#Epidemiology

facts&effects

EffectsFacts

(1/12) Big thread with 16 diagrams to investigate the “dry tinder” hypothesis (mild preceding seasons affecting future mortality). We begin with a deep dive into the Nordics – in short:

David

ForsakenDAemon

I was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 on around March 9, two months ago. I was diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 16. I started getting sick on March 18, and was discharged

Nicolás D. Franco-Sierra

nfrancosierra

Excited to share our pre-print on genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Colombia. Here we combine multiple approaches: whole viral genome sequencing, phylogenetic and epidemiological observations to understand COVID-19 outbreak in

Alex Leeds Matthews

alex_leedsmatts

From the last three years working on my masters in public health and journalism, I know a bit about how scientific research and health news are produced and how to

Neha Limaye, MD

neha_limaye

During this unfortunate @BrighamWomens COVID-19 outbreak, blaming us, the “weary” workers, is not the solution. As a resident affected by this outbreak, here are the realities of why healthcare workers

Amy 🦓

skepticalzebra

John Snow was an doctor & a founding member of the Epidemiological Society of LondonSnow first published an article in 1849 outlining his theory that Cholera was spread by sewerage

greg fell FFPH

felly500

A few weeks ago I did a well publicised thread on the amazing work by many over the last few months on how what they did has saved lives, protected

GeorgiaVPhD

georgiavphd

**LONG THREAD. I have realized that something has been bothering me the past couple of days as the horror of #Herron has been exposed as well as the very dire

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Lots of pub based excitement today. Evidently what's been announced will make a big difference to immediate economic output. But we need to be really careful about how we think

Gwen Graham

GwenGraham

When we served in Congress together, I assessed that @GovRonDeSantis was a strange guy. I assessed that he did not have good judgement. I assessed that his service was to

Nic Holas

nicheholas

Did you know #PatientZero is not a thing, based on a comprehension error that was abused by a hack journo? Gaëtan Dugas was listed as "Patient O" (as in L,

Ben Braun

BraunMath

It is interesting to compare the @IMHE_UW model with the https://gleamproject.org/covid-19# model. For example, both predict that with strong social distancing, around 50k US deaths by April 30. However, the

SwiftOnSecurity

SwiftOnSecurity

One of the most important qualities in population buy-in to any kind of security is empowerment. That expertise is important, but distillable to protect from 99% of infections.And just like

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

A v.significant error in Toby Young's piece, misreporting the Chief Medical Officer's view of the likely spread by 6-10 times (from 5%-ish to 30-50%), by mishearing/misunderstanding the point he made.

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eliowa

Epidemiology question that's been bothering me: Why are 70% of the sickest #COVID19 patients men? Could understanding lower risk in women be important for prevention? And could lower risk in

[ Dan Brendtro ]

brendtro

My experiment for the week is to post only via explanatory retweets, about Covid19, virology, and epidemiology. Here’s my Thread o’ Knowledge A virologist explains viruses:https://twitter.com/peterkolchinsky/status/1246975275021348865?s=21 A computa