#Epidemiology

Prof Dynarski

dynarski

Moooo I disclaim this economisthttps://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1264996588834996226 To be clear, economists use the phrase all the time(I have many such papers)We also refer to people as units We also need to talk

david oliver

mancunianmedic

@TiceRichard almost wilfully misrepresenting Swedish/WHO Covid approach on #bbcaq 1. Anders Tegnell - the Swedish Epidemiology Supremo has said that Herd Immunity approaches were "unscientific and unethical" and WHO made

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

IS A (BIO)STAT PHD RIGHT FOR ME?Prospective students ask me this several times a year. It’s a tough one. I am super enthusiastic about stat and data science careers. It’s

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Can we please have a talk with the photo editors? ENOUGH WITH THE BEACH PICTURES ruining articles. Beaches are one of the least risky environments. Indoor bars and restaurants. House

Katherine Ellen Foley

katherineefoley

Back in May, I heard about scientists trying to use wastewater as an early #covid19 warning signal. As I dug into that idea, I learned about their much larger ambition:

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a

Kevin Milligan

kevinmilligan

Paul Romer is a Nobel-winning economist. He advocates for moving toward a regime of wide-scale testing.We don't have the capacity to do this *today*.He argues we could have the capacity

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

RECAP: Key thing Kamala said at #VPDEBATE : ‘On January 28, the Vice President & the President were informed that #COVID19 was airborne and lethal in consequence.’This was 4 days

Jon 🔬

JonnyMicro

Just a reminder that cloth masks - the majority of what the public is wearing because it’s the only thing widely available and what is being required by governments and

Richard Jones

forensicmed

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" (John Lydon)The publication of this letter & the nature of its correction raises questions about the reliability of the academic record.@llantwit @FFLMUK @RCPath

Jonathan (Parler: jcho710)

jcho710

1/The only time I've tweeted on getting blocked. If you forego top doctors, epidemiologists, & a medical Nobel Laureate for a pharmacist--while these former have been accurate on COVID before

Simon campbell

thewiltonweigh

Point being corona is new, but epidemiology and public health isn’t. Plenty to learn from past “lockdowns”https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/rapid-response-was-crucial-containing-1918-flu-pandemic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history

VCU School of Pharmacy

VCUPharmacy

VCU #InfectiousDiseases expert Amy Pakyz dreamed of being published in the journal CID. She told friends she could retire happy if that happened.She died early this year. Colleagues helped complete

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1.full.pdfNeat paper from Prof Gomez’ group at Oxford: “Becayse the model is fitted to observed deaths, the estimates of cumulated numbers infected & herd immunity threshol

Phil Rogers

PhilRogers81

This is a quote from Emiliano Zapata, leader of the Mexican revolution of 1910-20. Peasant communities stood up to having land & water resources monopolised by the small-landowning class, leading

Christian Gollier

CGollier

1/7 To characterize a rational exit strategy to #lockdown , we must combine epidemiology with economics.I am not an epidemiologist, just an economist. Moreover, our date to test our models