
Medicine, public health, and health policy. What the science says, what the system does, and who pays the price.
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Is it cancer?
Small lung cancers have good odds.
Why don’t more Americans get screened for lung cancer?
What about people who never smoked?
Pope Leo XIV said on October 11th that doctors found a nodu...
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The strain that was supposed to be harmless.
What happened in that Chicago lab?
What the tidy version leaves out.
Sixty-five contacts, thirty coworkers, no further cases...
What was already gone when WHO asked.
How do you fact-check a rumor?
What happened to the first reports?
Why does a second case matter so much?
Sverdlovsk took 13 years.
What cuts against this?
Map created using Claude.
What pathogens did Darya Shipilova work on?
What’s a plague focus?
What circulates in Gorno-Altai and Tuva?
Who collects the strains?
The 2024 monograph, and what is in it.
What vaccin...
Flu season started early this year.
Last season’s mismatched shot still cut hospitalizations.
Has the virus changed again?
The first mRNA flu shot in the US.
How mFlusiva compares with a standard flu shot.
More si...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Dr. Céline Gounder is a physician, epidemiologist, and medical journalist. Read her newsletter UNDERLYING CONDITIONS at https://www.celinegounder.com.
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