#Epidemiology

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

How do ideas mutate into the worst possible version of themselves?The same way viruses evolve. and much faster, because the selection pressure is greater.#FOAMed This one has a three-phase mutation.ORIGIN.

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Tweetorial on Cause & Effect in Evidence Based MedicineAlternatively: why we need to know the natural history of diseaseCausal reasoning is a core part of the practice of medicine,

J.J. Sylvia IV, Ph.D

BigDataJJ

1/ I've been seeing a lot of discussion about studies that show transmission of COVID-19 does not occur as often from children to adults. This is being used to support

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

US politics over the past 40 years have been dominated by a coalition of plutocrats and evangelicals, whose priorities are weirdly out of step with anything resembling Biblical Christianity. It

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

It’s not just death from #COVID19, it’s also the long term suffering of #LongCovid. Don’t let COVID deniers / minimizers try to tell you otherwise. The human suffering toll is

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

"The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption & Policies to Increase the Supply of Medical Masks for Health Workers" by me @judy_chevalier @NAChristakis @thehowie E Kaplan, A Ko (Chair of

Alex Stevens

AlexStevensKent

The #SewellReport really is a verbose, sloppy and intellectually dishonest piece of work. In the bits I know about (drugs and crime), there is a pattern of misleading readers by

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is #herdimmunity threshold for #COVID19?A topic of much discussion due to large uncertainty & huge consequences for long term impact. New paper illustrates 1 key aspect that can reduce

Narumi Momose

HardFastAndFree

What has changed from the past? Let me elaborate.1. The WHO wasn't headed by a total fuckwit like @DrTedros who was too busy covering up for the Chinese regime's lapses

Matthew Sheffield

mattsheffield

A little known fact about Scott Atlas, Trump's top COVID adviser, is that besides having no credentials in public health or epidemiology, he works for a creationist think tank. The

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 150Today, 150 days since I began my Covid tweets, I’m going to do something odd: write the speech that Trump should give. I have no

Ramya

idlidosa2

Zambia has made incredible gains in the last 4 yrs, training epidemiologists for outbreaks.Read about how we set up the Zambia Field Epidemiology Training Program #FETP in my 1st FIRST-AUTHOR

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Dear Dr @drharshvardhan — you are unfit to be the Health Minister of India .Please RESIGN. #COVID19India #COVID19 https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/1387692105628209163 2) meanwhile, in another country like Jordan , their health minister

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about epidemic modelling, prompted by calls to "release the modelling" and the MJA paper. #COVID19 Disclaimer: I'm an epidemiologist and ID physician. I have published the occasional mathematical

Zoe Keller

KellerZoe

#covid-19 Scientists working at the high security laboratories at Porton Down are testing for antibodies blood samples from across Britain. They hold the key to exit from lockdown https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavi

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

I was looking at the Covid data sets on Google that link to other data sets. Due to testing, reporting, data aggregation & use of different categorizations, they're not exactly