#Publichealth

DRI International

Starting the @columbia_ncdp Q&A:@ChloeDemrovsky: What makes a mega-disaster different from a regular #disaster? @jeffschlegel: Disasters so large they disrupt the systems designed to respond to them Where human development/activity also

@BlackCointelpro

blackcointelpro

Remember when I said this? That's March 21st before #CoronavirusRD started noticeably hitting #ADOS #BlackCommunity.. 10s of 1000s of #BlackPeople, could've been saved in the past 3 weeks & going

City Building Ryerson

Getting started in 10 minutes, a conversation w/ @Torsalias about road traffic noise and how it affects our health. Want to join in? Here's the link to register: https://www.ryerson.ca/city-building/events/2021/04/health-impacts-road-tr

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

Here's a short list of things we do and don't yet know about #COVID19. 1. We don't yet know the true case fatality rate. (E.g.: if you catch it, how

A hopeful re: improving #globalhealth through #Decolonizingglobalhealth #antiracism efforts—some examples of positive change:@DGH_LSHTM & #blacklivesmatter groups gathered signatures from 100's of staff, students, & alumni ca

Alex John London

1. My new paper with @kimmelmanJ is out at @ScienceMagazine. “Pandemic Research Exceptionalism” is the idea that the urgency of a crisis warrants lowering #research standards. We argue against this

Benjamin Mason Meier

"I'd like to talk about something incredibly important that hinges on this election because our main story concerns...the World Health Organization."Thank you @LastWeekTonight for addressing the importance of @WHO to

ryanodinegrimes

Part 1: Could #ventilatorinducedlunginjury be worsening COVID19 patient health? Potential #COVID19 drugs include #IL6inhibitors #tocilizumab and #sarilumab — #biologics that may improve lung tissue damage caused by #cytokinerelease in patients

Don't mind me, @HCPSBoard, I'm just leaving this little #PSA here for you to consider before we recklessly open up our #schools. @stevecona @stacyhahn @clstuart @MelissaSnively @T_Shamburger @KarenPerezTampa @LynnSchoolBoard @Addiso

It would be unwise of the media to uncritically amplify @ScottMorrisonMP talking up the NSW response to #COVID19 as part of his attack on @DanielAndrewsMP et al & the Victorian

1/Today, I learned that no meaningful process exists for people to apply for critical benefits from a new Medicare program, created to extend coverage to thousands of vulnerable, elderly patients

Terri Lewis, PhD 和平抵抗

DEA Guidance links on prescribing of controlled substances during a national health emergency https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/coronavirus.html Virtual checkins and evisits https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/virtual-check-ins Coverage determination

Thread of Links to articles and studies that show news about the true #COVID19 infection/mortality rates. “Science”1) German Study:0.37% Fatality Rate(Median Age 7 years older than US)https://reason.com/2020/04/09/preliminary-german-study-shows-a-co

"Don't worry," they said. "It will be fine," they said. "There won't be blood in the streets," they said. The Missouri legislature said this for years while passing dangerous gun

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

My undergrad major was the history of science: we learned how politics impacts data collection; power structures can silence truth; & science denialism isn't new. Which is to say: This

Twanna A. Hines

funkybrownchick

Because I geek out about learning new things, I'm reading up on an old Supreme Court case, Jacobson vs. Massachusetts.https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/government-can-restrict-your-liberty-to-protect-public-health-courts-