A Homegrown Digital Solution for Ebola Healthcare Worker Monitoring: Development and Drill Implementation in an NYC Health System
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The fate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance remains to be seen, but public health experts say that lasting damage has already been done.
With comments from @drsyramadad.bsky.social and @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social:
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The latest COVID-19 variant, BA.3.2 "has a large number of spike protein mutations, which may help it partially evade immunity from prior infection or vaccination," explains @drsyramadad.bsky.social, but she notes there's no evidence it's causing more severe illness.
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First imported human case of influenza A(H9N2) infection in the EU
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We’re hiring an Associate Director, System-Wide Biopreparedness Program at NYC Health + Hospitals!
This leadership role focuses on advancing system-wide readiness for biothreats and high-consequence infectious diseases
Job ID: 133503
Link to apply:
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Join us on April 23 for “Public Health Characters: Heroes, Villains, and Why Narratives Break Policy.”
Excited to have this convo with Emmy-winning writer & producer Billy Kimball (Veep, The Simpsons, Oscars).
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With at least 95% community vaccination rate needed to achieve herd immunity against measles, higher overall vaccination rates help protect babies who are too young to be vaccinated yet themselves. @drsyramadad.bsky.social says this social contract is in all of our best interest to uphold.
We’re excited to launch the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map, an open-source, interactive tool from @nychealthsystem.bsky.social
that helps clinicians, public health & EM teams track global outbreaks,connect travel history to risk + access critical disease resources
www.biopreparednessmap.org
'Vaccine-Preventable Series: Measles explained—what it does, how it spreads, and how we prevent it...'
@drsyramadad.bsky.social and Tom Hoffman
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To the scientists, clinicians, trial volunteers, public health leaders, funders & advocates, thank you for continuing the good fight. This is what progress looks like.
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Grateful to see this milestone and to cheer on my fellow Netflix co-star Jake Glanville (Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak) and the extraordinary teams expanding what vaccines can mean for global health, pandemic prep, & healthy lifespan.
A proactive, epitope-focused strategy targeting conserved viral regions could redefine flu prevention, moving us from reaction to readiness.
I talked w/ uniformed health workers about their deployments to prisons where ICE holds immigrants.
ICE's operation is especially secretive at Guantanamo -- the place where America flouted its own rules to torture detainees post 9/11.
@wired.com and @kffhealthnews.org (no paywall)
My latest: A look inside the secretive immigration prisons at Guantanamo—and the ethical questions that doctors and nurses face to treat those inside.
Enhanced Code Blue is in effect.
If you see someone experiencing homelessness out in the cold, call 311.
Limit outdoor exposure, use caution when traveling, and check on vulnerable neighbors.
Stay safe and look out for one another
Mayor Mamdani announced an RFI, the first step toward bringing 2-K to NYC & expanding access to 3-K through the citywide child care program. In this brief video, he breaks down what an RFI is for providers & how child care quality will be protected for parents
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A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, the first in almost a quarter of a century. https://cnn.it/4bChcXR
🦠 This #PictureOfTheWeek is spirulina alga, a type of cyanobacteria. They've been around for 3.5 billion years, survived countless world changes, and helped oxygenate the planet through photosynthesis. Listen to our last broadcast to find out what they can teach us about resilience. buff.ly/NoEML3k
The US may be weeks from losing its measles elimination status. But what does that mean exactly?
Writing for @nyasciences.bsky.social, CEID affiliate @syramadad.bsky.social explains this isn't just a symbolic designation, it's a technical time-bound measurement.
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