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Public health education – teach what happens when you don’t “flatten the curve”

Public health education – teach what happens when you don’t “flatten the curve”

  Yesterday Rhode Islanders received this scary alert on their phones. An old friend texted me “it buzzed my phone for 10 seconds and almost gave me a heart attack.” I was thinking back to late Spring when all the experts talking about “flattening the curve.”  No one more than Governor (NY) Cuomo in his […]

NYC Pregnancy Posters Hit a Nerve – But Which One?

I am still conflicted about the new NYCDOH pregnancy prevention poster campaign . The ones that depict babies speaking messages to their supposed pregnant teen moms. I’ve been thinking about it for over a week now.  Bus stops, on the subway…those babies’s faces – inconsolable, accusing. When I first saw the ads I said –“Brilliant.  Blunt, […]

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