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Carl T. Bergstrom
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1. Out today, an important study about the characteristics of 37 asymptomatic COVID-19 infections from Wuhan. Patients were identified by screening close contacts of the cases; the authors made every
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1. A paper came out on medRxiv a few days ago, reporting that almost half of a Brooklyn population were serotype positive for COVID, and suggesting an association between disease
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1. I know it's no fun to write a piece along the lines of "Scientists find exactly what they expected", but when you try to spin it into a man-bites-dog
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Further evidence that the CDC has become hopelessly compromised by leadership that buckles to political pressure from the White House, instead of upholding the agency's mission.https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/white-house-and-cdc-r
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1. A thread on selection bias, COVID testing, and a failure to detect community spread in the US that cost us a month or more in the pandemic response.In my
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Tom Cotton is either (A) a racist moron who doesn't understand the advantages of bringing the best and brightest to the US to study and then either stay here, or
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What's so tragic is that this was entirely predictable, and we didn't manage to stop it from happening.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/24/coronavirus-rural-america-outbreaks/?arc404=true People are remarking on my choi
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With guidance from this newly released CDC document, federal agencies are modeling the COVID pandemic using implausibly low fatality rate. Their "best estimate" has a symptomatic CFR of 0.4%Their worst
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Unfortunately the misleading claims of those two doctors in Bakersfield keep making the rounds, so I want to very briefly address the problem with what they are saying. I won't
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.@ElonMusk is even {stupider|more cynically opportunistic} than I thought.How the hell can you land a rocket on a platform and make a self-driving car but get taken in by this
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1. A short thread about symmetric death curves curves and the @IMHE_UW model. Throughout, I'll use a great new tool from @yuorme: http://www.covid-projections.com/ This allows us to look at how the
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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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