Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
pbruijning.bsky.social
Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
@pbruijning.bsky.social
Prof. of Vaccination and Infection Control Epidemiology @UMCUtrecht, the Netherlands
Happy to share our recently published paper. Spoiler; overall little protection from pre-exsisting seasonal coronavirus antibodies.
#IDSky #EpiSky
April 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hear hear!
“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪
European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...
allea.org
February 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
Need some good news at the end of 2024? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social has a good post about some big public health accomplishments from this year. 🧪 yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/22-public-...
December 27, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Vaccine derived poliovirus 2 detected in wastewater in 5 European countries. Genetic studies ongoing. Important reminder that the polio endgame is far from over. Timely vaccination of children remains essential.
#IDSky #MedSky
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
Update: Wastewater poliovirus detections in the EU: a call for continued surveillance and maintaining high vaccination coverage rates
On 9 December 2024, Finnish public health authorities reported the presence of poliovirus in wastewater samples in the country. This adds to the recent positive detection of poliovirus in wastewater s...
www.ecdc.europa.eu
December 20, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Major set-back for pediatric RSV vaccine development; mRNA vaccine trials on hold due to safety signals.
#PedIDsky #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Safety signal’ in Moderna’s RSV vaccine studies halts trials of other vaccines for childhood killer
Company found signs its shots made some infected kids sicker than expected, casting a new shadow over the previously troubled RSV vaccine field
www.science.org
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This is concerning, pigs can be infected with other flu A subtypes, creating more opportunities for reassortment. Remember the previous flu pandemic started in pigs 😳.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
First H5N1 Bird Flu Infections in Pigs Raises Concerns
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently identified the nation’s first cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, or H5N1 bird flu, in swine. The infected pigs were 2 of 5 on a noncommercial farm...
jamanetwork.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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Happy to share our preprint on COVID-19 vaccination and excess mortality. We add another peace of evidence that vaccines cannot explain the -still partially unexplained- excess mortality during the pandemic. research.umcutrecht.nl/news/dutch-s...

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Dutch study: COVID-19 vaccinations do not explain excess mortality during the pandemic - Research at UMC Utrecht
COVID-19 vaccinations do not explain the excess mortality observed during the corona pandemic, according to a study by University Medical Center Utrecht. The results show that, on average, someone who...
research.umcutrecht.nl
December 12, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
Looks fun here. Okay my fav thing in stats. How do you get an upper bound for a confidence interval when you have no events? 3/n

The rule of three. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of...
Rule of three (statistics) - Wikipedia
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December 5, 2024 at 10:01 PM
RS season officially started in the Netherlands with GP visits for acute respiratory illness in children 0-4 yo on the rise. (Data from NIVEL: www.nivel.nl/sites/defaul...)
December 1, 2024 at 3:59 PM