#Epidemiology

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

LOL this is pretty rich coming from Scott Atlas, given today's piece in the Washington Post: "colleagues said they regard (Atlas) as ill-informed, manipulative and at times dishonest."The time has

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I want to step back and give some thoughts about the Coronavirus developments this week and some sense of the 3 months ahead from my perspective. Context: I am an

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ Why do we have such scant clinical information on #COVID19 cases, and what can we do to fix it?We *still* don't have confidence in knowing who's at greatest risk

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Why does data matter so much in #COVID19 and why is the UK getting it wrong? A thread on transparency. And it starts with this. This is the Hong Kong

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Here's a short list of things we do and don't yet know about #COVID19. 1. We don't yet know the true case fatality rate. (E.g.: if you catch it, how

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

COVID This Week The looming question: Internal travel restrictions1/22 This week: continued spread of Covid at a high rate in most of the US, continued shortages and delays in testing,

Tanya Selak

GongGasGirl

Now @peripatetical : epidemiology and the global response to the covid19 response. He's live on stage in Melbourne. #ASM21MEL Pros and cons for Australia’s response.#ASM22MEL Public health governance in Australia

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Reading this article (in which I'm quoted near the end), I realized why I have such a strong visceral reaction to some of the negative coverage of @ProfEmilyOster's work on

Kristen K. Coleman

drkristenkc

In early 2020, we detected airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 patient rooms (in the absence of superficial aerosol generating procedures) in a Singapore hospital. We alerted WHO and others immediately and

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

I just saw a study that said that there’s a 59% a single person in a group of ten in Chicago has Covid, highest in the country. I freaked out

Jason Haw

jasonhaw_

A lot of people have requested us to measure the case fatality rate (CFR) and disaggegrate by age group in our #COVID19PH dashboard (http://bit.ly/COVID19PHdashboard)Let me explain in this thread why

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Three new important studies came out in the past week about kids & #COVID19. All have limits (the science isn't perfect). But together, they matter, & you deserve to know

Data for Black Lives

Data4BlackLives

THREAD: #Data4BlackLives Movement Pulse Check and #COVID19 RoundtableFirst of all, welcome! We are so glad you joined us today. Please use our hashtags (#Data4BlackLives and #d4bl) to join the conversation!

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

A key issue to keep our eye on: CONTACT TRACING.Half of those who test + for #COVID19 are not contacted by a health dept official.https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/19/923972496/covid-19-test-results-get-faster-but-still-too-

peeleraja

peeleraja

Unpopular opinion.Everybody should study engineering before going on to their true calling - law, medicine, policy or blockchain.Instead of 12y compulsory education upto 12th, it should be 16y upto BTech.Let

Jon Cummings

jonfromcali

Sandee Everett's atrocious behavior during last night's @ConejoValleyUSD board meeting has left many of us appalled & struggling to sort thru her crimes against civility & good governance. @ReporterDawn's tweets