#Epidemiologists

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

The @uk_biobank is ... amazing and is basically, in my view, rebooting the science of human physiology. Why? First it is just a really well phenotyped cohort at scale. Back

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

A few thoughts this morning. If you get your C19 news from a:1)TV anchor with no science background in 30 second bites;2)newspaper who sponsors content and has their best sports

Daniel Kotzin

danielkotzin

1/ Lockdowns were ordered last March because “exponential” growth in Covid cases was going to overwhelm hospitals. Within months, if not weeks, it was clear that all of the modeling

Emily Walton, Mask Wearer

Walton_Emily

For far too long our approach to these far right wing people has been “Don’t give them attention and they’ll go away” but it’s just not true. And now their

Dave Blake, PhD

_stah

OK, every so often, for new followers, a methods thread. This will be good for ppl who like statistics, I hope. I make these plots showing R and infection density.

Federico Andres Lois

federicolois

1/n It is our view with @LDjaparidze that lockdowns cause harm in subtle way. They do stop the virus, mind you, but when it eventually circulates again (and until vaccination

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

A 2006 paper was written by a team of epidemiologists led by perhaps the most famous of them all, Don Henderson (credited with smallpox eradication). They wrote it as a

Tom Jackman

frozen

Dr. Henry said yesterday that children are "not amplifiers [of COVID] in schools" or the community.My questions to epidemiologists everywhere: Is it true there's consensus on this issue? Are children

Daniel Goldberg

prof_goldberg

I would just like to point out that Nate Silver's nonsense today didn't merely insult public health scientists, epidemiologists, and officials.It also insulted public health ethicists, implying that it takes

Know Your Enemy

ItsWhatsername

Due to some odd symptoms, my doc Rx'd a bunch of tests since I was covid + at the spike of NYC pandemic 3/10.I assumed it was routine. Turns out,

Matt Zefferman

matt_zefferman

Epidemiology question. When epidemiologists estimate "transmissibility" of a viral variant, are they estimating the observed transmissibility or estimating something causal about the mutation? @CT_Bergstrom @noamross Imagine a vir

Lucy Bernholz

p2173

Just had an amazing chat with a colleague within a foundation. They're talking about "post covid"... 1/x I said to them, "post covid?" 1st - until/unless every person in every

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

It now appears that infection numbers are worse than the “worst case scenario”. What does that mean and does this indicate a failure of the policies that the government has

Chenchen Zhang🤦🏻‍♀️

chenchenzh

Mr Tang of Xicheng, the first person who sought medical attention in the Xinfadi outbreak, is praised for his sense of responsibility & thoughtfulness as the scale of the outbreak

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

So you're getting a Covid vaccine soon. What's next? Here's a guide to post-vaccine life, from me, @clairecm and @KatherineJWu https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/upshot/after-vaccine-recommendations-experts.html The simplest way

Jessica Seaman

jessicaseaman

Sigh. Here we are once again with the "deaths among cases" vs "deaths directly from COVID-19." There is a reason why we can expect that lower number to catch up

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