Michigan measles outbreak has just 8 cases. The cost to keep it from spreading is approaching $100,000. It is one of 17 new measles outbreaks across the U.S. — large and small — since January. My latest … 👇 www.healthbeat.org/2026/04/03/m...
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Our new paper shows that cervical cancer incidence rates are declining among younger women in the US #MedSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth
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📢 Our next webinar is coming up at the end of this month!
Stay tuned for details next week!
#SocialEpi #EpiSky #PublicHealth
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️
Proposed budget will eliminate NIEHS and fold it into CDC, eliminate NCCIH and NIMHD, merge NIDA with NIAAA. NIGMS gets an increase of $1.1 billion, all other budgets are cut
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #episky #microsky #pedsky #immunosky #publichealth #Vaccinesmatter Vaccination prevents an estimated 4.5 mil deaths annually and has saved approximately 154 mil lives since the expanded programme on immunisation began over 50 years ago
📄 Inequalities in childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine uptake in England before & after the change from a 2+1 to 1+1 schedule: a longitudinal study #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪
🔗: Now published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
📰 Press release: tinyurl.com/yj5drr76
Diagram showing the current infection rates for influenza viruses in Germany over different seasons. Incidence rates for the age groups 0-14 years: 1.86, 15-59 years: 0.58, 60 and above: 1.91, with an overall incidence of 1.16. In week 13, there were 968 infections, compared to 9,416 in the previous season.
This week's influenza infections for Germany. 🦠
This week, 968 infections per 100,000 citezens were detected.
Created on 2026-04-02.🗓️
CREDIT: Data was obtained from the Robert Koch-Institute under CC BY 4.0 licence. #Influenza #Virology #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #Flu #EpiSky #IdSky #FluSky
a screenshot from co-pilot that reads "if this is going into Reviewer #2 mode and you want it exceptionally bland, the first option is probably the sweet spot
I asked my colleague whether by asking the authors to include abc in the manuscript I'm reviewing was me being "Reviewer no. 2"
I later asked co-pilot "how would I write xyz without sounding bitchy"... this was at the end of it's response
#academicchatter #reviewerno2 #MedSky #EpiSky
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️
US nicotine pouch fast-track scheme slowed by worries over youth, new users
Extensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Moringa Powder Capsules
🧪 #IDSky #PublicHealth #EpiSky
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #episky #publichealth
Nearly 5 years after #COVID began ~ 5.3% of 🇺🇸 adults were experiencing #LongCOVID ; 1-in-4 of them consistently report significant activity limitations from its symptoms Disability accounts for most LC diseases burden,
"We intervene and the intervention changes the market dynamics"
Two-sided marketplaces can be a challenging setting for impact measurement.
In the new episode of the Causal Bandits Podcast, we meet Lawrence De Geest (Zoox, ex-Lyft, ex-NBA), a former...
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Important update to the author statement for all researchers 👇
#academia #research #medsky #statsky #episky
Sounds like an excellent natural experiment, who's got data? #episky
Wow this is an impressive article from @verawil.de that I highly recommend. One question-how can one get away with "artificially censored at the moment her actual behavior diverges from the assigned strategy" without making some kind of severe independent censoring assumption? #StatsSky #EpiSky
New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant is spreading in the U.S.—here’s what to know
Infections of the BA.3.2 variant of the COVID-causing coronavirus are still at very low levels, but experts are concerned it may be resistant to immunity from vaccines or prior infection
#COVID #EpiSky #PublicHealth
We Often Think About Randomized Trials as "the Gold Standard" for Causal Inference.
And yet we almost as often forget to ask what information they provide and under what circumstances.
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#CausalSky #EconSky #EpiSky #StatSky #MLSky #ABTesting
1/ GSIDD Transmission Digest: March 2026
ℹ️ The GSIDD Transmission Digest keeps you in the loop on what is happening with GSIDD, from upcoming events to the latest announcements.
🔗: hustling-producer-1761.kit.com/posts/gsidd-...
#IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #OneHealth 🧪
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#GenderEquity & #Academia: Women in academia have almost five times the amount of childcare-related responsibilities that men have.
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Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why www.nature.com/articles/d41...
⌛ Final 48 hours!
Get Bug Detectives: The Epipocalypse for cheap & the End of the Road expansion for free!
Check out the Kickstarter. Learn infectious disease by playing cards. Support indie games. Be the first to get something nerdy.
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Last week in epidemiology - check our weekly Communicable Disease Threats Report - CDTR.
Latest edition focuses on:
- respiratory virus epidemiology
- #chikungunya
- #AvianInfluenza
- #dengue
- invasive meningococcal disease
- #AedesAegypti in Luxembourg
- #measles.
➡️ bit.ly/4uYDqur
#IDSky #EpiSky
📢 #episky #mortality
Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated ☑️
#opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF
Country-specific details in the 📰 metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #Microsky #neurosky #episky #pedsky #immunonosky #vaccine are matters #Meningitis remains the leading infectious cause of neurological disabilities globally, disproportionately affecting children younger than 5 years & populations in the African meningitis belt.
#EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🛟 🫁🧪 🌍⚖️
Environmental Health Perspectives journal, originally published by NIEHS, is now back online @acs.org.
My attempt at an epidemiological look at US Revolutionary War deaths. Thankfully I had the work of giants like Ken Burns and PBS with great data to work off!
#EpiSky #HistoricalEpi #IDSky #WarHistory
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What If We Reversed Bayes to Test How Robust Our Findings Are to Skepticism?
In this week's issue of Causal Python Weekly:
- Lu Qian's new blog post on Reverse Bayes and evidence
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We’ve released our 2023 annual attribution reports for three major foodborne pathogens, if interested.
#EpiSky 🧪 #FoodSafety #PublicHealth
