#Epidemiologists

sandygrains

sandygrains

People are extrapolating data and making graphs left, right, and center about how this disease should or should not spread, how we are or are not testing enough, whether the

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

Several people have expressed their surprise, sometimes more than that, that I keep harking on this, so here is a short thread to explain why I don't let it go

Gloria Johnson

VoteGloriaJ

Latest update...We just got off the phone with the Governor, he talked about opening back up on Monday. He talked about all the great testing, I wish that were true.

Fiona Conlon

FionaConlon4

Someone just shared this w me. It seems to be going viral globally because we are all desperate for hopeful predictions but it's based on completely unsound epidemiology and is

Amy Young

amy_prof

In Aristotle’s Rhetoric, he defines rhetoric as “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” He breaks down rhetoric into three key parts: Ethos, Pathos,

Robert Gebeloff

gebeloffnyt

1) From county to county, urban/suburban/rural, across all age groups -- the race/ethnic disparity with coronavirus is pervasive. New story with @richoppel, @kkrebeccalai, @MitchKSmith and @NYT_Wright https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: evaluating the President’s treatment regimen./ I’ve had lots of requests to speak about the medical treatments Trump is receiving, what it means that he’s getting them,

daniel falush

DanielFalush

I am a bit late to this party but this is what I have to say about "Great Barrington Declaration" about COVID strategy. https://gbdeclaration.org/ translated into 24 languages here. Two

Danny Boy

Care2much18

This is popping up everywhere as an example of an expert getting a prediction laughably wrong.Make no mistake, it IS laughably wrong - today.But you have to consider what this

Michael Veale

mikarv

Governments cannot be trusted w/ social network data from Bluetooth. So w/ colleagues from 7 unis, 5 countries, we've built & legally analysed a bluetooth COVID proximity tracing system that

Jonah

JonahNYC

Followup thread: I’ve been talking to epidemiologists & health justice activists. Here are some tips to destigmatize Orthodox Jews, particularly Haredi (traditionalist Orthodox) Jews, & to address the greater COVID

Josh Nathan-Kazis

joshnathankazis

New York is the first U.S. city to see a Covid-19 outbreak of this magnitude, but it likely won't be the last. For Barron's this week, I talked with a

MAGA! 👠 KAS! 👄 KAG!

I_loveUSAmerica

@TheJuanWilliams , Hydroxycholoquine was tested by expert epidemiologists in France for 1K patients, of which 2 died bc of late delivery. MANY docs on FOX NEWS said they have success

Peter Kalmus

ClimateHuman

A thread on following science. Let's start with COVID.Epidemiologists gave clear, simple guidelines: Keep social distance and wear masks. A few weeks ago in the US, a large herd of

Jeremy Howard

jeremyphoward

As data scientists, we (with @math_rachel) have done our best to look at the data around covid-19, and what it means to you and your community.Our view: it is appropriate

Le 'Hey you, join a union, yes, I mean you' Cagle

lecagle

If studying climate change communication for close to a decade has taught me anything, it's that when the relevant experts tell us what steps we can take to buy the