Eric Boodman
Journalist @statnews. Trad fiddler. Formerly @PittsburghPG @mtlgazette. Always happy to hear your story ideas! [email protected]
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Why an FDA advisory panel's meeting on Covid-19 vaccines matters
This week's meeting, while likely dry and technical, "shows the public that this is how FDA is going about its decisions," one expert said.
Eric Boodman
When @HelenBranswell writes about seemingly dry advisory committee meetings, you should pay attention.
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Health Tech Reporter - STAT
Job Description STAT, a leading health and medicine publication, is looking for a savvy and energetic health tech reporter to join its team. Broadly speaking, this reporter will help shape our coverage of the intersection of technology and health....
Eric Boodman
Come work with us @statnews!
Cc @WritersofColor, @najournalists, @IBWellsSociety, @NABJ, @NAHJ
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Remdesivir and interferon fall flat in WHO’s megastudy of COVID-19 treatments
Solidarity fails to find mortality benefits in four treatments—but the global trial itself wins praise
STAT examination: Pharma showers state capitols with campaign cash
STAT's first-of-its-kind analysis compiles political donations from the pharmaceutical industry across the 50 states.
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Eric Boodman
"It wasn’t a coincidence that the three no-shows accepted more campaign contributions from the drug industry than most other state lawmakers nationwide."
Amazing reporting on pharma $$$ in state politics from @levfacher
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Letter urging Covid-19 vaccine trial participation sparks backlash - STAT
As the four historically Black medical schools prepare to host coronavirus vaccine trials, there’s hope their efforts will have more success.
Eric Boodman
The presidents of two historically Black universities signed up for Covid-19 vaccine trials and encouraged students to do the same.
A great @SciFleur piece on why that felt important to them, and why there was a backlash.
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Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine study paused due to illness
Clinical trial pauses are not uncommon, but they are generating outsized attention in the race to test Covid-19 vaccines.
It shouldn't take medical training to help a loved one get great care - STAT
When my father was in the hospital, I felt grateful for my medical training — and stunned by how often I relied on it to advocate for him.
The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer | Hakai Magazine
A faraway island in Alaska has had its share of visitors, but none can remain for long on its shores.
Eric Boodman
Loved this @Sarah_Gilman essay (thanks, @josh_sokol!). Especially during this whirlwind week.
"For a long time, reindeer skulls salted the island. Now, most are gone. The few I see are buried to their antler tips, as if submerged in rising green water."
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Papers with Code partners with arXiv
We are excited to announce our partnership with arXiv to support links to code on arXiv.
Regeneron, and the pugnacious pair who run it, take center stage
President Trump's treatment with the company's experimental Covid-19 antibody drug has raised Regeneron's profile — and stirred criticism.
Eric Boodman
As doctors question whether Trump should have gotten monoclonal antibodies (aka "It's called Regeneron") and whether they deserve an EUA, incisive @matthewherper piece on the company in the spotlight.
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Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies at 63
Working for New York Newsday, The Daily News and The Times, he covered the human stories of New York in dramatic prose and crusaded against injustice.
California Sunday Suspends Publication After Emerson Collective Pulls Out
An award-winning magazine may have reached the end after Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, a major media player, severed ties with its parent company.
BuzzFeed News Pulls Reporter From White House, Citing Virus Risk
The journalist said she had “obvious concerns about working indoors during an outbreak” as the White House Correspondents’ Association pushes for more information on known infections.
Covid-19 long-haulers and the experience of 'hidden' disabilities - STAT
Disabilities that have nothing to do with mobility are often overlooked in discussions of disabilities and accommodation for them.
Eric Boodman
"People in a store cannot see that my spine curls around my lungs and reduces my ability to fight respiratory infections."
Important piece on "hidden disabilities" by @_HarryPaul_
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Can a recruiter for a Covid-19 vaccine trial overcome distrust? - STAT
His job is to recruit volunteers from communities of color that have been alienated by American medicine and hit hardest by the pandemic.
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Eric Boodman
I wrote about a Covid-19 vaccine trial recruiter, whose mother believes it's "the work of the devil, to get a chip in us, to track us."
A story about hard conversations with family members and strangers.
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‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said
Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.
Eric Boodman
“We have now heard of us taking breastfeeding defendant moms away from their infants."
This makes me sick.
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Two CRISPR scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry - STAT
Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute and Jennifer Doudna of the University of California have won for their CRISPR discovery.
Eric Boodman
If you are going to read one piece about Doudna and Charpentier winning the Nobel, it should be @sxbegle and @cooney_liz's.
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AstraZeneca vaccine trial hold leaves U.S. participants in limbo
Experts say there’s no need to worry about this group or their data, because such trials are designed to account for such situations.
Eric Boodman
The AstraZeneca trial's still on pause in the US. What about the participants who got only one dose?
From @RebeccaDRobbins
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'Covid is all about privilege': Trump's care underscores health inequalities
Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.
For many of D.C.'s most powerful, Covid-19 guidance still does not apply
Though there seem to be many more Republican instances of flouting the guidance, health experts have also raised concern about Democrats.
Eric Boodman
“The laws of virus transmission aren’t different for public officials than they are for everyone else,” @mtosterholm tells @HelenBranswell.
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