@pbennettwarner reading White Teeth. Greatness greatness greatness

1/2 I just ran into Vice President JD Vance Mike Pence at the Drake Diner in Des Moines. I confronted him about his damaging health care cuts because for me it's not about politics, it's about saving lives. #DrakeUniversity #IowaCaucus #TrumpRallyIA #MedTwitter

Pardongate is meant to normalize white collar crime, bribery, and corruption — and to anesthetize the public to Trump’s emergence as a full-blown autocrat in the style of Putin forbes.com/sites/stephani…

This 18 seconds is probably the best single piece of advice I’ve heard about the #coronavirus

Per BUSPH Environmental Health study, the cleaner air may have prevented more deaths than were caused by COVID in China. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

A Deadly Principle. See also David K. Jones Will the Deep South ever Expand Medicaid? Would it Matter?. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…

Shirley Bassey - Something's Coming (From West Side Story) (1979 Show #2) youtu.be/xltCqTEmpFw via YouTube

An interesting occurrence that sometimes happens when working in the world of ideas: the same idea emerges in multiple places at the same time, as if generated not by individual thinkers, but by circumstance itself.

via New York Times Opinion acknowledgement by Republicans that only government intervention can prevent it from crashing is a unintended admission that the system is built in part on socialist ideas. So: will the emergency change minds about universal healthcare? nytimes.com/2020/04/17/opi…

State 'Crisis Standards' for rationing care are not equitable - CommonWealth Boston U School of Medicine Prof Jeffrey Markuns on rationing and equity: Magazine commonwealthmagazine.org/health-care/st…

Primary Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic commonwealthfund.org/blog/2020/prim…

Looking forward to a visit from Central Cooling tomorrow.

Mayor Walsh declares racism a public health crisis in Boston, will seek to transfer 20% of police overtime budget … bostonglobe.com/2020/06/12/met…

"The black people I come from were owned by the white people I come from." You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opi…

Dear Dr Redfield CDC Director I have just heard from colleagues that this is as insane as it sounds. CDC, America’s public health agency, is no longer going to be first in line to receive this data. Sir, this is a travesty. I urge you to speak up.

via The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/12/18/ups…

via The New York Times The Neolithic equivalent of going to the moon. nytimes.com/2021/02/12/sci…