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Claus Wilke
ClausWilke
These numbers are reasonable, and they are consistent with the large numbers of deaths we have seen in NY. Another reason to believe that the prevalence numbers coming out of
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You're Wrong About...
yourewrongabout
This initiative reinforces several myths about trafficking. Let's dive in!https://twitter.com/StopTrafficking/status/1200087323293241344 First, the prevalence of trafficking. This report says Ontario has more incidents than any other province. On
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James Palmer
BeijingPalmer
I think an underappreciated difference between the US and the UK is that going to Oxbridge convinces a lot of people, especially if you come from state school, that the
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Aaron E. Carroll
aaronecarroll
Once in a while, I get to talk about my own back yard. Indiana just conducted the first statewide random sample study to determine the true prevalence of COVID-19. The
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Dan Larremore
DanLarremore
Slovakia (pop 5.5M) is attempting a mass COVID-19 screening campaign using rapid antigen tests. The public health community is going to learn a lot. Here's what I'm looking for... 1/https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22519165/coronavirus-in
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Jack
jack_meditates
Sex is inextricably linked to deeply animal psychology of dominance and submission, tribal belonging and inclusion, trauma and healing from trauma.I plan to do a longer post explaining this but
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StellarStateLogic 🎄
PedanticAuspice
A rant on narratives, mostly:The "Protagonist-dads and their Kids" has become a formula of nearly guaranteeing a successful storytelling over this past decade, when gender equity in narratives has encouraged
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John Cherian
jjcherian
Ok, so what's wrong with the confidence intervals in this preprint? Well they publish a confidence interval on the specificity of the test that runs between 98.3% and 99.9%, but
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Ryan
1nationtory
Right time for “guess the ONS estimate” game. As before I think ONS generally as a good correlation between estimated infections and admissions 7-10 days later using a 3% hospitalisation
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Alasdair Munro
apsmunro
People can't stop talking about schools and #COVID19 Here's a thread on school transmission studies!Summary:- If prevalence high in the community, it will be high in schools and some will
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Mandy Came Out of the All-Night Vurt-U-Want
mandyist
The replies to this tweet are making me sad. So many people doubting whether testing and treatment figures can be trusted in African countries yet what could have been catastrophic
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Michael Otsuka
MikeOtsuka
UK longitudinal study of 201 individuals with #LongCovid reveals a high proportion are relatively young & without pre-existing health conditions. Also reveals "almost 70%…have impairment in one or more organs
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Scott Gottlieb, MD
ScottGottliebMD
THREAD: Many analyses try to estimate what the “right” capacity is for weekly #COVID19 testing. One touchstone is positivity rates. Unless diagnostic tests are being administered with unusual precision only
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Gabriel Leung
gmleunghku
Just out: COVID-19 vaccine trials primarily assess prevention of virologically confirmed disease; NOT infection or transmission. An “effective” vax confers protection from disease but might not reduce spread...1/5https://twitter.com/the
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Stu Maitland
StuMaitland
Catching up with #medtwitter and some rather smug reactions from UK docs to US docs being up at 3:30 am and effects on burnout. But is the UK system really
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Keletso Makofane, MPH and 1000 others
klts0
The thing about an infectious disease is that risk shifts as the epidemic plays out. People offering a facile understanding of “relative risk” - that the relative risk for younger
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