Julianna Ianni

COVID and development delays. This study reports: COVID+ during pregnancy associated with 2x rates of their babies DX'd w/developmental delays than controls (6.3% vs 3.0% respectively) What could COVID infection(s) be doing to kids' development, even after they're born?

Saving this for when my 3 year old daughter goes out to raise venture capital

PMC COVlD Update, August 18, 2025 Very High Transmission: Alaska, Guam, Hawai'i, Nevada, Texas, Utah High Transmission: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina Data note: The CDC made a major update to how it processes and provides wastewater data on Friday, August 15. The changes include the following: 1) There are some inconsistencies in label descriptions on the website (e.g., top of the page says "Very Low" or "Low" but graph says "Moderate"). 2) They have reclassified how they bin states into categories, which may put more states in the Very Low or Low categories than before. 3) They have switched from "normalized" data that accounts for confounders like rainfall levels to non-normalized data. The overall effect of this nationally appears minimal, but it may reduce data quality at the state or site level. The changes came as we were about to release Version 3.0 of the forecasting model, which now requires additional effort. We hope to have the next dashboard update on August 25, have provided this week's updated heat map on the website, and include the graphics and report from last week on the website too. At present, new daily infections appear to top 700,000 in the U.S., but we will not know for a week or two whether real-time reports from the CDC are still reasonably reliable. The uptick the past week was very large, meaning the situation is much worse if the data hold. Stay tuned.

So what's happening with medical research in the US? This is the cumulative award count from the NIH for the year. Doesn't look so good. But it gets worse. 1/