Ellie Bergren

dog mom | LSHTM, LSE, & JHU alum | she/her

[Anna Vassall @AnnaVassall]

The loss of life from delayed Covid vaccination in Africa. Seems a while ago, but our work with Africa CDCs health economics programme now published on BMC Medicine. It informed vaccine pricing and its methods are useful for future pandemics.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

This has to be one of the best uses of government funds out there right now.

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

And this final pandemic piece is a distilled shot of the argument I’ve been brewing for 3 yrs. This has been soul-crushing work. We constantly forfeited the chance to do better. But that chance still exists, and we can’t afford the luxury of nihilism. 6/

https://t.co/KG8EuVcWKS

[Joe Karp-Sawey @jkarpsawey.bsky.social @jkarpsawey]

SO BASICALLY LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES COULD BE PRODUCING VACCINES AND TREATMENTS FOR THEMSELVES BUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RULES GIVE BIG PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES A MONOPOLY ON LIFESAVING TOOLS THAT WERE LARGELY DEVELOPED WITH PUBLIC FUNDING

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

tl;dr

“He anticipated [Boudin’s replacement] would be someone who supports reform in concept but wouldn’t aggressively pursue it” is the Democratic Party in one sentence

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I wrote about the successful Boudin recall, the messy work of meaningful prison reform, and the dispositive role white liberal homeowners are playing in the growing rightwing backlash to the George Floyd protests and the BLM movement. https://t.co/SNnZFSoUQD

[JP @jpbrammer]

After years of receiving letters along the lines of "I feel like a fake gay," I wanted to get some thoughts out on the subject https://t.co/rKN13W4LcE

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

I’m losing my God damn mind

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Once again, I am asking that we listen to public health experts about public health.

Airline CEOs are not public health experts.

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨I wrote a short piece about the COVID funding collapse--the latest example of the panic-neglect cycle that public health people have bemoaned for decades, and that's now spinning at frankly absurd speed *in the middle of a pandemic*. 1/

https://t.co/XzCN6GJiJF

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨To mark 2 yrs of the pandemic, I wrote about the sheer scale of death, and how/why so much of the US has normalized to it.

The official toll nears 1 million. The NYT called 100k deaths an “incalculable loss”.

What is 10 times incalculable? 1/

https://t.co/CZr7fKThHK

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We also compared aid flows to drain, and found that for every dollar of aid that recipients get they lose on average $30 through drain to donor countries. Poorer countries are developing richer countries, not the other way around.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I’m excited to share this new paper we have out, “Imperialist appropriation in the world economy”. The results confirm that the global North relies on a massive net appropriation of resources and labour from the South. The figures are quite staggering. 🧵https://t.co/FWDS4jUTaG

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

I have had to spend so many hours lately explaining to people why endemic covid is not an endgame and not a success because everyone from the New York Times Op-Ed page to Joe Rogan is lying to us about what comes after Omicron.

Read my thoughts here: https://t.co/vfn7qKPZui

[Valerie A. Lewis, PhD @valeriealewis]

Sociological theory clearly predicts that interventions, policies, or innovations that don't explicitly consider equity will at best perpetuate inequity (and often exacerbate it). Why solid theoretical grounding is important both for good research and good policymaking.

[Ellie Bergren @EllieBergren]

@benphillips76

[Justin Feldman @jfeldman_epi]

Why has Biden's covid response been so terrible and how could he have done better? I address that in a mere 7,000 words.

"The White House did not want the pandemic to define Biden’s presidency. The virus, however, had other plans."

https://t.co/BIcCAZMIWb