New from Lancet @CovidCommission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel ---- Proposed Non-infectious Air Delivery Rates (NADR) for Reducing Exposure to Airborne Respiratory Infectious Diseases ---- covid19commission.org/safe-work-trav… ---- 🧵

2023 is a good number for Kansas City!

Worth your time: some incredible investigative work by my colleagues BiancaVázquezToness and Sharon Lurye on 230,000 missing students in 21 states with amazing #dataviz from Eunice Esomonu #education #datajournalism apnews.com/article/covid-…

Let’s go, Kansas City!

Your Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs! 🏈

America doesn’t have a labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

DC Fair Budget Coalition's budget platform uses a #WholePerson #WholeCommunity approach for equitable resource reallocation in DC. That’s what we need you to do Mayor Muriel Bowser Phil Mendelson! Fair Budget Coalition DC #MeetingTheNeeds #DCBudget View platform: bit.ly/FY24BudgetPlat…

We seek Health Justice thru policies & budget priorities that support the holistic health of residents & are reparative. #FairBudgetDC #MeetingTheNeeds #DCBudget Find all our Health Justice budget recs here, Mayor Muriel Bowser DMHHS: bit.ly/FY24BudgetPlat…

The mayor's #DCBudget drop today will reveal what she values. #FairBudgetDC values inclusion, justice, & equity for DC's Black & brown communities. #MeetingTheNeeds See all the recommendations we shared with Mayor Muriel Bowser, here: bit.ly/FY24BudgetPlat….

Excited to share a new paper today with Brian McGarry and Ashvin Gandhi published today in NEJM TL;DR Nursing homes with higher use of COVID-19 tests for staff had 30% fewer resident cases and 26% fewer deaths than low testing facilities. That's a LOT. /1 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Last year DC Department of Behavioral Health addressed hiring difficulties by ⬆️ SBBH CBO grant funding, which allowed more competitive compensation for urgently needed clinicians. SBBH funding levels must be sustained in order to continue filling these critical roles. #TeamSBBH CM Christina Henderson

Tune in LIVE as PAVE (Parents Amplifying Voices in Education) parent leaders and Director of Policy and Advocacy Kerry Savage testify on the critical need for funding and supports for #ParentPriority - #SBMH💜🙌🏿 Council of DC

Today good people of #DC are testifying CM Christina Henderson about the mental health crisis of our people & how DC Department of Behavioral Health needs much more money than Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed in order to be #MeetingTheNeeds - SBMH for students & 24 hr Harm Reduction for our massive overdose crisis!

OMB just released incredibly important, very thoughtful & long overdue updates to the guidance for regulatory analysis (Circular A-4) & public investment (Circular A-94). Will help support better, more future-oriented policy. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Happy Tax Day! We’re rooting for a #FairBudgetDC that is restorative & prioritizes racial justice. Will you join us Mayor Muriel Bowser Phil Mendelson? #MeetingTheNeeds #DCBudget Fair Budget Coalition DC View all our recs in the platform: bit.ly/FY24BudgetPlat…

The use of “epidemic” to characterize destructive social phenomena—gun violence, homelessness, loneliness, suicide, overdose, etc—reflects a deepening medicalization of society that naturalizes policy-manufactured outcomes and obscures political responsibility to change them.

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Kansas City Chiefs back-to-back Super Bowl Champions!

#SafetyIs meeting the vital needs of the ppl, & asking wealthy residents to pay their fair share. Mayor Muriel Bowser & Phil Mendelson, this makes communities safer & stronger. #SafetyIs #DCBudget Fair Budget Coalition DC FY25 Platform: bit.ly/SafetyIsPlatfo… Sign on: bit.ly/SafetyIsPetiti…