Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

The Air https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-air-1937

Science @science.org magazine's Breakthrough of the Year is fantastic: an HIV-prevention drug protects people for six months at a time and in two clinical trials showed 99.9% and 100% (!) efficacy in preventing infection www.science.org/content/arti... by @cohenjon.bsky.social 🧪

People are enraged by health insurance denials because they arise when they are at their most vulnerable and least able to respond. Both physical and mental health matter to our ability to respond to the types of administrative demands that insurers rely on. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Huge congratulations to my Florida State Univ Population Center colleagues Mike McFarland and Matt Hauer (@drdemography.bsky.social) on this important and very newsworthy (!!) paper on the impact of leaded gasoline on US public health. #demography acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Woman in park https://www.wikiart.org/en/august-macke/woman-in-park

Lockdown decision-making was challenging. Perhaps we can leave room for nuance in our reflections on the pandemic. arxiv.org/abs/2411.12016