Avi Zenilman

Registered Nurse, recovering journalist. Current day job: RWJF Fellow & Yale PhD student researching cannabis, polypharm, falls, HIV. Opinions are mine alone.

[Avi Zenilman @avizenilman]

I wrote a memo about the Insulin cartel and why taking them on is popular: https://t.co/F1CH852heC

[Tom Inglesby, MD @T_Inglesby]

“The RNC has indicated it does not want to require participants to wear masks for the speech.” Why does RNC have a view on this? CDC says masks prevent spread. Is RNC against that? These are life and death issues that require responsible communication https://t.co/MhMcYGgGHq

[Avi Zenilman @avizenilman]

@kellyrader a maculate conception

[Harold Pollack @haroldpollack]

Many institutions, including mine, are freezing or limiting 401(k), 403(B)+similar contributions. We're leaving serious dollars on the table by not offering employees the option to take the same dollar-reduction in direct salary and to leave these tax-preferred items intact.

[Avi Zenilman @avizenilman]

@Yair_Rosenberg He’s ... quite brave!

[Ady Barkan @AdyBarkan]

This is a fantastic policy and electoral memo from @SeanMcElwee.

I hope that @JoeBiden reads it himself. You definitely should too.

https://t.co/bVJSq8K61a

[Beth Cameron @BethCameron_DC]

Yes! Also not too late to surge PPE + testing reagents in the U.S. and globally. We are still in this and will be for awhile.

[Paul Gessler @PaulGessler]

Having turned 36 in April, @CouncilPresBMS will presumably be the youngest mayor in Baltimore City history (3 months younger than @MartinOMalley when he won in 1999).

[Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs]

City Council President Brandon Scott wins Baltimore’s Democratic primary for mayor https://t.co/QlTlx2aQnz

[Sabrina Corlette @SabrinaCorlette]

Nursing home workers, woefully underpaid, and often people of color, should not have to pay out-of-pocket for required COVID-19 testing. That's crazy! https://t.co/IPXXAeL4YB

[RWJF @RWJF]

NEW RESEARCH: People who lost jobs due to COVID19 and live in states that have not expanded #Medicaid are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing affordable health insurance coverage. https://t.co/cG9n0pqlZX

[Sharon Inouye, MD @sharon_inouye]

@LouiseAronson @thenocturnists @moderna_tx @paula_span @JoNel_Aleccia So agree. Troubling that we are seeing these age exclusions—which have been long-standing in the clinical trial world—but even here when our target prevention and treatment group must focus on the 70-85 yo age group. Takes time and expertise to enroll. Work w/geriatrics

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

How can anyone watch “The Wire” and the dysfunction of the police & the war on drugs and say that we were depicted as heroic. We demonstrated moral ambiguities and the pathology that leads to the abuses. Maybe you were reacting to how good people can be corrupted to do bad things

[Carlos del Rio @CarlosdelRio7]

Coronavirus outbreaks climb at U.S. meatpacking plants despite protections, Trump order https://t.co/dy5bvmLVFt via @usatoday

[Avi Zenilman @avizenilman]

Troubling that an industry built on monitoring everyone’s every move in a windowless space isn’t providing everyone with masks and requiring them to wear them?

[Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi]

Las Vegas is officially back.

[Avi Zenilman @avizenilman]

This is excellent. If you or your loved ones are at risk or the crowds look too crowded, it is an ethical humane and politically conscious act for you to stay home. And bring a box of masks and hand sanitizer if you go!

[Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance]

Quick Q&A: Protesting in a Pandemic by Alexandra Sifferlin https://t.co/sSiSgd5nSk

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

@zeynep @JuliaLMarcus @gregggonsalves @JamesSurowiecki @michaelbd It’s important to remember there were so so many other epi & public health misinformation issues related to COVID that had to be countered too. Don’t drink bleach; masks don’t mean you can stop social distancing; anti-malarial drugs aren’t a magic cure-all...we had to prioritize.

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

@gregggonsalves @michaelbd @matthewstoller @JamesSurowiecki @jon_stokes Yeah, here's me in April, 7. "Closing the parks is ineffective pandemic theater." https://t.co/ABfK5b9Be2 We're agreeing that messaging wasn't always great, but public health as a field really is very used to harm-reduction frameworks. Authorities and media, not so much.

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

@gregggonsalves @michaelbd @matthewstoller @JamesSurowiecki @jon_stokes @JuliaLMarcus @EpiEllie Michael, again: harm reduction really is a solid framework in public health; people on this thread tried hard. But authorities do this a lot, partly because they are authorities or they get on morality/shaming horses (safe sex vs abstinence, drug criminalization vs treatment.)

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

@BillHanage @ZoeMcLaren Look at this new preprint. They find, quite unsurprisingly, that masks *increase* distancing. I've been arguing this for months based on social science evidence! This is what you'd expect, not false sense of security nonsense. But all this was disregarded. https://t.co/LvqZ68lcuq

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Trump visits the coronavirus swab production line in Maine, without a mask, and the manufacturer says it will now have to throw away the day’s output. https://t.co/gq1lo4LD9t