Tag: infectious disease

Bad actors leveraged the effects of stigma to manipulate people to thwart public health in a pandemic.

People deliberately spread disinformation, on purpose. Stigma is a known quantity when it comes to disease, especially infectious disease. Scientific American – January 6, 2025 The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science By […]

Herd immunity misinformation on the left.

Youtube served up a liberal channel with healthcare professionals that were ostensibly criticizing RFKJr – though I feel like they were trying to bothsides the guy, buying into some of his claims they think they agree with. But the issue is that covid vaccine uptake was never great even for the original series, it never […]

There is no real substitute for case surveillance.

Cases in case surveillance means a count of actual diagnosed cases of a disease. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) What is Case Surveillance? Case surveillance is foundational to public health practice. It helps us to understand diseases and their spread and determine appropriate actions to control outbreaks. Case surveillance occurs each time public health […]