Brandon Park
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Brandon Park
@_brandonpark
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1/ Dengue fever, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, illustrates the potential for climate change to promote disease outbreaks. We dug into the many ways changes in the earth’s climate have changed the incidence and severity of dengue around the world. 🧵rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/the-incre…






1/ Lab-based PCR testing has been the bedrock of COVID-19 data. Now more people are testing at home, if they’re testing at all, so we lose sight of individual-level clinical data. Wastewater surveillance (WWS) can help plug the gaps, if it’s done right. rockefellerfoundation.org/case-study/tac…

Still working through the hundreds of pages but it’s going to be hard to beat the Sour Milk Story. This is from David Pauken’s testimony.

Every day there seems to be a new headline about how well vaccines work (or don’t work), but what exactly do they mean? Tightly controlled vaccine trials measure efficacy. In real life, vaccine effectiveness is more complicated. 1/7 rockefellerfoundation.org/case-study/the…

Lately, we’ve noticed a strange pattern with breakthrough data—case rates in boosted populations are sometimes higher than case rates in vaccinated (but not boosted) populations. We haven’t seen this trend get the attention it deserves. 🧵👇 1/17

Thanks for organising, @_brandonpark !

Rates are more useful than raw case counts because they take the size of the relevant population at a given time period into account, letting us evaluate risk levels and see changes over time more accurately. 2/12





