#HEALTH

For the past few days I've been reflecting on something that I found to be incredibly telling about the way some of you have shown your Fatphobia and Privilege during
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THREAD: @NVTweeting responds to the @NHSEI proposals for the future of ICSs – for the full response see https://bit.ly/35wzA1z  The timing of the consultation over the Christmas period didn’t allow
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Social media filters’ affect on body dysmorphia and mental health in general should probably be talked about more... I would assume that on any given day, the average young person
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“Healthism shows up when we joke about getting diabetes from a single dessert, or refer to a rich meal as a “heart attack on a plate”—implying that those health conditions
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1/ The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2020 are coming into force at 6pm Friday and need consideration in light of the
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Unsurprisingly, I have *thoughts* about these recommendations, as someone who worked at the CMS Innovation Center from 2016-2019. These recommendations are a good start, but missing at least a few
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Been asked to forward this for "Concerned Penn"**"An Out of Control "PEDIATRICIAN" who thinks "she" knows what's best for everyone.Same one who moved "her mother" out of a nursing home
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Huntsville small business owner, Cortney, explains how Medicaid expansion saved her life when she lived in Washington and how she’s barely getting by without it in Alabama.Read our newest coverage
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The manner in which the EC situation of grave digging will be handled will set us back badly. No community changes behaviour when a top-down, patriachal system is used. There
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I’m really struggling with this idea of a race to vaccinate everyone HERE now. Yes, we all want vaccine asap. But while we are discussing how soon we can immunize
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So there are different R calculation methodologies around but I trust @imgrund and believe the public health R values are meant to be shared publicly soon. (I think?)Messaging is important-
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to give his daily COVID-19 press briefing momentarily. Meanwhile, state health officials reported 9,757 new and probable cases of COVID-19 and 238 additional deaths -
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The COVID briefing is scheduled to begin at 3pm. it is being livestreamed here: https://novascotia.ca/stayinformed/webcast/ We're about to start. McNeil: we are very concerned about increasing numbers... McNeil: one travel
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The counterfactual ‘if UK was still in EU it would have slowed vaccinations’ doesn’t make sense. Without #Brexit, UK could have (and surely would have):Said no to joint procurementEmergency-authorised early
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One thing to add to this thread: I’m told there is also an IT limitation in the software, so that even if the public health teams were fully resourced and/or
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The @YaleGHJP and @c4sr_columbia at @YaleSPH, @YaleLawSch & @ColumbiaGSAPP are launching a new project today, Mapping the New Politics of Care to explore the vulnerabilities of our communities in the
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