#Epidemiology

(1/) I've been sick. Really sick. Severe case of pneumonia caused by a virus called Human Metapneumovirus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1539100/A cold typically, unless you are in one of the high risk groups.
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1. In February, based on clinical reports from China, I raised the possibility #Covid_19 might be biphasic (persistent in the body after recovery). I suggested governments needed to err on
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Are contact tracing apps able to get us out of the #COVID19 crisis? A thread. 1/12 The idea behind contact tracing: find the contacts of an infected person - they
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Just out in @JAMADerm, in one of the largest and most comprehensive dietary cohorts (Nutri-Net Sante cohort), milk (aOR 1.12), sugary beverage (aOR 1.18), and fatty & sugary product consumption
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There’s a new paper circulating today about “risk factors” for COVID19 which is getting misinterpreted in a pretty common way: applying conclusions about causation to results obtained via methods designed
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In Shamika Ravi's "Reality Check on Suicides in India",a 2015 report for @BrookingsInst @BrookingsIndia ,here are some prima facie instances of plagiarism. It's been verified by TurnItIn and extensive reconfirmation
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For years, the pharma giant Novartis ran a "speaker program" that laundered vast payments to doctors - speaking fees, trips, top-shelf booze, strip club nights and fancy meals - in
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Our (@BreskinEpi and I's) paper on double cross-fitting is now officially published in the current issue of @EpidemiologyLWW Paper is herehttps://journals.lww.com/epidem/Citation/2021/05000/Machine_Learning_for_Causal_Inference__On_the_
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The lack of clinical COVID19 cases in children is odd. Understanding why will be essential in deciding which social interventions are most useful. We discussed this alongside a modeling analysis
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why be so bothered about unintended consequences? it sounds good, it sounds like it might work. People have good intentions, care deeply, want to do something useful. and yet: when
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I want to deal with a little bit of nonsense the Irish anti-lockdown conspiracy theorists are spreading, pertaining to this document, which is a recent report on the epidemiology of
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NEW: @SpoxHHS Michael Caputo pushed COVID-19 conspiracy theories and praised white supremacists in unearthed podcasthttps://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/hhs-spokesperson-michael-caputo-pushed-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-and Th
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1) As we get closer to #LeavingCert Results & #CAO Offers, I would just like to give this little pearl of whimsical wisdom. LC 2020 - you guys had a
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“Acclaimed epidemiologist Prof Salim Abdool Karim will lead an investigation into the coronavirus outbreak at St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban.” “Netcare management yesterday moved swiftly to deny that medical staff
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2020 will be the deadliest year in modern American history.We will see >3 million deaths for the first time ever.In fact, well over that number.Join me for a thread on
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This is going to be a long one, but its important so please bear with me:Health Secretary (UK) Matt Hancock gave a press briefing on COVID-19 yesterday. It should be
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