Your Local Epidemiologist

Entries

• 4 hantavirus updates and other things that can impact your health right now
  May 12, 2026

  The Dose (May 12)

• Hantavirus update
  May 08, 2026

  Steady heads, good news, and some questions

• Hantavirus: Situation update and getting nerdy
  May 06, 2026

  A recording from Katelyn Jetelina's live video

• Abortion pills: An option not talked about enough
  May 06, 2026

  In August 1986, a stomach ulcer medication called Cytotec arrived on pharmacy shelves across Brazil.

• Hantavirus, allergies and common cold, Covid-19 spring vaccine, and good news
  May 05, 2026

  The Dose (May 5)

• What rattlesnakes (and you) are teaching us
  May 01, 2026

  Behind the YLE Curtain (May 2026)

• 5 (more) logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr.
  April 29, 2026

  Common rhetorical tricks that are used to spread false health information

• Triple the ticks, military ends flu vaccine, Vitamin K refusal and rotavirus surging, alpha gal trends, and good news
  April 28, 2026

  The Dose (April 28)

• What I learned from my students
  April 24, 2026

  Hope for the future

• Peptides, explained: Answers to your top questions
  April 22, 2026

  Catching you up on the flood online information

• Gun violence, domestic violence, and the systems that fail us
  April 21, 2026

  The Dose (April 21)

• Vaccine Hesitancy Webinar
  April 17, 2026

  From questions to confidence: What changed my mind on vaccines

• If your heart stopped right now, would a stranger save you? It depends on your sex.
  April 15, 2026

  Why women are less likely to receive CPR—and less likely to survive

• A bad tick season, CDC rabies testing paused, plus a new measles epicenter, stomach flu, and a late RSV season that's prompting great questions from parents.
  April 14, 2026

  The Dose (April 14)

• Happy Public Health Week
  April 06, 2026

  We're off this week!

• We all need to become better science storytellers. Here’s why and how.
  April 03, 2026

  Last week, in a lovely New Haven bar, six people gathered in front of a crowd to tell stories that were somehow relat...

• What many parents are missing about the social media verdict and addiction
  April 01, 2026

  Meta, YouTube, Costa Rica, and the bigger picture

• A new covid variant called Cicada, ticks and a new Lyme vaccine, common cold, and good news
  March 31, 2026

  The Dose (March 31)

• Your questions answered: How to use AI to optimize health
  March 27, 2026

  YLE webinar follow-up

• Glyphosate: A story of science, risk, and nuance
  March 25, 2026

  In the summer of 2014, a California groundskeeper named Dewayne Johnson started noticing patches of raw, weeping skin...