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20 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
🧵1/ Fascinating meta-science take from UK on (lack of) study of menopausal transition...
🧵 2/ Read more on pages 3-4 of this newsletter re: @bspsUK-funded conference back in 2017 lse.ac.uk/social-policy/…
🧵3/ “...attendees lamented..lack of researchers interested... menopause is not an attractive topic for young researchers, or at least not as attractive as maternal health...often..only studied by researchers later on in life. This leads to a lack of continuity into the field.”
🧵4/ We wrote about similar issues in @JECH_BMJ earlier this year. @l_farland @KemiDoll et al

Also gynecological health is FASCINATING.

There’s so much important work to do, y’all!

jech.bmj.com/content/75/4/3…
🧵 5/ Also, this!

I’m looking at you, NIH 👀

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22 Mar
🧵1/ How one epidemiologist decided to keep sending her children to in-person group childcare during a pandemic, and what happened
🧵2/ The most consequential and difficult decision I made in March 2020, near the beginning of the US #COVID19 outbreak, was whether to keep sending my then 5-yo and 1-yo to in-person group childcare
🧵3/ I’m reflecting on this here because 1) Personal stories help me make better decisions & maybe it'll help others; 2) I think I can bring context, nuance, and compassion to a conversation that gravitates towards extremes, absolutes, and vilification
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20 Mar
🧵1/ So when I was writing out this thread, I realized that public health vaccination efforts have a big messaging problem!*

[* my response actually branches off into two different threads starting after Tweet 3 - sorry!]
🧵2/ I wrote about the goal of widespread vaccination from a public health perspective...
🧵3/ ...versus the goal of vaccination from a medical perspective
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8 Mar
I’m listening to informative new episode of @inthebubblepod.

It’s about Israel’s vaccination effort and early observational evidence of its effects. As always, it’s complicated. But much good news.

pca.st/podcast/710d44…
2/ Vaccines working great to prevent hospitalization among those vaccinated and strong evidence that vaccinated people much less likely to transmit virus...
3/ but big outstanding issues about “vaccine hesitancy” in minority populations (ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arab), ethical issues with vaccine passports (govt proof of vaccination required to participate in certain activities of daily life)...
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4 Mar
🧵 1/ @TamaraSurin’s smart (and *very* generous) take on recent @JAMA_current podcast on “structural racism”...
🧵 2/ Now here’s my take: I believe that the host, JAMA editor Edward Livingston, inadvertently makes a strong argument against his own thesis!
🧵3/ Dr. Livingston argues that using the word “racism” is counterproductive for addressing “very real” “structural problems in our society”
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25 Feb
I’m tired

In December, I wrote in @zeynep’s newsletter, Insight, about vaccine prioritization. I used a well-publicized inequity among #HCWs as case study

Major point: first-come, first served systems put the most advantaged & least at-risk first in line
zeynep.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-…
2/ I’m kicking myself bc I let myself lose track of a shift in my state’s prioritization scheme. As of yesterday, all childcare workers and K-12 teachers in particular are eligible to get vaccinated...
3/ I’ve been trying to help the teachers at my kids’ daycare get vaccinated. Only one is 65 yo+. Several others are just shy of that, Black women in their early 60s or late 50s (amazing women who’ve cared for my children w intention & purpose the past 6 years)
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24 Feb
1/ Being interviewed by @CurleyWriter got me thinking more about how age-related social network features affect #SARSCoV2 spread...
2/ Here’s a new pet theory I have for why Florida and California are #COVID19 outliers in different directions (CA worse than expected, FL faring better than expected*):

Differences in typical social networks of older people in each state
3/ We know that parts of California, which suffered terribly in recent #SARSCoV2 surge, have the highest levels of household crowding in the country...
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