nearly three years into the pandemic, children will be among this winter's most vulnerable groups—as a swell of respiratory viruses returns amid disappearing mitigations, ready to make up for lost time. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The bivalent Covid boosters are incredible. And yet there are enormous income disparities in uptake thanks to barriers like transportation, paid leave, and internet access. It doesn't need to be this way. nytimes.com/2022/11/03/opi…

.Matthew Herper on why we’re not ready to capitalize on “biology’s century.” In part, it’s our belief that inventing new gadgets is the answer to everything. “[W]e try to solve problems by building faster and more expensive Ferraris when what we really need are better roads.”

A bill to provide federal recognition of same-sex marriages cleared a key hurdle in the Senate, with 12 Republicans joining all 50 Democrats to break a filibuster. nyti.ms/3hOZpCY

.Shiying estimated QALYs lost associated with genital herpes infection (HSV-1, HSV-2) in the US providing burden estimates for adults and neonates. Published in The Lancet Reg Health-Americas. Co-authors: Reza Yaesoubi Yunfei Li Kyu Lee Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social Minttu Rönn 🌻 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

.⁦Claire Cain Miller⁩ ⁦Sarah Kliff⁩ ⁦Larry Buchanan⁩ of ⁦The New York Times⁩ were amazing and committed to getting every single detail of the data right, which resulted in this careful and thoughtful article about our paper. Thank you! ⁦ nytimes.com/interactive/20…

A lot of excitement on twitter today about TRUNCATE-TB, for good reason. An intensified regimen of bedaquiline + linezolid + HZE for 8 weeks was non-inferior to 24w standard HRZE. Eager to hear more from TB community but some brief thoughts...

Check out the new work out: Yunfei Li estimated QALYs lost associated with chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis infections in the United States. Co-authors include Shiying, Kyu Lee, Reza Yaesoubi, Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social, Minttu Rönn 🌻 academic.oup.com/jid/advance-ar…

New preprint out which examines how to deploy a new antibiotic for #gonorrhea in a way that maximizes its clinically useful lifespan. Work led by Emily Reichert and Yonatan Grad. Co-authors include Reza Yaesoubi Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social Minttu Rönn 🌻 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

New work from the team analyzing cost-effectiveness of chlamydia screening and partner notification in the United States during 2000–2019. Authors: Minttu Rönn 🌻 Yunfei Li Nick Menzies Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social journals.lww.com/stdjournal/Abs…

We have updated our data source for weekly cases at the county & state level - we are now using CDC reported weekly case counts, as JHU data will not be updated after March 10, 2023. With this switch, we can continue to generate weekly infection estimates in US states & counties.

“Today’s approval of OTC naloxone nasal spray will help improve access […and] reduce opioid overdose deaths throughout the country. We encourage the manufacturer to make accessibility to the product a priority …” Dr. Robert M. Califf nytimes.com/2023/03/29/hea…

Researchers collaborate w/CDC on new HepB screening recommendation. "The new hepatitis B screening guidance supplies a good example of the value of this type of partnership for co-developing essential evidence for policy," says SHP's Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social. Read: stan.md/40UaDYE

My first, first-author paper is out in Medical Decision Making!!! I'm very thankful to my co-authors and mentors, Jane Tan, Glenn Chertow, and Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, for helping to make this happen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… (full text will be on PubMed soon)

NEW: During the #COVID19 pandemic, the U.S. experienced the most significant two-year decline in life expectancy in roughly a century, with COVID-19 deaths disproportionately impacting people of color and exacerbating racial disparities in life expectancy. kff.org/racial-equity-…

Congrats to Sherri Rose for earning the 2023 President’s Award for Excellence Through Diversity Stanford University. Sherri is a tireless advocate for justice, equity and inclusion, and she inspires and challenges us all to aim higher and work harder against an unacceptable status quo.

🚨 New analysis: More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since April 1. The vast majority were removed for not completing paperwork, raising lawmakers’ and advocates’ alarm. 🧵 kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

PPML at StanfordHealthPolicy is recruiting for postdocs to conduct analyses and modeling relating to the health impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of infectious disease prevention and treatment strategies. Opportunity to drive impactful research with Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/op…

In their new Forefront article, Robert Kaplan, Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social, Peter Neumann + Marthe Gold from Stanford University Tufts University + The New York Academy of Medicine discuss how House-passed legislation would ban the use of QALYs, a metric to enable wise use of limited health care resources. bit.ly/3JJwI5a

In Health Affairs Forefront today, Bob Kaplan, Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social, Marthe Gold & I argue that QALYs or related methods are the best way to assure fair treatment of people with disabilities & chronic illnesses. tinyurl.com/2p94uduc CEVR ICER UW School of Pharmacy Stacie Dusetzina