Joe Servadio
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Joe Servadio
@jlservadio.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and biostatistician.

Currently in life sciences consulting in Philadelphia.
New paper on #influenza #vaccination in tropical areas! Published in PNAS Nexus. #episky

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Without strong flu seasonality in much of the tropics, timing annual vaccination campaigns is challenging. It becomes more important to ask WHO to vaccinate instead of WHEN.

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Influenza vaccine allocation in tropical settings under constrained resources
Abstract. Influenza virus seasonality, synchronicity, and vaccine supply differ substantially between temperate and tropical settings, and optimal vaccinat
doi.org
October 8, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Joe Servadio
Hi @epidemiology.bsky.social we have just wrapped up the 4th year of COVID transmission in the US: Mar 1 2023 to Feb 29 2024. CDC recorded 67.5K deaths during this period. Death counts for previous years were 539K (year 1, almost all pre-vax), 443K (year 2, 3 variant waves), & 137K (year 3) 1/
March 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM