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Jonathan Stevens

@EpiAA50

COO for ASM. Epidemiologist, Wonk. Rugby Player, boxer, rock climber - all in a good day. Views are my own. RTs are not endorsements.

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Joined February 2016
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Re-reading this for a forecasting exercise - its just as scary as it was in 2019. Attack of the superbugs: July 2041 – What if antibiotics stop working? economist.com/the-world-if/2…
What if antibiotics stop working?

What if antibiotics stop working?

How the world belatedly responded to antimicrobial resistance. An imagined scenario from 2041

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Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo

Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo

Nature Communications - Here, Kim et al. describe a new kick and kill strategy utilizing a single administration of a protein kinase C modulator and latency reversing agent in combination with...

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Scientists dive deep into the different effects of morning and evening exercise sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
Scientists dive deep into the different effects of morning and evening exercise

Scientists dive deep into the different effects of morning and evening exercise

Exercise causes the body to release hundreds of different signals that improve our health in many different ways. Now scientists have mapped these intrinsic signals and how they are released by...

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Big congrats to ASM, volunteer leader, and fellow Tar Heel, Dr. Melissa Miller who received a 2021 Governor’s Award for Excellence, the highest honor given to a state employee for dedicated service to North Carolina and its citizens. youtu.be/j-va4H1b2zA
Covid-19 testing system struggles to keep up with Delta demand politi.co/3BRWm1n via @politico
Face aux drames auxquels sont confrontés les amis de la France, notre solidarité est sans réserve. Au peuple algérien, je veux apporter tout notre soutien. Dès demain, deux Canadairs et un avion de commandement seront déployés en Kabylie en proie à de violents incendies.
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REMINDER! The @BSingletons live networking event with the LGBTQIA+ community starts in 10 mins!! Here's some original art from Johnny Chang to kick off the event! And don't forget to tune in for more Live Art with Johnny tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. ET. #WorldMicrobeForum
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Basically a lesson for all people doing modeling work: try to learn the biology and the experiments before you start throwing models at it. I'm not saying you need to be an expert, but you have to understand where the data comes from, why it's hard, and where the nuance is
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Vaccination rates in some states have hit levels that appear to be a factor in tamping down new cases. Here’s how the race between shots and infections stands, in one chart. wsj.com/articles/covid-19-va… via @WSJ

Covid-19 Vaccines vs. Infections

Vaccination rates in some states have reached levels that appear to be a factor in tamping down coronavirus cases.

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The Blood-Clot Problem Is Multiplying So are theories to explain it. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
Why would a Covid vaccine cause rare blood clots? Researchers have found clues statnews.com/2021/04/13/rese… via @statnews

Why would a Covid vaccine cause rare blood clots? Researchers have found clues

Does AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine cause blood clots in rare instances? Does J&J's? Researchers start to see some clues.

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The best frozen pizzas: meticulously made with artisanal ingredients, available nationwide, with options for meat lovers, vegans, gluten-free eaters and more wsj.com/articles/the-best-fr… via @WSJ
The Best Frozen Pizzas: Restaurant-Quality Pies to Heat and Eat

The Best Frozen Pizzas: Restaurant-Quality Pies to Heat and Eat

No longer a mere meal of last resort, frozen pizza now brings wood-fired flavor and artisanal ingredients home. Here, our top picks, including meaty, vegetarian and gluten-free options.

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U.K. airline executives are hoping for a recovery in service to the U.S. as vaccinations accelerate in the two countries wsj.com/articles/u-k-carrier… via @WSJ

U.K. Carriers Push Air Bridge to U.S. Amid Vaccination Success

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic are pushing for the establishment of a travel corridor between the U.K. and U.S. without requirements for expensive Covid-19 tests and quarantines.

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An HIV lab’s pivot to develop a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’ statnews.com/2021/04/05/covi… via @statnews
An HIV lab's pivot to develop a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’

An HIV lab's pivot to develop a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’

The Editors' Pick award in the 2021 STAT Madness contest honors Dan Barouch's team for rapidly shifting gears and for their work to develop a single-dose, easily shipped and stored Covid-19 vaccine.

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The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020 ja.ma/39ubs1i via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork
The variant gambit: COVID-19’s next move sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
The medicine is the message – Covid-19 vaccines have alerted the world to the power of RNA therapies economist.com/briefing/2021/…
Covid-19 vaccines have alerted the world to the power of RNA therapies

Covid-19 vaccines have alerted the world to the power of RNA therapies

And the molecule has many more tricks up its sleeve

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‘An accelerated cauldron of evolution’: Covid-19 patients with cancer, HIV, may play a role in emergence of variants washingtonpost.com/health/20…

‘An accelerated cauldron of evolution’: Covid-19 patients with cancer, HIV, may play a role in...

Some hospitalized patients with weakened immune systems were shown to harbor mutating viruses months before those variants were discovered in the outside world.

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I have great admiration for whomever built, and securitized, this, external facing predictive hospitalization tool. Even the code is beautiful, like a wrack of bespoke suits made of Kevlar. economist.com/graphic-detail…
Our covid-19 model estimates odds of hospitalisation and death

Our covid-19 model estimates odds of hospitalisation and death

Death rates depend mostly on age, whereas comorbidities sharply raise chances of hospitalisation in young people

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Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine Neutralizes New Variants, Lab Analysis Shows wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2… via @wsj

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine Neutralizes New Variants, Lab Analysis Shows

The Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE retained its ability to neutralize new, more-contagious variants of the coronavirus, including one identified in Brazil, a lab

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