#Epidemiology

Stephen McIntyre

ClimateAudit

New article in journal published by Cambridge Univ Press says that testimony to House Oversight Committee in March 2020 mixed up case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR)

Fiona Conlon

FionaConlon4

Someone just shared this w me. It seems to be going viral globally because we are all desperate for hopeful predictions but it's based on completely unsound epidemiology and is

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

This thread is valuable for a *lot* of reasons in its own right. I am going to use it as an eg of the importance of sampling and genomic epidemiology

⛑LynnFynn🇺🇸 🌱👩🏽‍⚕️🧬💊🥼

LynnFynn3

(1) I’ll say this once, as it’s my wheelhouse, and I’m being asked by everyone who knows me. Re: Coronavirus stats and hysteria, it’s garbage- all of the data is

Andrew Turner

andykturner

There have been lots of critiques of adverse childhood experiences (#ACEs) approaches recently, so @PeopleValues and I have put together a thread of those we have found most useful There

Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD

RoxanaDaneshjou

Dr. Goldfarb is back, claiming that physicians aren't ready forr a pandemic because we are too busy learning about injustices that directly affect our patients' health and outcomes (and have

Dr Alexandra Phelan

alexandraphelan

It’s time for a Pandemic thread for #COVID19(prompted by questions from the excellent @MackayIM & @onisillos - thank-you) What is a pandemic? Are we in a pandemic?How do pandemic and

Andric

astralwave

A simple explanation for why “estimations” and timeline-based “roadmaps” don’t work, is that product development isn’t a scheduling problem but an explore/exploit problem. Time isn’t the constraint, but knowledge.Knowledge that

Michelle Kelly-Irving

shell_ki

I was interviewed with my colleague Cyrille Delpierre about why we think health inequalities are extremely important in the #COVID19 crisis regarding the social epidemiology of infection as well as

el gato malo

boriquagato

back in the halcyon days of 2019, before the great politicization of epidemiology turned up into down and down into sideways, the WHO performed a survey of randomized, controlled trials

el gato malo

boriquagato

the first rule of economics is that resources are scarce and there are never enough goods or services to meet demand.the first rule of politics is to ignore the first

David Masterson

DavidMasterson6

The Real Reason for Gov. Kemp's Reopening of GeorgiaWritten by George Chidi:“You really want to know what I think about rescinding shelter in place in the way this order is

Brett Mitchell

1healthau

My thread in response to an article in The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/ppe-unmasked-why-health-care-workers-in-australia-are-inadequately-protected-against-coronavirus-143751There are a few things that need to be teased out a

Laura Sessions

laurasessions10

1, Why is Georgia opening up?George Chidi, Freelance Journalist from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:You really want to know what I think about rescinding shelter in place in the way this order

Geronimo Bejarano

gero5

Last week I decided to withdraw from Chiropractic school after 2 years and 100k in student loan debt. I'll be making a thread about my experience and why I think

Dr. Melvin Sanicas 🩺🔬

Vaccinologist

#Thread on symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic #transmission. A symptomatic #COVID19 case is a patient who developed signs & symptoms compatible with #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus #infection. Symptomatic transmission refers to transmission from a