Safe Living in a Pandemic – Help!?

Why can't we fill in personal data and routine community COVID stats into a web form and calculate our risk of infection and mortality? Anyone working on it? Plus another dose of unintended consequences. A brief episode with Health Hats. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Calculating risk 00:54. 1 $64 billion question 02:34. 1 National collaboratives 03:47. 2 Evidence-informed guidance – where are you? 06:06. 2 Unintended Consequences 07:08. 3 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger Sponsored by Abridge Photo by United Nation COVID-19 Response on Unsplash Photo by Sandie Clarke on Unsplash Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Ann Boland, Laura Marcial, Michael Waters, Michael Mittelman, Brian Alper, Joyce Lee, Maria Michaels Links National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) at the NIH collecting data from electronic health records PCORI (Patient-Centered Research Institute)-sponsored HERO Registry for healthcare worker exposure The Covid-19 Knowledge Accelerator with systematic reviews of research Private industry’s COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Datavant’s COVID-19 Research Database Mothers Out Front  environmental justice Washington Post article, Climate change is also a racial justice problem Related podcasts and blogs https://www.health-hats.com/unintended_consequences/ https://www.health-hats.com/questions-from-a-mild-covid19-case/ https://www.health-hats.com/the-chi-of-covid19-invincible/   About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare. Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://www.health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge. Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements. Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Calculating risk This morning my wife, an outpatient occupational therapist in a satellite clinic, asked, ‘Is it safe for me to still go to work?