Seth Blumberg

@UCSF faculty; Research: computational models of infectious disease spread @proctorfndn; Clinician: @UCSFDHM @UCSF_ID. Personal: #cancer_survivor

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

Starting a thread for my #IDWeek2024 talk on 'Leveraging Big Data from the EHR to Control Transmission of Drug-Resistant Pathogens'. Would love folks thoughts and perspectives. Will update later with more content

[Sen Pei @SenPei_CU]

Columbia Mailman @ColumbiaMSPH has multiple openings for postdoc fellows supported by an NIH T32 training program. If you are interested in environmental health sciences, environmental epi, or climate & health, please share and apply here 👉: https://t.co/2ZR900QNwV

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

@CatieOldenburg Aw dang! That is frustrating. Congratulations on the amazing score though.

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

@Pres_Hoover_II manuscript considers how the timing if staff testing can be optimized to protect vulnerable congregate populations. Nice work!

[Chris Hoover @Pres_Hoover_II]

At long last, our #COVID19 paper on testing strategies to prevent outbreaks in congregate settings is out in @PLOSGPH https://t.co/pqPd7bUwQN

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

Great article that both addresses the vulnerability of incarcerated individuals to infectious disease and presents a novel method for quantifying the relationship between COVID immunity and transmissibility

[Nathan Lo @NathanLo3579]

🧵1/N How do vaccines and/or natural infection change infectiousness of #COVID19 during #Omicron? Our new article published in @NatureMedicine measures #COVID19 infectiousness, and finds reductions from both vaccine and natural infection. https://t.co/vfAkusbOZT

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

I am confused. Can someone explain to me why the house stalemate can’t be resolved by electing a more moderate speaker with bipartisan support? Why does the stalemate, which is due to a narrow election by the right, have to mean a greater pull to the right?

[@EPPIcenter at UCSF @EPPIcenter_UCSF]

Recruiting Early career faculty with expertise in #infectiousdisease dynamics, computational #modeling & /or #phylogenetic methods. Combining computational /statistical development with empirical (field &/or lab) data is valued!

https://t.co/H41mrRraQ9

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

I just woke up after a night-time hospitalist shift and found myself looking for my laundry in the refrigerator. The difference between being a part-time attending and an overworked resident is that I actually noticed this was weird behavior!

[Gwen Knight @gmknght]

💫NEW JOB💫
I’m hiring a data scientist to work on questions around the drivers of antibiotic resistance.

You’d be joining the great @cmmid_lshtm and @LSHTM_AMR at LSHTM as part of my team working on AMR questions using a variety of microbiological, modelling & economic tools.

[Catie Oldenburg @CatieOldenburg]

Thrilled to start a new chapter today as the Program Director for the PhD in Epidemiology & Translational Science @UCSF_Epibiostat. I love UCSF's interdisciplinary program and am so excited to be taking on this new role.

Interested in a PhD in Epi? Don't hesitate to reach out!

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

San Francisco based opportunity to develop computational models of disease spread (including antibiotic resistance, HAI, trachoma and COVID). Applications for student, postdoc and staff researcher positions are all welcome.

[UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics @UCSF_Epibiostat]

Postdoc opportunity modeling infectious diseases in healthcare, working with @BlumbergSeth at the @proctorfndn! https://t.co/U4yNifByMM #epitwitter

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

80% of republicans and 95% of democrats support universal background checks for #guncontrol - yet no action. If that doesn't imply something is terribly wrong with our democracy, then I don't know what does. It's so sad on many levels. Thank you @SteveKerr https://t.co/N413FIgNUN

[Helen Ward @profhelenward]

Seeing a lot of folk tweeting about monkeypox. Some are experts on COVID19 but not all have experience of emerging disease outbreak investigation. So here are some thoughts.
- It’s not Covid
- Control will be different
1/n

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

Every year, we run an MSc session on the dynamics of monkeypox transmission, and our team have worked a lot on contact tracing & transmission chain analysis for a range of infections. So a few thoughts on current MPX outbreak… 1/

[Connor G. G. Bamford, Ph.D @cggbamford]

Given the recent interest in monkeypox, here's a few things that people should know about poxviruses from a virologist point of view (1/14)

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

Given the anxiety so many are feeling about 92 confirmed #monkeypox cases in `Western' countries, I think it's worth acknowledging that Central and West Africa has seen thousands of monkeypox cases over the past few decades - with relatively little global support

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

@maryaalexand1 Good points. In fact we know habitat change has impacted the rodent reservoir long before COVID started. Have you seen any good evidence that immune dysregulation from COVID has changed the epidemiology of pox-viruses? I haven't seen any myself, but it's worth thinking about!

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

Sharing some clinical and epidemiological perspective on #monkeypox gained from working with @arimoin, @jlloydsmith, and @UCSF_ID. First, if you happen to develop fever, malaise and a rash with little blisters then it’s important to know that the

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

@0sensesince19XX It's an interesting thought! However, even before COVID, I don't think there has been significant herd immunity via smallpox vaccination since routine vaccination in western countries stopped in the early 1970s. So I don't think it's enough to explain the surge of cases.

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

@girlofcelje Luckily, I don't think this is smallpox! But there are several known viruses that are related to smallpox, and monkeypox is one of them. It's not a new virus - we just haven't seen these numbers outside of Africa before.

[Seth Blumberg @BlumbergSeth]

@Rpshahmemorial1 @arimoin @jlloydsmith @UCSF_ID Thanks for the link to your thread. Curious which aspect you see differently. I may have a bit more cautious optimism, but I think we both agree that something is different and the surge needs to be taken seriously!