#HEALTH

Only makes a 2-4% difference in total mortality...Weigh up the financial costs of closures to the country...Callous and heartless assessment @BBCNews1/8BBC News - Coronavirus: Scientists question school closures impacthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/healt
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Today I am going to share something very personal with you all, because I know I am not the only one experiencing this but it is not talked about enough:Why
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If you stopped immigration, you’d stop America. Whether it’s food production, job creation, economic growth, innovation or healthcare, immigrants are critical to our success. If we want to create more
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IT’S OKAY TO BE A SCIENTIST WHOSE WHOLE LIFE ISN’T SCIENCE. I don't see why this is so controversial to so many people. Don't fall victim to academic snobbery. It's
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How much I think about getting a bunny is directly correlated with my mental health. If I ever actually try to adopt one, hospitalize me because I’m probably about to
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Top UK epidemiologist/government adviser Mark Woolhouse: lockdown was a ‘monumental mistake’ and must not happen againhttps://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1320428/Coronavirus-news-lockdown-mistake-second-wave-Boris-Johnson Woolho
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An occasional thread on meaningless graphics used by ‘public health’ academics. 1/ An umbrella in the Lancet’s new obesity report. 2/ The 'Systems Outcomes Framework’ from the same report. You
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I'm angry and almost 62 and going in for (minor, routine) surgery on Friday, but life is uncertain and I have bad lungs. We're in a pandemic, so I need
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Last week, i had my students respond anonymously to the prompt "Things You Wish Your Professors Knew." With their permission, paraphrasing the responses: quarantine is impacting my mental health and
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Covid-19 has badly exposed our deficient healthcare infrastructure, indicating that we have only concentrated on prevention and cure. 1/7 How to ensure everyone is able to pay for healthcare in
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I am deeply troubled by the disproportionate impact #COVID19 has on marginalized and minority communities – particularly among African Americans. Sadly, this trend is emerging across the country. 1/16 In
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The head @sickkids says Ontario children shouldn’t return to the classroom until educators have one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and there's low community spread – conditions that would likely
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So recently a 15 tear old boy that went to Oaks Park High School took his own life because he was being bullied. 15 years fucking old. He was in
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As chairman of the @NatlGovAssoc, today I issued the following statement with vice chair @NYGovCuomo to urge federal leaders to provide immediate fiscal relief for the states. Our full statement:
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Working on another article for @antihateca focused on far-right groups defying provincial health guidelines concerning assembling in groups. As part of the research I came across this post by Rick
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So. Speaking of SPF and Vitamin D and black people:I read a study from 2013 that noted that Black people store vitamin D differently than the way white people store
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