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Reporting on global health, infectious diseases & pandemics @ProPublica. Mitten lover. MPH. Reach me at [email protected] or DM for Signal.
Joined August 2010
The media really has neglected Puerto Rico:
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Best book blurb I have ever seen.
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Where to donate blood in Orlando:
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Trump's executive order on ACA means everything and does nothing:
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A lot of people experience sexual assault in the U.S. Most cases go unreported and will never make headlines. This survey found that 44% are among people making less than 25K/year:
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More than 8,000 doctors in the U.S. trained in the countries in Trump's temporary travel ban:
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USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo with bureau staff detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
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This story has it all: sex, captivity, conservation and PANDAS. It’s so good.
There are 520 pandas living in captivity. One bear is the father/grandfather/great-grandfather of 130 of them. His name was Pan Pan, and I've spent the last year working on a story about his life and his role in panda conservation.
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Glitches get stitches from these Super Mario speedrunners:
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Chef @DavidChang explains why Yelp won't lead you to a favorite burrito and reviewers are like armchair investors http://t.co/HhmbUpSarq.
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We analyzed 105,581 criminal cases in NYC: Get arrested on the wrong day, in the wrong place, and you're more likely to have to pay bail -- which also means you're more likely to be locked up, even if you haven't been convicted of a crime:
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"We all wish we did not have to do this," @TAragonMD later wrote in his journal. How a Sunday morning text - and a 35 year relationship between public health officials - led to the Bay Area's shelter-in-place order, the first in the nation.
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LOL but mostly SOB.
CDC Unveils List Of Twitter Accounts You Can Follow To Piece Together Vaccine Information
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The Rural-Urban divide is looking to be deeper than ever:
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Excited to be joining @KHNews in early December, where I'll be covering health mostly from the western side of the US. Thank you to my smart and generous colleagues @FiveThirtyEight for an incredible 4+ years.
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Capicúa would like to cast a vote to keep dinner time on daylight savings time year round. #calprops
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In New Mexico’s 1st District, Deb Haaland could will very likely become the first Native American woman ever elected to Congress:
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Polio has now been found in sewage samples taken from NY's Orange and Rockland counties in June & July. The US doesn't typically test wastewater for polio; local officials say they are concerned about potential community spread:
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This thread and story is maddening.
1/ This is a "failure to pay rent” complaint filed against Chermire Gladden. It says she owed the Annapolis Housing Authority $604 plus late fees. But she owed $0 — and it took her 7 court appearances to prove it. She’s one of hundreds sued for rent they may never have owed.
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Non-hispanic white men make up: 87% of House Reps, 43% House Dems, 34% of eligible U.S. voters in 2014.
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Life expectancy may vary by as much as 20 years between U.S. counties:
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It's hard to explain how little #Covid19 contact tracing the U.S. is doing compared to other countries. Dozens of health experts told me we need to gather thousands of public health workers if we want to reopen schools and businesses:
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Of 508 adults hospitalized in U.S. for COVID-19, 38% were 20 to 54 years old. New CDC study:
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From Los Angeles County: "the state has determined under reporting of COVID-19 cases due to technology issues with the electronic laboratory system." The county "is now working urgently to reach out to at least 81 labs to obtain all COVID-19 test results from July 26.".
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Across the political spectrum, a majority thinks Trump should do what he can to make ACA work. And he can do a lot:
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Seriously fascinating: What happens to the electric grid, increasingly reliant on solar, during the solar eclipse:
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Failure isn't necessarily a bad thing in science. @cragcrest digs into the so-called "replication crisis:"
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Not doing anything is a decision in and of itself, especially when it comes to health care:
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In revised bill, states still have to design all new insurance systems in 2 yrs, even ones that like what they have:
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Lawyers are key 1st responders in a disaster; legal-aid is key to recovery. @fivefifths talked to several:
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Re: Medicaid expansion in Maine
Question 2 looks on track to pass, as it’s been slightly but predictably outperforming Clinton’s performance in 2016, and she won Maine.
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Then senior officials were told to start terminating some programs, including ones that had been flagged as life-saving.
