It's Allergy season!
It's Allergy season! bub – Health Risk Alerts app now comes with improved allergy forecasting
Get bub. Not sick.
New year, new habit: stay healthy. bub – Health Risk Alerts app now available on App Store and Play Store
Onset of Summer 2025 COVID-19 wave
Summer 2025 COVID-19 wave has started
Respiratory Illnesses have peaked for this winter
The winter respiratory illnesses wave has peaked
bub now on your iPhone
bub is now available on your iPhone
The COVID Summer Wave has Peaked
The increase in COVID prevalence over the past 3 months is coming to an end
California Update July 17, 2024
COVID prevalence exceeds winter peak in California
bub – your Personal Health Assistant
Leave the worrying to bub and focus on what matters to you
Introducing bub+
Introducing bub+ subscription that makes your bub Personal Health Safety Assistant even smarter
Going beyond Local Prevalence
A 360º view of Health Safety
Barbenheimer and the cost of Living with COVID
Barbenheimer – the simultaneous release of 2 blockbusters – was a cultural and potentially a COVID phenomenon
Visualization Enhancements
Visualization Enhancements
AI Tips: Dining safe with OpenTable ChatGPT plugin
Using OpenTable ChatGPT plugin with the Hubbub ChatGPT plugin
AI Tips: Researching with ScholarAI
Use ScholarAI ChatGPT plugin to research the latest medical publications and find relevant real time information with Hubbub
Hubbub is now on ChatGPT
The Hubbub ChatGPT plugin is now live
A New Beginning
As the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ends, looking forward to a new beginning for health safety for the future
Marching on from the COVID-19 public health emergency – Los Angeles County
Los Angeles with 10 million residents is the largest county by population in the country of which more then 5% numbering more than 500,000 attend the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in the second largest city in the country – Los Angeles and its suburbs. Throughout the pandemic, Los Angeles has been hard hit given the size of the population and its density, with close to 4 million cases and 36,000 deaths reported over the past 3 years.
Health Safety at University of California Communities
An analysis of ILI, COVID-19, Flu & RSV health risk at University of California campuses.
Navigating the pandemic when immunocompromised
An analysis of COVID-19, Flu & RSV health risk in the community surrounding cancer care centers in the SF Bay Area
Safe living for Seniors
Identifying safe communities for seniors and planning day to day activities by monitoring health risks as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic
Daycare in a Tripledemic
How daycare centers across the Bay Area are impacted by COVID-19, Flu, RSV and other Influenza Like Illnesses in their communities
Tripledemic
Influenza Like Illnesses (ILIs) – including COVID-19, FLU & RSV – are simultaneously searing through the population
WHO declares Monkeypox a global Public Health Emergency
First time in history when WHO has declared two pandemic Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEIC)
Covid was the US leading cause of deaths for 45 to 54 year-olds in 2021
Leading Causes of Death in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to October 2021Meredith S. Shiels, PhD, MHS1; Anika T. Haque, MPH1; Amy Berrington de González, PhD1; et alCovid killed 30,000 middle age people in 2021 — Quartz (qz.com)MethodsWe obtained final national death certificate data for 2020 and provisional data for 2021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (accessed May 5, 20225). We excluded data more recent than October 2021 because they were incomplete. We de
Policy stringency and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of data
Policy stringency and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of data from 15 countries - The Lancet Public HealthLara B Aknin, PhD Bernardo Andretti, MSc Rafael Goldszmidt, PhD Prof John F Helliwell, DPhil Anna Petherick, DPhil Prof Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, PhD Prof Elizabeth W Dunn, PhD Daisy Fancourt, PhD Prof Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD Sarah P Jones, BSc Ozge Karadag, MD Elie Karam, MD Prof Richard Layard, FBA Prof Shekhar Saxena, MD Emily Thornton, BA Ashley Whilla
Smartphone apps in the COVID-19 pandemic
Smartphone apps in the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature BiotechnologyJay A. Pandit, Jennifer M. Radin, Giorgio Quer & Eric J. TopolAbstractAt the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analog tools such as nasopharyngeal swabs for PCR tests were center stage and the major prevention tactics of masking and physical distancing were a throwback to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Overall, there has been scant regard for digital tools, particularly those based on smartphone apps, which is surprising given the ub
Reimagineering Public Health
Rethinking from a pandemic POV - from issues to solutions
Free COVID-19 Rapid Tests to every home in California
COVID-19 Rapid Tests At-home Rapid Antigen Tests are a key addition to our arsenal to address the COVID-19 pandemic as outlined in the Biden Administration's Winter Plan. Having Rapid Tests readily available at home would enable possible exposures to be ascertained with the least risk of further transmission, whether for adults or kids, right at home. Further, the antiviral pills launched by Pfizer & Merck need to be started within days of exposure to be effective which is impossible without s
Ensuring Global Health Security for COVID-19
Leading Public Health experts from around the country signed on to a letter urging action by the US Congress and Biden Administration
US Vaccines for India
During the Delta wave in India, we initiated a Change.org petition to send excess US vaccines to India