Amy Maxmen, PhD
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Award-winning public health reporter @KFFHealthNews. Bylines @NYTimes @Nature & more. Views are my own. RT is not an endorsement. She/her.
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CDC's committee meets on Aug 22 to discuss foundational guidelines on airborne infection control in nursing homes, hospitals & other health facilities. Will it update w/new science? Many fear it won't, allowing employers to put profits before protection. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/h…
"All nature is at war, one organism with another, or with external nature." -Darwin in, as Noah Whiteman says, one of the two most important papers *ever written*
Mpox was a preventable global health emergency. Missteps and inaction have created the perfect environment for the virus to mutate into a strain that's spreading more easily between humans. Big Take from w/Janice Kew Jason Gale Antony Sguazzin Naomi Kresge bloomberg.com/news/features/…
New covid shots will cost people $200 if they don't have insurance. That's more than a million people in Georgia. Important story by Rebecca Grapevine Healthbeat healthbeat.org/atlanta/2024/0…