6 items to catch you up on where we are, and what you can do about it.
Happy Labor Day everyone. I hope most of you got a respite from your regular Monday work schedule, and maybe—around some barbeques and time spent in the nice weather, of…
Something important you can do NOW to support HHS workers, plus a warning about vaccine access.
Today I’m going to keep it short, with a request for action, and a warning.The Action:On August 20, over 750 former and current staff of HHS submitted a signed letter to…
Heartbreak.
I have this painting hanging in my office, next to my desk. It was painted by a family friend, Alfredo Carlson. He painted it in June 2020, about a week after George…
Five things that will make you mad–and a list of things you can do about it.
We are overdue for another update on what the health is going on in the US public health world right now. There’s a lot. What comes below almost reads like The Onion,…
The first 100 days…and beyond.
Well, today marks the end of the 2025 version of the infamous “first 100 days” of any new presidency. What a wild ride it’s been. For brevity I’m not going to try to…
What have we learned about protecting the public’s health in the last 5 years? (Not much, apparently.)
Depending on what anniversary date you want to use, it’s been just about exactly 5 years since the COVID pandemic started. (It started earlier in China, of course, and…
Check in on your public health friends.
In pretty much every meeting I’ve been in this week (and as a consultant I go to a LOT of meetings with a lot of different people), the meeting has started with someone…
Where should I go for health information now?
Someone asked me where lay people should go for their information now, if CDC can’t be seen as a comprehensive and reliable source of science-based information. (Yes,…