Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

During the last two weeks, we’ve seen an avalanche of policies directed at dismantling our already hurting infrastructure for public health. Hope: The antidote to fear The pace of these firestorms means we rarely have time to reflect on public health wins before another blaze demands our attention. Archiving resources.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the department that oversees everything from the FDA and CDC to Medicare and Medicaid. A man who has devoted a large amount of his life to eroding trust in vaccines is now in the nation’s top health post. Social media rewards sensational content, not accuracy.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Health and Human Services appointees were rounded out last week under the new Trump administration. and Voices highly critical of Covid-19 era policies. Dr. Bhattacharya is a health economist, and Dr. Makary is a pancreatic surgeon and public policy researcher. But we must not lose the forest for the trees.

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