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How often should you shower? Advice from a doctor who bucked social norms
Yale School of Public Health lecturer Dr. James Hamblin, MD, MPH, speaks to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta about the importance of our skin microbiome and how a multibillion-dollar personal care and cosmetics industry is pressuring us to scrub it away. Hamblin wrote a book about his experience significantly cutting back on daily showers over five years.
Source: CNN
29 Jan 2025
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Can Public Health Be Saved?
It is not too late for the Biden administration to make lasting changes expressly aimed at stopping the decline in trust in the public health establishment. But it must act now.
Source: New York Times
11 Mar 2022
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Omicron won’t keep us from ending the pandemic. We’re doing that ourselves.
After about two weeks of news about the omicron variant of the coronavirus, when it’s been tracked like some impending hurricane or escaped murderer, the story has become no less cryptic and confused.
Source: The Washington Post
8 Dec 2021
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You’re not ‘fully vaccinated.’ You never will be.
When retired Gen. Colin Powell’s family announced his death Monday in a brief Facebook post, they said that the cause was “complications from Covid 19” despite being “fully vaccinated.” The former secretary of state, who was 84, had also been undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma. That kind of cancer causes marked impairments of the immune system, rendering it capable of producing only one type of antibody. In July, a study of vaccinated people with multiple myeloma found that only 45 percent had immune responses that would be “adequate” to protect them against covid. A booster dose is recommended for people with blood cancers, but no amount of vaccination can make up for an immune system that can’t fight back. To the medical community, it was no surprise that Powell could develop a severe, even fatal case of covid-19.
Source: The Washington Post
22 Oct 2021
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See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers.
Robin Harper, an administrative assistant at a preschool on Martha’s Vineyard, grew up showering every day.
Source: The New York Times
6 May 2021
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Before you next take a shower, read this...
Whisper it, but I didn’t have a shower this morning – and perhaps you didn’t either. In the year when life ground to halt, it seems many felt there was little reason to take a daily sabbatical to the shower.
Source: The Telegraph
22 Apr 2021
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Coronavirus News Roundup, March 20–March 26
"Pfizer has begun testing its COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12,” writes Apoorva Mandavilli at The New York Times (Pfizer’s vaccine is already authorized in the U.S. for children ages 16-18). And Moderna also is starting its COVID-19 vaccine studies in children under 12, the story states. “Both companies have been testing their vaccines in children 12 and older, and expect those results in the next few weeks,” Mandavilli reports.
Source: Scientific American
26 Mar 2021
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Vaccine Envy Is Real. Here's How To Deal With It In A Healthy Way.
One year into the COVID-19 crisis, securing a vaccine appointment feels like the equivalent of finding a Willy Wonka golden ticket: We all want it, we all think we deserve it, and for many of us, we feel a tinge of jealousy when someone else gets one.
Source: HuffPost
3 Mar 2021
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Could life return to normal by summer?
Some experts say that as more people get vaccinated, coronavirus restrictions could be eased by summer, bringing life back to a degree of normalcy. Dr. James Hamblin, a staff writer at The Atlantic and lecturer at Yale's School of Public Health, joined CBSN's Tanya Rivero to discuss why he think we could see "A Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer."
Source: Yahoo News
25 Feb 2021
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What are the coronavirus variants and how should we respond to them? Your COVID-19 questions answered
Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, warned Wednesday that variant strains of the coronavirus had been found in eight provinces, and that they could quickly reverse the gains the country has made in recent weeks in the battle against COVID-19.
Source: CBC
10 Feb 2021
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'Covid-19 mutations are normal since the virus is infecting so many people'
It’s in the nature of viruses to mutate, some more than others. And it doesn’t matter where in the world they happen to be. We’ve already had our first mutation of Covid-19, the so-called UK (or Kent) variant.
Source: Mirror
10 Feb 2021
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Pfizer COVID Vaccine Causing More Allergies Than Expected Says White House's Moncef Slaoui
The Pfizer COVID vaccine has triggered more allergic reactions than would be expected, according to Operation Warp Speed chief scientific adviser Moncef Slaoui. However, such incident are rare, and experts say the benefits of having the COVID vaccine far outweighs the risks.
Source: Newsweek
23 Dec 2020
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The Vaccine Is Here. Now for the Hard Part.
In a historic moment during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, an FDA advisory committee voted today in favor of authorizing the first vaccine against COVID-19. The formal implementation of this recommendation, which would allow the vaccine to be given to anyone 16 or older, is expected to follow imminently.
Source: The Atlantic
9 Dec 2020
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America's Escalating Post-Election Madness
We're almost three weeks past Election Day. Yet, President Trump and his evolving legal team continue to spew conspiracy theories intended to delegitimize the voting process, sow confusion, and delay the transition of power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden.
Source: WNPR
21 Nov 2020
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World Series will have spectators in the stadium, but no check of their temperatures
When fans return to the ballpark for the World Series and National League Championship Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, they will not be subject to a temperature check.
Source: LA Times
6 Oct 2020
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In The Era Of Hygiene, 'Clean' Author Makes The Case For Showering Less
James Hamblin is tired of being asked if he's smelly.
Source: NPR
26 Sep 2020
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How We Survive the Winter
The coming months of the pandemic could be catastrophic. The U.S. still has ways to prepare.
Source: The Atlantic
18 Sep 2020
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Paging Dr. Hamblin: Why Didn’t America’s Shutdowns Work?
Many places only half-heartedly gave lockdowns a shot in the spring—and now might have to try them again.
Source: The Atlantic
9 Sep 2020
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Shower less? Yes, even during a pandemic, says one doctor
Dr. James Hamblin's new book Clean explores the modern over-reliance on personal care products
Source: CBC
7 Sep 2020
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Herd Immunity is Not a Strategy
Episode 85 of the podcast, Social Distance: With news that a White House pandemic adviser reportedly pushed a “herd immunity strategy,” Katherine and Jim ask an expert about what that would mean. Dr. Howard Forman, a Yale professor and emergency radiologist, explains why Sweden isn’t the example people think it is—and why many people are talking about “herd immunity” all wrong.
Source: The Atlantic
2 Sep 2020