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Keren Landman

@landmanspeaking

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health/medicine reporter @ | epidemiologist, ID doc | health equity, @soljourno , Southern stuff | DMs open for tips | keep talking, ur probably muted

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Keren Landman
3 years
Happy New CDC Director to all who observe
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2 years
Is anybody anywhere talking about how much less sick Covid patients are now than ever before?
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7 years
@meakoopa I also really enjoy how he was obviously like “you can wear a dress but you still gotta wear a sweater with it.”
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Keren Landman
4 years
So many eye-popping, jaw-dropping, wtf-provoking lines in this @charlesbethea story about Georgia's QAnon candidate, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and I will spoil none of them for you.
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Keren Landman
3 years
if anyone tells you they don't find this funny they are LYING
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Keren Landman
4 years
Being a Georgia-based writer means constantly coming up with fresh ways to say "it was unbelievably hot and humid"
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Keren Landman
3 years
Q: what's the most Atlanta tweet you've ever seen? A:
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@SandySprings_PD ⁩ is investigating this crash on I-285 East at Glenridge Dr. where these 3 vehicles tried taking the exit are the same time. No injuries were reported
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Keren Landman
4 years
HI THERE, I am an actual infectious disease doctor AND an epidemiologist AND a journalist -- AND I've never missed a deadline! Thanks to @marynmck for saying what should be so deeply obvious but apparently is not.
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Maryn McKenna
4 years
The health and science writers in your newsroom (or your network, if you rely on freelancers) have the training, the beat knowledge and the sources to help you get #COVID19 right, and help you to communicate the appropriate level of concern to your readers/viewers. Use them.
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Keren Landman
8 years
@NPR @nprpolitics Was that survey hacked by Russians? Those Dems are not paying attention or are simply ignorant--and do not speak for me.
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Keren Landman
1 year
Americans don't usually get malaria in America. But in the past few weeks, 3 people in 2 states did. Why? My latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
2 years
One big thing is missing from the conversation about Fetterman: how much we ALL gain when people with disabilities lead the way. My latest for @voxdotcom :
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Keren Landman
2 years
All the distressed “I didn’t match” tweets last week made me wonder: why, in a time of such dire need for more doctors, is medical training so extraordinarily competitive? Here’s what I learned, in my latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
2 years
In my first story for @voxdotcom , I wrote about the emerging data linking Covid-19 vaccines to menstrual changes — and about how the delays in getting those data opened the door to the spread of vaccination-related fertility myths.
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Keren Landman
10 months
doctors be prescribing amoxicillin for the sniffles but not prescribing paxlovid for people with Covid about to get on an airplane, make it make sense
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Keren Landman
2 years
Covid-19 death rates are linked to health, age, income, and... an internet connection? My latest for @voxdotcom dives into the first study linking home broadband to health outcomes, and explains why internet access is a social determinant of health:
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Keren Landman
4 years
@gabrielroth Sorry to confirm your worst suspicions, it’s pretty freaking great
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Keren Landman
1 year
Abortion is a contentious issue. Mifepristone’s safety is not. My latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
3 years
To all my 70's Atlanta babies who couldn't wait to gtfo: I see you, I love you, I probably drank coffee with you. My love letter to @CafeIntermezzo for @AtlantaMagazine :
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Keren Landman
4 years
For the @nytopinion , I wrote about mistakes Georgia made in reopening its economy, and how other states can do better:
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Keren Landman
1 year
I often ignore "X thing will kill you" nutrition news. What we're about to hear about aspartame as a cause of cancer is different. Here's why, in my latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
7 months
Devastated to report that some of the best people at Vox are being laid off today 💔
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Keren Landman
3 years
wow, I know a fire chief in middle Georgia who was fired for being trans at-will employment sucks, huh?
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A very talented friend of mine, who interned w/ @GOPLeader , and at 20 was one of the highest ranked staffers in the Trump campaign, was just fired from his new job when client found out he worked for Trump. He now can’t afford rent. Still think cancel culture isn’t that serious?
