Tomas Leon

infectious disease modeling for state of California

[Midasnetwork @MIDAS_Network]

The California Department of Public Health is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 4th Annual Western States Modeling Symposium, to be held virtually on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 10am PT.

Register: https://t.co/IMo33wB0qO

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

Please submit! We would love to see a wide variety of contributions for different public health modeling topics. @nlinton_epi

[Midasnetwork @MIDAS_Network]

The Western States Modeling Symposium is accepting abstracts for their virtual event on September 12–14, 2023.

Deadline: June 30th

https://t.co/a3Pc2RJjPq

[Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks]

Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

[Ali Wolf @AliWolfEcon]

Select boomers and millennials are looking for the same home but the former is often coming to the market equity rich and less price/rate sensitive than the latter. This has allowed boomers to overtake millennials as the top buyers in 2022

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

Imagine a country in which essential services were a matter of public infrastructure and rights rather than charitable enterprises and the philanthropic whims of millionaires. Non-profit charity hospitals make up about 50% of all US hospitals. Not good.
https://t.co/usAVOf1m74

[CA Health & Human Services @Cal_HHS]

You can now track CA flu cases & hospitalizations in your county and region with the new flu feature on CalCAT: https://t.co/thef7yH55p #FightFluTogether

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@guacamolebio2 Is it a good read?

[Dr. Stephanie Redmond @sa_redmond]

If UC actually bargained in good faith, we would have a @UAW5810 contract after over a YEAR.

I would have had *8 weeks* of leave with my infant, instead of just 4

Daycare & transit support

Instead, I strike - so future parents have it better than I did.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

Fundamentally the “earn to give” philosophy of effective altruism is about reallocating private resources toward public goods. Make money so that you can fund altruism. But we actually have a way less sexy, way more scalable way of doing that, called “taxes”.

[erica pan @ericapanMD_CDPH]

Very proud of our modeling team for adding flu projections to our CalCat site, you can look at by county, region or statewide! We’re seeing an early flu season so get your flu vaccine now if you haven’t already!

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@guacamolebio2 11/07/1922

[Midasnetwork @MIDAS_Network]

Since 2020, the @MIDAS_Network coordination center has been supporting the #covid19scenariomodelinghub's projections for trajectories of the COVID-19 pandemic under alternative possible futures. The scenario modeling team has now moved on to flu...

https://t.co/yrjIpaOWdM

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@SCBriand What are the different questions and the different answers presented?

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

Interesting Q&A. Learned about these but wish WHO had more publications from their social science/behavioral insights groups: https://t.co/OzsuX6PMPl https://t.co/sq7JsjdLNe

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

Always a pleasure to talk to @HelenBranswell. #COVID19 is one of many crises we face, we need to adjust the response to save lives and reduce the spread in the context of these complexities. We can do it.

Thank you for publishing this important conversation.

@WHO @DrTedros

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@theworldmad @paulg Partially confounded by unobserved prior infection - fully vaxxed group probably had more prior infections and therefore more background immunity than 1x boosted group.

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@seabbs Agree. High-impact papers seem like they will remain the coin of the realm in academia. I would love to better recognize academics who have been great partners in our response but the best I can think of is writing strong LOS/LOR when requested

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@seabbs I've been surprised how much publicity generated around a paper matters for translating into high impact (doesn't have to be NEJM but some recognizable brand). I suppose with the sheer volume of work that gets produced that's an inevitable consequence

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@seabbs Academic publishing process aside, what do you think are best incentives to value this kind of work? (Preaching to the choir, FYI)

[Tomas Leon @tomasmleon]

@SadieRyan @m_gitz @UF This has to be a top 10 UI fail