Tomas Leon

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Tomas Leon

Tomas Leon

@tomasmleon

infectious disease modeling for state of California

Richmond, CA Joined Kasım 2016
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Midasnetwork
Midasnetwork@MIDAS_Network·
The California Department of Public Health is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 4th Annual Western States Modeling Symposium, to be held virtually on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 10am PT. Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…
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Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro@KarlreMarks·
Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted
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Ali Wolf
Ali Wolf@AliWolfEcon·
Select boomers and millennials are looking for the same home but the former is often coming to the market equity rich and less price/rate sensitive than the latter. This has allowed boomers to overtake millennials as the top buyers in 2022
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

This was an absolutely mindblowing point from @AliWolfEcon I hadn't thought about before. Lots of people talk about how the housing market will get looser as Boomers age/die. But what if they're making the hottest housing markets even worse right now? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Eric Reinhart
Eric Reinhart@_Eric_Reinhart·
Imagine a country in which essential services were a matter of public infrastructure and rights rather than charitable enterprises and the philanthropic whims of millionaires. Non-profit charity hospitals make up about 50% of all US hospitals. Not good. kvpr.org/local-news/202…
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bean counter
bean counter@guacamolebio2·
anyway, "why we lie about aid" by pablo yanguas radicalized me against EA ideals
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Dr. Stephanie Redmond
Dr. Stephanie Redmond@sa_redmond·
If UC actually bargained in good faith, we would have a @UAW5810 contract after over a YEAR. I would have had *8 weeks* of leave with my infant, instead of just 4 Daycare & transit support Instead, I strike - so future parents have it better than I did.
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Jeremy Konyndyk
Jeremy Konyndyk@JeremyKonyndyk·
Fundamentally the “earn to give” philosophy of effective altruism is about reallocating private resources toward public goods. Make money so that you can fund altruism. But we actually have a way less sexy, way more scalable way of doing that, called “taxes”.
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erica pan
erica pan@ericapanMD_CDPH·
Very proud of our modeling team for adding flu projections to our CalCat site, you can look at by county, region or statewide! We’re seeing an early flu season so get your flu vaccine now if you haven’t already!
California Department of Public Health@CAPublicHealth

DYK: You can track CA flu cases and hospitalizations in your county and region. Check out the NEW flu feature on CalCAT by going to: calcat.covid19.ca.gov. CDPH recommends the annual flu vaccine for everyone six months of age and older to reduce the risk of getting the flu.

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bean counter
bean counter@guacamolebio2·
also if anyone ever puts me in a position of power i will fire everyone who stores dates as MM/DD/YYYY
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bean counter@guacamolebio2·
the degree to which i fucking hate exc*l sometimes
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Tomas Leon
Tomas Leon@tomasmleon·
@SCBriand What are the different questions and the different answers presented?
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Dr Sylvie Briand
Dr Sylvie Briand@SCBriand·
How much SARS-CoV-2 viruses should be sequenced? More is not necessarily the best approach given the cost. The question you want to answer should drive the number of sequence needed.
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Tomas Leon
Tomas Leon@tomasmleon·
Interesting Q&A. Learned about these but wish WHO had more publications from their social science/behavioral insights groups: who.int/publications/m… who.int/initiatives/be…
Maria Van Kerkhove@mvankerkhove

Always a pleasure to talk to @HelenBranswell. #COVID19 is one of many crises we face, we need to adjust the response to save lives and reduce the spread in the context of these complexities. We can do it. Thank you for publishing this important conversation. @WHO @DrTedros

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Tomas Leon
Tomas Leon@tomasmleon·
@theworldmad @paulg Partially confounded by unobserved prior infection - fully vaxxed group probably had more prior infections and therefore more background immunity than 1x boosted group.
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@bowtiedpup
@bowtiedpup@theworldmad·
@paulg Why did the first booster have zero effect? Time vs. dose? If so, would imply the benefit will disappear like the 1st booster benefit?
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham@paulg·
Among people 50 and over in the US, the unvaccinated were 14x more likely to die of Covid than those who'd had 2 shots and 2 boosters.
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Tomas Leon
Tomas Leon@tomasmleon·
@seabbs Agree. High-impact papers seem like they will remain the coin of the realm in academia. I would love to better recognize academics who have been great partners in our response but the best I can think of is writing strong LOS/LOR when requested
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Sam Abbott (@seabbs@fosstodon.org)
Sam Abbott (@[email protected])@seabbs·
@tomasmleon What we have seen is that ECRs who focussed on high impact papers during the pandemic have benefitted professionally. That is a worrying signal to send if their work on those papers led to less response work being done and that is what we really value.
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Sam Abbott (@seabbs@fosstodon.org)
Sam Abbott (@[email protected])@seabbs·
A great example of what response work often looks like (and the time demands it places). @BarnardResearch worked exceptionally hard during the covid response on incredibly tight timelines.
Dr Rosanna C Barnard (she/her)@BarnardResearch

Whilst posting our research *output*, I want to note how hard it was in reality... We (shoutout @_nickdavies @markjit John Edmunds) were often working late and under a lot of pressure 😑🗜️🤯‼️ [video recorded at 01:19 on 7th July 2021; I finished the report around 4am😪]

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Tomas Leon
Tomas Leon@tomasmleon·
@seabbs I've been surprised how much publicity generated around a paper matters for translating into high impact (doesn't have to be NEJM but some recognizable brand). I suppose with the sheer volume of work that gets produced that's an inevitable consequence
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Sam Abbott (@seabbs@fosstodon.org)
Sam Abbott (@[email protected])@seabbs·
@tomasmleon TLDR I don't really know but the issue isn't really the scientists doing the work (apart from they are risk averse and so feel like they have to live in the system that exists which is a shame but fair enough).
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Tomas Leon
Tomas Leon@tomasmleon·
@seabbs Academic publishing process aside, what do you think are best incentives to value this kind of work? (Preaching to the choir, FYI)
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Sam Abbott (@seabbs@fosstodon.org)
Sam Abbott (@[email protected])@seabbs·
Note in the thread how ludicrously hard crowbarring response work into academic publications was. We should maybe reflect on that both for how we assess ECRs now and how we evaluate outputs from future outbreaks.
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Matt Gitzendanner
Matt Gitzendanner@m_gitz·
Has anyone successfully changed their @UF #GatorLink password and not been locked out of their account in the process? 🤦 There must be a 🏆 for those that manage this feat...
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