Ari Whiteman
@safariinthecity.bsky.social
Epidemiologist who also cares about wildlife, healthy cities, street food and baseball. Views are my own, and sometimes other's too.
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Time will tell if the current catastrophe in California moves the needle, but the harsh reality is that Americans have become precipitously less concerned about climate change and the environment in recent years, per CivicScience.
January 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Time will tell if the current catastrophe in California moves the needle, but the harsh reality is that Americans have become precipitously less concerned about climate change and the environment in recent years, per CivicScience.
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Farmworkers have avoided bird flu testing bc they don't have paid sick days. Rather than offering to cover that loss, health departments have modified guidelines so that they can work while sick.
From the CA dept of public health:
From the CA dept of public health:
January 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Farmworkers have avoided bird flu testing bc they don't have paid sick days. Rather than offering to cover that loss, health departments have modified guidelines so that they can work while sick.
From the CA dept of public health:
From the CA dept of public health:
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A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout
A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
www.npr.org
January 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
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Last week the state of Louisiana's health department was deliberately undermining vaccine recommendations. This week LA is leading the country in flu cases & overwhelmed hospitals. When you reject common sense pivlic health guidance the people suffer not politicians.
www.google.com/amp/s/wgno.c...
www.google.com/amp/s/wgno.c...
Louisiana flu cases among the highest in the country
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Chances are you know someone who is sick right now, and it could be because Louisiana has one of the highest number of flu cases in the nation.
www.google.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Last week the state of Louisiana's health department was deliberately undermining vaccine recommendations. This week LA is leading the country in flu cases & overwhelmed hospitals. When you reject common sense pivlic health guidance the people suffer not politicians.
www.google.com/amp/s/wgno.c...
www.google.com/amp/s/wgno.c...
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“A study published last year in JAMA Network, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that 22% of cancer patients did not receive the care their doctors prescribed because of authorization delays or outright denials.”
Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients
Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:40 PM
“A study published last year in JAMA Network, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that 22% of cancer patients did not receive the care their doctors prescribed because of authorization delays or outright denials.”
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👀"Latin America’s rise in #tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates - Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022" www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates
Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
👀"Latin America’s rise in #tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates - Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022" www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Some sights and sounds from a great long weekend in El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
December 25, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Some sights and sounds from a great long weekend in El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
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2 cats in L.A. have died after being fed #H5N1 contaminated recalled raw milk. Will humans stop drinking raw milk and feeding it to pets and children? Time or a new pandemic will tell I guess.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Cats in L.A. County die after drinking recalled raw milk
Los Angeles County health officials are investigating the deaths of two cats who became ill after drinking recalled H5N1 bird flu-infected raw milk.
www.latimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:33 AM
2 cats in L.A. have died after being fed #H5N1 contaminated recalled raw milk. Will humans stop drinking raw milk and feeding it to pets and children? Time or a new pandemic will tell I guess.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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We will probably know tomorrow or Friday what this is caused by.
Could be meningitis, a viral hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola or Marburg, or food poisoning (but unlikely when WHO is involved).
There are still a lot of concerning details, but it's too early to draw any conclusions.
Could be meningitis, a viral hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola or Marburg, or food poisoning (but unlikely when WHO is involved).
There are still a lot of concerning details, but it's too early to draw any conclusions.
⚠️ BREAKING:
WHO has sent a team to the area in DRC where an outbreak of an "unknown disease" is occurring.
They will collect samples for testing, according to a WHO official who spoke with BNO News.
WHO has sent a team to the area in DRC where an outbreak of an "unknown disease" is occurring.
They will collect samples for testing, according to a WHO official who spoke with BNO News.
December 4, 2024 at 7:55 PM
We will probably know tomorrow or Friday what this is caused by.
Could be meningitis, a viral hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola or Marburg, or food poisoning (but unlikely when WHO is involved).
There are still a lot of concerning details, but it's too early to draw any conclusions.
Could be meningitis, a viral hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola or Marburg, or food poisoning (but unlikely when WHO is involved).
There are still a lot of concerning details, but it's too early to draw any conclusions.
This is a really interesting example of the population #ecology of a keystone species limiting it's #conservation potential, and therefore the restoration of an entire habitat @gothamist.com
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Effort to restore NY Harbor's oyster population encounters problem: They keep dying
When Henry Hudson first sailed the river that would bear his name, he described an immense bounty of oysters, with some as large as dinner plates.
gothamist.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:00 PM
This is a really interesting example of the population #ecology of a keystone species limiting it's #conservation potential, and therefore the restoration of an entire habitat @gothamist.com
gothamist.com/news/effort-...
gothamist.com/news/effort-...
Yeah my initial observation is that people are very serious here lol. Lots of academics and professionals, which is great, but very little of the humor that makes Twitter still impossible to get rid of...
My experience on this website has been an A+ so far but I do fear it has a disproportionate amount of People Physically Incapable Of Recognizing Even The Most Obvious Joke
November 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Yeah my initial observation is that people are very serious here lol. Lots of academics and professionals, which is great, but very little of the humor that makes Twitter still impossible to get rid of...