
Prof Jeffrey S Morris
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George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine; Biostats, Stats & AI; lifelong learner & truth seeker; Views are my own, not my employer's
Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2014
Just put up a website that aggregates and tries to provide a balanced discussion of Covid-19 research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries and linking to useful data sets and models.
covid-datascience.com
This page aggregates and tries to provide a balanced discussion of research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries regarding Covid-19, using a data science approach gather,...
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“Sneakflation”: How Trump’s tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers - CNN
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When tariffs are tacked on to many imported goods, someone’s got to foot the bill.
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mRNA vaccines hold promise for many diseases. Now the tech is under fire
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Researchers warn that halting federal contracts for mRNA vaccine research could weaken pandemic preparedness and slow medical advances.
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These are all outstanding principles of scientific practice — scientists should already be following them but I can attest as a statistics professor that not all do.
🥇 Today, NIH has released its implementation plan for incorporating gold standard science into everything we do. The plan incorporates the 9 tenets of gold standard science adopted by the U.S. Government and aligns with @HHSgov’s framework for achieving these principles.
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Here is a discussion and evaluation of the death rate among the 25-44yr old millennial group in the USA being so much higher than other rich countries. The author set out expecting it to be a story about the pandemic (and possibly vaccines), but instead found it was a much.
American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Andrew Stokes & Jacob Bor, Slate. We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here. About 3 million Americans die every year. Compared with other rich countries, we die at
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RT @EJohnWherry: Great article in the @PhilllyInquirer about the importance of NIH funding.
inquirer.com
The Pennsylvania Ad Hoc NIH Funding Advocacy Coalition brings together institutions from across the state’s eds and meds sector.
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This paper examines conflicts of interest among ACIP members, and, as many of us immediately recognized, RFK significantly exaggerated and distorted the extent of those conflicts. He did so to justify dismissing the entire panel and replacing them with individuals aligned with.
▶️ New study: Conflicts of interest on CDC vaccine panel were at historic lows prior to RFK Jr dismissal. In our @JAMA_current study , we looked at disclosed conflicts of interest (COIs) in ACIP and VRBPAC (FDA vaccines committee) between 2000 and 2024. We found that:.▪️although
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RT @StephArmour1: Kennedy’s anti-vaccine strategy risks forcing shots off market, manufacturers warn | CNN
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Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer that anti-vaccine activist Robert...
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RT @DrPaulOffit: Beyond the Noise #78: RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines via @YouTube .RFK Jr. is on the verge o….
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STAT discusses the numerous scientific inaccuracies in RFK’s recent announcement.
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In a new episode of the video series STATus Report, a closer look at the reasons health secretary RFK Jr. cited for canceling contracts on mRNA vaccine research.
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A Stanford immunologist reviews the 181 page document that RFK provides as evidence supporting his statements that harms of mRNA vaccines outweigh benefits attempting to justify his decision to cancel contracts.
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“This isn't scientific disagreement. It's either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation,” writes infectious disease physician Jake Scott.
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RT @MDAndersonNews: PD-1. CTLA-4. PD-L1. LAG-3. They're all checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy used to treat many cancers, incl….
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Immunotherapy is used to treat many types of cancer, and the list is growing. But immunotherapy doesn’t work for all cancers or patients yet. Here’s which patients and cancers may qualify for...
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Sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes is such a big problem!!! .
phillyvoice.com
A competitive athlete dies every three days, often of cardiac arrest
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