Jeffrey Flier
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.
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Yes, This Is The Face Of A Tyrant
And a competent one at that.
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Jeffrey Flier
Yes, This Is The Face Of A Tyrant - Brilliant analysis by @sullydish, with apt comparisons of Trump to Richard III.
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The Odessa File (film) - Wikipedia
Jeffrey Flier
Just watched & enjoyed The Odessa File - Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, from 1974. A Nazi hunter gets his man, quite satisfying at this particular moment in time.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lies in State in Capitol
Ceremonies honoring the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved to the U.S. Capitol, where she became the first woman and the first Jewish person to lie in state.
Trouble at the FDA and CDC
That title is the only way that I can describe the events of the last few days. Like so many other things this year, what we're seeing now at the top of the drug regulatory structure is unprecedented, and not in a good way at all. Let's recap.
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The Nose Needed for This Coronavirus Test Isn’t Yours. It’s a Dog’s.
Several animals now working on a trial at Helsinki’s airport have been trained to detect the virus by scent on arriving passengers.
The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School - Quillette
This week, a group of about 200 students, parents, alumni, and concerned local residents flooded the sidewalk in front of America’s number-one-ranked public high school—Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia....
Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election
"Well, we'll have to see what happens. You know that. I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster," Trump said.
3 big reasons why letting NPs practice independently is a bad idea
California’s A.B. 890 goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The AMA explains why he should veto legislation that’s full of false promises.
Winds of Change
Holmes academic society renamed in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton
Jeffrey Flier
Renaming the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society @harvardmed for William Hinton was a difficult, but appropriate decision. Hinton, the first Black Full Professor at HMS and @Harvard was a remarkable and under appreciated man and scholar.
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Harvard Medical deans: Push for COVID-19 vaccine must put health above politics
We are profoundly concerned that avoidable missteps could undermine the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
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Jeffrey Flier
Harvard Medical deans: Push for COVID-19 vaccine must put health above politics usatoday.com/story/opinion/… via @usatoday
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Latinx Used by Just 3% of U.S. Hispanics. About One-in-Four Have Heard of It.
The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.
What Happens to a Professor When His Theory of Anti-Racism Goes Mainstream?
Ibram X. Kendi's 'How To Be An Antiracist' has been parked at the top of the bestseller list for most of the year. He talks about how that success has upended his life—and where he'll take his ideas from here.
U.S. Medical School Applications Soar in Covid-19 Era
Medical schools are reporting record application numbers as the coronavirus sparks a new wave of prospective students to become doctors.
Eurosurveillance | Reduced maximal aerobic capacity after COVID-19 in young adult recruits, Switzerland, May 2020
In March 2020, we observed an outbreak of COVID-19 among a relatively homogenous group of 199 young (median age 21 years; 87% men) Swiss recruits. By comparing physical endurance before and in median 45 days after the outbreak, we found a...
The Fight Against Words That Sound Like, but Are Not, Slurs
Colleges are torn apart when faculty are punished and publicly vilified for accidentally giving offense.
Vaccines — lessons from three centuries of protest
Immunization has always been a proxy for wider fears about social control, a history reminds us. By Julie Leask
Majority of Americans, including many Republicans, say wait for election to replace Ginsburg - Reuters poll
A majority of Americans, including many Republicans, want the winner of the November presidential election to name a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday.
Jeffrey Flier
Majority of Americans, including many Republicans, say wait for election to replace Ginsburg - Reuters poll | This reflects, I hope, the good sense of most Americans despite much evidence to the contrary.
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102-year-old New Hampshire woman survives both COVID-19 and the 1918 Spanish flu
The 102-year-old was infected with the Spanish flu in 1918 in Worcester and she tested positive last May for COVID-19 but overcame both illnesses.