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In the weeks since Twitter’s acquisition, the platform has undergone massive reductions to security, content moderation, and accessibility teams that yielded a sharp rise in hate speech and the chaotic launch of a paid “verification” feature that seemed to make it easier to propagate misinformation. With the end of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, Twitter has become a more difficult place to find reliable health news. So we’ve put together a running list of public health and health-related blogs, newsletters, social media accounts, and podcasts to help you stay informed.
Blogs/Substacks
- Deplatform Disease — vaccine-preventable diseases
- Dr. Kat’s Blog — general public health, epidemiology
- Easy Chair — COVID-19, immunology
- Force of Infection — COVID-19, general disease outbreak news
- Ground Truths — COVID-19
- Inside Medicine — general public health/medicine
- It’s Airborne. — HVAC methods to mitigate disease
- Science-Based Medicine — science and medicine misinformation
- People’s CDC — COVID-19
- The Unbiased Science — general health and science
- TheIDdoc — global health and infectious disease
- Those Nerdy Girls — COVID-19, general public health
- Your Local Epidemiologist — general public health, epidemiology
Newsletters
- Axios Vitals (Daily) — general health news
- Devex CheckUp (Weekly) — global health
- KHN Morning Briefings — health and health policy news
- NIH News in Health (Daily) — general health
- NPR Shots (Weekly) — general health
- STAT Daily Recap (Daily) — health and medicine news
- STAT Morning Rounds (Daily) — health and medicine news
- Unbiased Science (Twice monthly) — general health and science
Audio/Video
- Casual Inference — podcast covering epidemiology news
- Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson — weekly video series debunking health misinformation
- Dr_Neuro — Twitch stream about medicine and epidemiology
- STAT First Opinion — podcast covering health and medicine news
- The People’s Health Briefing — weekly Facebook Live by the Roots Community Health Center in Oakland
- Unbiased Science — podcast covering general health and science news
- Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, MD — pediatric health in English and Spanish
- Dr Kat, Epidemiologist — general public health, epidemiology
- Heather Felton, MD — general and pediatric health
- Johns Hopkins Public Health — reporting in English and Spanish
- Ilan Shapiro MD — general health in Spanish
- Kelcey Chilcott, PNP — general public health, mental health
- Mauricio Gonzalez, MD — general health in Spanish
- People’s CDC — COVID-19
- Unbiased Science — general health and science news
- Yale School of Public Health — general public health
- Zachary Rubin, MD — allergies, immunology
TikTok
- CHRISTINA NP, COVID-19 misinformation
- Dr Kat, Epidemiologist — general public health, epidemiology
- Dr.Noc — science, health, and STEM
- Dr.Eric.B — COVID-19 misinformation
- Dr. Siyab, MD | Heart doc — COVID-19, health misinformation