Preventive and social medicine specialist
Montréal, Québec
Joined September 2009
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Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
An inhaled Covid vaccine booster was more than 5-fold effective for inducing neutralizing antibodies at 28-days, and more durable at 1-year, than shots, vs Omicron BA.5 in a randomized trial
thelancet.com/journals/lanin… @TheLancetInfDis
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
We're pleased to share some of our best reads of 2022 with you, explore what your peers have been reading.
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Residents who wish to become pregnant often face limited options for adjusting their schedules without interrupting their careers. This status quo reflects a need for structural and cultural change. nej.md/3mFaqZS
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Some positive news on Covid
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Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
The future of Covid vaccines that we need now, a new feature @Nature by @ewencallaway, including nasal, for mucosal immunity, and universal, more durable, variant-proof ones with less side effects
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Trying to stay organized while aggregating data for a systematic review? Ask TEAM Trial Investigators @Michelle_Monash and @chodgsonANZICRC how they approached the process: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1vOxwMebrRDGB…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
NEW Opinion: "COVID-19 clearly demonstrated that public health capacity alone is not a guarantor of a robust crisis response, and that governance has been a key determinant of an effective pandemic response"
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Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
À quelques jours des Fêtes, continuons de nous protéger.
Portons le masque et isolons-nous lorsque des symptômes se présentent.
Plus d’infos: lapresse.ca/actualites/covid…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA), 3-4 minute bursts per day, associated with ~40% reduction of all-cause mortality, cancer and cardiovascular mortality nature.com/articles/s41591-0… @NatureMedicine @ma_hamer @M_Stamatakis
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Today is the day! The @Nature #COVIDconsensus paper is now live at go.nature.com/3NtcfCM. All of our recommendations are 100% within human control and we need your help to spread the message to end #COVID19 as a #publichealth threat! #CovidTwitter
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
A new #LongCovid nationwide study from Scotland w/ matched controls, 6-18 months follow up, showed 6% no recovery, 42% had only partial recovery, with "poorer quality of life and wide-ranging impairment of their daily activities which could not be explained by confounding"
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
After 30 years @IHME_UW Global Burden of Disease extraordinary efforts, 180 risk factors for disease assessed w/ new parameter—burden of disease risk function (BPRF)—and a 5-star system
10 new papers @NatureMedicine
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
nature.com/collections/begei…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
“The message is clear: the greater the inequality in income or in access to high-quality care within a country, the greater were excess deaths during the first 2 years of the pandemic”
📣 New Editorial on equity & pandemic preparedness ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/9/e0104…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Check out this brand new article out now in Big Data & Society by Anthony Amicelle from @CEDurkheim on "Big data surveillance across fields: Algorithmic governance for policing & regulation"!
buff.ly/3SAvYC4
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
"We show how this [science-guided] battle got lost on Facebook very early during the COVID-19 pandemic and why the mainstream majority, including many parenting communities, had already moved closer to more extreme communities by the time vaccines arrived"
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
I don't think so:
"In a not-too-distant future, your Prime membership may include a free annual checkup."
wsj.com/articles/dr-amazon-w… by @david_wainer
How nasal-spray vaccines could change the pandemic nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
How we classify countries and people— and why it matters
@Themrise @SeyeAbimbola @CKyobutungi
@Paimadhu
BMJ Glob Health
gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/7/6…
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
An indefatigable force throughout the pandemic, @trishgreenhalgh goes deep to understand the big miss—that #COVIDisAirborne
bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022…
@BMJ_latest w/ @DRTomlinsonEP and Mustafa Ozbilgin
Robson Rocha de Oliveira retweeted
Relevant to new BA.5 boosters for people with recent infection < 2 months
"B-cell responses to booster vaccines are impeded by recent infection"
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
