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Alan J. Card@alanjcard.bsky.social |
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PhD / MPH. Assistant Professor UCSD Med School & UCSD Design Lab. Systems design and improvement for health and care. #ptsafety, #QI #riskmgt, #designthinking, occupational safety/wellbeing, #academicsky. Also puns.
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Alan J. Card
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I’ve been seeing more of these little friends than ever, the past few weeks. They obviously love the heat, but I also wonder if they’re displacing their skinnier cousins for some reason.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Just a reminder that we're actually still in a pandemic and that covid vaccines and tests should not only still be free (as should all medicine and heathcare), but should, by now, have been greatly improved and dispersed to everyone. Okay have a great day out there.
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Iva Cheung
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JULY CARTOON: ivacheung.com/2024/07/tria... #AmEditing
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Alan J. Card
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It reads like he's been studying in the School of Bad COVID Takes and is applying the lessons to cancer. I don't love to say negative things about someone else's work, but this is not something that should ever have been published. At all.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
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Hint: the author of the linked opinion piece in WaPo isn't an oncologist, health services researcher, or an epidemiologist
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Melody Schreiber
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Did cancer write this www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Alan J. Card
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*Not that I mean to set myself up as an up-to-date expert on public health preparedness and response, either. My time working on that was during the first round of concern about H5N1, not long after SARS 1.0. Ancient history, now!
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Alan J. Card
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Oh, totally! I wish our response were more driven by genuine public health experts. Lab science and clinical care are amazing, but not the same. That said, as far as I recall, mucosal vaccines were “the future” when I was studying so I’m glad to hear any insight from people who know more!*
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Alan J. Card
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🤞🏻
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Alan J. Card
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Repost with a tweet you still think about (The book title x3 + “by Sandra Boynton” officially replaced the original lyrics for me as soon as I saw this.)
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Alan J. Card
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Just learning this today:
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Alan J. Card
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(I realized this is ambiguous. Just to make it clear that I’m not throwing my excellent MPH program under the bus: I meant “class” as in “course,” not “class meeting,” and “lucky” unironically. I was just trying to say I don’t set myself up as the expert @drtwillett.bsky.social is on this topic.)
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Alan J. Card
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Me too! (And I’m glad to see your take on it. I was lucky to get one whole class focused on immunology of infectious disease, so it’s great to have an actual expert weigh in. 😊)
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Alan J. Card
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Even better! I’m out of all the loops lately.
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Alan J. Card
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lol "Interestingly..."
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Alan J. Card
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This has been a long time coming...
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Alan J. Card
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Just the phase 1 trial, but hopefully an important step toward an vaccine that prevents #COVID *infection,* and not just severe (acute) disease. If so, not only would it drastically reduce transmission, but it could provide MUCH stronger protection against #LongCOVID.
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Ashley Shew | Against Technoableism
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A lot of ableism isn't deliberate: that makes it more pernicious! A walker is representing being at lower faculty, by your description. I tweeted this on the other site: "The way walkers are used in media/culture is truly revolting -- & this rep prevents ppl from using what is a useful tool."
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?
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David S. Bernstein
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IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?
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J.M. Berger
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And it's not just that they don't create *social* benefits; they don't create *business* benefits! They don't create profits! They just consume resources! It's mystifying!
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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However, the CDC continues to go out of its way to stigmatize masks, not listing it in its core prevention strategies for respiratory viruses, and calling it an “additional” prevention strategy instead.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year.
Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...
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Alan J. Card
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You’re just obeying the law! The law of conservation of energy.
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Alan J. Card
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Solid work.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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oh. another story that journalism actually does make enough money but not in the right way so it looks like its losing money. WaPo edition.
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Alan J. Card
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Only one of those two men can no longer be prosecuted for stabbing the other in the back…
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Alan J. Card
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I hope it’s just somebody who met you there and thinks you’re awesome but is as terrible with names as I am.
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Alan J. Card
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Same! 🤞🏻
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Alan J. Card
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I mean, it *might* be something innocuous, or even good... but I definitely hear alarm bells ringing.
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Alan J. Card
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Here’s why that’s bad for Dems
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)
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Irish hospital issues full visitor ban as Covid-19 infections jump 60 per cent
St Luke's General Hospital in Kilkenny issued a full visitor ban over the weekend due to the uptick, as well as a Norovirus outbreak.
www.irishstar.com/news/ireland...
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Memento Morty 🌙
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If a toddler wants to play make believe with you, you have to play make believe. It is law.
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Alan J. Card
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Doomscrolling break:
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Alan J. Card
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I didn’t even read it. I’m too tired of people taking the wrong lessons from these kinds of analyses. I just just didn’t have the spare energy to see if this story did the same—especially today.
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Alan J. Card
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Not to downplay this, but when I read “the pandemic’s toll was laid bare,” I thought I was going to hear about an updated mortality estimate that includes all the diverse effects of #LongCOVID, not a “try your hand at the math your kids have forgotten” story.
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Alan J. Card
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Congratulations!
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Alan J. Card
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Well, I don’t like that…
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Alan J. Card
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I’m definitely not a Constitutional scholar, but my recollection is that the 22nd Amendment says he can’t be *elected* President for a third term, not that he’d be barred from serving, per se.
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Alan J. Card
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My actual takeaway from this poll is: So you’re saying I have a chance! 😂
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Alan J. Card
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*Normal voters in West Virginia, which is not especially representative of the Democratic electorate, nationally…
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Alan J. Card
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If we’re doing really wild takes: Barack Obama can’t run for President again, but the Constitution doesn’t say anything about him serving as VP.
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Cat Hicks
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One of many hot takes I have from being a complex patient with post covid/long covid is that maybe most long covid clinics are fake constructs. Like I was supposedly "referred to the long covid clinic" & it was just a typical pulmonologist appointment no special diagnosis or triage coordination
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Peter Tennant
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'Depicting deterministic variables within directed acyclic graphs (DAGs): An aid for identifying & interpreting causal effects involving derived variables and compositional data'
Thrilled this has been published in @amjepi.bsky.social! Pls share!
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
#EpiSky
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Scissors
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I had operation, but when the battery died it was not replaced “You don’t need the buzzer. Just take the pieces out” I didn’t know I was learning so much about our healthcare system…
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Alan J. Card
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Wishing you the best of luck over there! (We'll need it back when you're done with it. 😬)
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Daniel S. Goldberg
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and of course in some states not only are the legislatures refusing to occupy these governance spaces, they are rewriting emergency powers laws to ensure that the only governance space that exists to regulate during public health emergencies will be legislative (which won't act) #LegalEpi #PHLaw
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Daniel S. Goldberg
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This is a microcosm of what state judiciaries have been doing in shredding public health law authority on the state level -- continually ruling that executive action, including under public health and disaster emergency statutes -- are unlawful w/o explicit legislative action that will never come
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Alan J. Card
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Wow, yeah, me too now. Yikes. 😬
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