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Highgate April 2025 :-)

unprecedented protests this morning on heard and macdonald islands, as the population rises up against trump imposition of 10% across the board tariffs.

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Margate :-)

This is a very interesting piece - worth reading! There’s a reason why it feels like the internet has gone bad www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/b...

BBC News - Ros Atkins on...Elon Musk's political interventions - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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London Something old, something new...

Hello Bluesky! We’re Applied Epi! What do we want? To improve Applied Epidemiology worldwide! When do we want it? Well probably in an achievable timeframe that doesn’t completely destroy a much needed and already existing infrastructure that is overburdened!

Good morning London :-)

Here a few thoughts about social media. It seems as if we may be moving into the post-social media era. Many people have realised by now that platforms like X have had their time. There will continue to be people there who will shout and scream for a while. 1/

Here a few thoughts about social media. It seems as if we may be moving into the post-social media era. Many people have realised by now that platforms like X have had their time. There will continue to be people there who will shout and scream for a while. 1/

An effective treatment for depression from a systematic review of >200 unique RCTs: Exercise. Benefit proportional to intensity of exercise prescribed www.bmj.com/content/384/...

Job opportunity! Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling - working in Health Economics in collaboration with Mathematical Epidemiology. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I am getting fed up with people bickering over LC. It exists, it is bad, and it needs solutions and treatments. What it does not need is unfair comparisons. What I mean is that we cannot compare incidence during a pandemic with incidences of endemic infections. 1/9

Vaccines reduced deaths by 57% overall, representing ∼1.4 million lives saved in those aged ≥25 years: 96% of lives saved were aged ≥60 years and 52% were aged ≥80 years; first boosters saved 51%, and 67% were saved during the Omicron period. 2/2

Just for fun, I took @JWeiland’s (Twitter) wastewater-to-infections calibration and asked: How often on average are people infected with covid in the US? Is the rate increasing or decreasing? A thread. 1/🧵 twitter.com/JPWeiland/st...

Hi :-) Just arrived - here to learn and reflect. Who do you find inspiring interesting to follow?