Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Aug 9, 2023 | startribune.com | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• We in the Twin Cities are lucky: We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to radically improve our air pollution. As a mortality demographer, I know the research that concludes that air pollution kills hundreds of people in the Cities every year.

Apr 26, 2023 | medrxiv.org | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field |Jessie Himmelstern

AbstractIt has been common both to make and to resist comparisons that equate the Covid-19 pandemic to influenza. We take the comparison between Covid-19 and flu seriously by asking how many years of influenza and pneumonia deaths are needed for cumulative deaths to those two causes to equal the cumulative toll of the Covid-19 pandemic between March 2020 and February 2023 -- that is, three years of pandemic deaths.

Apr 24, 2023 | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field |Jessie Himmelstern |Wrigley-Field E

This is a preprint. It has not yet been peer reviewed by a journal. The National Library of Medicine is running a pilot to include preprints that result from research funded by NIH in PMC and PubMed. Display options Abstract It has been common both to make and to resist comparisons that equate the Covid-19 pandemic to influenza.