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Keren Landman
4 years
Take your post-dinner nap now so you can watch me talk #Georgia reopening with @AliVelshi on @11thHour at 11:30pm tonight on @MSNBC . It'll be past my bedtime, so I might literally say anything!!
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Keren Landman
2 years
For good reasons, most stroke survivors don't return to work until >6 months post-stroke. But for many, getting back on the job sustains a sense of purpose & autonomy. John Fetterman is a politician, but he's also a patient. My updated @voxdotcom story:
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Keren Landman
3 years
tell me about the time you dressed up as a giant peanut for a congressional event promoting Georgia ag and ended up standing next to Max Cleland as an Elvis impersonator plied him with PB and banana sandwiches here's a photo of my ...experience doing that
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Keren Landman
3 years
One of the most frequent qs I get: why do some people get bad Covid vax side effects and others don't? One likely reason (cf. yesterday's @NEJM by @florian_krammer et al.): past Covid-19 infection.
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Keren Landman
10 months
"Don't bother with most cold medicine -- the only thing that really works is pseudoephedrine." - me and many other docs, over and over again The FDA has finally caught up. I talked to @MikkaelSekeres about it in my latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
2 years
The pandemic’s fundamentals have changed—and our tools to fight Covid-19 go way beyond mask mandates. In my latest for @voxdotcom , @JenniferNuzzo explains why now is the time for different, better public health solutions.
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Keren Landman
7 years
Thank you, @ByNinaMartin , for this profile. I was in Shalon's EIS class, and this is both an honor to her spirit and shattering indictment of the medical infrastructure that failed her and so many like her. We must, MUST do better.
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Keren Landman
4 years
It's impossible for me to witness our nation's response to #Covid19 and not think of its bungled response to HIV/AIDS in the 1980's. I wrote about what we should've learned but clearly didn't for @XtraMagazine ( @fakedansavage , RTYI?):
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Keren Landman
5 years
@GarthGreenwell OMG GO TO HIM
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Keren Landman
1 year
Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie died of eclampsia, a pregnancy condition that's extraordinarily common -- and that many moms are often totally unaware of. It's more common in Black women. Prenatal care helps prevent its worst outcomes. More here:
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Keren Landman
2 years
Hospitals are overwhelmed with respiratory viral illnesses rn. Flu threatens adults as well as kids. Get a flu shot. Use the prevention strategies you learned during the pandemic. And if you're high-risk for complications, get care early if you're sick.
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Keren Landman
4 years
@ProfessorCrunk This has a distinct "but her emails" flavor to it
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Keren Landman
2 years
i'm just a girl, staring at a phone, wondering wtf a parer is
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Keren Landman
1 year
Uganda has passed a law making homosexuality punishable by death. I talked to the director of @ArkWellnessHub , an LGBTQ health clinic in the nation's capital, about what it's like to keep caring for his community at this scary and violent moment.
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Keren Landman
1 year
An RSV vaccine for adults will likely hit shelves this fall. Here’s why it’s a BFD. My latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
2 years
It’s a confusing time for immunocompromised people. In my latest for @voxdotcom , I wrote about why there’s still so much uncertainty, and what people with weakened immune systems can do to protect themselves.
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Keren Landman
4 years
Everyone not reading @MaraDavis ' aggressively friendly and quizzical replies to everything GA Senator Kelly Loeffler tweets is MISSING OUT on a master class in the veiled menace that is Southern conversation-making
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Mara Davis
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@SenatorLoeffler Hi Kelly! Thanks for sharing. You talk a lot about growing up on a farm. What did you do exactly? Do you like to garden at your own home? What Georgia farms are you visiting? Do you work with @GeorgiaGrown & @GeorgiaOrganics ? Thanks!
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Keren Landman
9 months
"Exercise moral judgment, not partisan loyalty." An absolutely critical perspective from @zackbeauchamp How to think morally about the Israel-Hamas war
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Keren Landman
2 years
The “Fauci effect” isn’t enough to draw doctors to the undervalued practice of infectious diseases
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Keren Landman
3 years
Vaccine manufacturers as college roommates: AstraZeneca drunk-pees in your room at least monthly and routinely leaves piles of chicken-wing bones on the coffee table, but is never late with rent and steam-cleans the carpet before your parents visit
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Keren Landman
6 years
@annehelen Uh, is he pushing a stroller? And a follow-up: if we're full, why is he procreating?
