Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In winter 2020, we were losing ~3,500 people per day. But pretending that most public health policies were largely failures isn’t helpful either. In October 2020, the GBD advocated for a distinct approach: isolate the vulnerable while allowing infections to spread among lower-risk members of the population.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Overall, 76% of Americans express fair or a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests (versus 87% in April 2020). The public is about evenly split about how active a role scientists should take in policy debates – 51% think they should, 48% think they should stick to science. ” Dr.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” It’s coming from HHS [the Department of Health and Human Services].

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