#Epidemiology

Our Research Tissue Bank, held under HTA license, is a magnificent resourced with almost 100,000 blood samples in multiple carefully designed cohortsWhatever your question, it’s likely we can answer it
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Anders Tegnell and @Folkhalsomynd seem interested in working out the total number of people in Stockholm that have already been infected by #covid19 and thus may have a measure of
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This is an attractive visualization about COVID transmission risks. But I'm puzzled about something. With risks this high, how could we have R0 around 2.5 or 3?https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-t
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OK, let me write a thread, with some numerical experiments, about the influence of the social graph structure on the attack rate of epidemics (attack rate = number of people
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THREAD1/ Have seen comments floating around re whether the numbers used in this article are exactly correct or completely fit the epidemiology of spread etc; the footnotes clearly state these
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[THREAD]1/21A piece of fake news has been gaining currency on WhatsApp and Hindi news channels (of course) that claims coronavirus was "created" in a Chinese lab.This thread is my attempt
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As a few of you know, I’ve been drafted into modeling the spread and consequences of COVID.We’ve learned some important modeling lessons along the way. I know a few of
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We're in Covid crisis mode again - and this is just the start. Why? Because Johnson is trapped between libertarian herd-immunity crowd, and a faction that wants to use the
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1/ It's time to look at week 16 (April 12-April 18) #COVIDViewAre things getting better or worse overall in the US? Are there pockets of concern or good news?What new
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Let's game this "but the economy" argument out. Just for hell of it. Assumptions: 1) the economy (which really wasn't on anything but a bad sugar high anyway thanks to
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Pains me to say it, but @ProfMattFox made a good point yesterday about the difference between ID methods and non-ID methods. I was thinking about that on my dog walk
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Important work from @TWenseleers (whom you ought to be following).The Indian variant (B.1.617.2) may be 60% more transmissible than the UK variant (B.1.1.7), and 2.6 times more transmissible than the
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dear epidemiologists:we would like our fear narrative back now please.love, climate science.https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-oceans-environment-united-nations-general-assembly-d073896990db973a3e45db26787d6a18 if there is go
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"Eminent river engineer and former professor of civil engineering at IIT in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof. U.K. Choudhary"Stop. You're NOT qualified to opine on virology, epidemiology, or anything
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1. COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission ---> Overwhelming GLOBAL EVIDENCE that the virus is airborne. Recognized by CDC, WHO, BMJ, PHE, UK Govt, SAGE, DfE - HE, Royal Society (RAMP), John Snow
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#COVID19 Serology (aka. #antibody) testing is a popular topic. Here is a tweetatorial on where things stand today in Ontario. As @UHN’s Deputy Division Head for Biochemistry, test validation and
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