Epi-intel

08/09/2021

Almost zero chance of infection, hospitalization, or death resulting from breakthrough infections among the vaccinated, from KFF.

06/25/2021

Epi-intel president, Aydin Nazmi on public health justice at this year's TEDxSanLuisObispo: Reckoning and Renaissance https://youtu.be/jNpwWpghAn4

04/02/2021

Not the time to let down our guard. Some thoughts on the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel in the Sacramento Bee.

All of us are ready for this pandemic to end, but more people could die if we slip into a false sense of security too soon, writes The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board. | OPINION

03/30/2021

New paper out today in Forum Magazine, "Law in a time of coronavirus," co-authored with Ray Mattison.

The CAOC Forum magazine is a member benefit of the Consumer Attorneys Of California.

03/30/2021

Some thoughts in the San Diego Union Tribune on the pandemic and equity

As the pandemic lockdown reaches first anniversary, data show the virus disproportionately harms minorities, damage may last years

12/10/2020

CA Notify - a covid tracing tool- is now available on your phone

11/19/2020

Predictable impact patterns of Covid-related public health interventions across US states. More good data via NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/18/us/covid-state-restrictions.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

11/06/2020

American exceptionalism? 100,000 cases/day. 10 million cases so far. 250,000 deaths and counting. It absolutely does not have to be this way.

European countries imposed sweeping new limits as they try to halt a second wave. And with the pandemic looming over the U.S. election, voters who saw the virus as a top issue favored Biden.

09/14/2020

Excellent new perspectives on mask wearing and 'variolation': The poor-man's vaccine?

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine

08/02/2020

CDC wants you to hit the beach

07/31/2020

Vaccines are only as good as their accessibility

Dropping antibody counts aren’t a sign that our immune system is failing against the coronavirus, nor an omen that we can’t develop a viable vaccine.

07/31/2020

Public heath = Economic health. Ignore this at your peril. Source: NYT, Pew.