#Epidemiologists

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

The speculation about lab-based emergence remains thin and at odds with the science.This skepticism Milley seems like the right take. But there's clearly another contingent in the administration that's leaking

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

“Policymakers have approached Covid along a single axis – ‘the science’ or public health,” “But even within that axis, things get ignored – such as other diseases, be they infectious

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

Everyone reading this knows there’s a vaccine shortage in this world. Rich governments are squabbling over scarce supplies. Most of the world is left begging for scraps - and not

Edal

edalmaxwell

"Sweden never aimed at herd immunity", a thread (1/n) Herd immunity in April/no, in May/no, in June/no, when the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the Lonely Mountain

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Let's have a look at this thread of lies by @WHO.Yes, #GBDeclaration is advocating for a Focused approach to managing the disease. Eventually herd immunity is reached whatever route you

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

Lloyd's a billionaire and Senior Chairman at Goldman Sachs. He could easily employ a team of actuaries, biostatisticians, economists, epidemiologists, hospitalists, infectologists, and statisticians to price out various cost/benefit sce

Jonathan Fuller

JonathanJFuller

This response by @mlipsitch to my @BostonReview #COVID19 piece (https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jonathan-fuller-models-v-evidence) provides a fascinating (and philosophical) look inside epidemiological thinking at a time when understanding th

Lisa Feldman Barrett

LFeldmanBarrett

Kudos to @jayvanbavel & colleagues for this paper filled with pandemic-relevant behavioral science, much of it already being digested in the media. The @affectivescilab, which I co-direct, would like to

Pinboard

Pinboard

The professional privacy crowd is being intentionally obtuse about the possible uses of location data in epidemiological tracking, as demonstrated in this white paper. Thread:https://twitter.com/granick/status/1247983480572534790 As the paper explain

Maryalice Demler

WGRZmaryalice

***LIVE TWEETING*** Erie County Executive @markpoloncarz daily briefing for Wednesday: 1,335 positive cases all labs, 45 deaths (demos: 30 white, 15 african-american) 333 recovered, 957 in isolation, 221 hospital, 119

el gato malo

boriquagato

this study finds that early cov-19 cases in the US were 80X higher than reportedthis validates what many of us has been saying for months:this disease was much more widespread/much

John Deans

jjbillyd

Maths often gets presented “without algebra”. People trying not to scare those who didn’t enjoy maths at school, or who are just glad it’s over. One reason mathematicians – and

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

ANTI-HE HIT PIECE ALERTThere are over 200 000 academic staff currently employed at UK universities. This diligent investigation has uncovered *ONE* serving academic in the UK who has done what's

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 26: The highway day of new cases in over a month.But the president is not talking about that. 1/ With 200,000 lives lost, it would be great

Mark D. Levine

MarkLevineNYC

It’s time to update the all-or-nothing messaging on Covid-19 risk.Let’s give people the tools to understand that the riskiness of social activities lies on a spectrum.We are staring quarantine fatigue

Aidan Prince

Prince18An

(1) In the 0.01% chance that someone sees this thread and decides to share it with others, or the 0.01% that quarantine protesters see this, OR the 0.01% chance that