#Epidemiological

Babak Javid

javid_lab

This just out in @ScienceMagazine getting lots of traction, including a write-up in @nytimes by @apoorva_nyc for good reason. Lots of interesting nuggets to mull over...1/nImmunological characteristics govern the transition

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Rapid Antigen tests for #COVID19 in UK are working! Purpose is to rapidly identify infectious people - that is exactly what they are doing!And doing it very well!With an R=1.4,

el gato malo

boriquagato

the CDC is now publishing all cause deaths figures, by state, over the period from 2/1/2020 to 7/4/2020. this is literally cherry picked to show covid at its worst.they express

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Karl Popper's Falsification Principle: how to divide science from non-science. Science: For a theory to be considered scientific it must be able to be tested (for medicine this means with

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Scientific models vary according to the assumptions made. Compare here the projections for Covid19 deaths under four different epidemiological models (Imperial, LSHTM, Warwick, and Public Health England/Cambridge) and the dynamic

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

In my last set of tweets on @MatthewHootonNZ's armchair epidemiological reckons, I emphasised that he does not have the skills to analyse epidemiological data. In his latest Herald piece, he

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

Greater Toronto and Ottawa charts.#COVID19 #COVID19toronto #covid19ottawa #COVID19Ontario Greater Toronto. Greater Toronto - The proportion of cases (positive test results) resulting in death (yellow line). City of Toronto. City of

Justin Sandefur

JustinSandefur

World Bank's initial C-19 forecasts were far too optimistic, particularly for poor countries. Subsequent revisions imply the number of people falling into poverty will be roughly x2 as high.+131m

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

For all the epidemiologists who were furious at banks' initial horribly confounded correlation analyses of COVID outcomes across countries, I would've thought one of them would recognize the equal absurdity

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

What’s happening in India? Is the pandemic burning out? How? Where is the post Diwali surge that we worried about? #COVID19 I wrote about India in August. I was convinced

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Donald Ainslie Henderson, MD, MPH ’60, a leader of the international effort to eradicate smallpox – considered one of public health’s greatest successes – and a former dean of what

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

OK, some thoughts about noses and #SARSCoV2 infection. There is increasing epidemiological evidence that people who improperly wear masks -- not covering their noses -- or use face shields instead

el gato malo

boriquagato

spain has done quite a lot of interesting covid tracking.much of it has not made its way into US discourse because it's in spanish.i'd like to share some as it

Dr Zweli Mkhize

DrZweliMkhize

We have convened this public briefing today to announce that a variant of the SARS-COV-2 Virus- currently termed 501.V2 Variant has been identified by our genomics scientists here in South

Paul Jakma

pjakma

An interesting paper on lessons from Foot and Mouth outbreak in UK, and mathematical modelling:https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/use-and-abuse-of-mathematical-models-an-illustration-from-the-2001-foot-and-mouth-disease-ep

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'

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