Alison Young ✓

@alisonannyoung · joined 23 Mar 2009

Senior National Reporter @HealthbeatUS + author of Pandora’s Gamble. ayoung@healthbeat.org Signal: alisonyoungreports.48

12 783Followers

7 840Following

17 638Posts total

27.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views481this account3 598median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.76%this account11.59%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.29%this account1.38%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	481	3 598	0.13×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.76%	11.59%	0.32×
Engagement rate	1.29%	1.38%	0.93×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

19.6K27 Sep

56626 Aug

396

6.8K1 Sep

3812 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.40%27 Sep

1.77%26 Aug

1.26%

0.24%1 Sep

1.31%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.38%.

What the audience does

Likes57.4%74 in total

Reposts16.3%21 in total

Replies6.2%8 in total

Quotes9.3%12 in total

Bookmarks10.9%14 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Would you be able to quickly find your old measles vaccination records or other proof of immunity if you were exposed? For faculty and staff it’s not always easy. Colleges advise finding records now - before an exposure occurs. https://t.co/a3eMUXjXql 381 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Yet another way measles is changing how we live. My latest. 🔗 is below https://t.co/JzBxbNnvUX 6.8K views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 The nation’s system for gathering information on reportable diseases still largely relies on medical practices calling or faxing case reports to health departments, which then need to digitize or manually enter the data, said Janet Hamilton, executive director of @CSTEnews. Read 396 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 From her vantage point in Michigan, the state’s chief medical executive told Healthbeat that an already challenging Cyclospora outbreak response has been made more difficult by strains on the nation’s public health system. https://t.co/ioCxNK8LC4 https://t.co/kyts4uvUQF 566 views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 Honored to have @KirkusReviews give Pandora’s Gamble a Kirkus Star, which “marks books of exceptional merit.” https://t.co/gIkSwPULY1 @HachetteUS https://t.co/65dCs4BU1o 19.6K views · 55 likes · 14 reposts · 4 replies 27 Sep 2023