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"When sexual harassment happens to women in low-wage jobs, people tend to think, ‘that’s just part of the deal'. ".
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Clinton says her tax plan would raise taxes on the rich while Trump’s would cut them. That’s true.…
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Yesterday, in court, two California cities and Chevron laid out a history of climate change science and where it stands today. It was fascinating.
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Flint's citizen scientists are the reason we know about the lead crisis.
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LA County updated health order requires employers whose staff work indoors in close contact to provide "well-fitting medical grade masks, surgical masks, or higher-level respirators, such as N95 or KN95 masks."
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Then, on Feb 26, Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated 5,000 USAID programs all at once, including care for malaria, TB and HIV. Shortly after political appointees told Enrich that they'd made some mistakes. "There is an acknowledgement some may have been sent out in error."
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This @sarahkliff history of the 15 months it took to pass ACA, compared to process of ACHA, just wow:
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.@GovHowardDean gets the last word on that famous scream. His final line in this video is EXCELLENT:
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Florida Keys are voting on a GM mosquito in Nov, and it raises lots of Qs about risk, public health and ethics:
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CBO report did not reflect well on Senate health bill: 49 million uninsured, many low-income can't afford insurance:
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Here at Veteran's Memorial Building in Santa Rosa, they are saying that all shelters are full in Sonoma County. Asking people to go to newly opened shelter in Marin at the County Fairgrounds. 10 Ave of the Flags. #kincadefire.
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Dr. Henry Walke of CDC, in first real press conference in months, says they are speaking up now because they are alarmed with the exponential increase in hospitalizations and deaths. Recommending against holiday travel.
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Important read from @maggiekb1, explaining today's news that various agencies reportedly told not to communicate with press or public.
Trump directive to agencies not to communicate with the public or press exposes weaknesses in integrity rules:
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Trump talks about repeal of Obamacare; how would that work? So many ppl have insurance as direct result of the law:
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With Pruitt leaving, more than a quarter of Trump’s original Cabinet has changed. It's a whole lotta turnover compared to presidents of the last 4 decades:
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A few of the stories we loved this year, including a deeply reported story from @caryaspinwall about what happens to children when their mothers go to jail:
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Honored to join @FiveThirtyEight as the official burrito correspondent. Step aside March Madness, @BurritoBracket comin through!.
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Huge congratulations to @CurtGuyette on the @SidneyHillman Award for uncovering the #FlintWaterCrisis. So deserved.
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Darkest town in the U.S., Gerlach, NV: "Every passing train jiggles it like a bowl of tapioca" Great Sunday read:
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There are two Los Angeles when it comes to covid and vaccines. Neighborhoods with highest case rates have lowest vaccination rates. Lowest case rates, highest % vaccinated.
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Clinton not performing well in: Virginia: or Michigan:
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There are TWO pieces of poetry in this story about p-values #I❤️metascientists
Statisticians Found One Thing They Can Agree On: It’s Time To Stop Misusing P-Values
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Ahem. I believe you mean #eggsperiments.
The science of the perfectly whipped egg white. @annabarryjester did some experiments.
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Santa Cruz County is asking all visitors to leave the county to free up shelter space. #CZULightningComplex
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One of the 42 things San Franciscans will vote on today: whether to lower the voting age to 16:
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And an earlier look at WHY the murder rate rose in Chicago:
Chicago's murder rate has risen dramatically in past two years, but it's still below mid-90s level. @No_Little_Plans.
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The Affordable Care Act is alive and well in California:
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Starting Jan 29, staff scrambled to request life-saving waivers after all foreign aid was paused. Enrich sent and email on Jan 31st to three political appointees with details for waivers, but didn't get a response until Feb. 4, when one said to be "draconian" in granting waivers.
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Having the language to parse sexual harassment would be pretty useful right about now. Luckily, academics have been working on this for a while!
Bucketing allegations that surface from #MeToo with a catchall term like "sexual misconduct" is a problem. Words matter.
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.@postandcourier asking all SC senate & house members if confederate flag should be removed. Updating in real time: http://t.co/J2Cu182OpT.
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In the weeks that followed, USAID received conflicting information on a near daily basis about whether waivers could continue and how. On Feb 24, political leadership said to deprioritize programs for mpox, polio, and Ebola, noting waivers for that work would not be approved.
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Confused about all these different GOP health bills? So am I. Tried to make sense of the proposals floating around:
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Some context for first presidential election w/out Voting Rights Act since it was passed in 1965, from @julia_azari:
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The narrative in the CBO report paints a pretty grim picture for a lot of people who want health insurance:
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New: 1 in 8 people in U.S. live in a community that has lost its local public health leader since April, the largest exodus of public health leaders in U.S. history. The latest findings from our @AP @KHNews investigation #UnderfundedUnderThreat:
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Bevin issued an executive order today that says he'll end Medicaid expansion for 480,000 people if a court prevents him from implementing any part of its waiver, which includes work requirements.
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2 references to Obamacare this debate (0 last time). Pence talked about repeal, not Indiana's expansion of medicaid:
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What the pollsters have to say so far about why they missed Trump:
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Involuntary manslaughter charges in the #FlintWaterCrisis, stemming from Legionnaires' death:
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1/10 Yesterday, we published a story about some of the randomness involved in the cash bail system in NYC.
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"We’re critiquing science to make it better. Others are critiquing it to devalue the approach itself.”
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Why, pray tell, is the GOP hell-bent on passing an unpopular health bill?@perrybaconjr has a few answers:
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All true, though when it's one of the most popular @TEDtalks, it's a little hard to take back.
Author of "power pose" study is now skeptical it works: Which is fine! Failure is good:
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Read the thread for the incredible letter.
🚨 Late last month, Dr. Bill Foege — public health titan, former CDC director, presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, man most responsible for eradicating smallpox — sent the current CDC director an extraordinary letter in private.
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That citizenship question on the census you've heard about? It's also related to the ongoing debate over who counts for drawing political districts. @galendruke:
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"Instead of leadership, we got a crash course in the futility and misery of trying to manage a systemic disaster via millions of disconnected individual choices." A very good read from @maggiekb1:
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In my first story for @ProPublica, I wanted to understand why monkeypox was following what many infectious disease experts referred to as "predictable" patterns, with Black communities dealing with so many cases
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The response to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda got an early waiver request. Those programs got temporary permission to continue, but USAID has not been paying its bills, stranding programs. (More on that w/.@BrettMmurphy .
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Update #KincadeFire: approx. 100 patients from Sutter Santa Rosa Hospital are being evacuated to Novato facilities and California Pacific Medical Center.
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Fresno County brought hospital leaders to media briefing today: they've seen a doubling of patients in last ~4 days, ppl are sicker than previous surges & many health workers out for quarantine. They expect staffing shortages. "It's a big concern what's coming.".
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Epidemiologist Bill Jenkins died last week. His work to expose unethical experiments in Tuskegee is just one part of an incredible legacy:
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Nonprofits made clear to USAID staff that without payment, they couldn't continue their life-saving work. On Feb 7, senior officials acknowledged that all of USAID's payment systems had been shut off by DOGE, so funds couldn't go out.
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Official dietary guidelines released today, but they are not without controversy. Some context to that:
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I sometimes write just so I can see what illustrators will do with story. @TomiIllo outdid herself:
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Percent of ICU beds left today in five California regions:
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Somewhat opposing issues at play here: Moran worried about pre-existing conditions, Lee wants fewer regulations:
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There were some important lessons for GOP senators in the CBO report yesterday:
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Also projects enrollment will continue to fall after 2026, CBO just doesn't have baseline to compare against after that.
Republican after Republican went on TV and said Medicaid recipients wouldn't be affected. CBO: 15M fewer people insured through Medicaid.
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Come for the explanation of what this all means, stay for the VERY LONG LIST of programs that would be cut completely.
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Today I learned: It's hard to use the internet to find studies by people named Tom Collins if they research alcohol.
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When it comes to health care, more voters trust Democrats than Republicans. A little bit about why:
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