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Nick Irons

@nickirons.bsky.social
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Florence Nightingale Fellow @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social statistics, public health, urbanism, running, art. njirons.github.io header @odilonredon.bsky.social

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...
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Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health
Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The Air www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-ai…
The Air
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Science @science.org magazine's Breakthrough of the Year is fantastic: an HIV-prevention drug protects people for six months at a time and in two clinical trials showed 99.9% and 100% (!) efficacy in preventing infection www.science.org/content/arti... by @cohenjon.bsky.social 🧪
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Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention
A drug with a novel mechanism protects people against the AIDS virus for 6 months. It could speed the end of the epidemic—if those who need it most get access
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
People are enraged by health insurance denials because they arise when they are at their most vulnerable and least able to respond. Both physical and mental health matter to our ability to respond to the types of administrative demands that insurers rely on. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Huge congratulations to my Florida State Univ Population Center colleagues Mike McFarland and Matt Hauer (@drdemography.bsky.social) on this important and very newsworthy (!!) paper on the impact of leaded gasoline on US public health. #demography acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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August Macke @amacke.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Woman in park www.wikiart.org/en/august-macke/wom…
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Nick Irons @nickirons.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Lockdown decision-making was challenging. Perhaps we can leave room for nuance in our reflections on the pandemic. arxiv.org/abs/2411.12016
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US COVID-19 school closure was not cost-effective, but other measures were
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restrictions. We c...
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