#HEALTH

Lotta Velin

VelinLotta

Of 112 global health conferences with 254 601 attendees, of which 4% of conferences were hosted in low-income countries. Of the 98 302 attendees, for whom affiliation was disclosed, 38 167 (39%) were

Michael Wilner

mawilner

News: The CDC has found that LGBTQ Americans are at heightened risk of severe COVID-19 and is now recommending that public health departments nationwide begin tracking the effects of the

Lorian Hardcastle

Lorian_H

Some thoughts on Bill 46... This main changes are to the Hospitals Act, Health Information Act, and Health Professions Act. The Hospitals Act will be repealed and public hospitals will

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Full fact are embarrassing themselves. It’s not possible to assert “false positives are not common enough...” as Govt has stated it doesn’t know the false positive rate.When I wrote my

Heidi Li Feldman

HeidiLiFeldman

Universities are also using “informed consent” or “community pledge” documents to try to limit the specific COVID-19 precautions they will take. Note that many of these documents list U’s safety

Holly Scott-Gardner

CatchTheseWords

Tw suicide, mental health struggles, bullying. A lot of necessary conversations have happened recently around how we talk about suicide provention. I was eight when I first expressed out loud

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

We are urged to find calm in our lives. Calm is good, of course. But there’s a danger that clearing your mind of anxiety means clearing it of engagement with

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/4 In recent weeks, the slow, steady increase in average #COVID19 daily case counts gives us cause for concern. As colder weather shifts more activities indoors, we’ll need to be

Lauren Weber

LaurenWeberHP

Black Americans are receiving covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans, according to our new @KHNews data analysis on the rollout“We are missing the boat on equity” @MarcusPlescia

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

You know people -- maybe you're one of them -- who were sick with Covid, but tested negative for antibodies. Why would that be? Blame the tests. They miss antibodies

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

In this piece, @DhruvKhullar hits it out of the park on why healthcare workers - particularly our support staff - are appropriately hesitant to get vaccinated against #covid19. (Hint: it's

Clark County WA_PH

ClarkCoWA_PH

We've seen a lot of questions about vaccine allocations and limited vaccination appointments. So how does COVID-19 vaccine get to Clark County?1/9 Each week, the federal government allocates vaccine to

Tristan Lánstad

DesasterTristan

"If cis men had [x health condition] everyone would get time off" is such a lazy and uninformed take. Toxic masculinity proposes that manlyness means not being sick, not needing

51 for 51

51for51

History lesson! For all but two years since 1989, Congress has consistently prohibited D.C. from using its locally raised funds to pay for abortion care for Medicaid recipients through a

Carla Holinaty

Carlainsask

Hi there, Internet friends. Your Friendly Neighbourhood Family Doc here with a message about COVID. Things right now aren’t looking so hot. /1 Every week, I watch more and more

Kate Yes, I've seen the viral cat thing Bevan

katebevan

Your occasional reminder that South Korea has used tech in a massively intrusive way that Brits would consider completely unacceptable. There are trade-offs between privacy and keeping tabs on the

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