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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
I'm getting asked more about the 'k' parameter that describes variation in the reproduction number, R (i.e. describes superspreading). But what does this parameter actually mean? A short statistical thread...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
1. Can we restart the economy with a two-day work week?A short thread about the new #COVID19 proposal from a group of top systems biologists: https://medium.com/@urialonw/containing-sars-cov-2-with-a-two-day-workweek-fbdea4030d30It's great to hav
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Michael Donnelly
donnellymjd
(1/) Take a look at my latest post on #Covid_19. https://medium.com/@donnellymjd/using-covid-19-case-data-alone-will-fool-you-c64116b71fc1@kevin Systrom's http://rt.live is a great effort to estimate the reproduction value of the current ep
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Ryan Treadwell
Ryan_Treadwell
I see a lot of advice from producers to aspiring folks that boils down to "Listen to people! Emotional Intelligence! etc. etc"It's not wrong, but it's also not actionable. You
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Megan O'Sullivan
PoseySessions
Update: It isn't great news at my house.Mr. X just got out of surgery for an unexpected medical issue. (Non corona related).Things should be okay as the surgery was the
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Chris Conlon
conlon_chris
So @nirupama_rao and I are finally in print. We look at why alcohol taxes are often "overshifted" so that $1 of tax leads to >$1 of price increase. Originally we
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Uncle Sola
solaadio
On Friday night, I admonished PRG members to abandon Twitter wisdom and forgive their parents for whatever they have done & honour them. We prayed one hour and a girl
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Tom Baird
BairdTom
I can understand why a “wait and see” approach sounds reasonable for moving from alert level 4 to level 3. However I think it is based on false reasoning. Let
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Tom Maguire
Tom_Maguire
I hope so but I don't think so. Who thinks they have a shareable expert opinion on Sweden?https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-stockholm-could-see-herd-immunity-in-weeks.html Back in Sweden for a moment, estimating population
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downwithxmewxrk
xubysapphire
Our cousin's in the other world family nurseries. The same ages and clarity as us. Will no doubt be themselves preparing for their own world home tournament of their nations.
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SternLab
SternLab
Finally excited to share our work with @KoelleLab @m_a_martin and many others on features of SARS-CoV-2 spread. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.20104521v1What did we find:1. Sequenced 212 genomes from Israel @GISAID @next
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Lawrence H. Summers
LHSummers
I have a Viewpoint out in JAMA with my colleague @Cutler_econ – The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus. It is particularly relevant today https://ja.ma/3diC0U9 1/13 We estimate the
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
Thoughts on seroprevalence in NYC. I'm not at all surprised by an estimate of 21% seropositive in NYC as discussed by @NYGovCuomo today (https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1253353516803993600). 1/6 I had previously been estimating
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Felix Singleton Thorn
FSingletonThorn
I am assessing power analyses in published papers (for reasons), and there are some quite common errors. Here follows a thread of these issues. The goal is not to make
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Andrew Althouse
ADAlthousePhD
The NEJM compassionate-use remdesivir data was always sort of a "passing curiosity while we await trial data" but it's disappointing that the analysis was done wrong.But, it offers an opportunity
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Ashleigh Tuite
AshTuite
When we talk about the return to school in the fall, there's a lot of emphasis on making sure that community transmission is 'low'. If we have fewer cases in
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