Natalie Linton
nlintonepi.bsky.social
Natalie Linton
@nlintonepi.bsky.social
Infectious disease epidemiologist and modeler, AIxBio researcher.
Reposted by Natalie Linton
If the ostriches are not culled, Canada will violate its trade agreements for managing avian flu outbreaks. This could cause our trading partners to ban Canadian poultry imports and cut off the entire $2B poultry export market. Three countries have already restricted Canadian imports on this basis.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Natalie Linton
With deportation continuing apace amid the federal government shutdown, advocates speculated that the latest scheme to pay off immigrant children was deliberately timed by ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to minimize public attention.
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation
ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.
interc.pt
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Any eta for the upload?
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Shared this on and was asked: "does it only work for energy score? Does it cohere with forecasting hub targets?"

Any answers for those questions handy?
September 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reposted by Natalie Linton
When the vaccine first came out, the US actually only vaccinated “high-risk” individuals and children born to Hepatitis-B-positive parents. And it didn’t work out well. Disease rates only declined - by ~99% - after making the vaccine a universal recommendation on Day1 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
September 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reposted by Natalie Linton
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, or CBER, was one of the hardest hit divisions.

It ensures the safety and quality of biological products for human use, like red blood cells, immunotherapy, and vaccines.

Since January, the center has lost about 500 people, or 26% of its workforce.
August 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Alas not going to be able to pop over to the UK for this. Any chance of a recording or virtual access?
August 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Do you also have this published somewhere that does not require hoops to jump through? (login, even if you login limited article access otherwise paid). The whole non-open journal model is problematic at this point for health communication even among health communicators...
August 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM