#Epidemiology

Julie O'Donoghue

JSODonoghue

Is it safe to open Tiger Stadium or the Superdome to fans at the end of this month? I talk to four experts about that question.... https://lailluminator.com/2020/09/11/is-it-safe-to-open-tiger-stadium-and-the-superdome/ #lalege #lagov The

JessMet

CJEMetcalf

The brilliant @rebaker64 from @PrincetonEnviro works at the nexus of two challenges: climate change and infectious disease. We chatted (audio here):https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/t/1_vo4oz5jp Unpicking how climate variation (tempe

Alexandre Bolze

alexbolze

Thread about our preprint on the study of emergence and increased prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant in the US.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.21251159v1 2/First, my Conflict of Interest: I am an employee of Helix.

Tracy Taylor, DPT

DrTracyTaylor

1/ @APDillon_ @JohnLockeNC @NC_Governor @SecMandyCohen Let’s discuss NC Executive Order 180 (https://governor.nc.gov/documents/executive-order-no-180) and the evidence/studies cited for having stricter guidelines, shall we? 2/ 1.1st study

exists.

thatgirljj

Vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers, from the viewpoint of social-behavioral health. A note: I have not been talking to vax hesitant HCW, all the patient facing HCW I know have

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

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

bengoldacre

BING BONG NEW PAPERWe pulled together a huge team to look at how we can bring NHS data analysis into the 21st century. THREAD!https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076820930666 Academics love to run regression analyses

Hakique Virani

hakique

The idea that CERB basic income payments *caused* an increase in population overdose deaths isn't an idea that deserves analysis, but humour me? What if we applied some of Bradford

Holly Campbell 🇨🇦

Ho11yCampbe11

Let me tell you a story...(THREAD) about a small group of public servants gathered from all over #GoC in early 2020 to figure out how much #PPE was enroute to

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

Neil Barrett

dr_barrett

My few Twitter followers will know I am VERY critical of @FatEmperor - I may be indignant at the way this fellow Irish man has carried on through the pandemic

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

It's a year since I first tweeted about an unusual pneumonia spreading in Wuhan, China. I lost my mother to Covid-19 on 27th December. My research on the disease, summarised

Denis Nash

epi_dude

1. The pre-print (not yet peer reviewed) of recent results from our national, community-based CHASING COVID Cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 is out (http://bit.ly/3arAvmB ). We looked potential risk factors for SARS-CoV-2

Tom Beer

aTomBeer

On the hazards of using of proxy variables in causal inference – a short tweetorial #EpiTwitter #CausalTwitter Unconfoundedness of the treatment-outcome relationship is necessary for causal effect identification. But in

David Luhnow

davidluhnow

Thread: Brazil is ranked number two in the world lists of Covid fatalities, behind the USA. But that is almost certainly wrong. Mexico is almost surely number two. And in

Infectious Disease Ethics

ID_ethics

Terminology thread:rate ≠ riskinfection ≠ diseasequarantine ≠ isolationsocial distancing ≠ physical distancingprolonged PCR positivity ≠ sheddingvirulence ≠ transmissibility References to follow 1/ rate ≠ riskA risk is a proba

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