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Hannah Harris Green
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Investigative health journalist for @theguardian.com and more. MS Epidemiology student at Northwestern University. ex-marketplace, ex-spotify. chicago now 🌭 missing LA 🍵 #ADHD
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · Sep 10
Yesterday's congressional hearing on vaccine safety relied on a study that was never published—or even submitted to a journal—to trot out the old myths about vaccines causing chronic illnesses. My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rinse and repeat: US vaccine hearing on unpublished study debates same myths
Research comparing chronic illness in vaccinated and non-vaccinated kids had never been peer-reviewed, nor is any of its data available
www.theguardian.com
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3h
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 4h
Chicago also uses ambulance data combined with other information to identify overdose spikes on a neighborhood level and figure out what's going on. In other parts of the country, health officials said they may never know the underlying cause for a spike in overdose deaths.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 6h
How Chicago succeeded in reducing overdose deaths

“The city has adopted a ‘multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem’ and has seen a 37% reduction in deaths since the national peak of the crisis”
whatsitlike.me Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d
In much of the country, there is no way to identify overdose spikes in real time, or even tell what contaminants in the drug supply might be killing people. Chicago is doing things differently. Part of my investigation series on overdose in America.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How Chicago succeeded in reducing drug overdose deaths
The city has adopted a ‘multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem’ and has seen a 37% reduction in deaths since the national peak of the crisis
www.theguardian.com
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 4h
Stark distinction* jeez 🧪
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 5h
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 5h
On the other hand, you can clearly see the trend of increasing overdose deaths moving east across Nevada state lines to Arizona.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 6h
You can also use the map to look at when overdose trends cross state lines and when they don’t. Check out the stark district between San Bernardino County, CA and bordering Clark County, NV (where Vegas is.) In San Bernardino overdose deaths are down 18%, in Clark they’re up 15%.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 7h
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 7h
Chicago residents can stop by the library not just for free books, but for free naloxone and fentanyl test strips as well.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 22h
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 22h
Understanding what’s in the street drug supply can also help emergency departments know what to prepare for. Like xylazine, which had emerged as a common contaminant, can cause hard-to-treat skin ulcers.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d
The city has also purchased new mass spectrometers, the state of the art in drug analysis, and been the first in the nation to identify adulterants like the tranquilizer Medetomidine.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d
Jenny Hua, medical director for Chicago's health department. said that in order to respond to the crisis, the city has adopted a “multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem”. Even libraries have become part of the city’s arsenal in the fight against drug overdose deaths.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d
In much of the country, there is no way to identify overdose spikes in real time, or even tell what contaminants in the drug supply might be killing people. Chicago is doing things differently. Part of my investigation series on overdose in America.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How Chicago succeeded in reducing drug overdose deaths
The city has adopted a ‘multifactorial approach to a multifactorial problem’ and has seen a 37% reduction in deaths since the national peak of the crisis
www.theguardian.com
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d
One of the coolest things about this investigation is this interactive that lets you see how overdoses fatality rates have changed in your county, and how they compare with the rest of your state.

Here's Dane County, WI, where I'm from.

(Thanks to Andrew Witherspoon for putting this together!)
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 1d
One of the coolest things about this investigation is this interactive that lets you see how overdoses fatality rates have changed in your county, and how they compare with the rest of your state.

Here's Dane County, WI, where I'm from.

(Thanks to Andrew Witherspoon for putting this together!)
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 2d
The Trump admin is finding new ways to hassle people with “X” sex markers on their passports.

A court blocked attempts to out and out invalidate this marker, but a new rule leaves people with “X” markers more vulnerable to potential harassment.

My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’
Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic
www.theguardian.com
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
When they announced the decline in overdose deaths, CDC boasted “80 lives saved each day” in 2024, despite the fact that overdoses were still claiming 220 US lives a day on average.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
"Whoever would have thought we'd be celebrating 80,000 deaths a year?" said Marc Fishman, an addiction psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins. “If 80 goes to 70 goes to 60, that’d be something to celebrate. Let’s see if the trend continues.”
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
I’m talking about the street drug supply, should have been more specific
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
What business?
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
There is also no timely, systematic data collection on the drug supply in the US. Understanding what drugs people are taking (whether or not they’re aware) can help health departments allocate resources and prepare local hospitals for what to expect.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 3d
One reason it’s hard to keep up with or explain overdose death trends is that national data lags six months behind. Under the new Trump administration, the CDC may never release 2024 demographic data on overdose fatalities.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 4d
Overdoses fatalities rose as much as 120% since the national decline began in 2023 at the US county level, and have again reached near peak rates in Arizona.
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