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Derek Cummings retweeted
CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (Gainesville, USA)
Study dynamics of arbovirus transmission in the context of a US NIH funded cluster-randomized trial in Brazil
with @datcummings @uf_idd @MHitchingsEpi
at @UF_EPI @UFPHHP @UF_CLAS
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdoctora…
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Derek Cummings retweeted
5 May 2022
Individual, Household and Community Drivers of Dengue Virus Infection Risk in Kamphaeng Phet Province, Thailand
✅ Just Accepted
🔗 bit.ly/3LM92MD
by @PDGCambridge, @gab_rdsantos, et al.
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Derek Cummings retweeted
10 May 2022
We showed that shift in #demography is the key driver of 4 #decades of rising age of #DHF in #Thailand (8y->24y). Opportunity to make long-term #projections of #dengue based on demography elsewhere.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21… @PNASNews @uf_idd @PDGCambridge
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Derek Cummings retweeted
29 Dec 2021
Mesmo quem teve covid deve se vacinar. Essa é uma das evidências mais robustas e generalizáveis que dá suporte a isso, resultado de uma colaboração entre muitos pesquisadores e pesquisadoras e instituições. Ainda em revisão.
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Derek Cummings retweeted
29 Dec 2021
Em uma colaboração entre os grupos VEBRA e VIGIVAC, nós fizemos um estudo caso-controle do tipo teste-negativo no Brasil. Selecionamos indivíduos confirmados por PCR ou Antigeno, adultos, e avaliamos a efetividade das 4 vacinas usadas no Brasil.
Vale a pena ler os métodos,
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Derek Cummings retweeted
29 Dec 2021
Já tive COVID, devo me vacinar?
Sim, sem dúvida. Como já dizíamos, agora com dados. Mostramos (preprint) que o ganho em proteção é muito grande. Para hospitalizações/óbito, após 2a dose:
➡️ 89.7% Pfizer
➡️ 89.9% AstraZeneca
➡️ 81.3% CoronaVac
Vacine-se
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Derek Cummings retweeted
19 Nov 2021
New research by @UF_CLAS and EPI biologist @datcummings shows that as populations of people gain immunity to dengue, it drives evolutionary pressures that select for viral evolution—and newly susceptible hosts. bit.ly/3HAZUZG @UFNews @UFExplore
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18 Nov 2021
New work led by @LeahKatzelnick characterizing antigenic evolution of dengue viruses over 20 years in Thailand science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… We found that dengue viruses became more antigenically distant from each other over time. 1/2
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18 Nov 2021
May reflect evasion of heterotypic immunity but lots of work to do to understand selective pressures that could give rise to this pattern. With @hsalje Steve Whitehead @wrair Ana Coello @HuangAngkanaT @ufidd and others. 2/2
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Derek Cummings retweeted
4 Nov 2021
Today we hit 750,000 Americans lost to COVID19. We’re on trajectory to hit 800,0000 by year’s end. Those last 100,000 maybe even 200,000 died unnecessarily because vaccines were widely available. They chose not to get vaccinated, sometimes even defiant. They died by antiscience
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Derek Cummings retweeted
2 Nov 2021
Can mosquitoes that harbor an infection-blocking bacteria help break the transmission cycle of certain viral diseases to people? A clinical trial in Brazil aims to find out: bit.ly/3w6VynT Research by @datcummings and @MHitchingsEpi of @UF_CLAS @UFPHHP @UFMedicine
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Derek Cummings retweeted
31 Oct 2021
Last minute costume change this year: I’m going as an academic exercising their free speech. Very scary to some folks, apparently
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Derek Cummings retweeted
20 Aug 2021
Vaccination with CoronaVac was associated with a reduction in symptomatic covid-19, hospital admissions, and deaths in adults aged ≥70 years, finds new research.
Vaccine protection was low until completion of the two dose regimen: ow.ly/HQzs50FV2XQ
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Derek Cummings retweeted
16 Jul 2021
At this point, you are either vaccinated or you are going to catch Delta.
And whether you are young adult or old, when you catch Delta unvaccinated, you will have the highest chance of being hospitalized compared to almost any disease you have caught in your life.
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Derek Cummings retweeted
17 Jun 2021
Our work about individual NPI policies’ effects on COVID-19 spread in the US counties is now out @NatureComms. We found, earlier in the pandemic, multiple interventions were needed to bring Rt below 1. Relaxing some NPIs needs counterbalanced by others.1/3 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Derek Cummings retweeted
2 May 2021
In my latest @TheAtlantic, I reflect on the year of the racial pandemic within the viral one. In sum: People of color were infected, hospitalized, impoverished, and killed at the highest rates, while receiving the fewest medical economic protections. 1/4
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Derek Cummings retweeted
15 Apr 2021
🦟#PLOSNTDs: 'Modelling distributions of #Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus using #climate, host density and interspecies competition' by @BingyiY @DinglasanRhoel @datcummings et al. @EPI_UF
@PLOSNTDs dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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10 Apr 2021
Encouraging news for Brazil. @ScienceMagazine article on our study led by @MHitchingsEpi @otavio_ranzani and @juliocroda. Prelim. evidence of effectiveness of CoronaVac against P.1 sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/…
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Derek Cummings retweeted
9 Apr 2021
UF investigators coauthored the first study to determine the CoronaVac vaccine is 50% effective at preventing COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil where the P.1 variant is widespread. 👉 bit.ly/3mAkvTG
(Nice work @uf_idd @MHitchingsEpi @datcummings!) @UFNews @UF_CLAS @UFExplore
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