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David Nunan
dnunan79
You may have seen a mini-Twitter storm on COVID tests claiming they falsely tell people they have COVID when they do not have COVIDOther’s have done a good job correcting
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Jacob Fiala
jacob_fiala
A week since last update, the incidence rate on campus @UF continues to climb. Student Health Care (SHC) seems to have struggled w/ increased demand, testing/reporting only 135 new tests
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
This modelling study from Sweden suggests 26% of Stockholm county will have been infected by May 1st (https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/2da059f90b90458d8454a04955d1697f/skattning-peakdag-antal-infekterade-covid-19-utbrottet-stockholms
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Neelanjan Sircar
NeelanjanSircar
As you extend testing you should move from riskiest populations to less risky (due to more tests). But if you chase hotspots & wait until things are bad to test,
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Zain Raza
smzrz
Since everyone has jumped on the leaked government report from Punjab and making their own conclusions without actually looking at the study and its details, here's a thread on why
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GET A GRIP
docrussjackson
Charismatic leadership is “risky” for a country.It is difficult to predict the result when too much power is placed in the hands of an individual leader. Charismatic leadership brings radical
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Peter B. Bach, MD
peterbachmd
Intriguing @theNCI @NCIDrDougLowy @NEJM study showing lung cancer mortality rates falling since 2013 faster than incidence rates. Study title claims they observed the impact of improved treatments. I think that
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
Today brings a bizarre news story from the @WSJ about how everyone is being mean to poor John Ioannidis because of his coronavirus contrarianism. It's behind a paywall, but I'll
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
Very interesting new preprint by Eran Bendavid and colleagues reports seroprevalence estimates from Santa Clara county. Great to have seroprevalence work start to emerge, but I'd be skeptical of the
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Murad Banaji
muradbanaji
Some #COVID19 rates: their meanings and implications (very roughly). Thread.- recovery rate- case fatality rate- infection fatality rate- mortality rate- test positivity rate- case detection rate Recovery rate: % of
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Derek Monette, MD MHPE 🤝
DerekMonetteMD
When >70% of our EM residents report high degrees of depersonalization, it’s not surprising to see someone who leads them pair a Tweet like this with a position statement on
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John Roberts
john_actuary
New data from PHE suggests 10,400 deaths have been saved by the vaccine up to the end of March, using a 31 day lag between vaccination and a mortality endpoint.
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Leila Mechoui
leilamechoui
There is a lot of talk about the prevalence of hate speech in the present day. But honestly I think that most people are reasonable and yet make mistakes. I
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Apoorva Mandavilli
apoorva_nyc
ICYMI: On Thursday, we published a story suggesting that elementary schools, especially, do not seem to be seeding clusters of infection. As all articles on this topic do, it made
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Conjure Man From The East
move_over
A Black American classmate of mine told me one of her " Africana Studies" professor said Caribbeans creates Jazz. The professor was an African. That's dangerous to the knowledge and
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Devan Sinha
DevanSinha
NY updated its seroprevalence study on May 2. It's the largest (15.1k subjects) in a highly impacted area and so likely the most robust due to Ab lest limitations.Unfortunately it
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