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Marc Lipsitch
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This place is getting more sinister, maybe on my way out. Director @CCDD_HSPH Tweets in personal capacity. Didn’t pay for blue check
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I just joined APHA bit.ly/3tPy1KU -- a strong advocate for public health right now. Encourage others to do the same!
Excited to share a new preprint led by Indra Gonzalez Ojeda on a new tool to improve pangenome calling in bacteria, CLARC. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . Passing output of Roary for S. pneumoniae populations through this tool reduces accessory genome > 30%, resolves other puzzles
My profound thought for today: Jargon and buzzwords are opposites. Jargon are words almost no one uses that have precise meaning. Buzzwords are words everyone uses that have little meaning. Clarity is avoiding both.
Just out w @chrisbboyer academic.oup.com/aje/advance-ar… Emulating target trials of postexposure vaccines using observational data. Spurred by great collab with @nycHealthy on mpox vaccines, but applies to any postexposure intervention on an infection to reduce risk of bad outcomes.