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At Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA), we apply interdisciplinary mathematical modeling approaches to address public health challenges.

New Haven, USA
Joined April 2017
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"What this crisis is beginning to teach us is that we are only as safe as the least insured person in America." @BernieSanders #COVID19 youtube.com/watch?v=9eL7eehC… #MedicareForAll
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Sen. Bernie Sanders slams the “cruel and dysfunctional” health care system in the US: “We are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child as a human right. #CNNTownHall cnn.it/327yBSp
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Our statements in this article are on behalf of all authors @MeaganCFitz
Medicare For All would save $450 billion annually while preventing 68,000 deaths, new study shows: "Our study is actually conservative because it doesn't factor in the lives saved among underinsured Americans," @Alison_Galvani told @Newsweek newsweek.com/medicare-all-wo… #M4A
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For those who have been asking: Yes, our open-access tool SHIFT (shift.cidma.us) can be used to estimate the costs of “Medicare for All Who Want It”. @YCIDMA
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“Medicare for All Who Want It” maintains the same inefficiencies that make our current healthcare system so expensive.
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Without savings to overhead, pharmaceutical costs, hospital/clinical fees, and fraud detection, “Medicare for All Who Want It” would cost $175 billion dollars more than status quo. That’s over $600 billion more than #M4A annually. @YCIDMA
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CIDMA@Yale retweeted
A new study conducted by Yale researchers shows Medicare for All would save both money and lives. @KatyTurNBC discusses with Wendell Potter, President of Business for Medicare for All. on.msnbc.com/2SBDkZn
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Our words sound even better when Bernie says them!
.@BernieSanders talks about the recent @TheLancet study on #MedicareForAll - for all those waiting for a visual to report on the study, now you can use this clip! xitter.gq/HeatherGautney/status/…
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Go ahead and try our open-access Single-payer Healthcare Interactive Financing Tool: shift.cidma.us How would you finance #M4A?
Our Medicare for All study in The Lancet can be accessed at sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Correct link to the article: sciencejournalforkids.org/sc…
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Why get vaccinated when the flu vaccine doesn’t work well? Brilliant adaptation of our research by 11 y.o. Sarah in Science Journal for Kids @YCIDMA sciencejournalforkids.org/sc…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, prominent immunologist & head of #NIAID, cites a paper by Dr. Alison Galvani of @YaleSPH at the #IAS2017 last week. #HIV
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Our letter in @sciencemagazine about @Fogarty_NIH, Fund global health: Save lives and money science.sciencemag.org/conte… @UMCVD @YCIDMA @UMDIGH