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Behold! President Biden has unveiled the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope, which launched in December. Here, we see the deep field SMACS 0723, in which a galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying thousands of extremely distant galaxies.

#ICYMI: World Health Organization (WHO) published a new global genomic surveillance strategy for pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential. Watch to learn more about why genomic surveillance is so critical for pandemic prevention. Chikwe Ihekweazu Dr Sylvie Briand Mike Ryan Rick Bright CDC FIND Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Something I missed yesterday about the Ebola Sudan outbreak in Uganda: Some of the cases have been found in a refugee settlement. Not good. h/t to Caitlin Rivers & ProMED. promedmail.org/promed-post/?i…

Uganda's health ministry is reporting the case count in their current #Ebola Sudan outbreak is 34 cases, 21 deaths. This already makes it in the top 20 of all recorded Ebola outbreaks, and it was only confirmed less than a week ago. 1st suspected death was in early August.

Applications are now open for the newest class of our Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) Fellowship! #ELBI inspires + connects the next generation of #biosecurity leaders and innovators. Learn how to apply thru Nov. 11: centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/emerg…

For this piece, I signed up for several job boards as a childcare worker with a high school degree. I was inundated with higher paid opportunities in fast food, hospital staffing, cleaning. My dive into the broken market for American childcare: nytimes.com/2022/10/13/us/…

Life expectancy changes during the Covid pandemic among 29 countries: the US among the most pronounced reduction. Several countries had bounce back improvement in 2021 (black arrows below). Vaccination uptake was correlated w/ less deficit nature.com/articles/s4156… Nature Human Behaviour

We just completed the quite valuable Catastrophic Contagion pandemic exercise in Brussels, in partnership with Gates Foundation and World Health Organization (WHO) at the Grand Challenges annual meeting 1/x

Just finished this yr's Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative. Fantastic Fellows from US and around the world - already making so many valuable contributions. Their positive impact in the world will only grow in the years ahead-thanks to all for being part of the program!

A snapshot of 2022-23 influenza testing at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals compared to the previous 5 influenza seasons... #influenza

Glad the American Academy of Pediatrics stepped up & asked President Donald J. Trump to declare emergency "Infants 6 months & younger are getting hospitalized w/ RSV at more than 7x rate observed b4 the Covid-19 pandemic in 2018, according to data from CDC." Cc Protect Their Future (Formerly @ImmunizeUnder5s) CDC Director /1 cnbc.com/2022/11/18/bid…

The contact follow-up rate in the Ugandan Ebola response seems to have been steadily declining over the last few reports. A 53% follow-up rate of contacts is ... worrisome (especially when this number has frequently been >85%). Hopefully just a blip. afro.who.int/sites/default/…

Incredibly powerful & important New York Times Opinion by ⁦Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦⁩ on how vaccine disinformation agents cause public harm & re-traumatize families with recent loss. Celine shouldn’t have had go through this. No one should. nytimes.com/2023/01/08/opi…

Cool real-world evidence that we have an attention “budget” that is depleted by difficult decisions Umpires pay more attention to more important calls, but any such moments of high attention result in more errors later in the game when attention runs out! nber.org/papers/w28922

After 3 years of 24/7 effort, the Johns Hopkins University COVID Resource Center Dashboard will cease to update. We thank all involved for their invaluable contribution to #publichealth. Beth Blauer Lauren Gardner Crystal Watson, DrPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health International Vaccine Access Center at BSPH Johns Hopkins Medicine

🟡 Given the ⬆️ detection of outbreaks of avian influenza in birds in the Americas and the confirmation of the first human infection of influenza A(H5N1), PAHO shared guidance for health authorities. 🦆🦠 📄 For more information, please visit: sge.st/cPMgL2k

The new UK Biosecurity Strategy is out. You can check it out here: gov.uk/government/pub…

Congratulations Caitlin Rivers & Crystal Watson, DrPH on fantastic new initiative to help move the work of CDC's Center for Forecasting + Analytics forward. Excited that this project will increase the value of infectious disease models to public health and to the public across the country

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best