Harm Reduction

Writer’s confession: First, this was written before the “Muskification” of Twitter, but I doubt he will change the concerns I and others are raising. Second, I wish these were my original thoughts, but they are not.

These were the women who painted watch dials beginning in 1916 with the “miracle” chemical – luminescent radium. The magic medium caused them to glow in the dark, the dust clinging to their clothes and hair.

One of our society’s great challenges is understanding and determining what is fact, what is hype, and what is simply not true.

When I first told my doctor that I took up vaping as a smoking-cessation tool in 2012, I expected a finger-wagging lecture about the dangers of nicotine. But that's not the response I got.

Smoking

The work is based upon a sophisticated mechanist model considering the risk of transmission between two individuals. One is infected and is acting as an asymptomatic transmitter, by far and away, the most likely current scenario.

Regulation as a solution?

      Let’s begin with a simple chart, comparing our expectations to our outcomes, with two choices, good or bad.

The study in JAMA Network Open looks at structural barriers and racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality. County-level mortality data were stratified based upon

Lead in drinking water is a practical example of a 3-legged stool. Realizing that lead pipes may have been installed in a neighborhood comprises the first leg - community-level information.