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I never would have guessed my journalistic niche would be "dental body horror," and yet here we are.
Brett Kelman
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Brett Kelman
@BrettKelman
Reporter with KFF Health News. Previously: The Tennessean, The Desert Sun and Pacific Daily News. Charisma is my dump stat. 615 218 8496, [email protected]
- I just voted. As I cast my ballot, I think of Guam, my former home, where about 150,000 Americans are denied this vote. Why? In 1901 the Supreme Court said Guam's “alien race” couldn’t comprehend “Anglo-Saxon principles.” It’s been 119 years, and this racism is still the law.
- Vanderbilt is going to party so hard tonight that an entire generation of future doctors will be slightly dumber
- Seven years ago this week, @USATODAY gave us the best newspaper graphic of all time. It will never stop being funny.
- SCOOP: Tennessee Department of Health halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for COVID-19, but all diseases – amid pressure from GOP. Staff ordered to remove the agency logo from any documents providing vaccine info to the public, per internal dox.
- I'd feel a lot safer right now if Trump had hotels in Guam.
- In Tennessee, a small predominately Black town is poised to get a huge economic boost from the construction of a big Ford factory. Then the state government gave them an ultimatum: dissolve your town charter, or we will seize control of your finances.
- BREAKING: Tennessee will resume nearly all forms of adolescent vaccine advocacy, per state health commissioner. Lots of vaccine outreach was halted this month due to GOP political pressure, prompting a media firestorm. We will publish a story as soon as I, you know, write it.
- Replying to @BrettKelmanThe agency will also end all COVID-19 vaccine events at schools, even though they've mostly served adults. And, if teens get a two-dose vaccine, it won't remind them to go back for their second dose. Teens are intentionally stripped from the mailing list for reminder postcards.
- #BREAKING Tennessee health officials overcounted active coronavirus infections by 13,800 cases, inadvertently inflating the size of the outbreak for months. Then they tried to fix it without telling anyone.
- Today, The @Tennessean published one of the strangest stories of my career. Actually, the article itself isn't that weird, but the story behind the story is bonkers. This is a thread. Here we go. 1/
- Tennessee just fired its top vaccine official. On the way out, she dropped a 1200+ word statement torching government leaders and lawmakers for politicizing the coronavirus vaccine. You can read the whole thing here.
- Replying to @BrettKelmanThanks for going on this journey with me. As always, buy a damn newspaper subscription already. bit.ly/2PnTQrx
- Replying to @BrettKelmanAlso, there is a lesson here for young journalists: Don’t dismiss the weirdos and SAVE YOUR NOTES. I was only able to write this story because I went to Bill's house in 2015 and still had my notes from our interview years ago. @Poynter
