Skip to main content
Tinker Ready on Muck Rack

Tinker Ready

Boston
As seen in: HealthLeaders, Medscape, Whistleblower Network News
Covers:  health, whistleblowers
Formerly --Tips from Tinker Ready's writing classes Currently -- About to quit the former Twitter. Find me @ jerseytinker on Threads

Get in touch with Tinker

Contact Tinker, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Tinker Ready’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Tinker Ready is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She covers health, science and general news.

She blogs and reports for Boston Health News. Her work has appeared in Fast Company, Nature Medicine, Utne, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Esquire, The Boston Phoenix, The News & Observer and Parents, among others.

She teaches at the Boston University College of Communication and the Northeastern University School of Journalism.

Tinker Ready’s Journalist Portfolio

Tinker Ready

Tinker Ready

Tinker Ready (by Tinker Ready)

View article →

Articles

KHN: Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster

|
By Tinker Ready
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News and Arthur Allen and Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News January 26, 2021 Americans are dying of covid-19 by the thousands, but efforts to ramp up production of potentially lifesaving vaccines are hitting a brick wall. Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are running their factories full tilt and are under enormous pressure to expand production or collaborate with other drug companies to set up additional assembly lines.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (25) Issue with article?

Guns in hospitals? MGH guards go with pepper spray

|
By Tinker Ready
MGH 2010 Deep into a disturbing  New York Times story on hospital guards who shoot patients, find a passing reference to Massachusetts General Hospital’s security program. (More on guns in hospitals here. It has been about a year since the son of a patient walked into the Brigham and fatally shot a doctor.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

KHN: Conspiracy theories aside, here’s what contact tracers really do

|
By Tinker Ready
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News July 15, 2020 In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, contact tracing is downright buzzy, and not always in a good way. Contact tracing is the public health practice of informing people when they’ve been exposed to a contagious disease. As it has become more widely employed across the country, it has also become mired in modern political polarization and conspiracy theories.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (93) Issue with article?
See all 93 articles