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From one piece I’m ready. 2 beliefs · yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Solving the health ecosystem will require community expertise and lived experience, not just doctorate degrees.Their words
Fancy doctorate degrees alone won’t solve it. It will take community expertise and lived experience.
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The health ecosystem was not working for people. It was built for another time and has failed everyone for years.
From one piece Election stress and your heart, early flu, another CDC leader leaves, and a mom’s hard question about vaccine injury 2 beliefs · yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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If parents stop reporting vaccine reactions, the U.S. risks missing critical safety signals.Their words
If parents lose trust and stop reporting reactions, the U.S. risks missing critical safety signals until far more children are affected.
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The season is early, but the curve looks normal. Hospitalizations are rising at about the rate we’d expect.
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The flu will slowly but surely move from the Pacific eastward in a sweeping motion.
From one piece The revolutionary art of fixing the thing people are complaining about 3 beliefs · yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Trust in systems (and each other) has been eroding for years (decades?) in the U.S. because people are being repeatedly failed by the systems around them.
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Trustworthiness means responsiveness, consistency, transparency, being human, admitting to mistakes, and actually executing.
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Trust isn’t declared; it’s earned over and over and over again through a set of acts that make something or someone trustworthy.
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the risk of the plague reaching the U.S. from Russia is essentially nil
Top 8 questions about the “plague” situationyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
From one piece Plague in Russia? Plus flu, common cold, a new opioid, and good news 2 beliefs · yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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All of this underscores something so important: Biosecurity and public health are essential infrastructure investments, not “nice to haves.”
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The risk of the recent plague report in Russia becoming a Covid-19 pandemic is very low.Their words
It’s concerning, as any lab accident/leak is, but the risk of this becoming a Covid-19 pandemic is very, very low for a few reasons
From one piece Medicare for All: Separating the slogan from the substance 2 beliefs · yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Medicare Advantage plans cost taxpayers an additional $100 billion per year compared to Original Medicare.Their words
Advantage plans offer the same benefits as Original Medicare plus extras like drug, dental, or vision coverage, but this privatization is known to cost taxpayers an additional $100 billion (!) a year.
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That said, when you tally it all up, roughly 70% of the U.S. health care system is already financed by taxpayer money.
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CDC’s vaccine advisory group (ACIP) normally updates its recommendations as medical evidence evolves, but under RFK Jr., that process has completely stalled.
From one piece Two days left to comment on HHS's vaccine category proposal 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There are legitimate ways to improve our systems, but what they're likely planning isn't one of them.
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Moving a vaccine out of that category adds significant implementation barriers that will erode access to vaccines.
From one piece What AI can and cannot do in biosecurity 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI plausibly increases the risk at the margin. Whether that increase is small or catastrophic depends on factors such as AI capability trajectories, biosecurity responses, governance, etc.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now.Their words
This physical work will remain necessary for the foreseeable future.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Viruses face an inherent trade-off between being highly lethal and being highly contagious, rarely achieving both.Their words
They face a fundamental biological trade-off: highly lethal or highly contagious, but typically not both.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
From one piece Respiratory increasing, while Covid-19 peaking? Also, the air after 9/11 killed more than the actual attack 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The long-term health effects of a disaster deserve as much attention as the disaster itself.Their words
When there is a disaster, it's important to take long-term effects as seriously as the initial event.
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Some coastal regions see bigger COVID waves in summer than in winter, unlike colder regions that peak in winter.Their words
The West, like California and Hawaii, has bigger waves in summer than in winter.
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measles really only spreads in tightly knit, unvaccinated pockets.
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