#Epidemiologist

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

“Is it blue side in or blue side out?”For the first 4 months the UK & US govts told us we didn’t need to use face masks, despite of evidence

Ellie

TrilliumRose

In Margaret Heffernan's book, Willful Blindness, she states that people are willfully blind when they "deny uncomfortable truths that cry out for acknowledgement, debate, action, and change." She goes on

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) I'm not an epidemiologist. I'm not a virologist. But, I am a resident of Sweden who can read and think a little. The decision by Sweden today to recommend

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

The severity of covid varies greatly by age, with risks of death in young people often said to be equivalent to those of flu. This is one of the most

HoxtonHill

HoxtonHill

Thread (mainly addressed to my fellow lefties calling for a “harder” lockdown). Usual caveats apply, not an epidemiologist or a PH expert, and I’m well aware that the situation is

Michael Bronner

michaelbronner

The NYT's frustration that Africans may not be dying from COVID in sufficient numbers continues. On Dec. 26, @sherifink assured readers that "The Worst is Yet to Come" in Africa.

Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS 🦠🔬🧫

richdavisphd

#Thanksgiving plans (and more broadly, holiday plans) are making a lot of people feel stressed and overwhelmed: What to do? How to do it safely? At two weeks away it's

Giles Wilkes

Gilesyb

OK, so Tera my former BIS colleague put me onto this paper about Feedback loops. Because, believe it or not, the way a slow-to-respond shower behaves DOES tell us a

Rakyat: Faten

twt_malaysia

TOP 8 POINTS IN COVID19 PRIVATE-PUBLIC INTEGRATION by Dr Low Kah Pin @gynaepenangDisclaimer: I am a gynae, NOT public health expert,NOT epidemiologistNOT infectious disease specialistNOT covidologistBut here's a few things

Sarah Mackey

sarahjanet

I don't even LIKE Trudeau that much and I got so sick of the Trudeau bashing and fearmongering in the media about Canada's vaccine status that I pulled numbers and

Jim McManus OCDS

jimmcmanusph

On 31 December 2019 WHO were notified of a cluster of pneumonia cases in China. For anyone who wants to look back on the last year the @newscientist chronology in

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

My dentist’s first question to me, knowing I’m an epidemiologist, was “when will this all be over”. Was super unsatisfying for us both for me to have to answer, “whenever

Talia Quandelacy

NMRelleno

Six months into the pandemic, data on #COVID19 cases in #Indigenous communities remains scarce. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, and as Native American, I find this distressing. Here’s what I’ve

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

A genuine second wave looks to have arrived in Northeastern metros apart from NYC; the synchrony looks to me sufficient that this would be driven by seasonality and sun-exposure rather

Amy Greer

AmyGreerKalisz

I have been off Twitter over the holidays in order to spend more quality time with my family. However, on the eve of my return to the office (our basement

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD) Worldometers reports 172,055 deaths. The NYT reports 56,700 additional "overcount" deaths it frames as COVID-19-related—but its count ended 8/1, and had only partial data from 21 states. The estimated

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