public health

Precision Nutrition: The Hype Is Exceeding the Science and Evidentiary Standards Needed to Inform Public Health Recommendations for Prevention of Chronic Disease As dietary guidance for populations shifts from preventing deficiency disorders to chronic disease risk reduction, the biology...

Abstract Objective: To estimate the number of people in Australia with long COVID by age group, and the associated medium term productivity and economic losses. Study design: Modelling study: a susceptible–exposed–infected–recovered (SEIR) model to estimate the number of people with long COVID...

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses Background Viral epidemics or pandemics of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) pose a global threat. Examples are influenza (H1N1) caused by the H1N1pdm09 virus in 2009, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in...

Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden Nele Brusselaers, David Steadson, Kelly Bjorklund, Sofia Breland, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Andrew Ewing, Sigurd Bergmann & Gunnar Steineck Abstract Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Ed Yong about his piece in The Atlantic titled, "We're Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic." https://www.npr.org/2021/10/03/1042883030/why-we-need-to-prepare-for-the-next-pandemic [6 minute interview, full transcript available] A couple of quotes:

No idea where to put this otherwise as it's a direct consequence of the pandemic and this is preliminary data, but what it suggests is too massive to ignore, especially as it challenges long-held dogma.