#Epidemiologists

Brett Kelman

BrettKelman

Tennessee’s coronavirus stats went wonky today because both the Nashville and state governments separately changed how they present data. I know many of you attempt to follow this closely, so

Bruce Arthur

bruce_arthur

Doug Ford is concerned again, after modelling again showed his restrictions were insufficient, as they showed in November, when people told him his restrictions were insufficient, and as they showed

Dr. Cristina A. Fernández

DrCristinaF

(1/n): Friends, please help my tiny female brain (who graduated top of her class at 3 different Ivy League universities but that’s irrelevant) considered a real doctor:1) I’m an epidemiologist

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

The right wing suggest we can let people die of #Covid19 in order to 'save the economy'. But countries like Sweden that took that route did as bad if not

Nithya Raman

nithyavraman

I know that we’re all looking for hope as we enter this new year. So it pains me to reach out to you today with a dire message: LA is

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

How did it come to this? A deeply misguided effort (@joyhataley) to silence @randyhillier, a MPP in the provincial legislature. This reflects poorly on the medical community. How could one

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I had a long chat with @politico writer @zackstanton about where we are with COVID, what we can expect might be coming, and how we got here, plus what we

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I've written elsewhere about three different roles for COVID testing: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1274576193333850112But whether you are testing for individual health, surveillance, or mitigation, speed is of the essence.

Michael Luo

michaelluo

Earlier this year, I read @lawrence_wright’s new thriller about a global pandemic, “The End of October,” and was dumbfounded at its prescience. Now he’s out with the definitive account of

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I find discussions of herd immunity thresholds frustrating. Herd immunity (which I'll define as a current reproductive rate < 1) depends on policy & behavior. It is NOT an absolute

Edal

edalmaxwell

"Sweden never aimed at herd immunity", a thread (1/n) Herd immunity in April/no, in May/no, in June/no, when the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the Lonely Mountain

Steve Baker MP

SteveBakerHW

Via @spectator,"Some of those claiming to be ‘following the science’ seem not to understand the meaning of the word."https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-strong-was-the-scientific-advice-behind-lockdownMy letter and brief t

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking

James Beeksma

bejames1972

Wake Up Canada! India distributed this C19 #ivermectin treatment costing $2.50, reducing daily cases from 100k to 10k, daily deaths from 1200 to 100. Help save lives and our Freedoms

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