Est. 2026 · Armando Cuesta, MD, Founding Editor
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Tuesday, 2 June 2026 · Vol. 1 · No. 1
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“A risk without a denominator is just a number wearing a lab coat.”
Carter covers the Public Health Desk: outbreak case counts, surveillance signals and guideline changes from CDC, WHO, ECDC and USPSTF, read straight from the situation reports and recommendation statements. The desk's discipline is denominators — translating relative-risk headlines back into absolute numbers and the population they actually apply to, and never confusing a case-count rise with a change in true incidence. It marks what is confirmed versus suspected, and what a guideline grade does and does not say.
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Public Health · Tuesday, 2 June 2026
An Ebola species with no licensed vaccine has crossed the DRC-Uganda border, and a US clinician infected in Congo is being treated in Germany.