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Writer and Editor at Thought Catalog
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2 weeks ago |
thecity.nyc | Marisa Donnelly
This article is co-published with Your Local Epidemiologist in New York, a weekly newsletter that aims to make public health data and science understandable, relevant, and useful for New Yorkers, by a New Yorker. Sign up for it here.
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2 months ago |
environmental-expert.com | Marisa Donnelly
Share Share with Facebook Share with Tweeter Share with LinkedIn At Biobot, we analyze wastewater across the country for various infectious disease pathogens. Here’s what we found in our most recent tests: traces of bird flu (H5N1) popping up in wastewater samples from 13 states. Between February and March 2025, we worked with wastewater treatment plants in 42 states to see whether the highly pathogenic bird flu (H5N1) was circulating. The results?
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Mar 5, 2025 |
healthbeat.org | Rebecca Grapevine |Amy Yurkanin |Rachana Pradhan |Marisa Donnelly
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Emory University is joining a growing list of top research universities that plan to freeze or limit hiring because of concerns about federal research funding cuts. President Gregory Fenves announced the new policies in an email to the Emory faculty and staff sent on Wednesday. Emory will freeze most raises and reduce spending on operations, according to the email.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
thecity.nyc | Marisa Donnelly
This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Congestion pricing and measles outbreaks are making national headlines. One could change the air we breathe, the other reminds us how tragic infectious disease outbreaks can be. Both have implications for New York. Here’s what you need to know. Manhattan’s congestion pricing is being debated at the federal level.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
thecity.nyc | Marisa Donnelly
This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Here’s what happened this week in New York public health and why it matters. This week, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) abruptly cut funding to an essential 9/11 first responder health program and fired 20% of its staff — only to reverse its decision two days later following political backlash.
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