Nancy Fullman
@uwdgph PhD student in #globalhealth. #Vaccineswork, #malaria, #UHC, #COVID19. she/her/hers. Tweets are my own.
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Trump’s COVID Task Force Is Livid Over the Trump White House’s ‘We Ended COVID’ Report
“There’s no world in which anyone can think that is true.”
A Malaria Mystery, Partly Solved: What Happens When the Rains End?
A study in Mali suggests that malaria parasites hide out during the dry season by altering the properties of red blood cells.
COVID-19 spreading half as quickly in counties with mask mandates, KU research shows
Kansas counties that have mandated the use of face masks in public have seen much lower spread of COVID-19 than the statewide average, new research from the University of Kansas shows. The analysis by KU’s Institute for Policy and Social Research...
WHO warns giving up on efforts to control Covid-19 would be 'dangerous'
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows seemed to indicate the Trump administration has concluded containment of the virus is not possible.
HPV Vaccine Lowers Risk of Cervical Cancer Up to 88%
New research found a direct link between the human papillomavirus vaccine and a lowered risk of developing cervical cancer, with vaccinating children before the age of 17 having the greatest impact.
PhD Survival Guide: 7 Tips
If there are cheat codes for graduate school, I want them. Here are 7 tips for surviving your PhD.
COVID-19: Why Vaccine Coverage Is Important
Vaccines are a major public health success story, but the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the many challenges involved in getting a vaccine to everyone who needs it.
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives
The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds.
Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States
A modeling study using case and mortality data from the first 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States explores five potential future scenarios of social distancing mandates and mask use at the state level, with projections of the...
Why Can’t We See All of the Government’s Virus Data?
Since March, federal agencies have been collecting a trove of information. But they refuse to release most of it.
Global estimation of anti-malarial drug effectiveness for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria 1991–2019
Anti-malarial drugs play a critical role in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality, but their role is mediated by their effectiveness. Effectiveness is defined as the probability that an anti-malarial drug will successfully treat an individual...
How to convince people to have the vaccine (even the doubters)
Heidi Larson knows what we think about vaccines — and it worries her. Larson is an American anthropologist who spent years in communities around the world studying their anxieties about vaccines. A
GPEI-Women Leaders in Polio Eradication: Dr Sue Gerber
Wherever she is in the world, Dr Gerber aims to deliver demonstrable impact to communities.
Stringent containment measures without complete city lockdown to achieve low incidence and mortality across two waves of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Introduction An international city, Hong Kong, in proximity to the first epicentre of COVID- 19, experienced two epidemic waves with different importation pressure. We compared the epidemiological features of patients with COVID-19 in the context of...
The Case Against Donald Trump
The president of the United States poses a threat to our collective existence. The choice voters face is spectacularly obvious.
COVID-19 Metrics for United States Congressional Districts
Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences present a public dashboard for congressional representatives as well as their...
Tedros Adhanom on why vaccine nationalism harms efforts to halt the pandemic
Going it alone will perpetuate the economic and health crisis—for all