#Epidemiologists

Marco Valente

eccemarco

**Request for past predictions**Please respond with cases when the FHM (and experts aligned with its strategy) made predictions that a) were overly confident and b) turned out to be way

MaDlamini

MaDlameanie

I am thinking of Nomboniso Gasa’s comment on how women lose the legacy of their work through surname changes. She was reffering to Charlotte Maxeke who did substantial work under

Dr Felicity Watson

FelicityWatson

There has to be clear, peer-reviewed scientific evidence that children are a risk to:- teachers- each other- older peopleThis is the evidence that is needed NOT evidence that children ARE

Tom Scott

Tom___Scott

1/ Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but Dominic Cummings appears to take a keen amateur interest in epidemiology. This was one of the papers he specified as

Susan Fillippeli

Fillise

For all of those saying that if we had begin social distancing in February, we would have prevented a widespread #coronavirus outbreak in the US. Hindsight is often 20/20, but

rm -lininger

0xdaeda1a

Hey everybody worried that political pressure for a vaccine may harm public health?Your future tense is incorrect. It already has. Now we will have a desperate uphill slog to convince

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

Thread on my insistence in discussing uncertainty in health policy decision-making related to COVID-19.When I was doing my PhD, I took a class with Dr. Terre Satterfield: “Science, Technology and

Varun C. MD, DM

drcheruvarun

Why do we need to correctly count all covid deaths?To spread doom and gloom for the sake of it? No.Coz it's an important tool for epidemiologists? Not only that.To deal

Mentorshipzim

mentorshipzim

So, epidemiologists study determinants of health and disease."Health" is state of wellness, a continuum rather than an absolute term. A person without a known disease can be unwell and a

Tim Hayward

Tim_Hayward_

Hundreds of medics and health scientists plus thousands of citizens have signed support for the declaration on day 1: https://gbdeclaration.org/ The thinking behind it is laid out here for anyone who

scott cunningham

causalinf

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

A New Radical Centrism

a_centrism

[THREAD]1/ I came across this unadulterated cringe: A nice white lady recommending on MLK Day that we follow some "seriously badass scholars of color," in particular @black_epi, an epidemiologist whose

Kelvin Ward

UCUltrasound

Today’s press conference #covid19nz PM @jacindaardern “we have to factor in human behaviour as well, we can only test people who are coming forward for testing at those community testing

Prof Chris Elliott OBE

QUBFoodProf

So why is coronavirus killing so many more people in the UK than in Ireland? This article (I think is spot on) points to a delay in the UK acting

Stilgherrian

stilgherrian

Me at @zdnetaustralia Wednesday: “Coronavirus tracing tech policy '‘more significant’ than the war on encryption”https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-tracing-tech-policy-more-significant-than-the-war-on-encryption/ There’s an interesting thr

Zahra Clayborne

zclayborne

Epidemiology is HOT right now, but for those of you who think epidemiologists are all science and no fun, well… A Princess in Theory demonstrates that we can be romance