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dobbspic I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.

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    Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage

    Posted on: November 5, 2009 10:53 AM, by David Dobbs

    Pardon my light posting lately. Flat out with big projects, travel, and the stacking of the wood for the winter.

    This, however, is what has jumped out at me from the intertubez of late:

    Meet the New Health Care Reform, Same as the Old Health Care Reform


    At Top Schools, More Than Half the Profs Have Industry Ties


    US: Shortage of flu vaccines leaves healthcare workers vulnerable Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering -- as is the complacency about same. In my own town, our much-delayed swine flu vaccines for kids is finally being administered this coming Monday. How'd I hear this? It was in an obscure paragraph in an obscure corner of the 8-page parents' group newsletter -- not even an official communication -- that came to us in the pile of junk-mail-by-backpack sent home each day by the school via our 5- and 7-year-old. Otherwise, we'd be blind to it. And the substantial number of kids in this town who go to private schools or home schools -- they have no clue. 


    Meanwhile:

    US: 11% fatality rate in hospitalized California H1N1 cases

    and

    US: 114 dead children, or 300?

    It seems that

    "We overpromised"



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