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The DRIVE Project bids farewell after 5 prolific years with its final Annual Forum, which took place in Brussels (and virtually) on the 8th of June, 2022. drive-eu.org/index.php/2022…

Yup, recognize this one!

Important influenza burden of disease metrics coming from this French paper: ▶️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35014194/ ▶️ Overall, ratio of hospitalisations to deaths is 20:1 ▶️ Ratio varies by age group (see Table): it is 10:1 for the 80+ age group and 100:1 for the <20 age group

The geopolitical impacts of COVID policy will be seen in a decade or less. Countries that prevented infection will have healthy populations. Countries that did not will be incapacitated by chronic disease and disability.

NEW: Integrated influenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance platform launched by WHO ▶️ tinyurl.com/v7a5cf68

Good news from Florida: the percentage of emergency visits for RSV among children aged 0-4 years is now clearly decreasing

Excellent comparison of mucosal immunity between COVID vax and COVID infections. By the excellent Jie Sun. While memory B, CD4 T, and CD8 T responses are robust to vax in blood (PBMC), memory present locally in lungs is much higher after infection. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New Science Magazine on the science of the origin of #SARSCoV2 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

There are 5 studies that show reduction of mortality for a 2nd booster (vs 1st booster), in people ranging from age 50+ to 80+, as I've tried to summarize here. All during Omicron and subvariants.

A year ago we open-sourced #AlphaFold Today we're freely sharing the predicted structures of all 200M+ proteins known to science - almost the entire protein universe! It's our gift to humanity, and a demonstration of the benefits AI can bring to society dpmd.ai/AF-22-LI

The issue also includes another important social sciences paper showing that women are credited less for their scientific contributions than men nature.com/articles/s4158…

Climate change and digital health are going to become a major topic very quickly. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The 17th World Congress on Public Health will take place in Rome 2 to 6 May 2023, organized by @WFPHA with ASPHER and @sitinazionale. The theme is “A World in Turmoil: Opportunities to Focus on the Public’s Health”. All info available on wcph.org

incredibly well written review of COVID19 along 6 false dichotomies. Must read for everyone with a real interest in Covid science . Spoiler: not black and wide but shades of grey and those need to be communicated. Really great work bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Jason Kindrachuk, PhD

The use of high-quality masks (like N95/KN95 respirators) by patients, compared with surgical masks, substantially reduced Covid infections among nearly 4,000 health care workers jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… JAMA Network Open

Margherita Bertè @marghe_berte, borsista Lagrange di Fondazione ISI sostenuta da Fondazione CRT, illustra ad @OgrTorino la ricerca di ISI Foundation su divari di genere & impiego in Italia.

Our work on #innovative epidemiological surveillance of #SurgicalSiteInfections is on the move. Well done Luigi, waiting for you to finalize the work started at the #schoolofPublicHealth in Pisa!

Here are the costs in the US of the monoclonal antibody (Nirsevimab) to protect infants from RSV: 500 USD = 475 Euros Very nice article explaining the challenges of implementing this intervention when the issues of reimbursement are not clear cnn.com/2023/10/04/hea…