Zack Fishman

Nearly everyone talks about the challenges of raising vaccination rates in terms of individual "hesitancy." This is a very good primer on how we should instead employ system-level thinking and solutions to the problem.

nature @Nature

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Gender bias seeps deep into the teaching of fertilization in biology textbooks — which get facts wrong by assigning agency only to sperm and not the female rep. system, ignoring its crucial work. @voxdotcom's video crew knocks it out of the park again: https://t.co/twJlnzT5q1

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This thread is a pretty compelling case for why the 5/13 CDC guidance seems to have worked generally well. Since then: Cases kept falling, vax rate stopped falling and interest in vaccines rose. So maybe it encouraged shots without pushing many unvaxxed people to ditch masks.

David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt

When the C.D.C. loosened its mask guidelines three weeks ago, many people were anxious: Would it lead unvaccinated people to take off their masks and cause a surge of new cases? So far, the answer is no. Cases keep falling. And vaccinations of 16+ have stopped falling. 🧵