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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Something sounds fishy when public health experts advise us to take whatever vaccine is available even though some vaccines show much more promising efficacy numbers than others. And it’s understandable that people would want to shop for the best vaccine.
The Atlantic The more the state collaborates with those at the local, community level, the greater the vaccine uptake. February 8, 2021 Professor at the West Virginia University School of Public Health Members of a coronavirus vaccine task force met in a command center in Charleston, West Virginia.Kristian Thacker / The New York Times / Redux As a physician focused on public health in West Virginia, I am accustomed to our state scoring low in all national measures of health. We have high rates of obesity, chronic diseases, and fatal opioid overdoses. Now, however, we are leading in the countr...
New, more contagious variants of the coronavirus are in the US and many forecasters say the worst of the pandemic is to come. Can the threat encourage recalcitrant Americans to finally follow public health guidelines?
Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk COVID-19 is not the first event to demonstrate the numbing effect of big data, but it reinforces the challenge of developing a true perspective of risk. This article was first published in the newsletter Managing Outcomes . On one terrible day in December, COVID-19 deaths on a single day in the United States — for the first time — exceeded the death toll from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Commentators noted that the 3054 COVID fatalities in one 24-hour period also exceeded the deaths at Pearl Harbour in 1941, a...
How Bobi's investment in outrage paid off and made him look great! Listen to article Most Ugandans are terrible risk assessors, and I think it's wrong to think that Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has contributed so mightily to the Uganda opposition than FDC's Kiiza Besigye or DP's Paul Ssemogerere. This belief was mainly coined by those that designed his campaign and it had a grass root effect among voters. Bobi's handlers designed the campaign around reshaping his public image as bigger than Besigye, and causing outrage among the population than speaking about issues, and it was effective. Every...