You Think Blue Jeans for Pneumonia Is Ridiculous?

You Think Blue Jeans for Pneumonia Is Ridiculous?

By Dr Orin Levine, Executive Director of PneumoADIP at Johns Hopkins University

Huffington Post- October 7, 2009

“…Pneumonia kills more children than any other illness and yet hardly anyone talks about it. To make matters worse we have the tools to prevent most of those deaths but lack the political will to make their use a priority. In short, it’s a disease desperately in need of attention. In an effort to kickstart the effort, Lance Laifer, whose ideas have sparked terrific progress in awareness and action around malaria, proposed that everyone wear blue jeans on World Pneumonia Day, November 2nd…”

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