Headlines that only include 66% efficacy re: J&J’s vaccine data are doing a huge disservice to folks trying to make informed choices about taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Ppl read that and think—that’s a D+ at best. Well it’s not. And it’s only part of the picture.
After seeing multiple medical professionals down-play the role racism played in the death of #DrSusanMoore, I have been thinking of how to describe the logistics of how racism manifests in medicine. One way is what I will, in this thread, call "cumulative de-prioritization." 1/
We have adopted the language of “war” on the coronavirus so we can dub essential workers as “heroes” for their “sacrifice.”
Here’s why it is a convenient lie.
You're supposed to wash your hands for 20 sec, which is the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But I'm tired of singing Happy Birthday and you probably are too, so I've done the very important public service of compiling other songs with roughly 20 sec choruses to sing: