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Encouraging news for Brazil. ⁦Science Magazine⁩ article on our study led by ⁦@MHitchingsEpi⁩ ⁦Otavio Ranzani⁩ and ⁦Julio Croda, MD, PhD⁩. Prelim. evidence of effectiveness of CoronaVac against P.1 sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/c…

🦟#PLOSNTDs: 'Modelling distributions of #Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus using #climate, host density and interspecies competition' by Bingyi Yang Rhoel Dinglasan Derek Cummings et al. @EPI_UF PLOS NTDs dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

In my latest The Atlantic, I reflect on the year of the racial pandemic within the viral one. In sum: People of color were infected, hospitalized, impoverished, and killed at the highest rates, while receiving the fewest medical + economic protections. 1/4 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Our work about individual NPI policies’ effects on COVID-19 spread in the US counties is now out Nature Communications. We found, earlier in the pandemic, multiple interventions were needed to bring Rt below 1. Relaxing some NPIs needs counterbalanced by others.1/3 nature.com/articles/s4146…

At this point, you are either vaccinated or you are going to catch Delta. And whether you are young adult or old, when you catch Delta unvaccinated, you will have the highest chance of being hospitalized compared to almost any disease you have caught in your life.

Saiu o segundo artigo público do grupo VEBRA COVID-19. Agradeço imensamente a parceira com o Otavio Ranzani e @MHitchingsEpi e todos os demais autores. Pessoas extraordinários. Previlégio poder discutir ciência com vocês. bmj.com/content/374/bm…

Vaccination with CoronaVac was associated with a reduction in symptomatic covid-19, hospital admissions, and deaths in adults aged ≥70 years, finds new research. Vaccine protection was low until completion of the two dose regimen: ow.ly/HQzs50FV2XQ

Last minute costume change this year: I’m going as an academic exercising their free speech. Very scary to some folks, apparently

Can mosquitoes that harbor an infection-blocking bacteria help break the transmission cycle of certain viral diseases to people? A clinical trial in Brazil aims to find out: bit.ly/3w6VynT Research by Derek Cummings and @MHitchingsEpi of UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences UF College of Public Health & Health Professions UF Medicine

Today we hit 750,000 Americans lost to COVID19. We’re on trajectory to hit 800,0000 by year’s end. Those last 100,000+ maybe even 200,000 died unnecessarily because vaccines were widely available. They chose not to get vaccinated, sometimes even defiant. They died by antiscience

New research by UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and EPI biologist Derek Cummings shows that as populations of people gain immunity to dengue, it drives evolutionary pressures that select for viral evolution—and newly susceptible hosts. bit.ly/3HAZUZG University of Florida News @UFExplore

Já tive COVID, devo me vacinar? Sim, sem dúvida. Como já dizíamos, agora com dados. Mostramos (preprint) que o ganho em proteção é muito grande. Para hospitalizações/óbito, após 2a dose: ➡️ 89.7% Pfizer ➡️ 89.9% AstraZeneca ➡️ 81.3% CoronaVac Vacine-se medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Em uma colaboração entre os grupos VEBRA e VIGIVAC, nós fizemos um estudo caso-controle do tipo teste-negativo no Brasil. Selecionamos indivíduos confirmados por PCR ou Antigeno, adultos, e avaliamos a efetividade das 4 vacinas usadas no Brasil. Vale a pena ler os métodos,

Mesmo quem teve covid deve se vacinar. Essa é uma das evidências mais robustas e generalizáveis que dá suporte a isso, resultado de uma colaboração entre muitos pesquisadores e pesquisadoras e instituições. Ainda em revisão. Vacine-se

Individual, Household and Community Drivers of Dengue Virus Infection Risk in Kamphaeng Phet Province, Thailand ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/3LM92MD by @PDGCambridge, Gabriel Ribeiro dos Santos, et al.

We showed that shift in #demography is the key driver of 4 #decades of rising age of #DHF in #Thailand (8y->24y). Opportunity to make long-term #projections of #dengue based on demography elsewhere. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… PNASNews UF IDDynamics @PDGCambridge

CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (Gainesville, USA) Study dynamics of arbovirus transmission in the context of a US NIH funded cluster-randomized trial in Brazil with Derek Cummings UF IDDynamics @MHitchingsEpi at Emerging Pathogens Institute UF College of Public Health & Health Professions UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdocto…

VEBRA COVID-19 group Otavio Ranzani Natalie E. Dean, PhD Derek Cummings @MHitchingsEpi Jason Andrews