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Dr Ellie Murray
EpiEllie
I’m often asked for recommendations about what to read to learn about epidemiology. But listing books is kinda boring content.So, in no particular order, here is Taylor Swift as Epidemiology
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Duncan MacCannell
dmaccannell
One important gap in many state and local #publichealth departments -- and in many national programs as well -- is the limited number of staff with deep, practical expertise in
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John Hausman
JohnSHausman
While today's AZ reported covid numbers are inflated by holiday weekend catchup, the "epi curve"—cases shown by the actual date the tests were drawn—is alarming too. New all-time high of
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IM
ianmSC
Oklahoma has provided an Epidemiological report every week, where they show data from cities w/ & w/out mask mandatesI want to draw your attention to this part, because it’s important:The
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Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦♂️
arambaut
By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system
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Beͫvͣaͬnͨd
zorinaq
I see many non-experts misinterpret COVID-19 hospitalization figuresHere's the thing: raw figures for the last 1-2 weeks almost always show a PERMANENT DIP even when hospitalizations are INCREASINGCase in point,
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Tom Lewis
invadingpirate
1/n. Some data on how test performance interacts with local epidemiology 2/n Test performance assumptions 3/n. Epidemiology 4/n PPV and NPV now 5/n PPV and NPV at peak in December
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Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦♂️
arambaut
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about naming SARS-CoV-2 variants and coming up with a standardised naming system. There was some discussion of this last week at
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gabriel talledo
coldestdayonme
1/Today at international @CPSolvers.15-year-old female with retroauricular and preauricular adenitis, left lumbar pain, splenomegaly and 2.5 kg weight loss in 22 days.What is the most likely diagnosis?Follow the @SandraF73382667 @Felipesola
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David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍
DavidSteadson
Non-Swedish followers are probably not aware, but this week in a "cultural" piece, Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, when asked what the "Year's pandemic" was, answered "hobby epidemiologists".ht
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Simply Biochemistry
SimplyBiochem
1) Today Boris Johnson announced that the U.K. variant may be more deadly.Once again, we’d like to dispel the huge fear that results from such statements by reminding everyone that
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Rafael Fonseca MD
Rfonsi1
Not a useful tweet at all - fear prompting. Obviously living in Arizona and being a physician I was curious about the data. The nuance is missing. Many in AZ
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SER
societyforepi
Now, what exactly is an applied epidemiologist, and why are they needed? In the late 90s- early 2000's there were a series of articles in AJPH, AJE, JECH, and IJE
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Michael Schwandt
MichaelSchwandt
Thanks again for this. As expected, there are substantial differences between BC/ON and Atl (or the rest of Canada). This is reflected in the epidemiology: MB, SK, and Atl haven't
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Dr Caitlin Pfeiffer
CaitlinVetEpi
As teaching recommences for 2021, I encourage my students w/ academic, One Health or epidemiology/public health aspirations join twitter. It can be a dreadful place, but also fantastic for keeping
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Covidian Interregnum
atgraham
We can't perform a true repeatable experiment, running it twice and only changing NPI variables. However, we have perhaps what is the next best thing: 50 experiments all running at
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