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1/ New #COVID19 #K12 paper in @ScienceMagazine: the part that most excites me is zooming in on the safety measures that best predict low #COVID19 risks...https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/28/science.abh2939 https://twitte

Excellent thread on new @CDCMMWR household transmission study. Depressing take-home: risk of #SARSCoV2 person infecting people they live with may be much worse in US than other countries...if so, another

Reading this article (in which I'm quoted near the end), I realized why I have such a strong visceral reaction to some of the negative coverage of @ProfEmilyOster's work on

One reason that my fairly wealthy college town school system chose virtual learning for the district for the whole semester is that parent surveys showed a higher proportion of Black

I don’t have the bandwidth right now to go into a full analysis of @ProfEmilyOster’s work but I feel compelled to make a few points: https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1314572214621143040 First, @ProfEmilyOster, an economist,

I was wrong. I thought this whole aerosol vs droplets convo re: #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 was kind of pedantic...1/12https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran/status/1307830066898849794 But a conversation on Facebook changed my mind. A mother of an

1. Pregnant & lactating people are often excluded from clinical trial and vaccine research. But that's starting to change. People in this space are actively updating ethical frameworks so providers

1/ Not that @jbouie needs me to pump up his work, but I will anyway. This essay is excellent for scholars who do work in U.S. Black populations but are

.@NYTimes has done great data journalism on #SARS_CoV_2, filling gaps left by an incompetent US federal response but their recent coverage re: schools is tipping towards sensationalism & divergence from

#COVID19 #peds folks: What’s a good resource for symptom profiles of #COVID19 in kids? Ideally identifying symptoms with best discriminatory power/#PPV for #COVID19 vs. other common childhood illnesses? @apsmunro @ShamezLadhani

It’s been a month since this tweet, and the science of #SARSCoV2 transmission from primary and secondary schools is still unclear... 1/https://twitter.com/whitneyepi/status/1252571781413703682 One reason the science is still so fuzzy

We have to start planning for child health and school reopenings. To do this, we have to understand #COVID transmission dynamics among kids. @apsmunro is doing the best data synthesis