#Epidemiologist

Tim Harford

TimHarford

Will it ever end? In November we were celebrating the announcements of several effective vaccines. Now hospitals are overwhelmed and the global death toll is climbing twice as fast as

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Since Quebec unveiled a preliminary plan in June to reopen schools this September, the government has not updated it, causing anxiety among parents and teachers as the number of

Andrew Althouse

ADAlthousePhD

Inspired by this piece which resonated with me and many others, I'm going to run in a little different direction: the challenge of "continuing education" for early- and mid-career faculty

Matt McClure

mattmcclure2

As Mark Twain once said, "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Here's a thread that looks at Premier Kenney's claim that the international border testing

'In Truth We Trust'

SikhForTruth

Sun Thread:An Alternative Theory:1.Was an Influenza outbreak predicted to happen in 2019/20 in China? Was the Influenza pandemic instead mistaken for #Covid19 or was such an outbreak of Influenza masked

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Sweden’s pro-herd govt official Tegnk was DEAD wrong. With deadly consequences. He predicted Sweden’s spring wave would prevent 2nd #COVID19 fall/winter wave. He was ‘Scott Atlas-wrong’. “Herd immunity” arrogance

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

1\n What the sigmoid is a Gompertz? An elegant and simple prediction approach by @MLevitt_NP2013. Beware, though, it is really that simple. A medium rare explanation by @maestro_rayo, @LDjaparidze and

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

OMG—Biden WH just created a new *National Center for Epidemic Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics*. Just like a national weather center or NASA’s asteroid detection center (CNEOS), this will be a

Tom Jawetz

TomJawetz

#DACA court argument is just now beginning.Presiding judge Hanen begins by explaining why he denies counsel’s request to argue the case remotely and instead had counsel fly into TX from

Zimbabwe Economic Analysis 🇿🇼

mutungadzimwe

1. ZIMBABWE COVID-19 SITUATION: AVOIDING FALSE COMPARISONS So “... 1% of the people who get COVID-19 survive, so why lock down the whole economy...” has been the argument in these

Deirdre Gilhawley

DeeGilhawley

"[The findings from] a large new study from South Korea...suggest that as schools reopen, communities will see clusters of infection take root that include children of all ages, several experts cautioned."#COVID19ireland #edchat

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

My friend saw a student athlete commit suicide last Friday because the student's primary goal in life was to become a professional athlete.COVID interventions may reduce COVID risks of elderly

Prof

covidtweets

I am beginning to think that the widely accepted model of COVID mainly transmitting between close contacts via droplets is insufficient to explain the data and failing the Occam's razor.

Georgia Ladbury WEP 💚💜

GeorgiaLadbury

Earlier this year I found myself cooking for a woman I'd never met before who lived on a local estate. She was a single mother, her teenage son had picked

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

A new article in ⁦@nytimes⁩ states rapid tests falter in asymptomaticsWarning of their use for asymptomatic screeningSays: among random asymptomatic #COVID19 screens, Rapid Tests caught only 32% of PCR +ve

Charles - 6'3 Caesarian; Legatus - 13th Legion

JiffjoffI

http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2006/2006-09-15-diseasemitigationcontrolpandemicflu.htmlDonald Henderson, arguably most famous Epidemiologist of 20th century - for eradicating smallpox - led a massive research

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