Alissa Greenberg

For @novapbs I went to Napa to watch a team of archaeologists and scent detection dogs find the lost cremated remains of a man's father (no urn, nothing!) within the ruins of house. Finding ashes among the ashes—absolutely wild. pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arti…

"Once in a while, an East Coast journalist will come out to California to find out what’s happening in the land of dreams." ~ direct quote (central theme) of story published yesterday in Vanity Fair. Um, there are already journalists here? There is the internet? Nobody needs you?

Here’s the dirty secret of emergency medicine: We don’t have to do prior auth. Like ever. We just order what the patient needs, and the patient gets it done in the ED. But here’s why we care about prior auth anyways: B/c not a shift goes by where a patient doesn’t land in the ER as a last resort when #priorauth denied or delayed them the outpatient care they needed.

New rule: only Bay Area journalists can write take downs of Bay Area cities? Anyone who thinks this way hasn't spent time in the city recently, if at all. There are so many more productive, nuanced discussions to be had about city governance than this simplistic, pandering crud

In 5 years, San Francisco will still exist, and it'll still be a global tech/finance epicenter, and we'll all look back on this lazy pack reporting and sigh in disappointment that we didn't have a nuanced debate about what's ailing our cities. twitter.com/FTMag/status/1…

Today, ID experts get it right @AnnalsofIM. It's not time to take off masks in healthcare settings. Should have been published as a companion to and in opposition to the 17 April one below. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… by @tarapalmore and David Henderson

.@WHO's new guideline recommends against the use of non-sugar sweeteners to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases. The recommendation applies to all people except individuals with pre-existing #diabetes. bit.ly/3OaMYzm

Encouraging news. It doesn't have to be forever. (My own experience was about ~6 months, with help from some steroids)

Opinion | 13 Lessons From the Covid Pandemic - The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/05/11/opi…

Props to @EricTopol & @trvrb for calling attention to the real possibility of an Omicron-like event, where a divergent variant swarms the globe, evading immunity. Reassuring that experts are informing top political figures about this. I doubt they were previously aware. 1/

Many women incarcerated in California described the post-pandemic era as their most difficult period of incarceration. @taylormajewski unveils the mental health crisis inside the state's women’s prisons. trib.al/R6JlrCR

Thanks @SmithDanaG for terrific piece @nytimes on what Covid experts are doing now. Quotes: me (BTW, I got my new bivalent; still wearing mask in crowded indoor spots; OK eating indoors & OK with small maskless meetings), @TaisonBell, @cmyeaton, others. nytimes.com/2023/04/24/wel…

According to some surveys the expectation that they should be thin is learned by girls as young as six. The tragedy is that there is no escape

A team of data analysts has found the presence of Black primary care docs in a county, even a single one, means Black residents in that county live longer. Even veteran researchers call the finding stunning statnews.com/2023/04/14/bla…

This was first reported by Mission Local, but goes uncredited here. We are a small, non-profit newsroom, and we work hard to break news. This is bad form.

Why or why aren't we investing in cleaner indoor air? It's a no brainer. It would be a no brainer even if covid had never happened.

Excited to be part of showing the world this doc. We need more local solutions (so many already, but there can always be more) and more climate reporting that focuses on them

bay area! 🤔 when's the deadline to file taxes this year? is it in 10 days (april 15)? answer: 📣 no !! if u live in *any* of the 9 bay area counties, the deadline is now oct. 16. the IRS extended it for CA counties designated as disaster areas back in january 👇🏾 @kqednews 1/3

.@Oaklandside hired @fermoso as a full-time reporter in August 2022 to cover road safety in Oakland; the city council is now making moves to invest in traffic violence prevention. oaklandside.org/2023/03/20/the…

From Lisa's story: "Six officers on the list worked in the Bay Area, and are accused of impersonating federal agents, falsifying evidence, and possessing child pornography, among other charges."

lolsobbing at “medium-risk adults”