Winter flu season outlook
A look ahead to winter respiratory virus season
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Caitlin Rivers
Caitlin Rivers, PhD, MPH is the founder and Editor in Chief at Force of Infection. She is the director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the author of Crisis Averted.
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This week in outbreaks: July 28 edition
An update on the summer wave
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Early hints of a summer wave
Covid-19 activity continued to pick up again this week. In both the Northeast and Southern regions of the country, there was an increase in the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.
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Wastewater ticks up
SARS-CoV-2 concentration in wastewater increasing in three regions
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This month in outbreaks: July
News you can use for your summer holidays
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How to save a life
Brush up on the basics on your next coffee break
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This month in outbreaks: June
Tickborne disease, waterborne disease, and more
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Why I write Force of Infection
Later this summer, I’ll mark the one year anniversary of Force of Infection. As I think about the first year past and the second year ahead, I want to
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New mpox cluster identified, H5N1 and Marburg outbreaks continue
Influenza activity remains low, and COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are still falling. Of note, the end of the Public Health Emergency also means the end of several data streams, so
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Adventures in radon mitigation
You, too, can lower your risk of lung cancer.
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This week in outbreaks: April 24 edition
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This week in outbreaks: April 17 edition
And an op-ed from last week, in case you missed it
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