You should go sub to Ellie’s newsletter; my longstanding issue w the epidemiologic transition concept is it’s a bit of scientific ideology that has made it impossible for several generations of epidemiologists to think about infectious diseases in anything but the barest of biomedical terms
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD
RFK Jr wants the US to focus on chronic, not infectious, diseases. But we already did. 50 years ago.
It's called the "epidemiologic transition" and spolier alert:
It's not going so well!
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
It's called the "epidemiologic transition" and spolier alert:
It's not going so well!
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
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