New piece on H5N1.

I've spent weeks talking with officials from the FDA, USDA, CDC, WH, ASPR, etc., and with public health and agriculture people in various states about the growing H5N1 cattle outbreak.

It's not good. We're not responding properly.
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

I know social media has broken everyone’s brains, but this is news and the New York Times is a news-paper. Get a grip.

FYI Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, many Americans are isolated because COVID is NOT over, and government abandonment has left many locked out from society.

The only way to meaningfully address this isolation is to use public health tools to mitigate the long-term harm COVID continues to cause.

Just had explosive interaction w/ Columbia University’s heightened security coming onto campus. They followed me to my office & then lied, saying I didn’t scan my ID for entry (I did) & I pushed an officer (I didn’t). An ugly scene followed. They did this to me, a tenured, full professor.

Funding infrastructure for improved air filtration systems would help!
Social isolation has negative health effects… but so does COVID-19.

Same guy who said this: columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

'looks like what we've got on our hands is a classic case of college students buying something cheap and disposable' hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-ou…

.David Weigel on why the left-wing protestors are wearing masks.

fear of facial recognition tech and, as one organizer put it: 'we deny the Biden administration’s narrative about COVID — that it’s no longer a big deal'
semafor.com/newsletter/04/…

Most of the traffic calming installed along 34th Ave is not robust. Civic volunteers still feel the need to drag barriers onto the street 4 years after the depths of the pandemic

It’s the way the community uses the street that makes it one of the loveliest places in town

.Columbia Daily Spectator overnight reported the midnight deadline was pushed back campus admin another 48 hours, after administration cited 'important progress' in talks with student organizers.

These sleepless student journalists are following every twist and turn of this ⬇️⬇️

Columbia president Minouche Shafik hasn’t spoken to Columbia Daily Spectator since early September.

The editors of the Columbia Spectator are at the center of campus news cjr.org/the_media_toda…

NEW: I spoke to reporters at Columbia Daily Spectator, who walked me through how they're trying to get right what the national press may miss when covering the pro-Palestinian protests. 'This is reporting that will have a place in the historical record.' thedailybeast.com/columbia-u-new…

“When people in Gaza begin starving to death on a large scale, experts say, it will happen first to the north, and first to the most vulnerable: children with preexisting medical conditions; older adults; and the infants, born under siege” nytimes.com/2024/04/23/wor…

‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

New Yorkers infected with Covid-19 will no longer have guaranteed sick days under legislation passed as part of the state budget this past weekend. Repeal takes effect 7/31/25. My story from when Governor Kathy Hochul proposed the rollback in her budget plan: hellgatenyc.com/hochul-moves-t…

The Barnard and Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors plans to submit a “Resolution of Censure of President Shafik, her Administration, and the Co-chairs of the Board of Trustees” to the University Senate.

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People of divergent political beliefs found a common voice in one thing at Columbia University Monday: Criticizing the school president over her handling of escalating campus tensions, w/Irie Sentner politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Serious medical problems. A holdover eviction. An affordable housing shortage. And seemingly no way to access rental assistance:

Here's how quickly a New Yorker can come to the brink of homelessness

For Gothamist-WNYC 🎙
gothamist.com/news/heres-how…

“I condemn the antisemitic protests,' BIDEN tells reporters. 'I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”