Howie and Harlan are joined by Joel Bervell, a recent medical school graduate who uses social media platforms to combat misinformation and explain racial biases in healthcare. Harlan discusses his new Wall Street Journal commentary highlighting the link between viral infections and chronic diseases; Howie reports on powerful new evidence for the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine and warns of the dangers of a vaccine-skeptical presidential administration.

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Viral Infection and Chronic Disease

Harlan Krumholz: "How to Lead a Chronic Disease Revolution"

"A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia"

"Unexplained post-acute infection syndromes"

Joel Bervell

Joel Bervell

Joel Bervell on TikTok

Joel Bervell on Instagram

"TikTok's 'Medical Mythbuster' Helps Save Lives By Tackling Racial & Gender Disparities In Healthcare"

"How the pulse oximeter became infamous on TikTok"

"Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement"

Joel Bervell's TikTok on the pulse oximeter

Joel Bervell: "The eGFR Equation"

"Race Correction and the X-Ray Machine: The Controversy over Increased Radiation Doses for Black Americans in 1968"

Joel Bervell: "For over 50 years, X-ray technicians were taught to administer higher radiation doses to Black patients"

Joel Bervell's Instagram reel on bias in the measurement of lung capacity

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Joel Bervell on LinkedIn

Joel Bervell on YouTube: The Doctor Is In

Kickstarter: The Doctor Is In

"Medical mythbuster Joel Bervell, MD, on how to teach kids about medicine and address misinformation"

Cleveland Clinic: Amyloidosis

Joel Bervel's Instagram reel on the GFR equation

"Abandoning a Race-biased Tool for Kidney Diagnosis"

"OPTN Board approves elimination of race-based calculation for transplant candidate listing"

"America's News Influencers"

"85th Annual Peabody Awards Announce Nominees for the Arts, Children's/Youth, Entertainment, and Interactive & Immersive Categories

Vaccines and the Federal Healthcare Agencies

Health & Veritas Episode 165: "Aging in Bursts and Other News"

"U.S. government researchers present 'phenomenal' new data on HPV vaccines"

"Invasive cervical cancer incidence following bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination: a population-based observational study of age at immunization, dose, and deprivation"

"Kennedy played key role in Gardasil vaccine case against Merck"

"RFK Jr. suggests some vaccines are risky or ineffective, downplays measles threat"

"FDA chief says they're looking at whether to approve COVID shots for next winter"

"How Marty Makary's FDA is embracing a more skeptical view of vaccines"

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