#PandemicPreparedness
#BEready
Bolt is ready to race
The world is not ready for a new #pandemic - latest status on Global Pandemic Monitoring Board report gpmb.org

Excellent lecture by Dr. Eva Maria Hodel Universität Bern Seniorenuniversitaet

BEready Cohort MCID Bern

Guten Morgen Kanton Bern! Wir gratulieren unserem Doktoranden Aziz Mert Ipekci MD MPH zum Preis für das beste Poster am Symposium der Graduate School of Health Sciences (GHS). 🥳 Präsentiert wurden die Daten unserer Onlineumfrage zu BEready. #PandemicPreparedness

🚨Timing is everything

Out now 'how to keep a #LivingSystematicReview alive during a pandemic' doi.org/10.1186/s13643…
See Diana Buitrago-Garcia at Poster 270 #CochraneLondon Wed 6th Sept

#COVID19 got lots of people started on an #LSR – but knowing when to stop is just as important

❓How can you update a #livingsystematicreview and keep it alive during a pandemic? 📚

👉We published a practical guide based on our experience during the #COVID19 pandemic:

link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE Diana Buitrago-Garcia Aziz Mert Ipekci MD MPH Georgia Salanti Michel Counotte Hira Imeri

In a Policy Forum piece, Dr. Nicola Low and colleagues define the research agenda for Mpox virus and transmission through sexual contact. doi.org/10.1371/journa… Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE

#Mpox 2022-2023 outbreak is still ongoing and generating research questions about transmission through sexual contact and prevention and societal impact. It was a privilege to work on this research agenda with Muge Cevik Dimie Ogoina CDC STD Aziz Mert Ipekci MD MPH Elimination is the goal

It's the 9th day of Christmas, so 'Assess calibration of model predictions'

Just wonderful

Richard Riley (R²)
Gary Collins 🇪🇺
naughtyboi
Rafael Perera
and Tim J Cole, Jamie J Kirkham, Julie Morris, Angie Wade

bmj.com/content/379/bm…

What's the evidence for #COVID19 behavioural science claims?

'...interventions that combat #misinformation and #polarization , and to utilize effective forms of messaging that engage trusted leaders and emphasize positive social norms.'

Extract from Jay Van Bavel, PhD et al. 👇

#monkeypox 🇨🇭 weekly reporting now BAG – OFSP – UFSP 11 new cases in last week.

Not decreasing

No 💉 yet for those at risk of infection

Prevention still being sustained by strong GBMSM community response, risk reduction, education #solidarity

Florian Vock

Nacht der Forschung is happening now! 🦠🔬🥼🧬🧪
Come join us at the main Universität Bern building on Grosse Schanze

nachtderforschung.unibe.ch

Stonking issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases for
sexually transmitted infections (STI) enthusiasts 🤓

See our letter on global burden of STI thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

And...
#doxycycline for ♀️ rectal #chlamydia
#STIs #MSM on HIV #prep
#monkeypox
Issues for #metaanalysis of #prevalence

Absolutely fascinating potted history of #monkeypox discovery, first animal outbreaks and first human case. Some surprising facts. Thanks Roland Baker via Irène Kostenas

Our living #SystematicReview of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection is still alive 🥳! Check out the updated version of our protocol osf.io/9ewys/

Don’t miss this Twitter space on #monkeypox starts in -25mins!

This is a systemic review done right.

Twenty researchers worldwide spent over a year screening ten thousand studies.

So glad to be part of this fantastic team and contributing to the Covid Literature!

Diana Buitrago-Garcia and co-workers update a living systematic review and meta-analysis on occurrence and transmission of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. doi.org/10.1371/journa…
Diana Buitrago-Garcia Muge Cevik Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE Aaron Richterman, MD Eric Meyerowitz, MD ISPM Bern @geointheworld

Vastly unequal US has world’s highest #COVID19 death toll. “There are lots and lots of ways in which societal inequities are mirrored and magnified in our death rates,” ⁦Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻⁩ said. Excellent piece ⁦Melody Schreiber⁩ ⁦Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social⁩ theguardian.com/us-news/2022/f…

As of today, we have indexed >300,000 publications on #COVID and #SARSCoV2 !
We've compared the first 60 days for articles about the #Omicron variant with those from the beginning of the #SARSCoV2 pandemic...
There’s a new outbreak of articles...

Our #preprint has been rejected by medRxiv 🤔

It's a #LivingSystematicReview on #asymptomatic #SARSCoV2
This is the 4th version. Last version is in PLOS Medicine ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32960881

It's a completely new update.

No reply from medRxiv team

Richard Sever

As of 28.01.2022, we have indexed 295,409 publications:

*20,257 pre-prints
*275,152 peer-reviewed publications

Pre-prints: BioRxiv, MedRxiv
Peer-reviewed: PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO