Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA
@michael_hoerger
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Expert in weighing medical evidence, cancer, COVID forecasting & mitigation, health disparities, financial analytics. 120 publications. PhD program director.
New Orleans, LA
Joined February 2016
1. PMC COVlD Dashboard, July 21, 2025 (U.S.). COVlD is surging in 7 states, according to the CDC. 🔹Hawai'i (Very High).🔹California (High).🔹Nevada (High).🔹Texas (High).🔹Louisiana (High).🔹Florida (High).🔹South Carolina (High)
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RT @acrossthemersey: Country music star Luke Bryan who stopped touring for nearly a month due to a mystery illness told the audience:. “I g….
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Expect plenty of misinformation & disinformation as COVID transmission heats up. It's often fueled by low health literacy and numeracy, defense mechanisms (anxiety), clout seeking, or social media revenue. I discuss this in the Pandemic 5-year Anniversary video around 7:03.
4) Misinformation is based on cognitive biases that steer people toward easy-but-bad data or lead them to overestimate their skills. Disinformation can be blatant or grounded in specious pseudo-scientific arguments. Financial COIs are often the cause.
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RT @ZackFradellaWx: The HEAT WAVE ends after today! It’ll be brutal this afternoon even though some clouds are trying to hold us down. 🥵🥵🥵….
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RT @SalamonSMD: Very tired of refusal to implement #airborne protections, and thus of the ongoing #pandemic we could have ended years ago….
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"Leigh Haldeman, a nurse at a hospital in Seattle who is 32 weeks pregnant with her second child, was advised in early June by her medical team to get vaccinated. went to the closest Walgreens. The staff there immediately noticed she was pregnant and told her they couldn’t.".
“What should have been a straightforward vaccination turned into a Kafkaesque runaround—one that portends the chaos to come. The result will be… more transmission, more cases, more long Covid, hospitalizations, and deaths.”.My latest for @newrepublic:
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RT @ArtsyMarx1st: as an autistic person with longcovid fighting to try and work part time cuz i have zero fucking support, meal delivery ke….
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RT @HarrySpoelstra: Exit Tour de France with "pneumonia". #MVP #cycling . Are you thinking what I'm thinking? He already had a "cold"….
sporza.be
Geen Mathieu van der Poel op de Mont Ventoux dinsdag: Alpecin-Deceuninck laat weten dat de Nederlander niet meer aan de start komt van de 16e etappe in de Tour. "Hij heeft een longontsteking", klinkt...
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Agreed. To paraphrase the philosopher Rasheed Wallace, 💩 don't lie. Red line shows wastewater-based estimated cumulative infections per person with forecast (U.S.). Yellow line shows if we still did mitigation. Highlighted values are lower-bound estimates of #LongCovid.
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RT @ZackFradellaWx: And it’s back, same place…the result probably the same. Stormy pattern returns as soon as late Wednesday but more so Th….
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RT @CDCgov: Stay updated on infectious diseases in your community! The CDC’s Wastewater Program provides weekly updates on COVID-19, flu, a….
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RT @BirdieBittern: COVID-related emergency visits for kids rising. U.S. sees spike in COVID-related emergency room visits for young kids….
cbsnews.com
COVID-19 is surging in more than half of the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is "very high" activity in at least 27 states. CBS News' Michael George reports on the jump...
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RT @gwladwr: Covid in England. 'Respiratory DataMart SARS-CoV-2 PCR Test Positivity Age 15-44 in England'. The signal for cohort aged 15-44….
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RT @TaylorLorenz: "Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500….
thegauntlet.news
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
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