Covid transmission in the US is much higher than official case counts suggest. If you want to gauge your risk as BA.5 spreads, an informal survey of friends might just give you the best estimate
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The rate of pregnancy-related mortality in the United States has been rising steadily over the past three decades, and it spiked in the first year of the pandemic for Black and Hispanic women especially - Jacqueline Howard reports

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🔪🔪Murder Mart LP🔪🔪 is officially out today wherever you stream music!

Vinyl/merch— zinske.com

Spotify— open.spotify.com/album/695opeYN…

Covid has taught us much about how to tackle America's 'other' epidemic, including how tough it can be to shift ideologies. More: cnn.com/2022/02/16/hea…

We can’t fix what we don’t have accurate data on.

As we move past this surge, we must double down on good data - not just for #covid19 , but for all the other problems, too.

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Equality = giving every household the same number of tests

Equity = adjusting the # of tests given based on household size, whether there are structurally or medically vulnerable household members, etc.

Justice = free tests for all, accessible to all

The J&J vaccine is back. Here's why the pause felt scary, but shouldn’t stop you from getting vaccinated cnn.com/interactive/20…

Effectiveness of a vaccine that's not taken? Zero.

After a year of covid anxiety and ever-changing guidance on all kinds of things, how will we know when to drop the anxiety? An interesting look from Gaby Galvin

Big public health challenge ahead messaging what is and isn't safe to do post-vaccine. 'If people believe that getting vaccinated doesn’t improve their quality of life, then why get vaccinated?” morningconsult.com/2021/03/10/cov…

🌟 (secondary observation: the fashion industry has been prepping us for covid vaccine season with the “cold shoulder” trend for years...never thought I liked it but can’t believe I’m just now realizing it)

Got to spend some work hours asking experts whether it will be safe to have my wedding in October 😉Things are looking pretty positive! Here’s what they had to say to everyone else cnn.it/37OMedn

Covid bereavement multiplier via Mona Chalabi - A study suggests that each person who dies of Covid leaves behind 9 immediate family members. With 2.5 million deaths worldwide, conservative estimates put that at 19 million grieving. But we know it’s so, so many more than that 💔

I watch a data feed that updates with new covid case and death counts every 15 minutes. It's overwhelming, often enough to stop me in my tracks. Grateful to those I spoke to for this piece for reminding me why we publish and to keep humanity first cnn.com/2021/02/15/hea…

President Biden pledged that equal pay, paid family leave and affordable child care will be at the forefront of his administration's work.

Now, he's creating a Gender Policy Council within the White House to help achieve those goals.
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It’s Black History Month, and we are focusing on 28 seminal Black figures — one for each day of February — who don’t often make the history books.

You may not know their names. But these courageous Black Americans made a huge impact. cnn.it/2L9fnrD

Some ppl are disappointed in the Johnson & Johnson covid shot that prevented only 72% of illness in the US.

But consider this: NO ONE who got the vaccine in the 45,000-person study died or was hospitalized from covid.

Docs say to get the 1st covid shot you can.

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An Idaho newspaper editor struggled to get Excel access for staff. After tweeting about it, she was fired. wapo.st/39grMTR