#PANDEMIC

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

This past semester I taught two courses: an advanced (causal inference) methods course, and an outbreak investigation course.I’d like to share some thoughts on teaching during a pandemic. 1. The

Elizabeth Neumann

NeuSummits

I realize they have no other argument - but to be clear we have had pandemic plans for 15 yrs. They’ve been updated multiple times & exercised in this Administration...communications

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I have thought very long and hard about the best mitigation strategies for the Covid-19 pandemic over the last week ... and reached the conclusion this really is a 'wicked

Jody Lanard MD

EIDGeek

My husband and soul-mate Peter Sandman just posted "Four Core Risk Communication Messagesfor Our Cold Dark Pandemic Winter" -- a longer version and a shorter version -- at the request

Augie Ray

augieray

I hate to reduce optimism during a tough time, but there's a kind of blind hope that needs to be explored. It goes like this: The Black Plague was followed

Michael E. Webber

MichaelEWebber

Don't know why, but I've been thinking a lot recently about mass casualty events. Mass casualty events are caused by natural disasters, wars, etc.Let's say there is a hypothetical pandemic

Christine Benz

christine_benz

I've been obsessed with long-term care for a while now. That's mainly because my parents both required long-term care later in their lives, but also because it's an expensive, confusing

MJ Leaver

MJ_Leaver

Extremely sotto voce, 'Criminalisation of those who start community transmissions for outbreaks isn't a sound health policy, and the name of patient zero is only relevant to health workers and

Mustafa Hirji

mustafahirji

Thanks to everyone for their words of support this evening, including the #WeStandWithDrHirji tag. I’m deeply humbled by the volume & breadth of support. More importantly, I’m gratified that so

Roy Canivel

roycanivel_inq

More than 916,000 enterprises registered and renewed their business names under the DTI last year, driven mostly by pandemic-weary entrepreneurs who wanted to start their own mom-and-pop stores or sell

Michael Story ⚓

MWStory

The pandemic made me a lot more favourable to rat/EA people & worldview (was already v favourable). Felt very warm to see the community make good calls early on- and

Colb

___Colb___

God: Welcome my son.You: .....God: You know why you’re here don’t you?You: .....God: Tell me why you’re here.You: ...Because I was eating ass at a pool party during a global

Kathy Hoffman

Supt_Hoffman

Since the onset of #COVID19, state & local decision-makers have grappled with a challenging reality: the politicization of a pandemic.https://www.newsweek.com/pandemic-coronavirus-politicizing-polarizing-1513405 And after months of misi

DHH

dhh

“Ironically, though managers may have feared that remote working would allow employees to slack, it may be that managers have not been up to the challenge”, no shit. This isn’t

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling'

melinda d. anderson

mdawriter

Something that’s mostly missing from slew of news stories on Ss academically suffering and failing in virtual learning is how much is remote learning vs. learning in a pandemic. Even

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