#Epidemiological

Tracy Taylor, DPT

DrTracyTaylor

1/ @APDillon_ @JohnLockeNC @NC_Governor @SecMandyCohen Let’s discuss NC Executive Order 180 (https://governor.nc.gov/documents/executive-order-no-180) and the evidence/studies cited for having stricter guidelines, shall we? 2/ 1.1st study

el gato malo

boriquagato

lateral flow testing seems to be generating quite a lot of interest as a way to separate actual clinical cov infection from positive PCR tests from trace or "dead" virus.if

el gato malo

boriquagato

croatia is open. no lockdowns, no curfews, no mask laws.open.life there is normal. people are trying to claim this is causing a covid spike. it's not.they look, gasp, just like

Matthew Cortland, Esq

mattbc

I'm asked why I focus so much on PPE/masks/face shields, compared to, eg, testing:1) we're not going to have a national testing strategy with Trump as POTUS;2) the point of

Oscar Margain

OscarJournalist

Getting ready to hear from @WHO scientists in #Wuhan, #China, working to trace the origins of the novel #coronavirus #COVID19. They are about to address a press conference along with

Matt Zefferman

matt_zefferman

Epidemiology question. When epidemiologists estimate "transmissibility" of a viral variant, are they estimating the observed transmissibility or estimating something causal about the mutation? @CT_Bergstrom @noamross Imagine a vir

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)

ArisKatzourakis

SHORT THREAD: with a couple of big take home messages and some *speculation* on the VOC. This study confirms our worst fears regarding the degree of transmission advantage for the

el gato malo

boriquagato

much health policy in 2020 has been sold as a trolley problem. you could pick "economy" or "lives" but not both.this has never been true. lockdowns and travel bans and

Mean Fat Girl- 🏳️‍🌈💄

Artists_Ali

TW- weight lossIt's fatphobic to refer to weight loss as "taking care of yourself".It's also a total lie because weight cycling increases cortisol which contributes to all the diseases blamed

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Something has really been bothering me a lot and it's the notion that there is a scientific debate about whether aerosol transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus occurs. I don't think

Jennifer Cabrera 😀 #SmilesMatter

jhaskinscabrera

"The claims about... new viral mutations are wholly sourced to epidemiological models constructed by a handful of academics, who have access to influential people and platforms. These models have not

Misa

misapelater

In 1977, Fred Davenport, of the Dept of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan wrote, "Epidemiological hypotheses must provide satisfactory explanations for all the known findings – not just for

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

Fixed effects models are a great choice for longitudinal #epi research if: 1) your independent variable of interest is time-varying (& variation is present in the data), 2) you have

Nick Hudson

NickHudsonCT

What most people miss in the debate about whether masks work at an individual level, is that we'd better hope they don't. Mask mandates have been enforced in many places.

Willem van Schaik 💙

WvSchaik

There is small subset of #COVID19 papers that rely on trawling through GISAID and then publishing data that has been generated and submitted (but not yet published) by others. /1

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