Marc Trotochaud
@TrotochaudMarc
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Health communicator interested in outbreaks, biotech, and climate change.
Baltimore, MD
Joined July 2018
🌟 Congrats to our doctoral student Annie Sundelson, PhD candidate in @JohnsHopkinsEHE, for receiving a Lipitz Public Health Award. 🎉 🏆 This award will help support Annie's dissertation research! ➡️ https://t.co/M2wqcLdAuL
publichealth.jhu.edu
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Excited to launch a new playbook that supports practitioners in recognizing and responding to public health #misinformation! This team effort was led by Senior Scholar @skirkell. Access it here:
centerforhealthsecurity.org
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security launched the Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Rumors. The playbook guides users in preparing for and responding to health rumors, which is a...
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For the first time ever, there are vaccines for 3 of the worst respiratory diseases we face in cold-and-#flu season. But significant numbers of Americans aren't planning on getting them, a new survey suggests.
statnews.com
Vaccination rates against flu and Covid-19 have declined since earlier in the pandemic and a new survey suggests significant portions of the U.S. population intend to forgo these vaccines this fall.
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Applications for the @JHSPH_CHS Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) Fellowship are now open! The program is open to international experts from all disciplines related to biological security and now has over 300 alumni. Apply by 16 October! https://t.co/nysQmf57hZ
centerforhealthsecurity.org
Applications are now open for the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) Fellowship Class of 2024.
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My colleague Michael Montague (also affiliated with @FHIOxford) is not on Twitter, so I am happy to share his new preprint that challenges assumptions about how to prepare for high-consequence biological threats.@anderssandberg @cassidyknelson @JHSPH_CHS
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Hard yes- Will climate change amplify epidemics and give rise to pandemics? | Science
science.org
While the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, another crisis continues to spiral at a much faster speed than was expected. Climate change is dominating our lives and causing a high level of...
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J&J ends R&D at Janssen's infectious disease and vaccine unit. Bad news for vaccine research & development.
fiercebiotech.com
More than six months after Johnson & Johnson merged its infectious disease and vaccine units, the healthcare giant is cutting research and development for the unit altogether, according to sour |...
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This article hits the nail on the head: @ProMED_mail's greatest strength is not its timeliness, but it's accessibility and its veracity. The experienced, expert moderators are key to the success of the site. That cannot be replaced by AI or auto-scraping of news or social media.
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Best article I've read this week.
Whenever I write about long-covid or ME, I get waves of emails from chronically ill folk who feel seen/heard. But with this piece, I'm *also* hearing from healthy people saying they finally get what their loved ones are going through. Which feels amazing. https://t.co/oFWb6Flyh0
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Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day. Being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means" cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/
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BREAKING: Rome, Italy just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history with 42.9°C (109.2°F). This beats the previous record from 2022 by 2 full degrees Celsius. That is a huge margin.
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Heat Tracker: Dangerous Temperatures Expected Across Texas and the South - The New York Times
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"Spike in ocean heat stuns scientists: Have we breached a climate tipping point?" | Great assessment (as always) by @WeatherProf Jeff Berardelli for @WFLA News:
wfla.com
Global Oceans are so hot right now, scientists all around the world are struggling to come up with an explanation.
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The legendary tick muffin tweet resurfaces! Not sure which communication theory makes this stick in my brain so vividly, but it gets the point across. Be sure to check yourself for ticks!
Nymphal blacklegged ticks are only 1 millimeter in size! That’s about the size of a poppyseed! Look closely when checking for ticks and remove as soon as possible: https://t.co/CDnivZIxMd
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“The CDC's new goal is at least 5 air changes per hour (ACH)..For context, a typical home has less than 0.5 ACH. This represents the first time in history that the agency has set a ventilation target to address respiratory infectious diseases”
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Stronger ventilation standards could represent a monumental shift.
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Happy #ArborDay! Trees help clean the air, provide habitat for wildlife, cool our neighborhoods and provide solace for people to reconnect with nature. Check out some of the most remarkable trees found on public lands: https://t.co/lPtskY5T5b Photo @RedwoodNPS by Phillip Abrams
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Just published @Nature New evidence from 70 years ago: Rosalind Franklin was a co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure by @matthewcobb @nccomfort
https://t.co/MtGnD3mcVc
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