Seth Edmunds
@phealthy
Epidemiology PhD, MPH --- interested in infectious disease dynamics and novel surveillance systems
So I've never been on kalshi before but truly something for everyone: kalshi.com/category/sci...
Chef's kiss to hang a scroll depicting a Confucianist proverb on humility behind her.
The incidence of Covid-19 was lower in the ensitrelvir group than in the placebo group (2.9% vs. 9.0%; risk ratio, 0.33; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.22 to 0.49; P<0.001). www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Willy Wonka? Mission Impossible was right there... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...
What a confusing map, it's showing access but the language is about rates. I think someone pointed the LLM to the wrong column. thehill.com/policy/healt...
I know we all want outrage but this multicenter study was just published: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Polymarket is interesting, something tells me the US will persuade PAHO to keep the elimination status though.
Looks like normally circulating coronavirus have recently overtaken SARS-COV-2 on NREVSS test percent positivity. www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
Okay, map is back and working again. Mexico data is pulled from: www.gob.mx/salud/docume... Canada: health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rube... USA: github.com/CSSEGISandDa...
Interesting syndromic surveillance, doubt you'd ever see sustainable funding for a surveillance system. We'll likely forever be stuck with commercial panel reporting:
I always wonder where the "other side" gets (mis)information and then I come across book lists like this:
Am I reading this wrong? Did Virginia get their vaccine budget cut to a third of the proposed? budget.lis.virginia.gov/item/2025/1/...
It's funny that OSC isn't on that list and the US attorneys office isn't shitposting Hatch Act Violations. In fact, OSC has a sane closure announcement
This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Florida wanting to remove state vaccine mandates, let's of course not forget the current worst state for exemptions: Texas, 2019-20 and 2024-25