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@marcelsalathe You can get really high vaccine efficacy numbers if you interchange the definitions of efficacy and effectiveness. We should acknowledge that the goalposts were moved before we start comparing...

Nice to see my paper making the rounds back at Penn State.

My report made CNN news! (1min30s mark) cnn.com/videos/health/… cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

.@CDCMMWR finds an increase in #COVID19 cases linked to a university’s Greek life activities. Colleges & health departments can work together to slow the spread by getting students to wear masks, avoid gatherings, & follow other prevention measures. More: bit.ly/7001a5.

#CDC #Covid Report: Participation in #Fraternity and #Sorority Activities and the Spread of COVID-19 Among Residential University Communities. Women were 70% of infections. Sorority rush cited cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… via @CDCgov

@dawnconneaut Definitely in the trophy case. I wish I had the time to take it out, dust it off, and make some fixes/improvements! Alas, COVID-19 tends to take center stage for a CDC scientist...

@MissRahee It would be very welcome indeed!

@EllsCubed I'm totally addicted. And I'd love to checkout some of those open PRs, see if they help fix the niggles and get them merged. Would that be welcome?

Vax.herokuapp.com has had one heck of a month! Quick stats over 7 years: * >250k unique visitors * >200 countries * >1.5mil games played * >40,000 hours of public outreach and education

@DazedWheels It takes time to get the word out from such a small team...but MicrobeTrace is slowly getting noticed and making the right kinda waves!

@edgerc @flowingdata Anyone want to help me? I've got my hands full with its spiritual successor github.com/cdcgov/microbe…. Know of any takers with mobile dev skills and sufficient time/interest? I could probably marshal a handful more volunteer contributors...

#Vax (vax.herokuapp.com) had its biggest day today. Thanks @flowingdata flowingdata.com/2014/07/31/net…. Even more than launch in November!

@stephenanderson It depends, but in many cases less. While the software necessary is expensive, it's far cheaper than reserving a venue and flying into and housing people in an international hub.

Pricing a workshop. Do you expect the price for the *remote* version of a workshop to cost: —More —Less, or —the Same …as the IRL version? ***Most critically—WHY?

@bmenrigh I've been handling isolation unsurprisingly well, given my penchant to hermit. Are they not doing a virtual event instead? I've on several conference planning committees and we're going all virtual. Some fine products on the market.

I'm not the most social person so this isolation hasn't been very hard on me. I miss a change of scenery more than I miss people. Despite that, DEFCON (and BSidesLV) is my favorite ~10 days of the year. I've been to the last 15 DEFCONs in a row (13-27). I'm seriously bummed.

Interesting. Indeed my own analysis fails to produce a complete contig - but instead results in a long 29.5kb scaffold with multiple gaps where there are simply no reads to fill the void. Some gaps are over 150bp so it’s not a trimming / QC artifact. Also..

I just stopped an epidemic in its tracks! Can you can beat my high scores? Easy: 84% | Medium: 64% | Hard: 84%. vax.herokuapp.com

@LizL0vesMath @heidiandie @MathDenisNJ @MarieWalkerP High praise, thank you! I'd love to remake it with a mind towards mobile but can never find the time.

I just ran across this addictively fun and #relevant graph theory game that models how to stop the spread of a virus in a social network! This may be better than candy crush. vax.herokuapp.com/game @heidiandie @MathDenisNJ @MarieWalkerP

@marcelsalathe I second that motion!

@jimiadams @marcelsalathe We never did, as it was entirely client-side and data was not collected. References in literature:journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… sciencedirect.com/science/articl… It also led to the development of microbetrace.cdc.gov

@SachaEpskamp @marcelsalathe Thank you, this is wonderful to hear all these years later. It has been fun to track Google Analytics over the last month. The vast majority of traffic comes from education/classroom websites and it warms my heart.

@marcelsalathe @EllsCubed Thanks for this! I have been using it for years now in classes on network analysis!

My creation is spreading!

@baileycarolanne @LambSchool Glad to see Vax is still making the rounds in an educational sense. 74% on hard is pretty tough to do!

We have played 4+ network-related games in Dr. Seungyoon Lee's graduate seminars. 10/10 would recommend her courses in the @LambSchool and vax.herokuapp.com. I just stopped an epidemic in its tracks! Can you can beat my high scores? Easy: 82% | Medium: 67% | Hard: 74%.