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Dr Sarah Taber
SarahTaber_bww
Interesting epidemiology news: a lot of folks predicted the Black Lives Matter protests would cause COVID spikes, and that doesn't seem to be the case.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/black-lives-matter-protests-coronav
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
LEADERSHIP MATTERS: Florida COVID response, led by @GovRonDeSantis Taiwan COVID response, led by Vice-President Dr. Chen Chien-jen w/ a @JohnsHopkins Sc.D. in Epidemiology. 2) Also Taiwan.https://twitter.com/forbes/status/13363126744607662
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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.
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Yet Another Columnist
Sime0nStylites
This is interesting for two reasons.(i) A successful future is possible(ii) This is how it might lookToo much commentary has focused on disaster being inevitable (catastrophism) versus the capacity for
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Folks—I also work in nutritional epidemiology, and there’s lots of evidence moderate dose daily/weekly vitamin D can help. Notably there have been many trials conducted on this, and it shows
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Ranu Dhillon
RanuDhillon
THREADEven with cases surging, we can get control of this We need a coherent national plan based on 5 priorities1. Mask use is rising but not fast enough. We need
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Psssst... pass it on: COVID LUNG is worse than smoker’s lung. "Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen. And they collapse. And
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
I can’t sleep, cuz I’m worried again. I want to tell my kid one day that daddy did all he could to stop the pandemic. Daddy failed in January, despite
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Ali Velshi
AliVelshi
1/13I talk a lot on this show about expertise. I’m an expert about nothing except snack foods. But I’m big on expertise. Which is why, as I take stock of
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Shane Dingman
shanedingman
Been thinking about the government's expanded "lockdown" and school return delays all weekend. The thing that comes back to me, again, is the Ontario's total failure to use asymptomatic testing
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Stefan Baral
sdbaral
A Public Health Perspective on the Potential Harms of #COVID19 #Elimination (my first thread)I have provided a reference for each post which I think should be the standard moving forward
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David Boulware, MD MPH
boulware_dr
Happy 2021. My thoughts on 2021. #SARSCoV2 vaccine distribution seems to be the major challenge, which has been left up to States. Challenges:1) Obsessing on cold chain transport to end
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Ewan Birney
ewanbirney
Some more threads on human genetics. Firstly, as many people have noted, having a diverse group of scientists doing human genetics is healthy - it is healthy for *all of
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
NEW RESEARCHKnowing if #COVID19 cases are going up v down is needed for decision making but changes in testing make it difficult to knowWe found Instead of case counts, the
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Texas Observer
TexasObserver
1/ Texas is the first state to pass 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases. Our November/December cover story looks at the state’s pandemic response and how we got here.https://www.texasobserver.org/covid-19-texas-coronavirus/ 2/ Texas’
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Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷
DGBassani
Why are cases surging? I’ll answer my own question. A thread : We are in this situation because all logic about how an epidemic progresses was ignored for months and
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