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In an exclusive email interview with Contagion, Alexandra Savinkina, MSPH, PhD student specializing in the epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses her research on COVID vaccinations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A mobile laboratory-in-a-van that brings testing services to underserved Connecticut neighborhoods is enabling Yale Pathology of Yale School of Medicine to establish relationships and build trust with community organizations.

YSPH microbiologist Anne Wyllie's creation of the novel diagnostic protocol SalivaDirect dramatically expanded testing access during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Wyllie and the SalivaDirect team are exploring the use of saliva testing for influenza A and B, and for respiratory syncytial virus.

A Yale-led study finds that older adults who had contact with young children daily or every few days were six times more likely to carry the bacteria that causes pneumonia than older adults who had no contact with children.

Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.

This year, experts think the timing of the RSV season will be closer to the pre-pandemic normal, but case numbers will probably be anything but — that is, if people embrace newly available tools to prevent RSV.

Annual spikes in infections from the respiratory syncytial virus — or RSV — are usually so predictable that “you can set your clock” by it, says Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) Daniel Weinberger. Normally a cold-weather epidemic, RSV usually spreads among young children, straining hospitals in the Northern Hemisphere as early as late October and lasting until the cold and flu season wanes in spring. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have upended this rhythm in one country and possibly others.

Yale School of Public Health and Yale Pathology Labs have joined with the Connecticut Department of Public Health to offer free COVID testing in New Haven using the Yale-developed SalivaDirect method.

A new partnership between the state Department of Public Health and the SalivaDirect Initiative of the Yale School of Public Health and Yale Pathology Labs will provide additional COVID-19 testing and lab capacity in the city, officials said Thursday.