This decision analytic model, based on plausible assumptions of immune escape and vaccine recommendations, suggests that maintaining universal #COVID19 vaccine recommendations could save more lives than targeting high-risk groups alone.

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Prof. Mauricio Santillana discusses a PNAS study using 430K+ survey responses from all U.S. states (2020–22). The research reveals how personal choices, politics, and health guidance shaped COVID-19 behaviors, offering a deeper view beyond policy compliance.
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Results from last year's Scenario Modeling Hub COVID projections were published today, timely perhaps 👀 Quoted in www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/h... and article at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Here's a recent #BulletinMathBio paper by Matthew C. Nitschke, Viney Kumar, Katrina E. Milliner, Kristen Hawkes, and Peter S. Kim titled "Evolution of Human Pair Bonds as a Consequence of Male-Biased Mating Sex Ratios?".

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w/ Da In Lee, Thayer Anderson, Michael Z Levy, @alisonhill.bsky.social #EpiSky 🧪

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Wastewater from airplane toilets?
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
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🧵 1/N Our new study on the strength and durability of indirect protection from vaccines and infection-acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2 is published this week in @naturecomms.bsky.social! We find that both vaccines and infection-acquired immunity reduce transmission to close contacts.

Our short course in infectious disease epidemiology and control is now open for applications! I am proud to be the director of this popular hands-on course which will teach you the basics of epidemic modelling in just two weeks! Apply here and spread the word! www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org

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This is a very interesting talk by @scarpino.bsky.social continuing the exploration of the predictability of an influenza season using fundamental and practical methods
www.youtube.com/live/8RslYIn...

The deadline for the Epidemics special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Infectious Disease Dynamics has been extended to 30 April 2025, so there is still time to submit your paper 📝
Feel free to contact me or another guest editor for more information 😊

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/epid...

Struck today looking at the {EpiNow2} contributors page how much work it takes to maintain a package over the long term.

Below link is filtered to just the maintenance period in which there has been no "output" (in the traditional academic sense).

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🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you.
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So good to see this work by Pantea, Mark and Jeremy out in the world. 👏

Our framework for combining standard epi models with an economic dynamic decision model is up on medRxiv! super flexible and excited to see where this project goes next www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good overview of Australia's covid inquiry findings

Australia’s COVID inquiry shows why a permanent ‘centre for disease control’ is more urgent than ever
theconversation.com/australias-c...

Little write up just published on the process and impacts of the Scenario Modeling Hub, a huge effort it's an honour to be a part of 🎉.

The US COVID-19 and Influenza Scenario Modeling Hubs: delivering long-term projections to guide policy doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

Imagine our profession was built so that you could advance your career without moving all the time. Isn't this a huge piece of the equity and access problem? Yes, it is.

Excited our work evaluating covid19scenariomodelinghub.org is out in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41... , with an accompanying piece here theconversation.com/pooling-mult.... Kudos to the brilliant @emilyhowerton.bsky.social for leading this work, and the many other contributors.