#EpiTwitter

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Good evening! I'm your host for the week, @khowaga, and I'm about to ruin your dinner! (1/18)#tweetistorian #histmed #twitterstorian #epitwitter You see, I've mentioned #cholera a few times, but I

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

#EconTwitter I want to take a moment today and list all the topics that economists study that aren't the stock market:- student debt- racial wealth gap- prison industrial complex- sex

Jesse Anttila-Hughes

jesseXjesse

.@rebaker64 and I have a new paper, "Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to child undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa" out in @scireports last week. Here's a brief summary for #ClimateTwitter

Keletso Makofane, MPH

klts0

Hot off the press - our research letter arguing that the way CDC reports COVID-19 disparities is misleading. #tweetorial #epitwitter #socialepitwitterhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2768722 U.S. CDC does not rep

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

.@NYTimes has done great data journalism on #SARS_CoV_2, filling gaps left by an incompetent US federal response but their recent coverage re: schools is tipping towards sensationalism & divergence from

Amanda Makulec MPH

abmakulec

The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on minority groups is a critical issue. Data from many sources has reinforced how staggering these disparities are. This is a beautifully designed chart about

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

Should we pay people for getting infected? Should we increase fines for rule breakers? Incentives are key for controlling epidemic & getting it wrong can backfire. So far, the government

Luke Oakden-Rayner

DrLukeOR

This discussion was getting long, so I thought I'd lay out my thoughts on a common argument: should models produce probabilities or decisions? Ie 32% chance of cancer vs "do

Gabe Schwartz

gabegabeyeah

Out today in @PLOSONE, @jaquelynjahn and I map rates of fatal police violence + racial inequities in those rates across all 382 metro areas in the US. We started writing

Tom Beer

aTomBeer

On the hazards of using of proxy variables in causal inference – a short tweetorial #EpiTwitter #CausalTwitter Unconfoundedness of the treatment-outcome relationship is necessary for causal effect identification. But in

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Key background 1: Because of limited supplies of #COVID19 vaccine, a federal advisory board making recommendations about the order in which people should get vaccinated (don’t get distracted: these recs

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

Let’s talk suppression versus eradication. The real expert here is probably @devisridhar and she can chime in if she wants. As far as I can see we face several obstacles

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

OK, bc of Stanford Med #COVID19 vaccine algorithm fiasco & N@te Silver’s recent tweet re: vaccine priority guidelines, I have to talk about one of my favorite topics! I even

Nathanael Lapidus

n_lapidus

Thanks to @LeonardLeibovi1 for sharing his concerns and to @CMIJournal for publishing this editorial. I do sympathize with these"difficult editorial decisions" and appreciate to be given this information.https://twitter.com/CMIJou

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

Here's a thread that contains my findings regarding the relationship between true infections, reported cases, test positivity rate, and infection fatality rate for COVID-19.Full write-up: http://covid19-projections.com/estimating-true-i

Amelia, Germ Wrangler

UhhMealYuhh

For #ScholarStrike I'm going to collect some of my favorite resources on Settler-Colonialism & Healthcare - listed in no particular order.Some are theory, some are histories, all of them I

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