#Disparities

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

OK. I may get slaughtered here, but there is a kind of pundit who doesn't know what he doesn't know. I'm not talking about ordinary people on @Twitter who shoot

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Tweetorial at use of Race/Ethnicity in prediction models, specifically looking at eGFR based on CKD-EPI formula.eGFR = estimated GFRhttp://ckdepi.org/ 2/ First some background. GFR can be directly measured, traditionally

Barry Yeoman

Barry_Yeoman

THREAD: Here is my annual list of favorite longform journalism of the year. The hellstorm of 2020 produced some beautiful writing, in turns heartbreaking and uplifting. You can find the

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

Interim results on Pfizer vaccine are promising But getting safe doses to those who would benefit most depends on reversing a trend that has defined this pandemic:to quote Isaac Asimov,

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

SociusJournal

We are excited to announce that all current (and future) #COVID19 research will be part of a new special collection! Here's a recap of what's been published so far, but

Dusty Lane

Dustin_L_Lane

THREAD: Three weeks ago, I was in the middle of by far the best and worst week of my life. I have a rule about not discussing personal stuff on

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

This is a load of partisan bull.1. Mississippi—the only state that did not significantly expand voting access (a "scheme," the governor calls it) in the midst of the deadliest pandemic

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

Let's talk about two things that don't usually go together. Hope, and crack cocaine.Wherever you expect this history thread is going to end up, I promise you it's going somewhere

SepsisTrustNZ

SepsisTrustNZ

The cost of sepsis in New Zealand (thread) @ACCNZ found 1250 treatment injury claims registered with keywords “sepsis”/“septicaemia” from 2015-2020. 100 were fatal. Information about payments against these claims has

Tom Sugrue

TomSugrue

1/ The Trump family business was built on housing discriminationhttps://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1278136326647406593 2/ I trace the troubled history of Trump, real estate, and race here:https://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-

Not_that_PeterEvans

PeterEvans_Guv

The Enduring Power of the #InverseCareLawQ: Ever read a paper that resonates for days / months / years afterwards? Mine is from @TheLancet 1971. I would love it to become

Esmeralda Bermudez

BermudezWrites

It’s a special day at the @latimes. Nearly 80 Latino staffers sent a letter to our bosses demanding that our newspaper truly reflect our community, which is half Latino. We’ve

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Of the threads I’ve read exploring the causes of falling rates of #SARSCoV2 infections (and hospitalizations and deaths), I like this one best 1/https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1362100680492601350 2/ Even if Rt transmission rates

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

After a couple years of ads telling men to do laundry turned out, weirdly, to not boost fertility, Korea is back to financial incentives, which prior research has shown do

🌸 bi rights

sapphicbisexual

why bisexuals can't say slurs: a threadplease read the whole thread and you will understand :) alright cool, now that I've got your attention; it's time we talk about how

Sean Philip Cotter

CotterReporter

Boston City Council meeting starting. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, is attending virtually to say an opening prayer. This is the last council meeting of the year. They’re

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