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Your Local Epidemiologist is a health-focused news and analysis outlet published as a Substack newsletter.
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Medicare for All: Separating the slogan from the substance (opens the original)
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People are fed up with the U.S. health care system, and rightfully so. Medical premiums and debt are rising, clinicians are burned out, and patients have less access to care. As another election approaches, these conditions are building up, just waiting to ignite change like wildfire.Is the solution Medicare for All? It remains a bumper-sticker topic in several local congressional races. This is somewhat unsurprising, given that many Democrats think it’s the answer and even
Where are the fall vaccines? Plus Covid-19 and norovirus, and what another measles death means (opens the original)
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I practically live at the airport these days, so for better or worse, I can tell when behaviors shift. Yesterday, it was obvious: More coughing, mask wearing, kids wiping noses on whatever was closest. Fall sick season isn’t officially here (although Covid definitely is) but its stirring. There is a problem, though: federal disarray is slowing the rollout of fall vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. So access to protection is tougher than it should be right now. The good news is there are things
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurity (opens the original)
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Things have gotten intense with AI in the past week. People working in AI, from researchers to CEOs, think it could threaten humanity. One researcher put the probability of doom, as those in the field call it, at over 10%: the chance that mankind is wiped out by 2030. Is this accurate? Is this a ploy to hype AI powers ahead of an IPO valuation? Or maybe a distraction from other unpopular AI issues, such as amassing power and wealth and disproportionately using natural resources? I don’t know; it
Reminder: YLE Fall vaccine webinar (opens the original)
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This fall, COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccines will generally be available at no out-of-pocket cost to people covered by Medicaid, Medicare, and most private insurance plans. But given the increased chaos, how can we reach the people who want them, or those who are not outright opposed to getting them? Read more
Covid-19 summer wave, peak mosquito season, two Cyclospora deaths (and the outbreak calming down), and more (opens the original)
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Somehow we’re already in August. I love my kids dearly, but let the countdown to school (and routine) begin!August also brings some health news: peak mosquito season, a summer Covid-19 wave, and thankfully, signs that the explosive diarrhea outbreak is calming down—but not without two deaths, reported yesterday. August also means midterms are around the corner, and I have a hunch that some narratives, like Covid-19 pandemic revisionism, are strategic. We include some tips for your blood pressure
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