Mark Abraham
Data on cities+equity+wellbeing. Executive Dir, DataHaven( tweets here don't represent my employer. WKKF Fellow. #NHV resident.
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Aligning SARS-CoV-2 indicators via an epidemic model: application to hospital admissions and RNA detection in sewage sludge
Health Care Management Science 82d 1 tweets
Ascertaining the state of coronavirus outbreaks is crucial for public health decision-making. Absent repeated representative viral test samples in the population, public health officials and researchers alike have relied on lagging indicators of...
Current Report: Connecticut COVID-19 Wastewater Project
CovidTracker 82d 1 tweets
Leer esta página en español Select a city below to see the current report. Reports are typically updated on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of each week. NOTE: New Haven results are now poste…
Mark Abraham This week's #NHV sludge is looking bad. Boston seeing similar. In March, concentrations of #COVID19 in wastewater were directly associated w/ hospitalizations several days out, so might we anticipate a surge this week? CT data from #nnip 82d
Langston Hughes Papers, 1862-1980
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Covid-19 expert Akiko Iwasaki fights a different virus: sexism in science
Shraddha Chakradhar - STAT 83d 30 tweets
To know virologist Akiko Iwasaki is to know that she is passionate about combatting sexism, power imbalance, and toxic behavior in academia.
COVID-19 And Health Disparities: Insights From Key Informant Interviews | Health Affairs Blog
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More than 220,000 Americans have died from COVID-19; more than six million have been infected. No part of the US has been fully spared, but the burdens are unequally distributed. This post draws upon key informant interviews with physicians, nursing...
Mark Abraham COVID-19 And Health Disparities: Insights From Key Informant Interviews: New & C Kelly #COVID19 #healthequity #healthpolicy 82d
How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners
Rolling Stone 84d 5 tweets
The president promised a return to shared prosperity, but the benefits of his economic policies only bubbled up to the richest
Mark Abraham If wages had kept pace with the economy, the bottom 90% would be $47 trillion richer, taking home an extra $2.5 trillion in 2018 alone. What happened to the bottom’s share of America’s expanding economic pie? “The top ate it” - #inequality 83d
The Trump Administration Shut a Vaccine Safety Office Last Year. What’s the Plan Now?
Carl Zimmer - Nytimes.com 86d 28 tweets
The office was dedicated to the long-term safety of vaccines. Experts say plans to track coronavirus vaccines are fragmented and “behind the eight ball.”
Mark Abraham “We’re behind the eight ball,” said Daniel Salmon, who served as director of #vaccine safety in that office from 2007-2012. ”We don’t even know who’s in charge.” declined to answer questions about why the vaccine office, set up in 1987, was closed 86d
Trump administration communication during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia
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Mark Abraham Handy page with 328 references: "Trump administration communication during the COVID-19 pandemic" #Covid19 #Debates2020 87d
Free Speech, Incorporated
Boston Review 409d 8 tweets
A new, neoliberal interpretation of the First Amendment is undermining the regulatory state—and every labeling and advertising law is now in the crosshairs.
Mark Abraham This piece by , with relevance to many areas of corporate regulation and #publichealth, will help you understand what's at stake at #SCOTUS in the coming decade - #PHLaw #FirstAmendment 87d
State Public Health | ASTHO
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Mark Abraham The Need for Modernizing Public Health Data in Responding to COVID-19: #nnip #phealth #covid19 #epitwitter 88d
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
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These figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.
Mark Abraham . now has weekly excess deaths by race/ethnicity by state. This chart is for #Connecticut, with % increase (top) & # of excess deaths. In mid-April, deaths were ~250% above normal for Black/Latino residents & ~100% above normal for whites. #COVID19 89d
State must center health equity in Connecticut's health information exchange
Connecticut Mirror - The CT Mirror 89d 1 tweets
If we are to truly understand the problem and effectively address the health inequities exacerbated by the pandemic, we need high quality, real-time data.
Roads colored by orientation | Urban Demographics
Urban Demographics - Urban Demographics 90d 2 tweets
Draw all roads in any city at once
Road.tiny-app.net 91d 2 tweets
This website allows you to select a city and then draws every single road on a screen.
Rich Parents Went All In on Lacrosse. And Squash. And Water Polo.
The Atlantic 93d 36 tweets
It’s backfiring.
Mark Abraham “Hunger Games for the ruling class”: #inequality #fairfieldcounty #squash 91d
Why and How Vaccines Work
Cell 95d 17 tweets
Vaccines save millions of lives from infectious diseases caused by viruses and bacteria. As the world awaits safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, we celebrate the progresses made and highlight challenges ahead in vaccines and the science behind...
Candy-breathing dragon taking shape in Dartmouth for Halloween | The Chronicle Herald
Thechronicleherald.ca 92d 1 tweets
The Dartmouth mom building a four-metre long candy-breathing dragon to mount on the roof of her front porch so children can collect treats without making contact says she won’t be upset if the pandemic cancels trick-or-treating this Halloween.
Mark Abraham 10 ways to boost your city’s Trick or Treat Index: 1) Candy-breathing dragons #Halloween2020 92d
Inside the Fall of the CDC
ProPublica 94d 97 tweets
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
Mark Abraham New: " obtained hundreds of emails & other internal government documents & interviewed more than 30 employees, contractors and Trump administration officials who witnessed or were involved in key moments of the crisis." #phealth #covid19 94d
For 200 Years Courts Upheld Rules to Protect Americans’ Health. Until Now.
Nytimes.com 95d 29 tweets
A catastrophic sequence of decisions has blocked states from responding to the pandemic.
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Mark Abraham "When epidemics threatened whites, courts found ways to uphold broad state powers. Now, [GOP] judges look to deprive states of the power to fight for the sick in a pandemic in which victims are disproportntly Black & brown." #PHLaw #covid19 94d
COVID-19
Yale Law School - Law.yale.edu 95d 2 tweets