Joanne Hewitt Same picture in most EU countries. We just reviewed yesterday the situation with our National Contact Points during our monthly meeting. European Commission EU_ScienceHub #EU4S

We have to assume every flight✈️ carries #COVID19 while pandemic still raging. 96% of flights positive for COVID in toilet wastewater is a lot. Assume in air too. Please #MaskUp unless you want to play Russian roulette with #LongCovid. #COVIDIsAirborne. audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/n…

Covid-19 testing all travellers from China is a policy that won't last long. Sentinel traveller testing for early detection of variants? Maybe. The lasting discussion is about wastewater and surface testings of airports and airplanes. Use a multi-nation, transparent approach.

I don't recall an article from Cell that starts with the word, "alarming". "Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants." cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Healthy lifestyle and your risk of chronic kidney disease. 🫘 projectbiglife.ca/ckd/calculator Thank you to the respondents of the Statistics Canada and linked data at ICES! Manish M Sood MD

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📢📢 We are developing a framework for evaluating wastewater surveillance. We are looking for a member of the public to join our team to ensure that the public interest is represented. DM me if you or someone you know is interested. You don't need research experience.

This is HUGE. Google's new medical LLM, Med-PaLM 2, scored 86.5% on the medical exam MedQA 🤯 Not only that, but a panel of 15 human doctors preferred Med-PaLM 2's answers over real doctor answers across 1066 standardized questions. Does this mean that doctors are going to be

UK's Biological Security Strategy is out. A good starting point. gov.uk/government/pub…

DYK: Canada's population passed the 40 million mark on June 16. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-…

New webinar on July 13th in collaboration with #CETESB (BR). We will discuss structuring an epidemiological surveillance database based on #WBS and the challenges of conducting environmental surveillance of poliovirus in sewage. Doug Manuel Javier Martin,COVIDPoops19, Wastewater-Based_EpidemiologyPapers

COVIDPoops19 Bilge Alpaslan-Kocamemi Türkiye Su Enstitüsü (SUEN) European Commission RIVM Creation of the Global Consortium …

Monday 21st, #EU4S-DEEP launched a brief inquiry amongst its contacts from all over the world, regarding the detection of the EG.5 and BA.2.86 COVID variants in wastewater. Until now we got 36 responses from 22 distinct countries, grouped like this:

Health Canada has launched a 60-day public consultation of the draft pre-market guidance for Machine Learning-Enabled Medical Devices (MLMD). canada.ca/en/services/he…

An evidence-based diet calculator developed by Dr. Mahsa Jessri University of British Columbia. Takes 15 mins. Retweet if you learned something new or you were motivated to make a change. projectbiglife.ca/dietary-patter…. Developed based on eating habits of 13,000 Canadians from Statistics Canada CCHS survey.

@CJPH_JCSP marks 50 years of the Lalonde Report, with Laura Rosella outlining the journal's vision under her new editorship. "Both a challenge and a gift of public health is that it touches the full continuum of the human experience more than any other discipline."