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1. This thread about an important paper from @jonassjuul, K. Græsbøll, L. Christiansen, and @suneman will be more technical than usual.The paper addresses how to depict ranges of outcomes in
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This paper is being pitched in media accounts as evidence that COVID-19 causes heart irregularities in half of those infected.I'm skeptical.https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa178/5859292?searchresult=1 My
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It is heartbreaking to watch @CDCDirector Robert Redfield turn a great public health institution @CDCgov into a political propaganda tool. I feel dreadful for the thousands of talented, devoted professionals
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28. Lastly on this point, I hate to go all MS-PAINT on you, but.... 29. An aside: I realize that John Ioannides is trying to be clever and contrarian and
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This recommendation from @CDCgov, coupled with the rationale given, beggars belief. This is thinest of absence-of-evidence arguments. Imagine what would have to be true of young adults for re-entry testing
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1. There's a perverse notion I keep hearing; it sure looks like an excuse to avoid doing things that people know they ought to be doing. It's that imperfect disease
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Graphs like the ones below scare me. I can't see how one can spin this as anything other than a disaster in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html People often complain that I'm
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So various media are reporting a new pandemic flu virus discovered in China.What does this actually mean? Let's look at the original paper. Actually, that's not so easy to do
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(REUTERS) The Eagles were the first punk records, top Californian musicologist says. OK, now that I've got your attention, you can see how easy it is. Take any claim you
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1. A few weeks ago, several Italian doctors made quite a stir in the news. They claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was "losing potency", and hinted at genetic changes in
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Last week, a press released provided initial and promising results from a large scale trial of the corticosteroid dexamethasone in hospitalized COVID patients. Today the authors released a full report:
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1. I'm a strong advocate of testing as an important pillar of the coronavirus pandemic response. There is often confusion about what testing offers, and I think it's helpful to
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