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ALS Advocacy
alsadvocacy
#ALSregistry meeting thread What we see so far. Still has not started. Starting 815 EDT Mehta agenda Nothing about better description of prevalence and incidence of ALS in the US.
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the notorious D.O.G. 😷🇺🇲
DogOfPoasts
I'm late to the party on this, but the IHME model is apparently just trend extrapolation, and relatively crude 70-year-old laurel-resting full prof trend extrapolation at that https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/29/the-second-derivativ
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Liravin
_Liravin
or 38% if you use the statistic from a year ago by @did_system I recently retweeted which concludes 3.7% prevalence (n was about 31k students) and the 16 avg alters
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Catrina Ko
dr_CatKo
So the HK gov has said that there could be 1500 silent COVID carriers in town and a whole-of-population mass screening scheme will effectively identify them. This is a grid
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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد
diaahadid
yesterday I had the luck and the privilege to take my kid to a good doctor who practices distancing, to get her oral polio vaccine drops (OPV) during a checkup.
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scott cunningham
causalinf
I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false
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John Cherian
jjcherian
I've seen a lot of news about the LA study, and the error bars of that study may be seriously flawed as well. It is plausible that the data in
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Sandro Galea
sandrogalea
Covid-19 has been a traumatic event, weighing on our mental health. Isolation, fear of the virus, financial hardship, grief, and anxiety about the future have taken a heavy toll. Past
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John Burn-Murdoch
jburnmurdoch
I’ve noticed a lot of people slipping up on how they interpret UK Covid-19 prevalence & testing data, so here’s a very brief thread on how to interpret figures from
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jeffrey spence
spence_jeffrey_
I'm a bit confused about the conclusions of the new preprint on serological testing in Santa Clara county.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1 In the supplement they say 2 out of 371 + 35 known
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Helen Ward
profhelenward
First results of REACT research out today; three papers on validity, usability & prevalence (2 published, 1 preprint) with @grahamscooke Thread with key findings of study of 100,000 randomly selected
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Samir Kayande
SamirKayande
Today, I'm thankful for Bayes Theorem. Let us explore one practical aspect: is the 10-14 day quarantine requirement doing more harm than good? I'm sure epidemiologists already know this, but
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Trent “Tate” Steidley
socsteidley
Looking at the NICS data from March and April, there is an interesting trend going on... A thread... 1/7 (2/7) I often argue politics matters for gun sales more than
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Bill Miller
BillMiller_Epi
A few summary thoughts about test performance. 1/https://twitter.com/OSUPublicHealth/status/1245816635803480067 First, keep in mind that no diagnostic test is perfect. Clinicians always have to interpret the test in context. Tests can be
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Vivien Shotwell ♪
vivienshotwell
"This really matters in a viral pandemic, as vitamin D is critically important in helping our immune system to resist viral infection, & to limit inflammation when infection does occur.
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Dan Larremore
DanLarremore
Sensitivity & specificity affect the inferences that we can draw from seroprevalence studies & inform the number of samples we need for statistical confidence. To help, we built two calculators.
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