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Amy Proal, PhD
microbeminded2
This study found that Epstein Barr #Virus (EBV) IgM antibody seropositive #COVID-19 patients had a 3.09-fold increased risk of fever compared to EBV seronegative patients. Inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein
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Eiko Fried
EikoFried
In this new editorial, @pravpatalay and I summarize the challenges we see with the recent decision by @wellcometrust & @NIH to mandate standardized mental health measurement. A brief .https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc
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Leo Reap
Leo_ReapDO
Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 1 of 3]What do #COVID-19 and #Dengue fever potentially have in common?The answers have significant potential clinical implications in COVID-19.Buckle up. It's a long one.Let’s take
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Eric Meyerowitz, MD
EricMeyerowitz
Thoughts on RECOVERY preprint: dexamethasone as treatment for COVID-19 @AaronRichterman https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20137273v1
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
A misleading headlineNo question about the profound crisis in India but to ascribe it to B.1.617, a variant of interest, in inaccurate, It's not a "double mutant"—there are 13 mutations
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Chris Said
Chris_Said
I wrote a blog post on the fragmented data pipeline that is causing us all to be confused about coronavirus.Data quality doesn't get as much attention as modeling, but it
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A Marm Kilpatrick
DiseaseEcology
Misleading paper is being promoted as showing that transmission in schools is unlikely and children are less susceptible to #COVID19. Data presented show opposite - equal attack rate in all
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Taylor Adkins
tadkins613
What's Deleuze and Guattari's concept of rhizome? THREAD 1/ Guattari defines the rhizome as a “lattice” and provides the aspects of its functioning on pg. 19 of The Machinic Unconscious
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Joshua Weitz
joshuasweitz
Two critical sentences from a critical JAMA Currents article by Dr. David Hains and colleagues (including @florian_krammer):https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2766215/a short thread on 'shield immunity' 1. The prevalence o
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Vitor Possebom
PossebomVitor
Econometrics ThreadMarginal Treatment Effects (MTE)Today, I will not talk about one particular paper. I will explain the basics of MTE and will mention the papers that I believe to be
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Ahmed Jamal Pirzada
ajpirzada
(1/n) While there is a general upward trend in food prices in #Pakistan, there is also a lot of heterogeneity is how prices of key food items have changed across
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Peter G. Klein
petergklein
A toilet paper article even @oliverbeige will like. The issue is supply chains. TP for the home is produced and sourced differently than TP for office and school. 1/https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortag
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Andrew Zeitlin
AndrewZeitlin
Should developing countries use training or cash grants to combat youth unemployment?Craig McIntosh & I have a new paper out today helping answer that question, working in Rwanda w/ @poverty_action,
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Bill Hanage
BillHanage
There are *so* many things wrong with this, starting with the implicit suggestion that an individual paper in @TheLancet carries particular merit greater than the body of scientific work as
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Alex Washburne
Alex_Washburne
When folk estimated a herd immunity threshold, not only did many miss the importance of heterogeneity in transmission and susceptibility in lowering HIT, but they may have also missed important
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Eva Vivalt
evavivalt
"How Much Can We Generalize From Impact Evaluations" is out at JEEA!Here's a thread with the key takeaways.... 1/https://twitter.com/JEEA_News/status/1318780863912529920 Impact evaluations have taken off in development economi
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