Jason Gale
@jasongale.bsky.social
Dad x3 | Snr editor | Bloomberg News | Melbourne
Author of https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53726/after-covid
• public health • medicine • emerging infectious diseases • antimicrobial resistance • science
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Author of https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53726/after-covid
• public health • medicine • emerging infectious diseases • antimicrobial resistance • science
Signal: Jasongale.89
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Kudos to @jdmunday.bsky.social & other authors of this really elegant study of viral transmission in schools. 👇
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.
Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...
February 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Kudos to @jdmunday.bsky.social & other authors of this really elegant study of viral transmission in schools. 👇
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.
For much of the pandemic, reassurance about #Covid in #pregnancy rested on one idea: babies didn’t test positive.
New research shows why that was incomplete -- and why exposure in the womb, not infection at birth, is the real concern.
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New research shows why that was incomplete -- and why exposure in the womb, not infection at birth, is the real concern.
🎁🔗⬇️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What Covid in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children
A growing body of research shows that exposure to Covid-19 in the womb can have a subtle but lasting impact on brain development.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
For much of the pandemic, reassurance about #Covid in #pregnancy rested on one idea: babies didn’t test positive.
New research shows why that was incomplete -- and why exposure in the womb, not infection at birth, is the real concern.
🎁🔗⬇️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New research shows why that was incomplete -- and why exposure in the womb, not infection at birth, is the real concern.
🎁🔗⬇️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#Covid wasn’t a temporary shock that neatly corrected itself.
A new study in @jamanetworkopen.com from HKU finds deaths in most rich countries never fell enough to offset pandemic losses. The damage stuck.
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A new study in @jamanetworkopen.com from HKU finds deaths in most rich countries never fell enough to offset pandemic losses. The damage stuck.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Covid Left Lasting Rise in Deaths in Rich Countries, Study Shows
The pandemic didn’t just pull deaths forward in time. In most rich nations, Covid-19 left a lasting increase in mortality that has yet to fully unwind, according to an analysis of data from 34 countri...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:14 AM
#Covid wasn’t a temporary shock that neatly corrected itself.
A new study in @jamanetworkopen.com from HKU finds deaths in most rich countries never fell enough to offset pandemic losses. The damage stuck.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A new study in @jamanetworkopen.com from HKU finds deaths in most rich countries never fell enough to offset pandemic losses. The damage stuck.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A small milestone: the first copies of After Covid are here.
This book exists because of the generosity of hundreds of scientists, clinicians, public-health experts, and patients who agreed to interviews over the years. Thank you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
This book exists because of the generosity of hundreds of scientists, clinicians, public-health experts, and patients who agreed to interviews over the years. Thank you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
A small milestone: the first copies of After Covid are here.
This book exists because of the generosity of hundreds of scientists, clinicians, public-health experts, and patients who agreed to interviews over the years. Thank you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
This book exists because of the generosity of hundreds of scientists, clinicians, public-health experts, and patients who agreed to interviews over the years. Thank you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Modern ##cancer therapies have turned treatment itself into a #cardiovascular risk factor.
Survivors are living long enough for the damage to surface.
My story for @bloomberg.com via 🎁🔗⤵️
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Survivors are living long enough for the damage to surface.
My story for @bloomberg.com via 🎁🔗⤵️
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January 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Modern ##cancer therapies have turned treatment itself into a #cardiovascular risk factor.
Survivors are living long enough for the damage to surface.
My story for @bloomberg.com via 🎁🔗⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Survivors are living long enough for the damage to surface.
My story for @bloomberg.com via 🎁🔗⤵️
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Cancer survival is rising fast. So are delayed heart problems caused by the treatments that saved people’s lives. From immune therapies to older chemotherapies, cancer itself is increasingly a risk factor for CVD—often surfacing years later. My latest ⬇️
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Life-Saving Cancer Drugs Are Leaving Survivors With Damaged Hearts
Doctors say the success of modern cancer care is creating a new challenge: managing treatment-related heart damage for survivors.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Cancer survival is rising fast. So are delayed heart problems caused by the treatments that saved people’s lives. From immune therapies to older chemotherapies, cancer itself is increasingly a risk factor for CVD—often surfacing years later. My latest ⬇️
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Challenging Claims of an Autism Epidemic — Misconceptions and a Path Forward | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Challenging Claims of an Autism Epidemic — Misconceptions and a Path Forward | NEJM
Autism research programs should focus on both causes and effective services and supports.
