Justin Lessler is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Joined February 2015
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@NYTGames why is the wordlebot so inconsistent? My wife and I do wordle together in our phones each night and get insanely different evaluations.
@CJEMetcalf and I examine why it is unlikely that there will be a "warning" for the next pandemic in the form of a limited chains of transmission. If fact large numbers of failed emergence events should often reduce our concern.
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That means the MAHA Report was most likely written by AI. 🤖
The MAHA report made up at least seven of its citations.
Dozens of other citations in the report have broken links, incorrect authors or missing information.
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I've probably treated more measles than almost every doctor in the US and the amount of nonsense I have heard on the topic on this site is staggering.
Bottom line - get your kids vaccinated and then you dont have to worry about measles
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This is horrible & exactly what we are afraid of - measles kills ppl
In ~100 infections in TX, someone has already died
For those w/out vacc- it is not the benign virus you’ve been told
1:5 hospitalized
1:100-1000 die
This will spread further.
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The Trump admin just fired key staff at NIH’s Alzheimer’s research center
- including the incoming director. With 6.9M Americans affected and cases set to double by 2050, cutting research means fewer breakthroughs and more suffering. Patients and families deserve better.
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This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.
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Anyone consider that maybe Elon’s mission, is for Elon to get what he wants, rather than the country to get what you voted for ?
It’s not a shock for Elon , or anyone, to put their personal goals first
Elon seems to be on a mission to protect brand Elon at all costs. No ?
Free Speech is everything. Until it’s anything related to Elon. Who has complete control over speech here on X
The censorship of the platform you adore is in the hands of a single person, who is on a mission to make himself the most powerful person in the world.
above and beyond the President of the United States.
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We all know Trump was a hustler, but hustling women out of the rights to THEIR OWN body is nasty work!! Hustling Americans out of their hard earned money by selling $500 Trump Sneakers, $60 Trump Bibles, and $100,000 Trump Watches is even nastier!! Tomorrow he’ll be hustling you out of your healthcare rights. Donald Trump talks about how he has concepts of a plan… but the only concept of a plan he has is a plan to hustle YOU
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We're on! Genomic epidemiology training for Nigeria's @NCDCgov system, being conducted by @GHRUamr @TheCPGS & partners. xitter.cf/TheCGPS/status/1843209…
Delighted to hear @iruka_okeke kicking off workshop at as part of collective @NIHRglobal CADA programme within the @GHRUamr project on genomic surveillance of #AMR. Participants from sentinel laboratories across Nigeria - focussing on #digitalepidemiology
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FDA Approves Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine for Self- or Caregiver-Administration
First Influenza Vaccine That Does Not Need to be Administered by a Health Care Provider
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We are thrilled to share that our paper on mpox importation risk in 2022 is now published in @JIDJournal: academic.oup.com/jid/article…
A big thanks to our team: @FuminariMiura @mepbphhond_ Jacco Wallinga @sbfnk @JustinLessler @_akiraendo
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Romney with a verrrry different statement on Biden than the rest of his party
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New online course titled “Infectious Disease Modeling in Practice” developed by several IDD members (@Shaun_Truelove @apwez @EmilyGurley3 @alison_l_hill) providing an in-depth overview of several use cases of mathematical modeling. Enroll on Coursera: coursera.org/learn/infectiou…
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Massive effort from the Fluscape team: @SRileyIDD @datcummings @JustinLessler @JonRead15 @kkokwok @adamjkucharski @BingyiY and brilliant collaborators at Guangzhou No. 12 Hospital and HKU. 3/12
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Thrilled to see our work coming out in the @TheLancetInfDis . Effectiveness of one dose of killed oral cholera vaccine in an endemic community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a matched case-control study -"thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
We are recruiting for Research Assistant Professor positions at @UNCpublichealth to work on projects aimed at making epidemic projections and analytics more accurate and more relevant to those who need them most. Consider applying to join our team!
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Let's give a big congrats to @datcummings for being one of only 10 researchers at #UF listed as highly cited by @ClarivateAG! He's demonstrated significant and broad influence in infectious disease research, with multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% of his field.
ALT Headshot of Dr. Derek Cummings in an outdoor setting.