#HEALTH

Sarah Newey

sneweyy

1. Covid vaccines are hot commodities; we all want a shot. But should govts pursue herd immunity at home if other countries & regions are left unprotected? It's a question

Husoni Raymond

HusoniRaymond

I was told by a pharmacist today that I should take less of my pain medication because it has stronger effects on Black people (basically Tylenol). However, I am unable

Jenna Mittelmeier

JLMittelmeier

Supporting students’ mental health has been one of the most challenging parts of being a lecturer. I was shocked by its prevalence in my interactions with students and it feels

Sam Byers

byers90

It seems to me that if the government wants to “trust people” and are determined to cling to this idea that people should use their judgement, then a helpful thing

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: All these months into the pandemic, we may have been testing the wrong way. Data from some state labs suggest up to 90% (!!) of people who get a

Sophie Vershbow

svershbow

Today seems like a good day to remind people that 97% of Planned Parenthood's services have noting to do with abortion. Those services include routine physicals, flu shots, cancer screenings,

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

“Hundreds of seroprevalence studies have been done around the world, which vary in quality, methods and the type of tests used”, says @DrTedros at @WHO #covid19 presser. “They tell us

the vacuum cleaner

vacuumcleaner

What we’ve learn’t watching the portraits from #EXPOSURENHEWHAM of Lyunade Ajibola (Ade), Adeola Agbebiyi, Anna Collini, Arun Mahay and Ben Fraser Ade told us about her first time time she

Lev Nachman

lnachman32

This NYT piece has some very clear flaws in its description of Taiwan politically, economically, and that Singapore bit at the end is off. But, it makes some important points.

K. Whitney-Daniels

KWhitneyDaniels

I'm seeing a lot about Biden freezing the Trump EO on insulin so it's thread time:This seems counterintuitive but this freeze is actually a GOOD thing for patients. The original

PrEP4All

PrEP4AllNow

News from @CDCgov shows that deaths due to HIV dropped by nearly 50% from 2010 to 2017. But in the era of modern HIV treatment, it is completely unacceptable that

Shannon Last

shannon_last

America lost 5,000 people to Covid-19 in a single day last week. Lord, have mercyWhen people recover, it is cause for rejoicing, but the assumption they're all completely fine, it

shirtless king of uruk@writing comms!

nobleflamme

my bad here's the thread w/ some trigger warnings!various mental disorders, suicide, health anxiety, various physical diseaseshttps://twitter.com/1chigoko/status/1275690627909537794 all in all this is a good thread. it's okay if you

Aubrey Gordon, Your Fat Friend (she/her/hers)

yrfatfriend

Fascinating that the predominant response to “hey, stigmatizing fat people isn’t leading to fewer fat people, and only leads to negative physical & mental health outcomes” seems to be “that’s

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Ah, yes, the (white) American way: thinking of myself as an individual with rights, entitled to do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it—not as a

Robin Rudowitz

RRudowitz

With the SCOTUS set to hear the case to overturn the ACA tomorrow - here are a few things to keep in mind about implications for #Medicaid:https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/eliminating-the-aca-what-could-it-mean-for-medicaid-expansion/ A rev

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