#Risk

Missouri absentee voting starts today -- here's what that means (a 3-part thread): (1) To qualify to vote absentee in MO, you must meet one of the following:- Out of
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Labour called for the furlough scheme and it's been a lifeline for workers and businesses.Pulling it away when the virus is still very present would have been dangerous and wrong.It's
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A on whether we can protect high risk individuals by increasing infections in low risk individuals. Can it work?We need to be aware of what assumptions have to be true
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Media coverage of FDA’s decision to issue emergency authorization for convalescent plasma has questioned whether this was a politically motivated decision. The decision was made by FDA career scientists based
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I was looking forward to speaking at #sapcasm @sapcacuk this week about our @NIHRResearch funded work to improve risk prediction and relapse prevention for people with depression in primary care.
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Racism breeds a level of insecurity and fear that can be disabling... My decision to attend @harvardmed, @Kennedy_School, @YalePsych etc. is in part to shore up these insecurities... maybe they
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1/ A call from on high has been issued: the presidents of two of this country’s wealthiest Universities have declared that we should all reopen campuses this fall. We’re Reopening
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No doubt Harvard's @jack_turban has reason to worry about trans people. Many teens in gender clinics present with a host of problems but is there any good data on how
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My eldest daughter is separated from her husband. Nothing unusual these days, marriages break down and that's a fact. On Wednesday, my ex son in law had to go into
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path is becoming clear... here is what I’m hearing: vectors are obesity, diabetes, asthma, smoking, age, densityIf you have those you stay in quarantine indefinitely (or come out at your
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My brother is a 3rd grade teacher at Title I school serving a low-income community of color in a red state. Many of his students have serious pre-existing conditions. As
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imagined a virus whose risk was tied to pronunciation. like everyone who pronounced ‘scallops’ like ‘scah-llops’ would be instant death on contact pee-cans: immunity. pee-cahns: 15% mortality rate nee-hilism: anus
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Okay- I've seen a few people make the comment that having a story about blindness from an assumed 'vision-having' author is somehow problematic. I feel I shouldn't have to disclose
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Okay one more thread before bed! Lots of Qs asking "what IS VITT?" Before I get to that, if you'd like an AWESOME metaphor about vaccine choice, please read my
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Reluctantly, I feel I need to clarify some issues around why AZ doesn't make sense for most of Canada right now.When NACI evaluated—using the hard endpoint of deaths—the risk-benefit of
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New paper on national differences in time preference.Combines many different measures (e.g. survey questions and field studies), standardizes them and extracts a common factor. Blue: people on average wait for
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