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Keren Landman
4 years
I'm super delighted to be a new member of @AHCJ 's board of directors! This organization has been an immeasurable source of learning and community for me, and I can't wait to help shape its future.
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Ivan Oransky
4 years
Congratulations @landmanspeaking and @joycefr , and welcome to the @AHCJ board of directors. And welcome back @carriefeibel @sabriyarice @tonyleys . Look forward to working with you to serve our membership.
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Keren Landman
2 years
many thanks to @alex_abads for nailing what white lotus gets so right (and corroborating my predictions re: whose bodies end up floating in the mediterranean sea)
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Keren Landman
2 years
Hey, ID docs -- given the high-profile Paxlovid rebound cases lately, are you (or anyone you know) prescribing a longer duration of Paxlovid off-label (e.g. prescribing 10 days back-to-back)? If not, why not? @CarlosdelRio7 @serotavirus @eliowa @Ahmed_HBabiker @Boghuma
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Keren Landman
2 years
tired: covid wired: monkeypox inspired: calibrating your dread about the newest pathogen on the scene my latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
6 years
Worried increased #conscience protections will reduce #transgender healthcare access? It's already pretty bad. My take for Vice here: @TransLawCenter @TransEquality @LambdaLegal @amprog
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Keren Landman
4 years
I subscribe to a bunch of journalism jobs newsletters/boards and I gotta say, it is WILD that so few news outlets are hiring health journalists despite the fact we are in the throes of a long-term global health emergency.
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Keren Landman
2 years
Read this incredible story of powerful people brazenly misusing public funds intended to help poor people. Kudos to @ashtonpittman and the @MSFreePress for the deep reporting and careful, clear layout -- this is a true public service.
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Ashton Pittman
2 years
THREAD: In July 2017, Brett Favre met with Mississippi DHS Director John Davis and non-profit operator Nancy New. They would help him get millions in welfare funds to pay for a volleyball stadium at USM—where his daughter was about to play volleyball. 1/
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3 years
Sure wish Atlanta media would bring a fraction of the ferocity with which they're covering the Braves' win to their coverage of the CITY GOVERNANCE ELECTION RESULTS, jfc guys come on
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Keren Landman
2 years
Covid-19 made plain that the air in buildings can make or break our health. Is indoor air quality ready for its close-up? My latest for @voxdotcom :
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Keren Landman
4 years
when you enter the google doc only to find both your editor and all the fact-checkers are already there
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Keren Landman
4 years
@bonesandbugs @johnmoe Landman 2020: Don't act like you don't understand me.
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Keren Landman
5 years
Thrilled to the extreme that my first for the @nytimes is about how communities worst affected by HIV are fixing it for themselves (and that the amazing pastor/flock of SW's Bible Way were so beautifully photographed by @RaymondMcCrea for it). Look, look!
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Keren Landman
2 years
In my latest for @voxdotcom , I explain why preventing sexually transmitted infections feels like a game of public health whack-a-mole
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1 year
only $50?
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1 year
Every time an infectious disease consult note is copy pasted into a discharge summary, the ID specialist should get $50
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Keren Landman
2 years
So, so good, from David Perry: "In terms of the tech, it’s an amazing moment. But the technology can’t change anything if our biases as people, as a society, keep us from having the right conversations."
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Keren Landman
2 years
You have monkeypox vaccine questions! We have monkeypox vaccine answers. My latest for @voxdotcom :
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Keren Landman
4 years
When @DrigoMunoz went on his first of 17 residency interviews, he realized "I'm going to have to come out 17 times." Now, he's coauthored a petition asking @ERAS to let LGBTQ students come out on their residency applications. My story for @XtraMagazine :
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Keren Landman
3 years
Everybody got what they really wanted this year
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Keren Landman
4 years
I'm delighted to have been selected for the @capita_social journalist residency at @AIRSerenbe this fall, and am proud to share the honor with badass Filipina writer Cinelle Barnes. Looking forward to a productive few weeks in the woods!
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2 years
@Project2Program @voxdotcom Very sorry to hear about your partner's experience. The spectrum of stroke is really broad (e.g. as I mentioned in the piece, @karaswisher survived a stroke, and nobody's arguing whether she's lost her edge). Survivors deserve our hope, not our doubts.
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1 year
@cleebennett oh HELL no
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Keren Landman
1 year
The US' locally transmitted malaria cases are up to 5: 4 in FL and 1 in TX. Yesterday, CDC issued a nationwide alert, indicating healthcare providers and public health authorities should have malaria on their radar for non-travelers. My updated story:
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Keren Landman
3 years
For the @nytimes , I wrote about how the messy public drama of pharmacoviligilance can help us trust a vaccine, even if we can’t trust the company that made it (AstraZeneca, I’m obviously talking about AstraZeneca)
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Keren Landman
2 years
Got questions about long Covid? So do scientists — and they’re not easy to answer. My latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
3 years
I once took a class from @taffyakner . It shook something loose and I cried for an hour in front of everyone. She was so nonchalantly kind about it. Afterward, *while closing her first novel*, she helped me shop around a story I'd pitched in class to a million fancy editors.
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I want to see some positivity. Not the toxic kind or the fake kind, just genuine goodness. Who is a writer or editor that treated you kindly or helped you in some way?
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Keren Landman
2 years
At the time when I needed it most, The Two Fat Ladies gave me the recipe for living well. My latest for @voxdotcom (this time for the culture desk)
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Keren Landman
10 months
"there's no RCT to support it" IS THERE AN RCT TO SUPPORT 80% OF YOUR AMOXICILLIN PRESCRIPTIONS jfc
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Keren Landman
4 years
@taffyakner did you hear the convocation?
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Keren Landman
4 years
I don’t like to brag but the cookie boxes I made for friends this year are absolutely fucking lit
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Keren Landman
4 years
don't mean to be a jerk but just for 2021 expectation management purposes, here's your reminder that time is a continuum
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Keren Landman
1 year
One of the biggest questions here: Did the second #H5N1 case catch the virus from a bird or from his daughter? And another big q (especially if from his daughter): was it transmitted through the air?
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Cambodia has detected a 2nd #H5N1 case, the father of the 11 yo girl who recently died from H5 #flu . No word currently on the 11 other contacts they were testing.
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Keren Landman
4 years
If any of you tune in to @BBCWorld , I'll be appearing on one of their news programs in about 15 minutes to talk about my column in today's @nytopinion :
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Keren Landman
2 years
Why is it so much harder to switch off public health protections than it is to switch them on? I wrote about distrust, data vacuums, and de-implementation in my latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
2 years
RSV is causing a massive surge of pediatric hospitalizations -- perhaps for the last time. I wrote about why in my latest for @voxdotcom :
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Keren Landman
4 years
@julieklausner If anything, those photos suggest that obedience by rules prioritizing property over humanity is a risk factor for enforcing those rules using violence.
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Keren Landman
1 year
For folks in the Midwest suffering from smoke-filled air: here's some concrete advice on how to use your HVAC system to clean your indoor air. (Also, how to DIY an air purifier if you don't already have one)
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Keren Landman
8 months
Real-time fatality counts from conflict zones like Gaza are almost never right. Pay attention to them anyway. My latest for @voxdotcom
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Keren Landman
3 years
Just finally got my first moderna shot at the extremely well-run Sarasota County site run by @HealthyFla in the most Florida site ever, a former Gap in a deserted south side mall
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Keren Landman
2 years
when I think about everything my parents did to convince me to go to medical school ...just to argue with me 20 years later about whether a Covid booster caused a back spasm
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3 years
OOoh Kelly sounds like she had a meeting with Jesus
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Keren Landman
4 years
It was a privilege to help curate this selection of solutions stories on the #COVID19 response. Hope these will be the first of many—and will inspire even more coverage of what’s working for the entire life cycle of this epidemic. @soljourno
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Keren Landman
4 years
. @RWalensky being named as CDC Director is some of the best news public health folks have had in a while.
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