If Dr @alexandraphelan.bsky.social is concerned, Im concerned

Yes, AID Anti-Malaria Programs & CDC outposts & sending the military to West Africa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati... were not expressions of benevolence, they were ways to fight global public health threats before they flew into JFK or docked in Miami, etc

Ok, so they are quarantining in Nebraska, that is the right thing to do #Hanta flip.it/j_53OC

As we await the rapid dropping of opinions over the next month, it's good to spend some more time contemplating the significant consequences of Childes v. Salazar-as I do in thes blog for the Oxford Human Rights Hub, ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/chiles-v-sal...

I’m not surprised, the 5th circuit was really stretching it to substitute its judgment for that of the fed agency in charge of drug approval , but the short dissents are worth reading for their ire-calling the pharmaceutical company criminals for selling a product in a way approved by FDA is “a lot”

"[T]he lesson of Covid was never that public health doesn’t work. It was that public health is hard."

Four words, “what could go wrong?“

BREAKING: The Supreme Court is punting on the fate of abortion pills until Thursday, giving itself a few more days to decide how to handle clashing arguments from Louisiana, drug manufacturers and the Trump administration.

Yes-what could possibly be the rush on this?

Very impressive facility-they took care of at least some of the returning Ebola patients www.nebraskamed.com/biocontainment

Yes, wouldn’t want to be a passenger & interesting situation for those interested in vector transmission of a very familiar virus, but not pandemic concern

Dr. Marr is my go to on all things respiratory transmission-if she thinks its possible as, it is

Yes-This has to be the main talking point, the folks discrediting evidence based medical interventions are selling expensive ineffective alternatives

This is so wrong-the research on vaping as not just addicting kids to nicotine but being harmful for users & bystanders alike continues to build & there is no justification for making it more attractive to kids(same for vapes with screens that double as handheld games)-this only benefits sellers

Not surprising given the SCT’s general weariness of the Fifth Circuit & its nationwide injunctions but dont underestimate the harm caused by these sabatoging orders

Yes, performative cruelty-Medicaid is 1) primarily for people who can’t work because of age, disability or family responsibility, 2) Most who can work already do-just not in jobs that provide insurance(or much documentation), 3) is purely reimbursement for health care-no disincentive to work

Finally uploading some very old camera cards & found an early picture pf baby Rosie!

This is the bare minimum least we should be doing to protect children from lifetime nicotine addiction and we’re going in the opposite direction

PSA# if anyone has ever wondered whether it would make any difference to a teacher they have had to write a thank you note, the answer is 💯 yes-my guess is that like 99.9% of my colleagues at any school, any level I treasure & save these for the inevitable “rainy day”

We have chosen this for ourselves, we dont have to live with this health care delivery system www.propublica.org/article/blue...

First Rose! 🌱

Rosie is getting extra canned food as she is still under the weather but always willing to share with Ollie!

Well, turns out congratulations are in order for the possum living in the back of my garden-picture for reference purposes only-not so much for Ollie who is frantic

A great weekend in the garden getting ready for spring planting🌱

Probably fair to say that there isn’t a single one of these photos that represents Rosie seeking Ollie out, but she has been a wonderfully good sport throughout

Finally broke down this year and bought actual grow lights and I think the plants came through the winter very well with them 🌱 #Orchids #Houseplants

Due to having no concept of tine, Ollie is immune from the Sunday Scaries

Rosie settling down after a restless evening, she is not happy about having to get only a little water at a time & does not want to hear any more about larnynxes

Great opportunity for me to share my favorite book of last year -https://www.everythingtoken.io

A lesson for us all from Rosie-just because you’re not feeling well does not mean that you shouldn’t get regular spa treatments

My periodic question-why wouldn’t you do this? Especially if you are in the habit of washing your hands before you eat and not eating raw chicken,

Rosie is not having the best possible day healthwise but is sticking to her routine

Happy to be quoted in this well written story in @sciencenews.bsky.social even if there is nothing to be happy about the decision www.sciencenews.org/article/conv... @scinews.bsky.social

When I predicted the worst case scenario in Health Affairs last month, I underestimated the extent to which this court does not know or care about the practice of medicine or delivery of healthcare, www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore....

Good for them! Folic acid is close to a miracle vitamin for people who live in areas where it’s not naturally present in the soil or water, it has the capacity to help neural tubes close thus preventing really serious conditions like anencephaly & spina bifida-

Excited to share my post in Biiethis Today updating the Estate of Henrietta Lacks’ unjust enrichment litigation & what that means to those of us who teach & learn from her story bioethicstoday.org/blog/updatin...

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Now on SSRN & looking for a good home: This article argues that the practice of using AI algorithms to predict future dangerousness for the purpose of imposing the death penalty is unconstitutional. #lawsky #AI #Deathpenalty papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sometimes they are too much

Yes, it’s “Obamacare” & he’s right to be proud & he’s also right that the reason it passed was a consensus insurance companies had taken their fiduciary duties to shareholders to a place that created intolerable, Dickensian denials such as babies born with uninsurable “pre-existing conditions”

Double time-out; Rosie is not 💯 & Ollie decided he needed to have both bones

Rosie doesn’t particularly appreciate the part of Ollie’s game where he tries to hide his tennis ball under her

Life saving info⬇️

Three friends winding down for the night

Pretty sure that this photo of Rosie uplifting the morale of midshipmen at the Naval Academy hasn’t been on Bluesky yet

Someday Ollie is going to figure it out, stand up and just walk on two legs

Rosie is having some very significant health challenges, but luckily it isn’t affecting her appetite-still monitoring the kitchen whenever its occupied

“The NIH has been this sort of bipartisan jewel that everybody has supported,” said KFF Health News’ @julierovner.bsky.social. “Now, it’s basically being dismantled in front of our eyes.” Listen for more analysis of the latest health care news 🎧 ⤵️

Jasmine is tolerating Ollie’s significant incursion into her space

Im going to have to cover the mirror again aren’t I-thought he had outgrown this