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1919 vs 2020

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On May 7, 2020
I want to take a minute, step back a bit, and talk about comparative responses to the last two major flu (or flu-like) epidemics in the United States. This came up in comments to Paul's post today and it has helped me to flesh out...

#FloridaMonkeys

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On November 13, 2018

I guess there's no reason for Florida's escaped monkeys to be any less disease ridden than Florida's people: In the heart of central Florida lies Silver Spring State Park—a large.

Carter

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On March 28, 2018

It's time to remember two true things about Jimmy Carter. First, he was a bad president who undermined his own administration through his obsession with inflation, his governance well to.

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Zika and Inequality

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On February 21, 2016
Disasters, however "natural," are a wonderful (well, horrible really) entry point into exposing to the public to deep fissures on inequality in a society. That's true whether they are earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, or disease epidemics. This includes Zika, even as our knowledge of what...

Ebola

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On November 9, 2015

With all the intensive fear-mongering coverage of Ebola in the weeks before the 2014 midterm elections, you'd think that the World Health Organization declaring Sierra Leone Ebola-free would be big.

Cancer Clusters

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On December 12, 2014
Paul Voosen has an interesting article at National Geographic that wonders why there has not been more known cancer clusters develop given the nation's long history of toxicity. There's no shortage of the skeptic in Voosen and so the article in places reads like someone...
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