#Epidemiologists

Bloomberg Opinion

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Six months ago, populations across the world went under lockdown to fight Covid-19.Amid confusion and horrifying death tolls, the default position was to protect the elderly and minimize loss of

Gregg Gonsalves

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In normal times. In normal times, @CDCgov, @NIH & @US_FDA would have been empowered to lead our response to #SARSCOV2. 1/ In normal times. In normal times, experts on every

Alex Leeds Matthews

alex_leedsmatts

From the last three years working on my masters in public health and journalism, I know a bit about how scientific research and health news are produced and how to

Valerio Capraro

ValerioCapraro

Exactly one month ago Italy found its first case of #coronavirus. I’ll tell you what happened in only one month. I hope you can learn from our mistakes. 1. In

Stephen George S.

Stephen61970233

Calling all Doctor's / senior clinicians.(1 of 9)I understand that it must be very frustrating when ordinary members of the public become armchair experts in the medical field, especially at

Vinay Gupta

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Also, I can't even remember what I'm trying to do here. My mind has basically thrown out about 15 years of world models, leaving me in this weird Tabula Rasa

Somesh Jha

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Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil, former Principal, Christian Medical College, Vellore & one of the country’s leading epidemiologists tells me in an interview that developing a 'herd immunity' is the only way

Tim Requarth

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So, after my @slate article on the epidemic of armchair epidemiology, I really didn’t want to spend more time discussing another amateur’s post, but I think there’s a useful lesson

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

CDC: Airborne #COVID19 transmission is real. Socially distance too. Movie theater: Okay! See, look how safe we are!Epidemiologists & aerosol scientists: 2) How is aerosol different from large droplets?

Darryl Harrison Ford II

darrylford

94 people died in GA yesterday - a 14% jump, yet Governor Kemp is reopening gyms, salons, bowling alleys and restaurants among other establishments. The majority of epidemiologists have advised

NotImpressed #FBPE 🎪 #SardinesUK

randombigbird

1. On the exit strategy. A number of European countries have been working on easing lockdown, how to do it and timelines.Europe prepares to ease coronavirus lockdowns https://www.ft.com/content/1fa5ae87-b3b6-4708-b9c5-58d2077b8d95 via @financialtimes

bak

measure7x

RFA at it again, lolhttps://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1244331780934717440 RFA's employers with the coordinated follow-up. Birx throws in some additional lies. Infectious disease epidemiologists, analyzing data from China, have been warning

Brexitshambles

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SAGE member Prof John Edmunds speaks out.THREAD 1/7:'It's risky... there's not a lot of room for maneuver.. small changes can put the R number above 1. More importantly we still

Gabriel Recchia

mesotronium

Our paper on how well experts and laypeople forecast the size of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (back in April) is out: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250935 @d_spiegel @alex_freeman Short answer: Not ve

Scott W. Atlas

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1/6 Proud to be friend & colleague of Sunetra Gupta, one of world's top epidemiologists, who exposes the outrageous personal attack, shameful false criticisms on expertise, & censorship from biased

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

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Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA