#Prevalence

Joshua Niforatos, MD, MTS

reverendofdoubt

I gave @Surgisphere the benefit of the doubt. I believe this data is very possible to have. Other companies have similarly large EHR datasets, such SVS, Explorys, etc. I have

𐐪 lux-ren royale 𐑂

sweetjinxii

// rape , sexual assault , nonconthe prevalence of noncon in shuakea thread Before we begin, this thread talks at length about sexual assault in fanworks, specifically fanfic, and the

Valthor

vlthr

The Swedish CDC @Folkhalsomynd released a (now retracted) report yesterday with a mathematical model for the number of infected in the Stockholm area. Since the report was only available in

Hannah Davis 🦈

ahandvanish

I don't usually do these kinds of posts, and I hope that everyone understands my intentions are good here.But. In a data deficient landscape like that of #longcovid, one bad

The DLD Project

TheDLDProject_

DOES DLD REALLY AFFECT 1 IN 14 PEOPLE? When discussing Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) people are often struck by the high prevalence. It almost seems unbelievable!1/9#DevLangDis #1in14 #DLDSeeMe Here are

Motor City Muckraker

MCmuckraker

Michigan @GovWhitmer at press conference says the state is "still a good month" away from reaching the peak in coronavirus cases. "We are in for a tough four, five, six

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

One last time then;We don’t know what the operational false positive (case) rate is.https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895843/S0519_Impact_of_false_positives_and_negatives.pdfFa

Subhasree Ray

DrSubhasree

As we already know that #COVID19 is majorly affecting people who are living with #Diabetes Mellitus, high BP, high cholesterol, and obesity, in this thread, the association between diabetes and

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdfThe operational false positive rate of the widely used PCR test is so large that ALL the mass testing data since June should be flushed. Think of cities & areas

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

An excellent question about the accuracy of serology tests. THREAD, WITH SPREADSHEET THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND PLAY WITH!https://twitter.com/delta_vee/status/1260928159521878016 I'm going to riff off this thread about a particular COVID-19

zec

JustAZec

Abolitionists have a term called "non-reformist reforms" (which I personally believe to be as oxymoronic as it sounds in most cases) which refers to criminal legal reforms that are meant

Ricardo Reis

R2Rsquared

**** An ABC recoveryPeople discussing whether it is going to be a V, U, L, ... recession. I say neither. Sticking to the alphabet, it will be an ABC recovery.De-trended

Wajiha Javed

Getzpharmapubli

The 8% prevalence can be extrapolated to the 1 million registered working population of Karachi, meaning at least 80,000 infected cases in Karachi alone, with 70,000 being currently infected, unaware

Helen Ward

profhelenward

A thread on our research pre-printed yesterday (not peer-reviewed) on the prevalence in England of antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19. Full paper below 1/nhttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/institute-of-global-

F Rodriguez-Sanchez

frod_san

This is very important. And it applies to any predictive model, not just COVID tests. Models with 95 or 99% 'accuracy' can still produce many false positives/negatives.1/nhttps://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1247449207956537345 This figure n

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

I frequently get asked about risk of catching #covid19 from various activities. I love this diagram. As your personal risk goes up (bc of your own health, or because of