#Epidemiological

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

OK, let me write a thread, with some numerical experiments, about the influence of the social graph structure on the attack rate of epidemics (attack rate = number of people

Mentorshipzim

mentorshipzim

So, epidemiologists study determinants of health and disease."Health" is state of wellness, a continuum rather than an absolute term. A person without a known disease can be unwell and a

Vivekanand Jha

vjha126

With #COVID19 raging in India - there are discussions galore on what should we do. Here is my take, rather than going back into what went wrong, these are the

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

There's been a lot of discussion about "excess mortality", which I've mentioned previously. A short thread about some limitations.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1253115315677888514 This method has been traditionally used f

Prof. Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: I was on @BBCNewsnight on Weds. Prof Gupta suggested a herd immunity strategy as a natural phenomenon & how we control infectious disease and elsewhere she has called on

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Experts across Canada are warning against complacency in the #COVID19 pandemic, with some predicting a second, possibly more dangerous, wave in the fall, coinciding with the start of the

William A. Masters

wamasters

For our @TuftsNutrition PhD seminar, a longer updated slide deck on #COVID impacts on agriculture, food & nutrition, starting with this overview (1/14) The economics of #COVIDー19 start with its

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Despite the undeniable fact Montreal is still in the throes of the #COVID19 pandemic, the city observed some faint signs of progress on Friday. In this thread, I will

Cónal Thomas

ConalThomas

Right, going to try take us through NPHET/Level 5/Government debacle from NPHET's side:It was a "failure of communication", one NPHET source tells me, adding that Taoiseach should have been given

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Watch Live Technical briefing on #2019nCoV with @DrTedros http://bit.ly/EB146 #EB146 "The latest data we have is that there are 20,471 confirmed cases in #China, including 425 deaths.Outside #China there

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 121Grand rounds today, here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ut4435 . As I said in my intro (@ 1:00), we covered perhaps the most important topics in the world today: how

Adam Wagner

AdamWagner1

This may be an empty threat but my view is that banning all outdoor exercise may not be lawful. Difficult to see how it would be a proportionate response to

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koaleszenz

the "herd immunity" threshold for COVID-19 is probably around 60% of the population. no country is anywhere near this."herd immunity" is not a magical concept. let's talk about what it

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

Public Health England—in response to The Sun—have confirmed by omission that they:1. Rebuffed help from commercial labs;2. Did not pursue a mass testing strategy. 3. Are too incompetent to be

Anupam Singh

anupampom

ICMR has published a good epidemiological summary paper of COVID-19 cases from Jan22-April30 in IndiaI encourage you to read it at http://www.ijmr.org.in/temp/IndianJMedRes000-2627735_071757.pdfHere are key insights for me from this paper

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

DGBassani

Can the the absence of evidence of in-school transmission be taken as evidence of absence? This is the question that @KaitEJohnson9, @mikha_ehl, M. Stoddard, R. Pasco, Spencer Fox, L. Meyers