Multiple vaccines offer benefits beyond protecting the vaccinated individual from the disease the vaccine targets. Some protect fetuses in the womb, some protect people who are immunocompromised, some protect seniors. As vax rates fall, these benefits are threatened. https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/vaccine-success-widespread-hidden-benefits-make-skepticism-possible/
@bich When the students would come through my shop at the health department, I pushed them into interactions/meetings where they were representing the health department/District Director. Later, we would critique the meeting, including how the student(s) felt. This input helped them to determine their own path. "Do you want to run a program, or an agency?" was always part of that discussion...
@bich I believe this is why the spoils system was eliminated by a more....concerned, Congress. Our professional public administrators are invaluable for continuity across administrations. The breaking of public agencies supports that short term, but not-strategic, expediency....
@QasimRashid Those assholes will do what is expedient in the short term, without consideration of the effects and consequences, again...a couple thousand Marines (whom I love) are not enough for Iran...
Interested in #PublicHealth, #EnvironmentalHealth, #HealthPhysics. #Beerbrewing reader of all things...