BLUE
Profile banner
AM
Amy Maxmen
@amymaxmen.bsky.social
Award-winning science reporter with words at Nature, New York Times, Washington Post & more. Health, medicine, inequality & pandemics. www.amymaxmen.com
3.5k followers13 following17 posts
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

Here's the most troubling story I've investigated all year. I hope it has an impact. Lower wage health workers faced deadly conditions during covid outbreaks in 2020. Now they're struggling with PTSD & more. Employers & the government have left them hanging. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Nursing Aides Plagued by PTSD After ‘Nightmare’ Covid Conditions, With Little Help - KFF Health News
Nursing Aides Plagued by PTSD After ‘Nightmare’ Covid Conditions, With Little Help - KFF Health News

A KFF Health News investigation reveals that employers and the government have offered nursing aides little assistance for PTSD and other ongoing maladies triggered by hazardous work during the pandem...

13
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Farmers & vets recount the first months of bird flu H5N1 in Texas. Their words hold clues. “People tend to think that an outbreak starts at Monday at 9 a.m. with a sign saying, ‘Outbreak has started,’” WHO's Jeremy Farrar said. “It’s rarely like that.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle - KFF Health News
Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle - KFF Health News

Dairy farmers and veterinarians in northern Texas furiously investigated a mysterious illness among cattle before the government got involved. Their observations are telling.

0
Reposted by Amy Maxmen
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

On this anniversary of the pandemic's start, I revisited horrors of early 2020. My hope is fading bc I don't see *any* big changes to protect us. My latest piece on the CDC suggests the next pandemic will be worse. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

4
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

My latest story is on how anti-vaxxers have gained ground by fusing with the parents' rights movement. Doctors have had to turn away social workers and foster parents hoping to get their babies vaccinated for measles, etc. in Tennessee bc of a new "consent" law. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

0
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

Our social media & smartphone age is deceptive. We are coaxed into believing that nearly everything is recorded & posted online. My story is a sad reminder of what gets lost when attention only focuses elsewhere. Aid often follows that attention. undark.org/2024/01/24/c...

0
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

The death rate found in the Central African Republic was 4 times higher than United Nations estimates. So high the UN finds it hard to believe. “Why does it look like an invisible situation?” he asked. But humanitarian & human rights experts list reasons. undark.org/2024/01/24/c...

1
AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

The 2022 death rate in the Central African Republic was higher than Ukraine & other countries, according to a survey finding that a 6th of the country died. Yet its met by silence. “Tell me why they should not deserve attention?” the researcher asked. undark.org/2024/01/24/c...

1
Profile banner
AM
Amy Maxmen
@amymaxmen.bsky.social
Award-winning science reporter with words at Nature, New York Times, Washington Post & more. Health, medicine, inequality & pandemics. www.amymaxmen.com
3.5k followers13 following17 posts