#Epidemiologists

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst got caught editing his past predictions again. It's happening so fast, I can't keep my piece updated, so here's a thread on how to deal with this kind

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Breaking: CDC ordered by higher-ups within Trump WH to modify its guidelines this week to not test people without overt symptoms of #Covid19. Worse, the directive “came from the top

Ariel Beccia

arielbeccia

Part 2 of my "Intersectional Approaches in Epidemiology" resource series is up today on #EpiToDate! Focus this time is on bridging social theory with quantitative methods Many thanks to

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I've written elsewhere about three different roles for COVID testing: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1274576193333850112But whether you are testing for individual health, surveillance, or mitigation, speed is of the essence.

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

As cases surged this week, I asked more than half a dozen researchers (epidemiologists, virologists and psychologists) if the U.S. has lost its COVID-19 war and if widespread lockdowns are

Karam Bales

karamballes

Thread: Science of schoolsSAGE and iSAGESAGE have just released papers on schools.Not a huge amount(well as much as I wanted)however it doesnt support the government's date and guidence documents9 models

Dave Ederer 🦔

DaveEderer

Vision Zero and Safe Systems are public health policy. John Snow's map of cholera cases in London is one of the 1st examples of modern epidemiology.Civil engineers ended that outbreak,

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Rudi Bachmann

BachmannRudi

Ich finde, darauf verdient @larsweisbrod eine Antwort. Ein Versuch.https://twitter.com/DIEZEIT/status/1265289550341029890 Zunächst einmal sollte man noch mal an die Tatsachen erinnern: 1) es sind nicht nur Oekonometriker (so heißen grob g

dj patil

dpatil

I’ve been full-time working for COVID for 14 weeks with states and cities across the U.S. & here are my lessons-learned for us to get ready for the next wave

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

This piece from @rmc031 about school safety amidst Covid is a really worthwhile read. It pumps the breaks on the level of certainty we have that "the science says" in-person

Vlado Vince

mejs

"Why is Croatia doing so well in the fight against the Coronavirus" -- as I listen to an endless sound of ambulances from my apartment in Brooklyn, I am so

Kannan Gopinathan

naukarshah

Dear PM @narendramodi, today's briefing would be late.The thing is Wife wants me to make lunch first. I asked can I do it later.She said, that would be okay, but

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 28Rock stable @ucsfhospitals, w/ 20 Covid cases, 5 on vents. Even better, ZSFG w/ 28 pts (down 6 from yest!), 11 intubated (down 1). No

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking