Jason Andrews

@jasonandrews.bsky.social

infectious diseases physician + Prof @Stanford tuberculosis, typhoid, diagnostics, genomic epidemiology, carceral health https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/jason-andrews

The invincible resolve and indomitable spirit of a community determined to throw off the yoke of injustice. Thank you Minneapolis for your strength and nonviolent resistance amidst horrific ongoing tragedy.

ICE has been terrorizing our communities and now has murdered two people, on camera, before the world. The agents who committed these murders must be held accountable, and congress must stop funding this scourge on our country.

Our latest study in @jama.com on trends in county-level vaccine exemptions, demonstrating geographic pockets of high vaccine exemptions and high susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases. Great collab with @nbcnews.com colleagues and our Stanford team. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Trends in County-Level Childhood Vaccination Exemptions in the US

This study examines US county-level trends in nonmedical and medical exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements.

jamanetwork.com

🧵 Essential ID Papers for 2025: A Clinician’s Guide Each year brings a flood of amazing ID literature. Here are candidates for some of the most important ID papers of 2025, spanning guidelines, trials, antimicrobials, and vaccines. 👇

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The transition from prison to community is often a socially and medically vulnerable moment for persons deprived of liberty (PDL). Our previous work found that PDL in Brazil have 3x ⬆️ risk of mortality after prison release compared with others in their community 1/5 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

All-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study

In a retrospective cohort study, Yiran E Liu and colleagues investigate all-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil.

journals.plos.org

#BREAKING 🚨 Four journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, are among 20 dead in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital The second strike was captured live on television as rescue crews were seen in the building attempting evacuate the injured

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Wastewater-based epidemiology & surveillance have made enormous strides in recent years, demonstrating utility in characterizing pathogen distributions in populations. However, current methods are too costly to be scalable in LMICs where the need for improved disease surveillance is greatest. (1/2)

"Over the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the region’s second largest democracy too." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Classic tin pot dictator’: inside Trump’s extraordinary assault on Brazil’s democracy

US president seems to be weaponizing tariffs to punish Brazil for its coup trial against his ally Bolsonaro

theguardian.com

🚨 Apenas 50% dos casos de tuberculose nas instituições penais são diagnosticados. Se todos os estados adotassem a triagem em massa com radiografia de tórax — como já fazem MS e MT — poderíamos mudar esse cenário. 🔗 www.campograndenews.com.br/brasil/cidad...

MS lidera ranking de novos casos de tuberculose em presídios

Boletim epidemiológico sobre a tuberculose em pessoas privadas de liberdade, divulgado pelo Ministério da Saúde, mostra que foram registrados 7.718 novos ...

campograndenews.com.br

"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too." An essay on the inhuman conditions that ICE is confining people in, and the most beautiful sides of humanity of them coming together.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

vanityfair.com

Long as I live I will not be able to comprehend the cruelty of those who cheer on the act of tearing fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children from their communities and putting them in cages, all for having been born on a different portion of the rock we are hurtling through space upon.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

RFK Jr: "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years." Cost: $27 billion RCTs proving population health benefit: 0 Meanwhile, US contribution to Gavi vaccines: $1.2B over 4 years RCTs supporting Gavi vaccines: >300 Children vaccinated: >1 billion Lives saved: >17 million