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Alice Dreger, Ph.D.

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Alice Dreger, Ph.D.

@AliceDreger

Writer, journalist, historian. Managing editor @HdxAcademy but all opinions here just my own. Bylines NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe, WIRED, The Atlantic, CHE...

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Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Oct 18, 2024
This is a quote from my book, Galileo's Middle Finger. Today I got a call from someone who works for Google who was upset because her area doesn't have sustainable local news. I explained her employer and Meta are largely responsible for that.
Mark Roseman
@markroseman
Oct 13, 2024
Replying to @markroseman
"…economic collapse of the investigative press caused by that noisy Internet means no one on the outside will follow through to sort it out, to tell us what is real and what is illusory. The press is no longer around… to put pressure on those in power to do the right thing."
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Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Mar 24, 2020
If you need a wake-up call, here it is: My husband was on a large conference call of American med school deans last night. One asked about legal coverage for pulling people off ventilators to give to others more likely to survive. I.e., not being charged with murder. Here we are.
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 11, 2022
My mom just said to me, "We're all going to get it now, so why not just give up and go back to normal?" So this is what I explained, in case this explanation helps you: 1/n
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Aug 18, 2024
Maureen Dowd trolling for relevancy. Sad.
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Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Dec 27, 2019
Discuss.
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 31, 2017
Yates and all AGs swear to defend the Constitution "against all enemies." That includes POTUS if necessary
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 11, 2022
Replying to @AliceDreger
I'm not asking you to stop your life. I'm asking you to mask-up, avoid the vulnerable, be careful. If you're infected, isolate. SLOW THE SPREAD. Our front-line medical providers need us to do this to save lives, including people with non-covid crises. Thank you. 9/n
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 6, 2021
The National Association of Manufacturers is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. It's suggesting Pence invoke the 25th Amendment.
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 6, 2021
The National Association of Manufacturers: "Vice President Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy." nam.org/series/press-r… via @shopfloornam
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 11, 2022
Replying to @AliceDreger
So the reason not to say "screw it, let's just unmask and go back to normal" right now is to try to....flatten the curve. I know that's an expression from way back when, but it applies. We need to slow down infections to keep hospitals from collapsing. 6/n
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 11, 2022
Replying to @AliceDreger
If hospital systems collapse -- and this is already happening in some ERs/ICUs -- then people with survivable medical crises like heart attacks and car accidents are going to die when they didn't need to die. We don't want that scene! 7/n
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 11, 2022
Replying to @AliceDreger
Added to the challenge is that you really DO have to take infected hospital staff out of rotation, even if the staff are not really feeling very ill, because people in the hospital with, say, bad cancers/pregnancy, need to be protected from infection. They are very vulnerable.4/n
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Nov 18, 2018
People. There are more than two sexes. There are more than two genders. This is not a political statement. It's just reality.
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Feb 8, 2021
My kid just told me that at his house (dorm) at Univ Chicago, they randomly assign themselves teams to root for in the Super Bowl because most of them have no idea who the teams are.
Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
@AliceDreger
Jan 11, 2022
Replying to @AliceDreger
So, weird as it sounds, we have to try to slow the spread if we can, knowing Omicron is crazy infectious. Slowing the spread will slow how many unvaccinated and vaxed-but-vulnerable people end up in the hospitals. Slow the spread. 8/n