I wonder about the methodology of this map, spot checking seems like poorly served communities at best and is there a seasonality? Really need to finish this PhD so I can play with other data. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/h...

Willy Wonka? Mission Impossible was right there... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

It would be cool if they do serology on the whole ship. I'd bet like most rare but severe disease, there's plenty of subclinical infection.

For more than two decades, Nancy Cox ran the influenza division at CDC, preventing catastrophes the rest of us never had to think about. Most Americans haven’t heard of her, but we’ve all been touched by her work.

What a confusing map, it's showing access but the language is about rates. I think someone pointed the LLM to the wrong column. thehill.com/policy/healt...

“Despite Treasury’s conclusion that one DOGE employee would be in a position to cause ‘inestimable damage’ to security interests ... the result was predictable: that employee promptly broke the law and disclosed sensitive, unencrypted personal data to speed along the destruction of USAID.”

Deadline approaching for infectious disease modeling teaching methods special issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

J6 just fully down the memory hole

‼️ Kudos to Dr @jeremyfaust.bsky.social for posting the Covid-19 vaccine paper that Jay Bhattacharya politically censored His politicization of science has been so extreme—& so dangerous Dr Faust obtained the censored paper from “someone close to the study” open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Sad days www.statnews.com/2026/04/25/n...

Having suffered multiple papers going through MMWR, CDC internal peer review is brutal. It's a captive audience of experts getting paid to critique the science and methodology. I've never been paid for peer review in any other journal.

Just posting here for reading later share.google/Wf2ecAFXxaqz...

I know we all want outrage but this multicenter study was just published: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It's amazing how much potential public health data is locked behind a paywall. Looking at you Optum and BioFire.

Excited to advertise a fully funded PhD with @socialinfluenza.bsky.social investigating how influenza virus evolution differs between different avian hosts (and how this impacts pandemic potential). Joint between @pirbrightinst.bsky.social + @cvrinfo.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What a fantastic vignette format. @iuidfellowship.bsky.social

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

Having tried to help control the bullshit on Reddit during COVID, bad science spreads 100x faster than proper review and worse scientific skepticism is usually met with gaslighting and doubling down. Anything to make a buck.

Begging? Nah, loudly questioning why editors are so fucking lazy and stupid? Every single time.

NYT headlines remind me of a line from Aladdin: "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS!!!" "...itty bitty living space" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

SCOOP: The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ED visits + hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half. My latest. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"The protective efficacy of the intervention, calculated as (1−odds ratio)×100, ranged from 71 to 72% with 3 to 12 months or more of wolbachia mosquito exposure, as represented by odds ratios of 0.28 to 0.29." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Deceased coverage across every vaccine. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Couple quick charts re: data reliability. First, revisions: Recent revisions have been consistently downward (although note that January was revised UP). The scale of the revisions isn't unprecedented, but they have been quite large. #EconSky #NumbersDay

What happens when whole hospital systems collapse? Steward was sold for a fraction to other PE-owned systems, is there a hospital economic bubble I haven't heard about?

So pleased to contribute to this preprint on H5N1 spillover from birds to dairy cattle from the Moo Flu Crew, led by the excellent @jevp.bsky.social. We traced both B3.13 in Texas and D1.1 in Nevada and Arizona to look at how the virus evolves and what changed👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Meanwhile medical devices and peptides are wild wild west.

I wonder if Canada and Mexico have genomic data to compare any spillage

CLIA certification takes a lot of time and effort, I don't see testing coming back without some kind of significant staffing upswing. Here's hoping botulism testing endures.

Sounds like an excellent natural experiment, who's got data? #episky

"HHS feels confident that having Bhattacharya remain in his role, without the title, is legal and will withstand any challenges, the agency official said." Just like the incompetent DOJ that likely botched the horrific CSAM case in New Jersey? At your own risk HHS.

Huh, there I went presuming normal things get done....

@germsandnumbers.bsky.social You see this? youtu.be/ESWuWxT5lc8?...

Gonna be a long year.

Cry me a river, dude thought he would just upturn decades of work and process. I highly suggest people watch both the previous ACIP meetings and clown show these grifters put on, night and day.

New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US & 22 other countries. BA.3.2 represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the US since January 2024. Read more: ow.ly/Q50350YxOSv Photo Credit: NIAID

Polymarket is interesting, something tells me the US will persuade PAHO to keep the elimination status though.

I love this. youtu.be/0pvJmxe7LdE?...

Not specifically dumping on AP but journalism and media in general is by far the most to blame. Stop both-siding everything for the sake of impressions.

Such a ridiculous take, I'm about to completely leave the platform because of the proliferation of bots. The only thing Reddit has the jump on is dead internet. www.fastcompany.com/91502976/red...

Two postdoc positions for a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in my Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 13th April. More details at the following link: research.pasteur.fr/job/two-post...

Marco is fantastic!

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled in favor of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and issued a preliminary injunction against the CDC. The ruling pauses the Jan 2026 childhood immunization schedule revisions, blocks RFK Jr's 13 recent ACIP member appointments, and pauses all votes taken by the committee.

Crazy when a satirical late show starts dropping serious journalism: youtu.be/_uBZVJ-iNUQ?...

The panel has voted to approve these flu strains for egg vaccines: A/Missouri/11/2025 (H1N1)pdm09-like; A/Darwin/1454/2025 (H3N2)-like; and B/Tokyo/EIS13-175/2025 (B/Victoria lineage) for cell and recombinant: A/Missouri; A/Darwin and B/Pennsylvania/14/2025 (B/Victoria lineage) #IDsky

Looks like normally circulating coronavirus have recently overtaken SARS-COV-2 on NREVSS test percent positivity. www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...

Might have to get this cover framed

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

Wow that's a bad take.