#Epidemiology

Felix Abrahams Obi

MallamPelliks

Nigeria has made a lot of progress in preparing and responding to disease outbreaks and epidemics. I remember my early days of public health; some 15yrs ago it's @WHONigeria that

Self-certified armchair epidemiologist

yellingatwind

U of Illinois brought back 40,000+ students to campus based on a model created by 2 very confident physicists, who said epidemiology was important but intellectually unchallenging.Things are not going

Ahmed Al-Jaishi, #Epidemiologist

AAlJaishi

I often see comments saying: "let #COVID19 spread widely so we can reach herd immunity".**To those people**: NEVER, in the history of infectious diseases, has there been a situation where

UF Prisma-P

UFprismap

The link between cardiovascular & renal disease in chronic critical illness (CCI):In our review for @MDPIOpenAccess, we define the epidemiology of cardiovascular & renal disease in CCI, summarize pathophysiology, and

Christopher Canning

cg_canning

I work in the field of research and knowledge translation and this pandemic has highlighted, like many things, massive gaps in how scientific knowledge gets out to people who need

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

I know more about Singapore’s outbreak than the US’s. I know that 95% of yesterday’s cases there were in dormitory residents, and I know there have been an average of

Michael Baum

MichaelBaum11

I've been inspired to initiate a debate about the comparisons in outcomes between different countries in their efforts to deal with the corona virus pandemic, by this graph posted by

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

Thread on BCG vaccination and #COVIDー19.There has been a flood of ecological studies & media reports claiming that BCG vaccination protects against COVID-19. See:https://www.medrxiv.org/search/BCG%252Bcovid%252B Some of the studies are thoughtful

Lucy Bull

Lucyy31

NEW(-ish) PAPEREver wanted to harness repeatedly-measured predictors within a clinical prediction model but found the existing literature overwhelming? Look no further, our recent methodological review can help! #epitwitter #statstwitter #p

Jason Thompson - The 2nd 👋

Agent_Jase

Our Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab @unimelb and @msdsocial is very pleased to be recipients of a significant @nhmrc research grant to investigate urban design and health outcomes

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

Dom Cummings attending SAGE raises some basic questions for a govt that defends itself by arguing that it acts on only “on the science”. The most obvious is why he

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

It's important that the media comment within their realm of expertise, and not mislead the public. A misleading thread critiquing govt predictions around the COVID-19 pandemic without a real understanding

Thomas House | 托马斯豪斯 | توماس هاوس

TAH_Sci

"Herd immunity" and "protect the vulnerable", a thread. These terms have become very divisive, and having an extreme libertarian group promote them doesn't help. But for me, they reflect the

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Things not looking good in the UK (massive understatement). We all need to act like we could have COVID-19 & minimise close physical contact with those outside our household. Need

Tamar Haspel

TamarHaspel

If anyone still cares about nutritional epidemiology, perhaps we should talk about FIBER, since there's a brand spanking new study showing high-fiber diets are associated with less breast cancer risk.

James Wilson

jamewils

In the study published in medRxiv, a team at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center and Rockefeller University analyzed 370 plasma samples donated from people who