exciting news for the RSV field as @GAVI approves the opening of a funding window for the establishment of a maternal RSV vaccine programme
www.gavi.org/news/media-r...

great annotation of this photo by Dr. Emily Willoughby emilywilloughby.com

Happy Birthday to Rosalind Franklin! Photograph 51, taken by her PhD student Raymond Gosling, was key to solving the structure of DNA

for a more detailed description of the background to the paper and our findings see this thread x.com/Williams_T_C...

our new paper just out in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social show that the new maternal RSV vaccine is highly effective in a real world setting- we estimated that it prevented 72% of hospital admissions with RSV infection when given more than two weeks before birth www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 1/n

we face a similar, slow burning problem closer to home here in Scotland, with childhood vaccination rates consistently falling over time publichealthscotland.scot/publications...

this is a sober, detailed and well-informed response to the clear vaccine misinformation provided on national TV by @rfk-junior.bsky.social, Secretary of State for Health and Human Services in the United States

there is also a real-time, interactive dashboard for this living review v1xerunt.github.io/VaccineUptak... which will be very helpful in seeing how interventions continue to be rolled our globally

congratulations to Daira Trusinska and @ting-shi.bsky.social for their paper just out in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social looking at uptake of new RSV immunisation products: nirsevimab, maternal vaccination, and vaccination for older adults www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@who.int has just published a comprehensive summary paper on immunisation approaches to protect infants against RSV disease:
www.who.int/publications...

the BronchSTOP study has a live dashboard which summarised recruitment and virology in RSV vaccine eligible infants this past 2024-2025 winter bronchstop.netlify.app
we now have a tab where you can find a link to our papers so far ,

"The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less"

they all turned out to be very effective, as assayed by a reduction in sweat chloride