Don Milton

Jobs with the highest cancer deaths in the U.S. | UW School of Public Health Researchers provide detailed look at how US cancer burden varies across hundreds of jobs and by sex.

A team of researchers from OSU and UW looked at cancer deaths among working-age adults in the U.S. The results, published in @thelancet.com, provide a valuable look into the variation and trends in cancer burden by occupation and research interventions. #PublicHealth @uwdeohs.bsky.social

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

The RCT Trap When “Gold Standard” Evidence Becomes an Excuse for Inaction

open.substack.com/pub/davidfis...
This is a must read for #publichealth #medsky and #infectionprevtion - the RCT trap led to major errors responding to COVID especially at WHO and CDC. We must do better next time.

Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

We who value, peace and justice under law are the true conservatives. The radical right’s treasonous fascist chaos is destroying America.
Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

The fact that Foege and other leaders of the WHO team that figured out how to eradicate the worst infectious disease in human history never received a Nobel Prize should forever be a stain on the Nobel committee. What accomplishment has benefited humanity more?

What will you say when your grandchildren ask what did you do when people were being shot down in the streets for exercising their constitutional rights?

New York Times headline says videos appear to contradict federal accounts of fatal shooting fee snippet of text below. The headline says “but videos emerged that appeared to directly contradict their [the federal official’s] account of the shooting.

Come on New York Times the videos clearly contradict federal accounts. Clicking through to the article gets to a headline that says as much. Why waffle on the front page of the website? #DontLookAway

On this sad day when my country officially left the WHO, I'm proud to say that several patriotic American health and infection control experts participated in a WHO Guideline Development Group meeting working on how to control the next influenza/coronavirus pandemic. #publichealth #WHO #MedSky

During my respirator fit test today, reading the 'rainbow passage' I felt like the ending needed some editing: "There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. " Donald J. Trump, however, believes that he will find it in Greenland.

Evaluating modes of influenza transmission (EMIT-2): Insights from lack of transmission in a controlled transmission trial with naturally infected donors Author summary Human-to-human influenza virus transmission under controlled conditions could provide insights leading to better control of epidemics and pandemics. However, a previous study using labo...

On the other hand air movement, circulation within a room, especially rapid air movement may be a very good thing.
It may explain why we didn't infect anyone during the EMIT-2 hotel quarantine study. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

I hear you. I live with a person at high risk. Dad and his wife (ages >100, >90) were visited by family thru-out 2020-23. Dad had about 80dB of hearing loss. It was hard enough communicating without masks. Lots of air filters and testing managed to keep them safe in their own home.

The big advantage of GUV is that it can work without masks and respirators. Of course layers are better. But sometimes even among people who accept masks, they are a huge hassle, like talking to a hearing impaired person.

@masknerd.bsky.social @publichealthumd.bsky.social @phablabumd.bsky.social @vitalik.ca @paulsaxmd.bsky.social
#Medsky #publichealth @carlzimmer.com

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And it serves well as yet another distraction from the Epstein files and the Trump DOJ failure to release them as required by law.

"Judges must start imposing sanctions and holding [DOJ] lawyers accountable."

This bit of news was obscured in the gathering dark clouds of domestic and international aggression all of which is a distraction, I suspect, for failure to release the Epstein files.

@apoorvanyt.bsky.social Thank you for reporting this glimmer of good news. What was the cost? Will these workers be paid for their forced time away from work? What work was damaged or permanently lost?

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

At a time when so many big law firms, corporations and universities are caving to Trump’s bullying, we need to celebrate the individual acts of conscience by those who refuse to be complicit in Trump’s lawlessness.

We salute you for standing up!

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

If you need any more proof of who this Admin serves, look no further.

The EPA will no longer consider harm to HUMAN LIFE when setting air pollution limits.

What will they consider? The bottom lines of the CEOs of the biggest polluters.

A headline from The Onion come to life.

Evaluating modes of influenza transmission (EMIT-2): Insights from lack of transmission in a controlled transmission trial with naturally infected donors Author summary Human-to-human influenza virus transmission under controlled conditions could provide insights leading to better control of epidemics and pandemics. However, a previous study using labo...

If you get flu symptoms, take a flu test (home flu + covid tests are available), stay home and use air mixing, filtration, ventilation, and a mask as source control to protect your family.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Take home message is layers work.
*Vaccination (incr the dose it takes to infect)
*Space between people & move the air dilute breath,
*Ventilation and air filters
*An N95 if you need to be up close to or around other people, especially if they are coughing.

That means that rapid air mixing can reduce the dose we inhale when nearby because it breaks up and dilutes exhaled breath plumes.

We came away with two main insights that can help us avoid catching and transmitting influenza. First is that infected people who cough are the most contagious. Second, it probably takes a high dose to get infected with seasonal influenza viruses.

How not to catch the flu? The airborne infection transmission pathway remains elusive

We just published our “Insights from lack of transmission in a controlled transmission trial with naturally infected donors” in the journal PLOS Pathogens. I've summarized it in a Substack post. "How not to catch the flu?" profairborne.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
#Influenza #AirborneInfection