Gratitude to @dwallacewells @nytimes for his coverage of our recent paper, "Missing Americans: Early Death in the U.S., 1933-2021". https://t.co/eoVdBanoTE

Why aren't we doing this, South Africa? Poverty alleviation interventions work.

Kudos and appreciation for my co-authors @DrMaryTBassett @JuliaRaifman @astokespop @atheendar @himmelhandler @swoolhandler @BUSPH

The "Missing Americans" offers another way to look at the U.S. mortality disadvantage, which often focuses on differences in life expectancy, e.g.: @shwoolf

Black and Native Americans are overrepresented among excess U.S. deaths. However, a majority of #MissingAmericans are White.

Perhaps most shocking: 1 in 2 U.S. deaths under age 65 would have been averted if the U.S. had death rates equal to other wealthy nations. Think of two people you know who died before age 65. If they lived outside the U.S., one would probably still be alive. #MissingAmericans

There were >1 million "Missing Americans" in 2020 and 2021, up from 622K in 2019. As @dwallacewells writes: "it is worth remembering just what a return to [pre-COVID] normal means in this country: more than half a million extra deaths every single year and getting worse."

In the paper, published in @PNASNexus, we quantify the number of U.S. deaths that would be averted each year, 1933-2021, if the U.S. had mortality rates equal to the average of other wealthy nations. #MissingAmericans https://t.co/tHcfsUoN2E

1. Thank you to @BostonGlobe for continuing to shine a light on COVID and its impacts on mortality and morbidity. Since the shift in racial/ethnic patterns of deaths is perhaps a bit surprising, I want to walk through our findings and some hypotheses. 🧵 https://t.co/MiuMmF4BK1

But that’s just more future business for the weapons manufacturers… v happy for their shareholders today. Ugh.

It is also terrible national security policy. Anyone here feel safer knowing we are doing next to nothing to protect livelihoods and mitigate the climate refugee crisis?

This is terrible policy on ethical grounds.

Let me get this straight: Congress is planning $858B for military and $1B for climate aid to poor countries. A giant FU to the worlds poor who are already impacted by climate change of our making.

That wastewater trend is not good at all. No idea what the peak will be but there seems to have been a significant increase in transmission in the last week or so. Any good explanations?

1000s in Franklin Park today for free vaccine event. Major props to ⁦@BPHC⁩ ⁦@OjikutuBisola⁩ ⁦@MayorWu⁩ for this effort!

**New Faculty Opening** in our department. (See links below.) BU School of Public Health is a great place to work; DM me if you want to chat about it. (NB: I am not on the search committee.)

Despite the eastern MA drought, the tomatoes have been resilient!

#UequalsU in the house @AIDS2022

Intuit-SA team, @JacobBor and Dorina Onoya with @BR999 at the @AIDS_conference. #AIDS2022 #AIDS2022Engage #HE2RO@AIDS2022

I can't help but feel we are witnessing the results of long-term strategy to "divide and rule." As if there are two sides. As if choosing one or the other would save us. Exceptional. Grateful to @busph colleagues @JacobBor. The amazing @edyong209 reports: