health workers have been applauded as pandemic heroes. But they've faced longer hours, greater risks and more challenging work than ever — plus the massive additional burdens in family care borne by women around the world. My latest for

@npr

npr.org

A new report from Women in Global Health looks at how much ground was lost — and what the impact is on health care.

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD

@MVGutierrezMD

Mar 24

I saw this sign & thought it was quite beautiful

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Nirmatrelvir and the Risk of Post–COVID-19 Condition

Paxlovid can prevent #LongCovid The latest from our team in

@TaeyoungChoi93

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This cohort study examines the association of treatment with nirmatrelvir in the acute phase of COVID-19 and risk of post–COVID-19 condition.

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joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@reluctantlyjoe

Mar 12

A quick but *essential* report: A recent case of MPOX reinfection. We don't yet have clinical guidelines for vaccination post MPOX infection. You *might* want to talk to your provider about it. This is likely rare, but it certainly isn't impossible, even within a few months.

The Self-Appointed Covid Experts Are At It Again

My latest for

. Welcome to the new world, where you're entitled to your own opinions and your own facts. #COVID19

thenation.com

The armchair Covid quarterbacks are screaming some new tunes: Masks don't work! Covid came from a lab! Here’s why we need to be cautious about trusting them.

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Ok this is big. Web of Science just removed the MDPI flagship journal IJERPH from their lists. This means IJERPH has no more an Impact Factor. Why is this big? What are the implications? 🧵

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Postdoc opening anticipated soon for someone with a recent PhD in global health, epi, political science, or biology with an interest in pandemic policy and some experience in / enthusiasm for a mix of data science, social networks, text mining, and data viz! Get in touch 📲