Infectious disease epidemiologist with Public Health Ontario and Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Joined December 2010
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Kevin Brown retweeted
Tonight the #CNTower will be lit light blue and blue for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en bleu clair et bleu pour la Semaine mondiale pour un bon usage des antimicrobiens
ALT Closeup of the CN Tower at night lit light blue and blue / Gros plan de la Tour CN illuminée en bleu clair et bleu la nuit.
Job opportunity for infectious disease modeller at Public Health Ontario working on respiratory virus shedding dynamics at individual and population levels
publichealthontario.wd10.myw…. Closes tonight at 11.59PM
Kevin Brown retweeted
Disconcerting news about #ProMED, an invaluable service that should really be treated as a global public good.
"ProMED, an early warning system on disease outbreaks, appears near collapse"
statnews.com/2023/08/03/prom…
Kevin Brown retweeted
A suggestion for visualising and predicting the effects of new variants using "variant pressure", a quantity that can be calculated from the proportion of each variant. Shown here is variant pressure for the BA.2 and BA.5 waves in the UK, with a comparison to infection numbers.
Kevin Brown retweeted
In Denmark, BA.2 was introduced earlier and has outcompeted BA.1.
As in the UK, BA.2 has the greatest growth advantage, followed by BA.1.1.
BA.1 and BA.1.1 cases have been falling (r < 0) in recent weeks.
BA.2 has been growing throughout, but appears to be peak now.
New work out in JAMA today. Main findings: (1) VOC cases are 49% more transmissible than non-VOC, (2) variant cases increased even during the 6-week province-wide lockdown (Dec 26 to Feb 9) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
SARS-CoV-2 with S-gene target failure, a proxy for B.1.1.7, is rising rapidly in parts of the GTA. Work with PHO and Dynacare colleagues @LeeGoneau medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Kevin Brown retweeted
I'm worried this is happening across the country with communities that are hit hard not the ones getting vaccinated
Solution is not to slow things down with complex rules
Its to use data to track and proactively target efforts to ensure highest risk folks are not left behind
Uptick in the yellow curve has me very worried. Community-dwelling older folk are representing an increasing portion of cases in Wave 2. publichealthontario.ca/-/med…
Worldwide COVID-19 case counts in a usable format thanks to the EU CDC
ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicatio…
Sums up my thoughts on #KingStreetPilot! xitter.cf/GraphicMatt/status/930…
Delighted the #kingstreetpilot seems to be working well, but also a little bit mad. If change was this easy, why did we spend so long doing nothing?
Beall's list is down - for reasons unknown. I hope this essential information source on predatory journals and publishers is back soon xitter.cf/lacey_earle/status/821…
@CabellsPublish stands behind close personal friend @Jeffrey_Beall who was forced to shut down blog due to threats & politics #academicmafia
Public health VS the NRA. It'll be interesting to see who wins this All American battle. washingtonpost.com/news/to-y…