In-N-Out Burger’s New Masking Policy Threatens Their Employees’ Health

In-N-Out Burger confirms it has a new store policy prohibiting employees from wearing masks unless they have an approved doctor’s note.

Forbes

This is unimaginably important. Read the 🧵 for the awful details. So excited to read this.

#PHEthx #PHLaw #HistPubHealth #SocEpi #LegalEpi #StructuralViolence #HistoryMatters

(For more on the history of anti-Black racism and TB in particular, be sure to check out “Infectious Fear” by Samuel Kelton Roberts)

H/t @krisnelson

From: @wrigleyfield
https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/110662513906585293

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (@[email protected])

New paper w Aja Antoine-Jones, James Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Chris Muller "Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933" tells us two new things about the staggering racial inequity in this era (cont'd) #demography #sociology #history #RacialDisparities #mortality #EpidemiologicalTransition #HealthEquity #HistoricalDemography https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.4

FediScience.org

I should have acquired and read this book the moment it came out in 2021, but pandemic time is nothing if not strange.

Dr. Wilson is a leading public health ethicist and I am excited to engage more with a text that explicitly argues for the place of #PHEthx in policymaking ...

FDA Approves, Leqembi, New Treatment for Early Alzheimer’s

The drug, Leqembi, may modestly slow cognitive decline in early stages of the disease but carries some safety risks. Still, data suggests it is more promising than the small number of other available treatments.

Super-pleased to have a chapter on #FundamentalCauseTheory in @[email protected] & Alex Broadbent (off Twitter?)'s new Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Public Health! #PHEthx #ScholarTeacher #PhiloEpi
Yes of course public health is political and always has been so I wrote about it #HistPubHealth #PHEthx #PopulationLevelEthics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22095345/
Against the very idea of the politicization of public health policy - PubMed

I criticize the concern over the politicization of public health policy as a justification for preferring a narrow to a broad model of public health. My critique proceeds along 2 lines. First, the fact that administrative structures and actors are primary sources of public health policy demonstrates …

PubMed

Been lurking this site for some time, finally getting around to the #introduction post!

My name is Ellie 👋👋 I'm a #publichealth worker based in Nevada. I'm in an #epidemiology program mostly doing #covid #shoeleather & #genomics work.

I'm interested in #SDoH, #LegalEpi, #PHEthx, #PHLaw and am currently preparing for law school to further my studies in those areas.

Nice to 'meet' you all and I'm excited to join in on the #twittermigration fun!

"As Top Scientists Say Concussions Can Cause C.T.E., These Sports Doctors Dig In"

I mean, this #ManufactureOfDoubt is literally #TheThirdBook. So you’ll have to forgive me for not saying more about it in a tweet. #PHLaw #PHEthx https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/sports/football/cte-brain-trauma-concussions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

Do Concussions Cause CTE? Sports Doctors and Scientists Disagree.

As another major medical institution acknowledged the link between concussions and the brain disease C.T.E., a group of scientists who guide many of sports’ top governing organizations dismissed the research at its conference.

I'm starting to understand why hashtags are so much more important on #Mastodon than the bird site. With that said, #academia, let's get #AcademicMastodon really going. So far #histodons are driving a lot of conversation and engagement.

Let's get #PHEthx and #PHLaw going as well. #DisStudies, #DisHist, etc.

#ToYourToots