#Effectiveness

Edgardo Block

edgardo_block

So this interaction from last year came to mind as I start to see some postings of papers that study the effectiveness of measures ("NPIs" and "lockdowns"). One way to

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declamare

if the Deputy Chief Medical Officer is wearing a (self-purchased?) KN95 respirator when he goes into an indoor vaccination centre, maybe your gran should be wearing proper respiratory protection

aL'Ai alvarez, MD

alvarezzzy

Dr. Ashley Rider (@ac_rider) giving #facdev on #Teaming and the use of #EMSim to optimize high-performance resuscitations. Human Performance as a system for #safetyIIAffect * Behavior * Cognition are key

TOPIC Research Group

topic_group

Some important messages from our @Cochrane_CCMD #TonyJames @Tess_Reardon @Cathy_Creswell review on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. THREAD (1/9) Read here: http://ow.ly/vAcs50ClA50

Lauren Elsie White

LaurenElsie23

Today and over the w/end I'm going to play argument bingo on the coverage of industry opposition to the rumoured advertising bans in the UK. Starting with this Marketing week

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

ZeroCOVID discussions have made contact-tracing-as-an-intervention a hot topic again. In particular, a contention frequently heard is that if we "get cases low" and then "build up the tracing system" test+trace

Daniel Schuman

danielschuman

I am an expert on Congress, and if you're reading @californiadem20's thread evaluating AOC's legislative effectiveness, you should understand that not only is it wrong but it fundamentally misunderstands what

Ranil Dissanayake

scepticalranil

What better way to end the year than a new paper by @MarkWPlant, @charlesjkenny and I? We suggest an approach to using ODA wisely in middle-income countries and note how

Dr Emily Grossman

DrEmilyGrossman

Concerned re the new vaccine strategies? Worried that delaying the second dose is a bad idea or that it might make the virus resistant? Confused re mix and match vaccines?

Patrick Phillips MD

DrP_MD

It's so sad that our Canadian government was aware enough to purchase HCQbut then abandoned this life-savimg treatment when it became associated with Trump and the retracted Lancet paper.How many

Typhoid Mary

PhDima1

The concepts of efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency are often misunderstood or ignored altogether. When it comes to interventions, in this case masks, we need to make the following distinctions:https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1350878

Gustavo de Carvalho

gb_decarvalho

A few weeks since our seminar on Security Sector Reform in Africa, a point which was made by Prof. @LindyHeinecken still rings true and remains worth sharing. A mini thread

McHimbo™️2022 Vibes Only

tadpr0le

Reminder that while abstinence-only programs dominate American addiction treatments they don’t work for everyone and other countries have explored different treatments that seem to work better while the American model

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

VACCINE EFFICACY 101: A biostatistician's primerTen tweets to cover:- How is vaccine efficacy calculated?- Distinguishing between infection, disease, & severe disease.- Measuring reduced infectiousness.- Vaccine efficacy vs. effecti

Matt

theMKL17

1/6 #SNG EUA Process - @US_FDA “The FDA may issue an EUA to allow unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency

Jonathan Ichikawa

jichikawa

It's that time of year again, when universities run surveys where they ask students what they thought of their instructors. They use the results as "data" regarding teaching effectiveness.This is

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