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NumFOCUS found I violated their Code of Conduct (CoC) at JupyterCon because my talk was not “kind”, because I said @joelgrus was “wrong”.This sets a bad precedent.Joel was not involved

Last week I presented to the WHO Guidelines Development Group. It was targeted towards infectious disease epidemiologists, but many folks have asked me to share the presentation.So, here's a video

I was invited to present the paper we've worked on for four months to @WHO's Guideline Development Group yesterday.Now that the world is wearing masks, I'm retiring from mask advocacy.Here's

So do these non-medical masks we're all meant to be wearing actually do anything?Well yes, yes they almost certainly do. Here's a thread about the current science.Let's start by explaining

Western doctors didn't believe the young Malaysian-Chinese doctor, Wu Lien-teh, who realized that the 1910 Manchurian Plague was transmitted through the air, and that a simple cotton mask could reduce

The 3 studies I've seen all showed 40-50% of infections were from people without symptoms:https://nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-58 https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031815v1Th

I've studied over a hundred research and policy papers regarding masks, and used them to answer the most common 17 questions I've seen asked by curious skeptics. Here's the result!See

We've just completed a 19-author analysis of the effectiveness of mask wearing, with 84 references. To explain what the science shows, I teamed up with the wonderful Prof @trishgreenhalgh CBE,

Social science friends, I need help. We need >80% compliance in #Masks4All wearing to be most likely to halt transmission of covid-19. Currently, people are being "urged" to wear masks.Is

Italy and S Korea had similar trajectories early on. Then, in late Feb, the gov stepped in to ensure everyone could get a mask. See the result!With >40 papers, results

As data scientists, we (with @math_rachel) have done our best to look at the data around covid-19, and what it means to you and your community.Our view: it is appropriate

The Czech Republic went from zero mask usage to 100% in 10 days, and in the process they halted the growth of new covid-19 cases.How? They made their own! They