Alarmist claims, chasing of debunked theories of causation, and further stigmatizing
autism are counterprod...
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January 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Challenging Claims of an Autism Epidemic — Misconceptions and a Path Forward | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s, researchers report in Nature Medicine.
It’s not ready for routine care, but it could make early detection, trials & population studies easier.
🎁🔗https://tinyurl.com/3433sj2n
It’s not ready for routine care, but it could make early detection, trials & population studies easier.
🎁🔗https://tinyurl.com/3433sj2n
January 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s, researchers report in Nature Medicine.
It’s not ready for routine care, but it could make early detection, trials & population studies easier.
🎁🔗https://tinyurl.com/3433sj2n
It’s not ready for routine care, but it could make early detection, trials & population studies easier.
🎁🔗https://tinyurl.com/3433sj2n
A sudden disruption in the illicit #fentanyl supply, rather than advances in treatment or policing, may explain the sharp drop in US #overdose deaths since mid-2023, according to a new study in @science.org.
See gift link 👇for the story
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See gift link 👇for the story
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January 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
A sudden disruption in the illicit #fentanyl supply, rather than advances in treatment or policing, may explain the sharp drop in US #overdose deaths since mid-2023, according to a new study in @science.org.
See gift link 👇for the story
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See gift link 👇for the story
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If you're making the Thanksgiving turkey this year, DO NOT WASH THE RAW BIRD before cooking. @jasongale.bsky.social explains why in Prognosis >
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Why You Should Never Wash Your Turkey Before Cooking
The risk of cross contamination is high.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you're making the Thanksgiving turkey this year, DO NOT WASH THE RAW BIRD before cooking. @jasongale.bsky.social explains why in Prognosis >
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Covid shots might do more than defend against coronaviruses — they could help fight cancer. New research in @nature.com shows mRNA vaccines may supercharge #immunotherapy.
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Cancer Patients Receiving Covid mRNA Shots Show Dramatically Longer Survival
The same Nobel-winning mRNA technology that helped curb the Covid-19 pandemic may be poised to transform cancer care.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Covid shots might do more than defend against coronaviruses — they could help fight cancer. New research in @nature.com shows mRNA vaccines may supercharge #immunotherapy.
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From Gaza to Haiti, millions of people are on the edge of starvation. A Dutch famine during WWII shows that even when the food returns, future generations face heightened risk of disease.
How Extreme Hunger in the Womb Fuels a Lifelong Risk of Disease
A wartime famine in the Netherlands showed starvation raises disease risk for generations. In Gaza, science suggests the toll won’t end when the food returns.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From Gaza to Haiti, millions of people are on the edge of starvation. A Dutch famine during WWII shows that even when the food returns, future generations face heightened risk of disease.
Starvation changes more than the body — it can echo for generations. I spoke with Dr David Barker about this years ago, and his words feel painfully relevant again. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How Extreme Hunger in the Womb Fuels a Lifelong Risk of Disease
A wartime famine in the Netherlands showed starvation raises disease risk for generations. In Gaza, science suggests the toll won’t end when the food returns.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Starvation changes more than the body — it can echo for generations. I spoke with Dr David Barker about this years ago, and his words feel painfully relevant again. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Soon after Dr. Stanley Appel opened one of the first #ALS clinics in the US in 1982, he found the immune system held clues to the disease.
At 92, new Nature research proves him right.
“Mission not yet accomplished,” he said. “So I’m not retiring.”
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At 92, new Nature research proves him right.
“Mission not yet accomplished,” he said. “So I’m not retiring.”
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New ALS Research Vindicates a 92-Year-Old Trailblazer
Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. A study in Nature last week shows the immune system itself may be fueling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a discovery that validates the life’s work of one of the ...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Soon after Dr. Stanley Appel opened one of the first #ALS clinics in the US in 1982, he found the immune system held clues to the disease.
At 92, new Nature research proves him right.
