#Epidemiologists

Darren Markland

drdagly

For the entire summer of 2020 I have been endorsing the idea of enjoying the weather and getting outside. It’s always been with the caveat that come fall we will

Kathryn Brightbill ✒️

KEBrightbill

Apparently people don't realize that all these SE Asian countries whose covid numbers they're busy insisting are wrong based on zero evidence are a big reason why bird flu didn't

Ian Scoones

IanScoones

#COVID19 (1/3) To address uncertainties, "Is ‘the science’ – and so the advice – broad enough?" https://www.ids.ac.uk/?p=57856 . We now know that in the UK it wasn't - https://bit.ly/2znq5V0 @IDS_UK @stepscentre

Daniel Levitt

daniellevitt22

Prof. Michael Levitt @MLevitt_NP2013, #Nobel laureate from Stanford:"I think lockdown is a very crude, medieval-sounding phrase. I think closing schools, closing business and places of work is not such a

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

We're far enough into this pandemic that I'm seeing something interesting happen. Epidemiologists start talking about a new result, such as the NEJM paper on a high rate of asymptomatic

Jónas Haraldsson Balding 大老板

BaldingsWorld

A lot of what you are reading about how bad corona is going to be are from modeling and computer simulations. They are useful tools and I honestly believe most

Neale Mahoney

nealemahoney

A few weeks ago, I voiced my concern that debates over Covid-19 policy would fall victim to the false trade-off between the economy and the virus.I now realize there is

Josh Michaud

joshmich

I have ignoredthe takesthat were publishedand whichprobably haveno basis in realityForgive methey were specious so wrongand so off-base The original hot take on economists vs epidemiologists, embedded in and refuted

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

Epidemiologists can speak expertly to risks: “if you do X, then Y is likely to occur.”But when they speak instead to whether we *should* do X, how Y should be

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

Flu vaccination experts, I have a question for you: There seems to be a trade-off between individual & community flu protection: waiting till Nov might be better for me, but

Albert Trigg

alberttrigg

Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government, the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an

Matina Stevis-Gridneff

MatinaStevis

When we were reporting on the superb epidemiologists who have become household names because of their role as public communicators in the coronavirus response, we struggled to find women in

Camille Fournier

skamille

My advice for those who are still obsessively reading about COVID-19: read more doctors, fewer epidemiologists/virologists. Nothing wrong with the latter, but you will feel much better when you read

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

It's not the reaction that wrecked the economy. It's the LACK of INITIAL reaction that wrecked the economy. Proper border controls on Jan 26, plus masks & tests & we'd

el gato malo

boriquagato

professor gato here with this morning's thought experiment:every year, a pandemic of flu and colds spreads through the world.there is no plausible method by which we can stop this spread

Melissa Davey

MelissaLDavey

You can spend all day reading med journals, speaking to the best paediatricians, virologists + epidemiologists to help make sense of current evidence about schools and Covid-19 spread, + people