When cases resurge among unvaccinated this fall, we cannot close down schools We have better solutions: - Vaccinate - Ensure adequate rapid tests are available to TEST-TO-STAY - Proper Ventilation OpEd from Joseph Allen and myself in The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

🚨I wrote about how individualism is still sabotaging the pandemic response, and how it has been accentuated by vaccinations & the CDC’s recent guidance. Our collective problem still exists & has been even more heavily shifted onto the most vulnerable. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

29-year-old Christian Eriksen went into Sudden Cardiac Arrest on the soccer field in front of the entire world today. His life was saved because he got immediate CPR and defibrillation. This can happen to literally anyone, anytime, anywhere. Life is precious. Learn CPR.

“Health care workers have three special ethical responsibilities. One is protect the vulnerable, people who are really at risk of a disease. Secondly, put patient interests for first. Third, they’re supposed to do no harm.” nytimes.com/2021/06/22/us/…

“Dr. David Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at UAB and Children’s of Alabama, said Friday that he would “unequivocally” ask all eligible Alabamians, including children 12 years or older, to get vaccinated.”

There exists a pernicious belief that we all have a day and an hour, that if you don't die of COVID, it will be something else. That's not faith. It's recklessness dressing up as religion. Trust in God, but get the shot. al.com/news/2021/07/w…

I write about politics in Alabama, so I’m accustomed to covering train wrecks. What’s different this time is my child is on the train. al.com/news/2021/08/w…

Kids are at low risk of severe illness, but we must consider population risk and not just individual risk. Roll the dice millions of times and you can still get a heap of bad outcomes. Covid control measures must continue in schools.

A decision not to get vaccinated reaches far & wide. Our decisions impact hospital staff, physicians, loved ones who are immunocompromised, businesses, schools, children, etc I hope Alabamians will realize our freedoms allow us an opportunity to practice thoughtfulness. (3/4)

I will not be doing my own research on the vaccines. Why? Because I’m a novelist. I am trusting accredited scientists and my doctors. I’m grateful to have received the vaccines which are sadly still unavailable to so many people around the world.

Purdue turning into Alabama whenever they play a Top 5 team is possible the weirdest tradition in College Football

I truly dislike the term "Natural Immunity" There is no such thing as artificial immunity A vaccine drives a NATURAL immune response The question is simply "how do you want to start building that immunity?" Through a risky infection or via a safe vaccine Me? I choose vaccine.

One of the reasons so many problems go unsolved is that people don't like the solution. Solution aversion is the tendency to ignore something broken when you're not a fan of the proposed fix. The first step in solving a problem is building consensus that it exists—and matters.

Happy 2022. May you swab your nose anatomically correctly this year.

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” ― Dr. Paul Farmer The world lost an amazing person today.

The person who makes you smarter isn't always the smartest one in the room. Often it's the most curious one in the room. "Why do we do that?" leads you to question old assumptions. "What if?" opens your eyes to new possibilities. Inquisitive people are catalysts for learning.

Peter Thiel on Elon Musk 🔊 “You know, when Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy. I think even those of us who had worked with him at PayPal, I mean, there’s this PayPal book that David Sacks and I thought of

The way to change outcomes is to find cancers earlier. Not only to reduce deaths, but to give women better quality of life by giving them the opportunity to avoid mastectomy, axillary dissection and chemotherapy. Mammography and supplemental screening do just that.

1/ Challenge accepted. I have run a series of breast mammograms (x-rays), ultrasounds and MRIs through versions of GPT4 and posted the results here previously. Even though it's data contamination to repost images I already used on X, it's an easy bench mark. So how did Grok do