#Epidemiologists

iris soleil delgado

irisdelistmo

I just finished reading Racism: Science & Tools, and thought I'd share a summary of Chapter 12: Why Epidemiologists Must Reckon with Racism. Our field cannot continue to disengage with

Kate Martin

KateReports

My father, Jack Bowen, 76, died sometime around midnight on May 26 in a nursing home in Kansas. He was a father of four and grandfather to six, advocated for

Justin Wolfers

JustinWolfers

Survey of leading economists:"Abandoning severe lockdowns at a time when the likelihood of a resurgence in infections remains high will lead to greater total economic damage than sustaining the lockdowns

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

My first reaction to the news that the coronavirus seems to have spread more widely than known (eg 20% of NYC residents) was optimism. But my conversations with epidemiologists made

Lindsay Wiley

ProfLWiley

Theory: Epidemiologists & public health lawyers & ethicists who focus on HIV, substance use, NCDs & other areas where “behavior change” is a focus have had a leg up over

Nicholas Kristof

NickKristof

The U.S. may lose about 90,000 Americans to Covid-19 because we did not manage the virus as well as South Korea did. The first wave is estimated to take 93,000

"Max Nardou"

MaxNordau

THREAD: Former Florida DOH employee Rebekah Jones will be tweeting the timeline of when she claims she "was first asked to fudge the data and refused."This is a fact-checking thread.Sources:Personnel

Matt O'Brien

ObsoleteDogma

It’s important to once again emphasize that there’s no actual debate between economists and epidemiologists about when to reopen the economy. They agree that we shouldn’t try to until we

Mandy Collins

CollinsMandy

Journalist colleagues, I'd like to have a word, because - and I will give you the benefit of the doubt here - many of you have not reported about health

Ari Melber

AriMelber

"If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war... We are not ready for

Eric Lofgren

GermsAndNumbers

One modeler’s thoughts on the UIUC thing. Because while there are some valid criticisms to be had here, I think there’s also some unfair aspects running around #epitwitter .So here

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

The big differences between coronavirus models show us how little we still know about this disease and what’s in store for us. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/22/upshot/coronavirus-models.html @qdbui @jshkatz @aliciaparlap They differ by

Abi Stephenson

AbiLStephenson

I’ve been thinking about how interesting it is that I never - in 10 years of horizon-scanning & programming the world’s foremost experts, campaigners, thought leaders, academics and futurists to

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

bethsawin

Dear epidemiologists, We feel for you.Love,Climate scientists Wow - a lot of you love science & scientists! Sharing this tweet is great, but you know what is even better? Following,

hilzoy

hilzoy

A few quotes: "Leading disease forecasters (...) were mystified when they saw the administration’s projection this week."Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimatehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/heal

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

A wonderful donation from the always inspirational @gretathunberg. COVAX has a key role to play in ensuring vaccines are available & affordable for all. But COVAX won’t solve the global