🧵1/Our Supreme Court ruled that communities may impose civil or criminal penalties on persons who sleep outdoors, even if they have no place to sleep. It rules, in Grants’ Pass, that fines or prison do not violate the 8th amendment I’ll add as I read this

Hi Twitter friends - has anyone handled importing CDC restricted mortality data with a clean format? We have a file layout but it would be super laborious to code it all out for each year. There must be an easier way?

🧵We've worked hard to make it easy for physicians in everyday doctor's offices to prescribe medications for opioid use disorder that cut fatal overdose in half, but our new JAMA Network Open article finds most Americans have no idea this is even possible. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Mini saunas save endangered frogs from fungal disease 🐸 go.nature.com/3zn8z2k

It's a slow news day, so I thought I'd re-up this thread for folks who may have missed it over the weekend.

Just Accepted new paper, “Estimating Nursing Home Quality with Selection” by Andrew Olenski and Szymon Sacher zurl.co/GwHs

I'm interested in the ways that families use private resources to supplement or substitute for public schooling. So I'm thrilled that our (cleverly titled?) paper "Kumon In: The Recent, Rapid Rise of Private Tutoring Centers" has been conditionally accepted by Education Finance & Policy.

KFF salutes Gail Wilensky who passed away yesterday, one of the all-time health policy experts, a true straight shooter, and an actual compassionate conservative. For those of us of a certain generation its hard to imagine health policy w/o Gail and Uwe Reinhardt.

Results from the OpenResearch RCT are out: 1000 low income participants randomly assigned to receive $1000/mo for 3 years. I’ll do a thread on some specific results shortly, but I just want to say how proud I am to be part of this study and highlight what we’ve accomplished (1/n)

non profit hospital: "we are barely scraping by" also non profit hospital:

Incredible study 🇳🇴 RCT of surgical masks for reducing respiratory infections Wearing a mask for 14d reduced onset of symptoms of respiratory infection (OR 0.71, 0.58-0.87) Absolute risk difference of ~3% What does this mean? 1/🧵 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Incredible pragmatic trial in The BMJ Results consistent with ASCERTAINMENT BIAS Volunteers who mostly felt masks worked self-reported fewer respiratory symptoms if assigned to mask group But... No difference in COVID Findings were dependent on perceived mask efficacy

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Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions y = x

Did you know the heart attack rate fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, such that rate in 2023 was below 2019? A new study from @andrewwilcock8 and colleagues in JAMA Cardiology tries to uncover *why* this happened. 1/5 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac…

There are good arguments for removing race from medical algorithms, but there may be unintended consequences. Our PNAS paper finds that race-blind algorithms can *worsen* racial inequalities, bc they can't adjust for racial disparities in data quality. shorturl.at/7ugW5

New paper on race adjustments in clinical algorithms in PNAS! Joint work with the wonderful Anna Zink and Ziad Obermeyer - see Anna's detailed thread below. Anna will be on the job market this year - check out her other great work at zinka88.github.io!

Are race-blind medical algorithms more fair? Not necessarily. See this 🧵by the fabulous Anna Zink, on our new PNASNews paper Then, if you're hiring in health + data, HIRE ANNA—she's on the job market this fall, and she is one of the best people I've ever worked with

After 10 wonderful years at HMS HCP, yesterday was my last day. HCP is a very special place to be a health economist, and I can't imagine a better place to start my career. I'll forever be in debt to my many colleagues, mentors and friends there.

Frustrated by more flawed testing in Philly probation courts, my patient and his wife decided to go to the The Philadelphia Inquirer. inquirer.com/health/urine-t…