“Mission not yet accomplished,” he said. “So I’m not retiring.”
gift🔗👇
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
At 92, new Nature research proves him right.
“Mission not yet accomplished,” he said. “So I’m not retiring.”
gift🔗👇
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
For decades, prostate cancer care has forced men into a cruel choice:
🪓 Remove the whole prostate, with life-altering side effects
🤷♂️ Or risk living with the disease
In London, surgeon Hashim Ahmed is betting on a 3rd way: focal therapy. My story with @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2rya36ds
🪓 Remove the whole prostate, with life-altering side effects
🤷♂️ Or risk living with the disease
In London, surgeon Hashim Ahmed is betting on a 3rd way: focal therapy. My story with @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2rya36ds
The Fight to Fix Prostate Cancer Care
For decades, men with the disease faced a binary choice: live with the cancer, or live with the consequences of removing it. This doctor is pushing an alternative that he says is more precise, humane ...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
For decades, prostate cancer care has forced men into a cruel choice:
🪓 Remove the whole prostate, with life-altering side effects
🤷♂️ Or risk living with the disease
In London, surgeon Hashim Ahmed is betting on a 3rd way: focal therapy. My story with @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2rya36ds
🪓 Remove the whole prostate, with life-altering side effects
🤷♂️ Or risk living with the disease
In London, surgeon Hashim Ahmed is betting on a 3rd way: focal therapy. My story with @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2rya36ds
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FREE LINK: Research has found that body’s own immune system may drive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a breakthrough that could reshape treatment of the fatal disease. @jasongale.bsky.social has the story >
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ALS Breakthrough Shows Fatal Disease Is Driven by Immune Attack
Researchers have uncovered how the body’s own immune system may be driving the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a breakthrough that could reshape treatment of the fatal disease.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
FREE LINK: Research has found that body’s own immune system may drive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a breakthrough that could reshape treatment of the fatal disease. @jasongale.bsky.social has the story >
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Trump told pregnant women to avoid Tylenol + “tough out” fevers.
Scientists including @mhornig.bsky.social say that’s misinformation — fever itself is more dangerous for moms + babies.
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Scientists including @mhornig.bsky.social say that’s misinformation — fever itself is more dangerous for moms + babies.
Gift link to my latest for Bloomberg: tinyurl.com/4jt9rvne
Scientists Rebuke Trump’s Tylenol-Autism Claim, Stress Fever Is Bigger Danger in Pregnancy
President Donald Trump’s call for pregnant women to avoid Tylenol is drawing sharp criticism from researchers who say the advice ignores decades of evidence and could endanger mothers and babies.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump told pregnant women to avoid Tylenol + “tough out” fevers.
Scientists including @mhornig.bsky.social say that’s misinformation — fever itself is more dangerous for moms + babies.
Gift link to my latest for Bloomberg: tinyurl.com/4jt9rvne
Scientists including @mhornig.bsky.social say that’s misinformation — fever itself is more dangerous for moms + babies.
Gift link to my latest for Bloomberg: tinyurl.com/4jt9rvne
DR Congo has declared a new #Ebola outbreak: 28 suspected cases, 15 deaths. What’s different this time? US has pulled back from outbreak response, leaving fewer partners to help contain it. Experts warn that could cost lives. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Congo Declares Ebola Virus Outbreak as 15 Deaths Reported
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in south-central Kasai province after 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, were reported.
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September 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
DR Congo has declared a new #Ebola outbreak: 28 suspected cases, 15 deaths. What’s different this time? US has pulled back from outbreak response, leaving fewer partners to help contain it. Experts warn that could cost lives. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Hospitals are meant to heal — but they’re also massive polluters.
I wrote about Dr. Forbes McGain, an anesthesiologist in Melbourne, trying to break medicine’s addiction to single-use plastics and greenhouse gases.
Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I wrote about Dr. Forbes McGain, an anesthesiologist in Melbourne, trying to break medicine’s addiction to single-use plastics and greenhouse gases.
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The Doctor Trying to Cure Medicine’s Addiction to Disposables
The global healthcare system is built on throwaway gowns, plastic and instruments. Forbes McGain is finding solutions to cut down on waste — and save money.
www.bloomberg.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Hospitals are meant to heal — but they’re also massive polluters.
