Flu season is ramping up, and some experts are "pretty worried"
Drs. Trevor Bedford and Jesse Bloom discussed the flu season, which will likely be dominated by a new version of the virus called H3N2. Bloom said: "Current indicators are that it may be substantially more severe than the typical winter flu season.”
What you need to know about the new COVID variant ‘nimbus’
Dr. Trevor Bedford explained aspects of a new COVID variant: “There's going to be some correlation between the new variants and worse infections, but it's probably not the case that it's due to some intrinsic biological difference.”
What you need to know about the new COVID variant ‘nimbus’
Dr. Trevor Bedford explained aspects of a new COVID variant: “There's going to be some correlation between the new variants and worse infections, but it's probably not the case that it's due to some intrinsic biological difference.”
WA vaccine scientists push back against FDA changes around COVID shots
Dr. Holly Janes pointed out that a new proposal for evaluating updated COVID vaccines is “unclear as to how and whether that trial would be feasible to conduct on the timescale that would be needed.”
WA vaccine scientists push back against FDA changes around COVID shots
Dr. Holly Janes pointed out that a new proposal for evaluating updated COVID vaccines is “unclear as to how and whether that trial would be feasible to conduct on the timescale that would be needed.”
Meet the 2024 STAT Wunderkinds
STAT included Miguel Paredes in the Bedford Lab and Yapeng Su in the Greenberg Lab in its Wunkerkinds awards to 27 of the “most impressive doctors and researchers on the cusp of launching their careers.”
Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows
Dr. Trevor Bedford noted that “separate from the sequencing for evolution [of the virus], which I think is very important, just even understanding prevalence through space and time... would be really helpful and important.”
1st of its kind Seattle flu study aims to stop flu before it becomes pandemic
Fred Hutch Dr. Trevor Bedford comments on the value of the Seattle Flu Study.
Got the flu? Seattle wants to swab your nose for a massive health data project
This story features the Seattle Flu Study, a new project from the Brotman Baty Institute which was co-founded by Seattle Children’s, UW Med and Fred Hutch. The study will look at 10,000 swabs to better understand how the flu spreads and how to prevent it. Fred Hutch’s Dr. Trevor Bedford is the lead data scientist for the study.
The smaller the city, the bigger the flu epidemic
Dr. Trevor Bedford comments on a study that suggests that people living in smaller cities are more likely to face an intense outbreaks of seasonal flu during flu season.
Fred Hutch researcher among scientists receiving new funding to map every cell in the body
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced a new infusion of funding in support of scientists working on the Human Cell Atlas, including Fred Hutch researcher Raphael Gottardo, a member of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and the Public Health Sciences Division. The project to map every cell in the human body is part of the $3 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic organization of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, according to GeekWire.
Open-source project uses genetic data from viruses to help scientists track outbreaks in real time
Coverage of Open Science Prize, awarded to Drs. Trevor Bedford and Richard Neher
Every year brings a new strain of flu. Here's how it all starts.
Video featuring a demonstration by Fred Hutch's Dr. Trevor Bedford on how the flu spreads
Genome studies show how Ebola spread initially
Article quotes Dr. Trevor Bedford about his research
Latest Ebola data rule out rapid mutation
Quotes Fred Hutch's Dr. Trevor Bedford, a viral geneticist