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"GiveWell has long recognized the potential for highly cost-effective vaccine programs. We started supporting #vaccination programs in 2015 and have made over $200 million in vaccination-related grants to date. For example, New Incentives, one of our Top Charities, aims to increase routine childhood vaccinations in northern Nigeria by providing small cash incentives to caregivers who brin…

Podcast Episode 24: Testing New Strategies to Increase Vaccination Coverage - The GiveWell Blog
In this episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Natalie Crispin about how our research approach has evolved and what it means for helping more children access life-saving vaccinations.

California urges mpox vaccination after more-severe strain detected in San Francisco
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-18/mpox-vaccination-urged-after-more-severe-strain-detected-in-san-francisco

Mpox vaccination urged after more-severe strain detected in San Francisco
California health officials are urging high-risk residents to get vaccinated against mpox after a potentially more-severe strain of the virus was detected for the first time in San Francisco.

Back from getting my annual flu shot (only $24.95) at the nearest chemist. Now to wait 3 months until I can get a covid vaccination...
#Vaccinations #Australia

"Americans Believe in Science, Just Not Its Findings"
Also over a decade old. I wonder if it will ever change.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/americans-believe-in-science-just-not-its-findings/3…

Än mer data som visar att vaccination mot bältros minskar risken för demens, framför allt alzheimers
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again! https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-shingles-vaccineagain

Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit

If you believe that vaccination is a bad thing, you should also believe what's written about giving birth:
― A Child born on Monday shall be weak, and of an effiminate Temper, and seldom come to Honour.
So. Do the honourable thing.
Adjust your fucking behaviour, and I don't mean adjustment of the timing to avoid giving birth on a Monday.
#vaccination

Parents scrambling as measles crisis hits Colorado - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/amid-3-confirmed-measles-cases-colorado-public-health-officials-advise-vaccination/

Monoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat #measles in response to its recent resurgence.
David A Kennedy argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by #vaccination.

Modelling SARS-CoV-2 epidemics via compartmental and cellular automaton SEIRS model with temporal immunity and vaccination
J. Ilnytskyi, T. Patsahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.22498 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.22498
arXiv:2603.22498v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider the SEIRS epidemiology model with such features of the COVID-19 outbreak as: abundance of unidentified infected individuals, limited time of immunity and a possibility of vaccination. The control of the pandemic dynamics is possible by restricting the transmission rate, increasing identification and isolation rate of infected individuals, and via vaccination. For the compartmental version of this model, we found stable disease-free and endemic stationary states. The basic reproductive number is analysed with respect to balancing quarantine and vaccination measures. The positions and heights of the first peak of outbreak are obtained numerically and fitted to simple in usage algebraic forms. Lattice-based realization of this model is studied by means of the asynchronous cellular automaton algorithm. This permitted to study the effect of social distancing by varying the neighbourhood size of the model. The attempt is made to match the quarantine and vaccination effects.
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Measles outbreaks could cost the U.S. over a $1 billion a year, if vaccine rates decline https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/measles-cost-vaccine-rates-decline-billion-year-forecast-rcna260734

Measles outbreaks could cost the U.S. over a $1 billion a year, if vaccine rates decline
In 2026, there have been over 1,000 cases of measles. If vaccination rates keep dropping, the costs of medical care, public health efforts and lost work productivity could skyrocket.

With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June,
the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started affecting their grocery run.
“We go to the Costco that was kind of a hotbed,” said John Otwell after his state health department's warnings of public exposures at the store

Babies are ‘sitting ducks’ as US measles outbreak spreads to more states
Dropping vaccination rates have eroded protection across the nation

"Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent."
In South Carolina Measles Outbreak, Vaccine Skepticism Led to Largest Outbreak Since 2000 - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-vaccines.html

@… @… whilst I know none of you personally, it saddens me that things have become so divisive.
I think AI as a talking point has become the successor to COVID-19, vaccination, and so on.

Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’ https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/

This is the first time that the U.S. has applied sophisticated genomic techniques to measles,
which largely disappeared from the country a quarter-century ago because of broad vaccine uptake.
Declining vaccination rates, misinformation, and the Trump administration’s budget cuts and lagging response to outbreaks have fueled a resurgence of the disease.
With at least 2,285 cases in 44 states, 2025 was the worst year for measles in more than three decades.
This year is…

Inside the Effort to Sequence a Thousand Measles Genomes
Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.

another one bites the dust...
#vaccination #antivax #pandemic #flu #uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjw0xegxglo

Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.AO. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.AO/new
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- PLDR-LLMs Reason At Self-Organized Criticality
Burc Gokden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23539
- A Theory of LLM Information Susceptibility
Zhuo-Yang Song, Hua Xing Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23626 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116294632552296883
- Opinion-Driven Vaccination and Epidemic Dynamics on Heterogeneous Networks
Anika Roy, Ujjwal Shekhar, Subrata Ghosh, Tomasz Kapitaniak, Chittaranjan Hens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24403 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicssocph_bot/116294509042613363
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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remaking of childhood vaccination policies
is fueling resistance in labor and delivery wards, where doctors say parents are increasingly hesitant to allow other routine care for new babies.
Half a dozen pediatricians in five states said they are spending more time talking to parents about standard treatments given to newborns,
including vitamin K to prevent dangerous bleeding and a topical antibiotic that protects against …

I had no idea this existed.
A public health dashboard for England, graphing metrics for everything from colds, to measles, to childhood vaccination rates and more.
Fascinating stuff.
#Data #Datavis #PublicHealth #DataIsBeautiful