#Epidemiology

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

Toby Young here being billed as an "expert" in the nation's most widely read newspaper despite spouting a load of economically and epidemiologically illiterate nonsense. Several ppl, myself one of

Tim Colbourn

timcolbourn

Population wide contact tracing, testing and isolation of individuals should allow us to get out of lockdown, and stay out of it. Although it seems obvious as the policy to

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ There seems to be some confusion about QUARANTINE versus ISOLATION. Here's an infectious disease epidemiology 101: 2/ QUARANTINE refers to people who have been EXPOSED and may or may

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

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

The response of the low-carb community to studies showing that low-carb consistently associates with worse outcomes:"But there were almost no subjects in the study that were low-carb enough."Here is why

Bill Pugh @ 🏠

wpugh

Protocols for Bluetooth contract tracing are being designed to be frictionless and not allow other humans to be involved. I think that's wrong. Protocols should anticipate and enhance effectiveness in

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

A very interesting conversation about forecasting the future (with the Superforecaster guy), where it tends to pick up predictive alpha, the sociological makeup of people who repeatedly make good predictions,

The Other Mike Wazowski

karchmic

Yeah, this ain't it chief...1) Only preliminary evidence (albeit growing) suggests that there is a *reduction*, not elimination, of infection and transmission.2) We have little data to describe how effective

el gato malo

boriquagato

once upon a time, there was a pleasing notion:"if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed"alas if that ship was ever seaworthy, it

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I hate to invest precious time on taking apart the atrocious @aginnt article pictured below, but it is getting too much traction here and even in traditional media. This

Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

shengokai

I’m still waiting for the academy (generally) to recognize the toll that this pandemic will take on precarious and junior scholars and graduate students, particularly if our social distancing extends

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Suddenly everyone is an #epidemiology expert, which understandably frustrates 'real' experts. But it is good that people read/share information and form opinions. The problem is the widely shared fantasy about

Dr. Niamh Cummins

CumminsNM

A thread on Public Health. Prior to #COVID19 there wasn't a great awareness among most people about #PublicHealth as a Medical Speciality. I don't mean any disrespect in saying that,

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

For the sake of clarity, I want to explain why(a) I think it makes sense to allow people to go out simply to be out, and not just to exercise,

Barbara Roberts

NotUnderBondage

Thread 1/ German Professor of Microbiology & Epidemiology says there is no reason to panic about #Covid_19. He questions the need for the #lockdown.In this thread I am reproducing some

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

Possible explanation? Nicotine lowers ACE2 expression. (SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 for entry into target cells.)https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295500/ One major New York hospital system that has released its data has a lot more smoking