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Carl T. Bergstrom
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When I was a kid I dreamed of someday appearing in the pages of @SInow Sports Illustrated. It took longer than I hoped, and I'm not there for the reasons
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1. In tracking #COVID19 I make frequent use of @jburnmurdoch's semi-log plots of daily death by country. A semi-log plot is helpful because a slope on a semi-log graph corresponds
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1. Models have their strength and weaknesses. It's valuable to understand both. While the @IHME_UW model has certain advantages over other approaches, I want to focus here on a disadvantage,
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1. A somewhat more technical thread than usual.I'm trying to understand the new @UW_IHME #COVID19 forecasting model that was released this morning. Here is a web page with background, a
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1. A short thread about best and worst case models of coronavirus.I've talked about how the @UW_IHME model strikes me as a best case model (at least given current data
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1. On Friday night I posted a rapid post-publication peer-review of the @IHME_UW model and associated white paper. Here's the IHME website and projections:https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections 2. In my thread, below, I
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1. So much of the mistrust swirling around mask recommendations from WHO and other authorities seems to have arisen out of confusion between receiver protection (your mask protects you from
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This is extremely important to keep in mind with respect to that story about how we shouldn't have shut down the country that many, many people may are already be
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1. I hate to invest precious time on taking apart the atrocious @aginnt article pictured below, but it is getting too much traction here and even in traditional media. This
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I'm astonished that people think doctors, biomedical researchers, and public health professionals—who have devoted their lives to helping people—are lying about #hydrochloroquine treatment for #COVID19 just to hurt Trump, rather
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I haven't even thought about writing papers for publication since mid-January. To address the threat posed by #COVID19, it's all about making progress as fast as possible, and sharing what
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1. This is going to be a personal thread about the experience of working at the intersection of infectious disease modeling and the study of misinformation during the worst pandemic
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