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Appreciate the @nytimes discussing the new vaccines and the challenges we're going to face both with acceptance as well as in having...

Appreciate the @nytimes discussing the new vaccines and the challenges we're going to face both with acceptance as well as in having support to reduce the barriers to getting them.

Full disclosure, I was quoted in there as well 😅

“We don’t have the community push or diffusion of vaccines the way we once did,” said Dr. Zeke McKinney, who organized vaccinations at a local barbershop until funding disappeared. “It’s mostly up to everyone on their own to figure it out.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/health/covid-booster-vaccines.html

Thanks to Vineeta Sawkar at @wccoradio for chatting with me about allergy season this morning! 💚👍🏾It was also a great opportunity...

Thanks to Vineeta Sawkar at @wccoradio for chatting with me about allergy season this morning! 💚👍🏾

It was also a great opportunity to talk about my clinical expertise around environmental exposures when a caller asked about symptoms after moving into a new building!! 😊

Listen here: https://www.audacy.com/podcast/the-morning-news-with-vineeta-sawkar-2e837/episodes/with-spring-in-the-air-dr-zeke-mckinney-gives-us-the-scoop-on-allergy-season-c8dc0

First publication from our new Environmental Medicine/Exposure clinic! Congratulations to our #OccEnvMed senior resident, Dr. Race Creeden...

First publication from our new Environmental Medicine/Exposure clinic!

Congratulations to our #OccEnvMed senior resident, Dr. Race Creeden on this excellent case report on aerotoxic syndrome! Importantly, it discusses the long-term implications of workability/disability with this complex condition.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/24/7156

Ghost-Spider is here at @confluence_mn helping me with vaccine education and hesitancy! Come get COVID and flu vaccines today with a $100...

Ghost-Spider is here at @confluence_mn helping me with vaccine education and hesitancy! Come get COVID and flu vaccines today with a $100 incentive!! 💉👍🏾

Explaining to the nurse that I'm cool with "taking shots" 😂Yay new #COVID vaccine! Go get vaccinated! 💉

Explaining to the nurse that I'm cool with "taking shots" 😂

Yay new #COVID vaccine! Go get vaccinated! 💉

Go get vaccinated! 💉

Go get vaccinated! 💉

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The rare 2!

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Yay! New data showing genetic variation as source of asymptomatic #COVID infection in up to 20% of folks! Maybe this can direct new...

Yay! New data showing genetic variation as source of asymptomatic #COVID infection in up to 20% of folks! Maybe this can direct new research! 😍

Yes, but... here's another reason for people to provide why they won't get a vaccine or wear a mask 😭😂

#PublicHealth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06331-x

Still convinced the only lesson #wordle is trying to teach me is to be better at guessing specifically-bizarre and...

Still convinced the only lesson #wordle is trying to teach me is to be better at guessing specifically-bizarre and nonrepresentative-of-normal-word/letter-frequency words. Is that considered strategy? To psychologically anticipate the "author's" (being generous) choices?

So then what does it say when I get there by asking myself: "what would be the dumbest word to pick?"

Or just think normally and end up like this 😂😭
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More on #Minnesota outdoor #AirQuality, but with good discussion of #HealthEquity, which is appreciated and common from the Sahan Journal...

More on #Minnesota outdoor #AirQuality, but with good discussion of #HealthEquity, which is appreciated and common from the Sahan Journal 👍🏾

Feat. great #EnvironmentalJustice folks like Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni from the @umnmedschool and myself 😊

https://sahanjournal.com/climate-environment/minnesota-air-quality-canadian-wildfires-tips-to-stay-safe/

Also on @wcco - but really a small amount of what I said...

Also on @wcco - but really a small amount of what I said 😅

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesotas-air-quality-is-the-worst-in-recorded-history-heres-how-to-protect-yourself/

Catch me talking about recent poor outdoor #AirQuality on #Minnesota Public Radio:...

Catch me talking about recent poor outdoor #AirQuality on #Minnesota Public Radio: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/06/15/as-smoky-skies-clear-experts-say-minnesotans-should-prepare-for-more-bad-air-quality

Bad outdoor #AirQuality right now, particularly in #Minneapolis #Minnesota (US)! Stay indoors if you can!Right now mostly due to Canadian...

Bad outdoor #AirQuality right now, particularly in #Minneapolis #Minnesota (US)! Stay indoors if you can!

Right now mostly due to Canadian wildfires... 😬

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT817LuYs/

One of my favorite #AI / #humanfactors topics: the uncanny valley!!https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ai-uncanny-valley

One of my favorite #AI / #humanfactors topics: the uncanny valley!!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ai-uncanny-valley

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My 10 year old daughter did that, so eat that #wordle

Unpopular opinion: stop using the word "marijuana." It's imprecise/unscientific at least, pejorative at worst.Simplified:...

Unpopular opinion: stop using the word "marijuana."

It's imprecise/unscientific at least, pejorative at worst.

Simplified: "marijuana" is to "cannabis" as "blow" is to "cocaine"

Using "marijuana" in contexts like legislation or news seems crazy. Would we talk about "blow" legislation?

Recent article I wrote for #MinnesotaPhysician about healthcare #underutilization and...

Recent article I wrote for #MinnesotaPhysician about healthcare #underutilization and #overutilization:
https://www.mnphy.com/0523-cover-one-zeke-mckinney

TL;DR - business people design systems based around the perception that people behave based on financial costs, and this is often true. Healthcare is fairly divergent from that at least because cost is opaque and folks behave in lots of ways based on their health and their own goals.

Beautiful morning at the Northeast Farmer's Market in #Minneapolis #NE_FM

Beautiful morning at the Northeast Farmer's Market in #Minneapolis #NE_FM

The legacy of our brother #GeorgeFloyd is very real to us here in #Minneapolis.If you still don't know what's up, let me direct you...

The legacy of our brother #GeorgeFloyd is very real to us here in #Minneapolis.

If you still don't know what's up, let me direct you to a couple places to start, both from Black faculty in the University of Minnesota School of #PublicHealth (one of whom is me).

Stolen Breaths (Hardeman): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp2021072

Law Enforcement Violence in the Black Community: A Catalyst for Clinician Engagement in Social Justice (Rushing):
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(21)00415-3/fulltext

#BlackMastodon

"Over a recent 22-year period, the Black population in the US experienced more than 1.63 million excess deaths and more than 80 million...

"Over a recent 22-year period, the Black population in the US experienced more than 1.63 million excess deaths and more than 80 million excess years of life lost when compared with the White population. After a period of progress in reducing disparities, improvements stalled, and differences between the Black population and the White population worsened in 2020." 😬
#BlackMastodon

C/o @jama_current

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804822