The New York Times, most would agree, has done yeoman’s work in continuously reporting and updating information about Covid 19 vaccinations across the US. It’s daily “See How Your Vaccinations Are Going in Your County or State” – a map quilted in various shades of green to grey – allows you to hover over […]
This morning CNN posted a link to an ingenious interactive tool where you try to steer a ship through the Suez Canal. You control the rudder and the power – and keep trying not to crash into the banks and create a monstrous traffic jam! Needless to say, despite my NYC street parking prowess […]
Nobody reads my posts with the exception of my small circle of indulgent friends and colleagues. My life’s work has been figuring out how to present #healthinformation so that people can understand it. Not all that exciting but it’s where I like to live. So, what was I thinking when, earlier this week I came […]
Yesterday Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci went at it again at a Senate Hearing. In this corner we have Rand Paul the Ophthamologist cum virologist and mask-less champion. In the opposite corner, Dr Anthony Fauci Director NIH National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease The sparring this time was about why […]
I’m starting up GO FIX ME installments on this blog. The mission – no less than purging our land of public health communication filled with self-involved, gratuitous, gobbledygook language, that makes it difficult and often impossible for readers to understand and take action. (How’s that for a mission!) Here’s my first specimen and I’m hoping […]
My last post sliced into the incomprehensible language and format NY State used in a key gateway form that New Yorkers had to navigate in order to register to get the Covid Vaccine. NYS could get some lessons in clear communication by checking out it’s own next door neighbor – Connecticut – Ct.gov. Connecticut has […]
Present Biden directed all states to make all adults eligible for COVID vaccines by May 1. A major call to address health equity and access to the vaccine for all. Apparently, NYS hasn’t gotten the message. Or at least that’s what its COVID VACCINE FORM (still live as of 3-15-21) says to me. Here are 3 “bet you […]
By the end of this post I promise to show why these two pictures go together (sort of) After reading my post yesterday, a dear friend and colleague in public health communication told me he thought I came off sounding like I was tired of Public Health PH experts just repeating year-old messages – say […]
Question 1 Given all that’s happened in the last year – over 500,000 people dead more sickened and families wounded forever, ships and soccer fields turned into hospital words, endless lines for Covid testing and vaccination chaos, Black Lives Matter, QAnon, hoaxes and conspiracy theories – how is it even possible that the very public […]
You may not be tuning into the maskless, socially close cult gathering called CPAC. But you have to seen the gold likeness of Donald Trump – in suit jacket, red tie – and now, post election, in American flag shorts and flip flops. How could you miss it! There is ample precedent for this […]
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