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Pulled in a million directions? Wondering what the hell you do with your days?
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What We Can Do:
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News Roundup
Health & Medicine
- Are we getting closer to curing Alzheimer’s?
- 5th person confirmed cured of HIV
- After a brutal winter, an RSV vaccine might finally be around the corner
- Social media has been a major cause of mental illness in girls for a long time. Here’s the evidence.
Climate
- How disinformation is slowing the clean energy rollout
- Global corps climate pledges are ‘misleading’, not the word I would have used
- Biden wants all of the floating offshore wind
- Why the hell has climate change made tampons more expensive?
- Governments spent a record $1 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies last year
Food & Water
- One year later, the infant formula crisis is still a thing, and could happen again
- Cereal companies are NOT pumped about the FDA’s new “healthy” label
- Congress killed a bill to give farmworkers a path to citizenship
- Healthier school lunches may reduce obesity
Beep Boop
- Why haven’t digital therapeutics got payer coverage yet?
- How Google’s ad business funds misinformation (I wrote a deep dive into disinformation last week)
COVID
- That meta-study on masks is decidedly not as decisive (or honest) as expected
- What happens with COVID-era food benefits end?
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