https://www.europesays.com/2214934/ Community vaccination program reduces pneumonia deaths among elderly in Japan #Aging #bacteria #Epidemiology #hospital #immunization #japan #Mortality #Pneumonia #research #StreptococcusPneumoniae #Vaccine
https://www.europesays.com/2214934/ Community vaccination program reduces pneumonia deaths among elderly in Japan #Aging #bacteria #Epidemiology #hospital #immunization #japan #Mortality #Pneumonia #research #StreptococcusPneumoniae #Vaccine
Carl Zimmer @Carl_Zimmer on His New Book Air-Borne and What Public Health Experts Learned from the #COVID Pandemic | Scientific American (Feb 2025)
#PublicHealth #Epidemiology
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/carl-zimmer-on-his-new-book-air-borne-and-what-public-health-experts-learned/
Sen. Cassidy finally grew a pair!
“Although the appointees to [the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices] have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, #epidemiology or #immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as #mRNA #vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) wrote on the social media site X Monday evening. (paywalled)
Wear a respirator or good quality face mask. Yes, you can develop Long Covid.
Yes, you are at risk of infecting other people.
Yes, you may host the next new coronavirus variant.
You are not magic, but you have people around you who care about you.
You interact with other people who have others who care about them.
Act like the responsible person you want to believe you are.
Mask up, don a respirator, or pretend you're a secret agent, astronaut, cosmonaut, laboratory scientist or whatever else.
Reduce your health hazards to living beings around you.
(Cats and dogs can get covid too.
Filtered air reduces infections for colds, influenza viruses, and other pathogens.)
Me when outside or talking to anyone: https://lgbtqia.space/@nat@kind.social/114727553231833613
Brain worm RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines. He’s gonna replace them all with ‘his people’ - what could possibly go wrong? #PublicHealth #CDC #vaccines #epidemiology #pandemic #medicine #HHS #Republicans #RepublicansDidThis #TrumpAdministration
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/rfk-jr-cdc-panel-vaccines.html
Pandemic Simulator
Role-play a politician trying to manage a pandemic:
Dr. Ellie Murray ScD @epiellie has been breaking down the MAHA report, piece by piece.
If you enjoy looking at bad data, or are interested in learning what is in the report and would rather read a review, take a look. I have been thoroughly enjoying it, as a data nerd.
Parts I & II are currently available:
https://epiellie.substack.com/p/the-maha-report-i-read-it-so-you
I just noticed that the #WastewaterSCAN Dashboard has started tracking #measles.
https://data.wastewaterscan.org/
WastewaterSCAN detects measles RNA from people who are infected with the virus. The detection of measles in wastewater means that one or more individuals in the community contributing to the wastewater is shedding measles RNA in their excretions (feces, urine, saliva, etc). The data are available on our online dashboard.
Augmentation of wastewater-based epidemiology with machine learning to support global health surveillance. #machinelearning #epidemiology #wastewatersurveillance #disease #health https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-025-00444-5
Two articles on the role of #MedicalStatistics in #HealthSciences which are a good #CPD read for both #QuantitativeMethods experts as well as health content experts:
Medical statisticians: Always on tap, but never on top?
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/211342/
And this paper aims to provide guidance on why, when and on what to consult with statisticians when setting up a research project
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/statistical-consulting-guidelines-for-new-researchers-in-psychiatry-and-mental-health-beyond-chatgpt/22BD35892A1760918B5BFBC0EBE5D7C4
Wastewater is more than just a waste product – it is becoming a source of epidemiological insights. With the new EU directive, health-related monitoring in wastewater will become a European reality starting in 2027. The webinar on July 2, 2025, will demonstrate how wastewater-based epidemiology works, which parameters are relevant, and how they are implemented – practical, evidence-based, and future-oriented. #wastewater #epidemiology #wastewatermonitoring #EU #webinar https://www.vermicon.com/company/newsletter/webinar-wastewater-epidemiology
Wastewater is more than just a waste product – it is becoming a source of epidemiological insights. With the new EU directive, health-related monitoring in wastewater will become a European reality starting in 2027. The webinar on July 2, 2025, will demonstrate how wastewater-based epidemiology works, which parameters are relevant, and how they are implemented – practical, evidence-based, and future-oriented. #wastewater #epidemiology #wastewatermonitoring #EU #webinar https://www.vermicon.com/company/newsletter/webinar-wastewater-epidemiology
Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality. Results from a Mediterranean population-based cohort https://www.diningandcooking.com/2076246/only-virgin-type-of-olive-oil-consumption-reduces-the-risk-of-mortality-results-from-a-mediterranean-population-based-cohort/ #ClinicalNutrition #diseases #Epidemiology #general #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #MetabolicDiseases #Olive #OliveOil #PublicHealth #ScientificCommunity
The US should step up efforts to combat its year-long bird #H5N1 flu outbreak and control the #pandemic risk to people, an international group of virologists has warned. The high historical human mortality rate from H5N1 suggests “the terrible consequences of underreacting to current threats”, say human and animal virologists from the Global Virus Network spanning more than 40 countries...Their intervention on Tuesday highlights alarm at the proliferation of the H5N1 avian pathogen now detected in #poultry in all 50 US states, infecting scores of people and causing at least one confirmed death…The US outbreak has spread nationwide since March 2024, affecting more than 1,000 dairy herds and killing or triggering the culling of tens of millions of poultry. At least 70 human cases have been identified, with one person dying in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —The Economist #Virology #Epidemiology #BirdFlu #CDC #HHS #PublicHealth
https://www.europesays.com/2050397/ Increasing incidence of serotype 38 invasive pneumococcal disease driven by the ST393 clone among children, Denmark 2022–2024 #BacterialInfection #Danmark #denmark #Epidemiology #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #Incidence #IPD #multidisciplinary #science #Serotype38 #StreptococcusPneumoniae #WholeGenomeSequencing
Preparing for the Next Pandemic - While the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t an experience anyone wants to repeat, infection... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/02/preparing-for-the-next-pandemic/ #infectiousdiseases #contacttracing #medicalhacks #epidemiology #medicine #pandemic #birdflu #disease #flu
https://www.europesays.com/2038242/ The repercussions of watching scenes of the escalating conflict in Gaza strip on the mental health of adolescents in a neighboring country | BMC Public Health #Adolescents #Biostatistics #conflict #Conflicts #EnvironmentalHealth #Epidemiology #Gaza #general #geopolitics #media #Medicine/PublicHealth #MentalHealth #PublicHealth #Vaccine #war
Really happy to be in York once again for the annual in-person meeting of our grant to develop a better approach to long-term modelling of intervention effects on adolescent mental health and wellbeing:
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX002837%2F1#/tabOverview
You can delve into an earlier version of the model in this paper:
https://microsimulation.pub/articles/00228