In spite of nearly 2x dispensing sites, poorer zip codes had about 1/2 the rates of dispensing for oral COVID medications. Not okay. Dispensing of Oral Antiviral Drugs for Treatment ... cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… via CDC

Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

This feels like a metaphor for my workplace “wellness” and “resiliency” programs.

Peter Thiel’s theory of California’s decline has several problems, writes The Economist “In the past five years, California’s state-level GDP has grown by 18%, a better performance than either Florida or Texas” Noah Smith 🐇 @jason Molly Wood cres cabiladas economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Our new systematic review of 38 studies on effectiveness of 💵incentives for 💉vaccination during COVID 🤒, and we found.... THEY WORK! 👍 ...contrary to the predictions of some bioethicists. Open access through 7/1. authors.elsevier.com/c/1h3gPKt2q6LDW

NEW: A Tennessee doctor who signed covid-19 vaccine waivers for people without actually examining them has lost his medical license after a Nashville news station duped him into giving a waiver to… a dog. 📝: Brett Kelman kffhealthnews.org/news/article/t…

What harm can be done by a scientist or public health official agreeing to debate an anti-vaccination huckster? It's not just a thought execise. The damage has been done before. Let's look at Minnesota's "Vaccination Debate" of 1902. 1/

This paper reminds me why my undergrad has a course called "Physics for Biological Science Majors"

“133 students, 14 percent were Black and 30 percent were Hispanic… A vast majority of the U.C. Davis class — 84 percent — comes from disadvantaged backgrounds, and 42 percent are the first in their family to go to college.” UC Davis doing it right. nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/…

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The updated COVID-19 vaccine is effective, but is it cost-effective for the nation (especially now that special pandemic funding has ended)? Our researchers from CHEAR and their University of Michigan School of Public Health colleague did an analysis for CDC. What they found: michmed.org/bmPvM

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Visited GradyHealth’s Ponce De Leon Center in Atlanta to learn about their STI prevention work and to talk about  CDC's new clinical guidelines on #doxyPEP — the newest STI prevention tool. Learn more: bit.ly/4c8si3W

A frank and productive exchange of views with my counterpart on key issues like expanding the global supply of candy and toys and tightening sanctions against chores.

I kept changing my mind which Jimmy Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.

Our new paper explores how pass/fail grading has created a "shadow economy of effort," as medical students engage in extracurricular activities to compete for residency positions, often at the expense of clinical skill and well-being. Benjamin Kinnear journals.lww.com/academicmedici…

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

🔥We highlight our approach for developing and deploying an outreach campaign that ultimately linked hundreds of Latinos to sexual health services in Atlanta - GA doi.org/10.1080/175380…