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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen

@pbruijning.bsky.social
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Prof. of Vaccination and Infection Control Epidemiology @UMCUtrecht, the Netherlands

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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Happy to share our recently published paper. Spoiler; overall little protection from pre-exsisting seasonal coronavirus antibodies. #IDSky #EpiSky
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hear hear!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Nice piece on the massive shift of academics from X to Bluesky; www.science.org/content/arti... #Science #community
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As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Need some good news at the end of 2024? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social has a good post about some big public health accomplishments from this year. 🧪 yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/22-public-...
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Vaccine derived poliovirus 2 detected in wastewater in 5 European countries. Genetic studies ongoing. Important reminder that the polio endgame is far from over. Timely vaccination of children remains essential. #IDSky #MedSky www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
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Update: Wastewater poliovirus detections in the EU: a call for continued surveillance and maintaining high vaccination coverage rates
On 9 December 2024, Finnish public health authorities reported the presence of poliovirus in wastewater samples in the country. This adds to the recent positive detection of poliovirus in wastewater s...
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Major set-back for pediatric RSV vaccine development; mRNA vaccine trials on hold due to safety signals. #PedIDsky #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Safety signal’ in Moderna’s RSV vaccine studies halts trials of other vaccines for childhood killer
Company found signs its shots made some infected kids sicker than expected, casting a new shadow over the previously troubled RSV vaccine field
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is concerning, pigs can be infected with other flu A subtypes, creating more opportunities for reassortment. Remember the previous flu pandemic started in pigs 😳. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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First H5N1 Bird Flu Infections in Pigs Raises Concerns
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently identified the nation’s first cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, or H5N1 bird flu, in swine. The infected pigs were 2 of 5 on a noncommercial farm...
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#IDsky #Medsky Happy to share our preprint on COVID-19 vaccination and excess mortality. We add another peace of evidence that vaccines cannot explain the -still partially unexplained- excess mortality during the pandemic. research.umcutrecht.nl/news/dutch-s... #IDSky #MedSky #publichealth #COVID
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Dutch study: COVID-19 vaccinations do not explain excess mortality during the pandemic - Research at UMC Utrecht
COVID-19 vaccinations do not explain the excess mortality observed during the corona pandemic, according to a study by University Medical Center Utrecht. The results show that, on average, someone who...
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Christopher Jarvis @christopherjarvis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Looks fun here. Okay my fav thing in stats. How do you get an upper bound for a confidence interval when you have no events? 3/n The rule of three. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of...
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Rule of three (statistics) - Wikipedia
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Important research that supports reduced dosing of PCV10 in infants in settings with sustained herd-immunity. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @pedsid.bsky.social @idsky.bsky.social #vaccination
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Effect of a Reduced PCV10 Dose Schedule on Pneumococcal Carriage in Vietnam | NEJM
After pneumococcal disease and colonization have been controlled through vaccination campaigns, a reduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedule may be sufficient to sustain that control at ...
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Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen @pbruijning.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
RS season officially started in the Netherlands with GP visits for acute respiratory illness in children 0-4 yo on the rise. (Data from NIVEL: www.nivel.nl/sites/defaul...)
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