#Epidemiologist

Carrie E. Fry, PhD

cefry437

Are you a health or education policy researcher? Health economist? Clinical epidemiologist? Do you analyze two-group/two-time-period (quasi-experimental) studies? If so, then this methods thread is for you! 1/ Inspired by

Gylfi Ólafsson

GylfiOlafsson

Vaccination rollout has been going too slow in much of the world. If enough vaccines were available, Iceland could vaccinate its entire population cheaply in a matter of days. This

Austyn Gaffney

AustynGaffney

Right now, first responders & cleanup workers from the nation's largest industrial disaster are gathering in their cars and driving out to the 2008 Kingston spill site. Here, Ansol Clark,

Derek Rae

RaeComm

1/ Thread here about the Euros from a German angle and credit to @Tonline for much of this. The legendary Berti Vogts does a column for them & didn’t mince

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin

jnjokugoodwin

A number of people have asked me for my thoughts on today’s vaccine news, so here goes… (CAVEAT: I am NOT an epidemiologist, just someone with an occupational interest from

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

So, I'm not going to tag all the folks I've had disagreements with for *months* now, since December, who didn't believe me that our bungled messaging on post-vaccine transmission was

Sanho Tree

SanhoTree

“Taiwan holds the world’s best virus record by far and reached the new landmark on Thursday, even as the pathogen explodes anew in Europe and the U.S. Taiwan’s last local

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

Amy Coopes

coopesdetat

Would also say it's really important to acknowledge a few things. One is viral transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Peak infectiousness is typically at prodrome or symptom onset, not when people

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer - mass roll out will take a while but if 90% holds this certainly makes a huge differencehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfize

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

I’m no epidemiologist, but I am a #dataviz specialist, so here are some thoughts on coronavirus and log scales:1) In the initial outbreak phase, a virus like this spreads exponentially

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

This thread from December pointed out that convenience samples are not suitable for any but the coarsest estimates of prevalence, and that the popularity of a prevalence study like this

Health Nerd

GidMK

Some movement to announce here: JAMA Open have now corrected this paper 2 months after it was publishedUnfortunately, it has gone from an error-filled useless analysis to a slightly less

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

1/ Now that countries are doing mass testing, we can see what happens when lockdowns are introduced. In France, for example, lockdown started on 30 Oct and cases peaked 8

Sarah Mackey

sarahjanet

First of all, our relative ranking that is causing this hand-wringing is based on vaccines ADMINISTERED, not acquired. Trudeau has no control over the former, and if we calculated on

Robert Greenhill

RobertGreenhill

3 reasons why @JustinTrudeau must act now to block COVID Variants from entering Canada:#1. A stunning new analysis by @CarolineColijn concludes: "The punch line is that failure to prevent or contain

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