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Christina S. Ho

@christinasho.bsky.social

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law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · May 3

Alright: the ballet/health policy crossover content that you didn’t even know you needed this weekend—me talking with the Royal Academy of Dance about embodied rites of social cooperation, about the agitprop adult ballet collective we organized in Beijing 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Podcast Episode · Why Dance Matters · S10 E7 · 35m

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Foreign intelligence agencies almost certainly have a much clearer picture of Trump's health than the American public.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 2d

“The new version of Copilot will draw on information from the Harvard Health Publishing arm to respond to queries about healthcare topics.”

Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 2d

Because when you “follow the money” it naturally leads to health care…

Exclusive | Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal

The company seeks to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot.

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Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 2d

Because when you “follow the money” it naturally leads to health care…

Exclusive | Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal

The company seeks to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot.

www.wsj.com

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tenorune @tenorune.bsky.social · 3d

Everything being done to Mark Bray is political violence.

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pihcanada.org @pihcanada.org · 3d

“What does real global health activism look like today?”
Join South African activist Zackie Achmat in Montréal (Nov 5) + Toronto (Nov 7) to find out.
🎟 Tickets: https://pihcanada.org/global-health-activism-we-need

#GlobalHealth #HealthEquity
@pih.org @zackieachmat.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 4d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 4d

Prof. Jacob Bor, commented, “if the US simply performed at the average of our peers, one out of every two US deaths under 65 years is likely avoidable. Our failure to address this is a national scandal.”

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4d

New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths

Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.

www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4d

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths

Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.

www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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NM Anderson @gigi0620.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly! Health insurance coverage tied to a JOB is the modern method of SLAVERY!!

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8d

ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping.

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Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning'
Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 8d

Too many Mbembe quotes that are too on the nose: "The spirit of the time is not only about survival. It is also about a renewed will to kill as opposed to the will to care...to sever all relationships as opposed to the will to engage in the exacting labor of repairing the ties that have been broken"

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8d

Yes. I have a piece in the pipeline about "illness as policy" & it will be so behind the necropolitical times when it comes out. I know that's part of the point of the tactic of flooding the zone with death.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8d

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DaBean. @honeybadger10.bsky.social · 8d

They are attacking farmers. Factory workers. Attorneys. Non profits. Science. Arts and culture. Small business. Federal government employees. The impact is going to be tragic. These are all interrelated and strategic plans. We were warned.

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, New York Times. I like the word 'mighty', but the truth (as I see it) is that since writing it, my book has become pretty non-radical, given how events in the world are unfolding.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 10d

Looking at GenAI costs in healthcare: For medical billing, a local AI model was more accurate and faster than GPT-4. Meanwhile, using commercial LLMs at scale could incur annual API costs of $115k to $4.6M, posing a significant financial challenge for healthcare systems.
#MedSky #MedAI #MLSky

Generative AI costs in large healthcare systems, an example in revenue cycle - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - Generative AI costs in large healthcare systems, an example in revenue cycle

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11d

heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle

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Wear ≥Filip Filipovich Preobrazhensky 2 respirator Do Not Follow @ff-preobrazhensky.bsky.social · 12d

Sigh ... whilst in AU ... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 amid rising HPV vaccination rates

Experts call for public access to vaccine for all young people after free school program reduces infection rate by 92%

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12d

Good history helps us avoid nostalgia. The great article “Economic History and the Historians” (2020) by Anne McCants reminds me why nostalgia can get us in trouble. Two of her examples are very relevant to today: vaccinations and the popular narrative of some economic “good old days.”

Getting vaccinated is unpleasant. Dying of measles is worse. In the decade before the 1963 vaccine for measles emerged, an average of 475 Americans died from measles every year, most of them children. This (absolute) number had dropped to a low of 1 in 1981, despite a steadily increasing population that might have hypothetically contributed additional cases. Sadly, the number of measles cases in the United States has been steadily climbing upward again because we seem not to remember the ravages of the disease so much as the inconvenience of the shot—even without taking into account the absurd rejection of the solid scientific evidence in favor of vaccinations. Many people still have an elderly relative who survived a bout of severe childhood illness; not one of us has an elderly relative who did not. The blurring of the historical evidence for and against vaccination that arises from strangely incongruous historical narratives allows a seemingly inconsequential but nonetheless deadly nostalgia to run rampant.

Another example of dangerous reverence for the past concerns the flurry of popular enthusiasm lately (at least if the pundits of the 2016 American election are to be believed) for the “good old days” of the 1950s when a family could live securely on just one income (in these nostalgic accounts, that one income is usually a man’s). Lest we forget, these are the same good old days of poor air quality and measles. Maybe trivial in comparison but certainly indicative of the scope of the cognitive problem that nostalgia presents, the average size of a new home built in America in 1950 was 983 sq. ft.; by 2010, the average size had risen to 2,392 sq. ft. Given that families were larger on average in the 1950s than they were in 2010, per capita space allocation had risen even faster than total area. Although we might not need that much personal space, many of us have become used to it. Older furniture now looks tiny compared to what is now on offer in showrooms, whereas older television sets were behemoths with miniscule screens showing programs in glorious black and white.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Worn by the Rat. @earballs.bsky.social · 13d

Its a real 1000 years of darkness day. The right has been so effective at destroying any mode of communication the left is talking about ezra klien, who is essentially a peice of shit on a stick billionaries use to shove in the faces to punish them for getting out of line.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 13d

This happened the other night and I couldn’t go because of teaching but found it online.