I wrote about Dr. Forbes McGain, an anesthesiologist in Melbourne, trying to break medicine’s addiction to single-use plastics and greenhouse gases.
Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I wrote about Dr. Forbes McGain, an anesthesiologist in Melbourne, trying to break medicine’s addiction to single-use plastics and greenhouse gases.
Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“[Monarez] had two lines in the sand,” Besser said. “One was anything that was deemed illegal. And the second was anything that she felt flew in the face of science. And she says she was asked to do both of those.”
Principled leadership matters.
RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.
Principled leadership matters.
RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.
Special Report
Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
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Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
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Inside the CDC director's ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director
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August 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“[Monarez] had two lines in the sand,” Besser said. “One was anything that was deemed illegal. And the second was anything that she felt flew in the face of science. And she says she was asked to do both of those.”
Principled leadership matters.
RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.
Principled leadership matters.
RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.
CDC in crisis: Director Susan Monarez is being pushed out just weeks into the job. Her clash with RFK Jr. sparked resignations from Demetre Daskalakis, Debra Houry & Daniel Jernigan — leaders who steered the US thru Ebola, Zika, opioids & Covid.
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Turmoil at the CDC Shows How Politics Is Undermining Science
Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. The legacy of Covid isn’t just medical — it’s political, and it’s haunting public health. Before I explain...
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August 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
CDC in crisis: Director Susan Monarez is being pushed out just weeks into the job. Her clash with RFK Jr. sparked resignations from Demetre Daskalakis, Debra Houry & Daniel Jernigan — leaders who steered the US thru Ebola, Zika, opioids & Covid.
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I joined NEJM to discuss the role of the CDC and current threats to the public health infrastructure in the U.S. Please listen to the interview:
Interview with Tom Frieden on the role of the CDC and current threats to the U.S. public health infrastructure. | NEJM
Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Tom Frieden on the role of the CDC and current threats to the U.S. public health infrastructure.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I joined NEJM to discuss the role of the CDC and current threats to the public health infrastructure in the U.S. Please listen to the interview:
A flesh-eating parasite that burrows into living tissue has shown up in the US for the first time in decades. My @business explainer on screwworms, why cattle ranchers are alarmed, and how USDA plans to stop them.
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What You Need to Know About the Flesh-Eating Screwworm in the US
The US has confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm in a person in Maryland, who had traveled from Guatemala and has received treatment for the infection, Reuters reported.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A flesh-eating parasite that burrows into living tissue has shown up in the US for the first time in decades. My @business explainer on screwworms, why cattle ranchers are alarmed, and how USDA plans to stop them.
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Among the many issues that this piece highlights is how the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19 origins have remained almost entirely focused on a handful of chat logs and email threads from five years ago while the science has been evolving and pointing more and more towards zoonosis.
You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...
How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
theconversation.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Among the many issues that this piece highlights is how the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19 origins have remained almost entirely focused on a handful of chat logs and email threads from five years ago while the science has been evolving and pointing more and more towards zoonosis.
What if you could "see" disease before it shows up?
UK Biobank scanned 100,000 Brits to understand how illness really. Ashleigh Furlong & I look at what this massive project is uncovering—from brain changes after mild Covid to hidden heart risks & misdiagnosed diabetes.
Free link ⬇️
bit.ly/3IBHsoR
UK Biobank scanned 100,000 Brits to understand how illness really. Ashleigh Furlong & I look at what this massive project is uncovering—from brain changes after mild Covid to hidden heart risks & misdiagnosed diabetes.
Free link ⬇️
bit.ly/3IBHsoR
What Scientists Learned Scanning the Bodies of 100,000 Brits
A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What if you could "see" disease before it shows up?
UK Biobank scanned 100,000 Brits to understand how illness really. Ashleigh Furlong & I look at what this massive project is uncovering—from brain changes after mild Covid to hidden heart risks & misdiagnosed diabetes.
Free link ⬇️
bit.ly/3IBHsoR
UK Biobank scanned 100,000 Brits to understand how illness really. Ashleigh Furlong & I look at what this massive project is uncovering—from brain changes after mild Covid to hidden heart risks & misdiagnosed diabetes.
Free link ⬇️
bit.ly/3IBHsoR