Your Local Epidemiologist

Entries

• Here comes the (sun)screen
  June 03, 2026

  Top 8 questions on sunscreen effectiveness, safety, and more

• Covid-19 update, common cold, ticks, and lotssss of good news
  June 02, 2026

  The Dose (June 2)

• Should I cancel my trip to Africa? Plan for Covid-19 vaccines? Do airport checks really work? And U.S. Prev. Task Force?
  May 29, 2026

  Question grab bag

• Ebola, chemical plants and health, hantavirus, common colds, heat and more
  May 27, 2026

  The Dose: May 27

• From questions to confidence: What changed my mind on vaccines
  May 23, 2026

  YLE webinar recording, takeaways, and FAQs

• Ebola: The disease of compassion, and the price of when “we” became “me”
  May 22, 2026

  The outbreak in Central Africa continues to spread.

• World Cup’s hidden health operation
  May 20, 2026

  YLE behind the scenes

• Ebola international emergency, hantavirus update, ticks, heat, opioid deaths decline, and more.
  May 19, 2026

  The Dose (May 19)

• Something deeper than hantavirus
  May 15, 2026

  Two weeks ago, my phone started lighting up before I’d had my coffee.

• 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)