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Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor | The New Yorker—The Scalpel and the Pen, published today newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

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Handy and authoritative: @HelenBranswell @matthewherper compare the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines for young children statnews.com/2022/06/20/com… via @statnews Plus a video youtu.be/Nq8okEFGuUA via @YouTube @alissa_ambrose @HoganAlex

Refuah sh’lma Julia—I hope it’s entirely mild and no after effects

Something I've just published in @NYDailyNews on some public health lessons for our time from, yes, Hanukah and the struggle of the Maccabees. What? Please take a look. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Understanding the Body Electric: published today in the New Yorker. How electricity drives so much of our lives—in health and illness newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

This is amazing. nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyr…

So important that Nobel Peace Prize awarded to 2 courageous journalists defending press freedom, under attack worldwide. 👋to @mariaressa Dmitri muratov.

What Does the Microbiome Do? | by Jerome Groopman | The New York Review of Books: a rigorous look at what we know and don’t about the microbiome in health and disease, despite prevalent claims of its central role in our biology nybooks.com/articles/2021/…

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Big congratulations to @PeterHotez recipient of the 2021 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award - saying he’s“improved the lives of billions of people through his relentless work to combat some of the most common debilitating diseases around the world.”

@yudapearl הַמָּקוֹם יְנַחֵם אוֹתְךָ ביְרוּשָׁלַיִם הַבְּנוּיָה

Mazel Tov! Hatzlacha on finishing Motherland Julia

May her memory be a blessing

Have you tweeted #DadsForGunSafety today? Help me send a message to Washington DC. We need 1,000,000 shares. Do it for Jaime. Do it for the other victims of gun violence. Do it for your family that has not yet been impacted by gun violence. #DadsForGunSafety

May her memory be a blessing Zichrona l’vracha

And why it’s premature to advocate for a single shot in the absence of data. If there were data, fine. But these results reinforce prudence of 2 shots with mRNA based vaccines

Pandemics aren’t merely medical: outbreaks are also driven by war and poverty, by economic collapse and social chaos. “Any hope of containing future outbreaks will require tackling deeply rooted global problems,” @groopman says. nyer.cm/TXwM5Tq

Even before Covid 19, largely conquered infections like polio and highly contagious cholera were exploding due to geopolitical upheaval

Beyond the Vaccine—my piece in this week’s New Yorker: How we need to broaden our thinking and address geopolitics to stem current and future outbreaks: a compelling case made by Dr Peter Hotez newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…