Harm Reduction

I ran across that lens while reading an article about filing cabinets in The Atlantic [1]

What has CDC done right? Major accomplishments include:

Burn Pits – The military solution to waste management

A safe working environment remains an aspirational goal. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 5,000 fatal and 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2019.

While many medications are simple to dose and sex-independent, many drugs are complicated, and very specific diseases require that doses be calculated based on mass, age, and many clinical parameters, including organ function.

While the study looked at the intention to get a COVID vaccination, its results are generalizable to other issues.

There are several reasons an individual can have differing views from a scientific consensus. They may lack knowledge of the subject, the “deficit model,” in which case, greater education is all that is necessary.

    Here is the PSA,  

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children under 19 in the United States.

I last wrote about this in December 2020; here is the gist.