#EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

NO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS RISKING Thanksgiving dinner: I answered this NYTimes poll to professional @societyforepi epidemiologists— here is how 635 epidemiologists are spending Thanksgiving and the holidays. Vast majority just keeping to
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In the Covid winter, it's hard to know what's safe, and what's appropriate. We asked 700 epidemiologists how they're living. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-survey-.html @clairecm @qdbui Their
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Epidemiologists should have said early on: this is a treatable disease, let doctors guide early treatments to save lives, transmission is not the issue with this virus. But they did
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Contrary to recent reports by the New York Times, epidemiologists are NOT using calendars to decide when we will fly, hug, or do 18 other everyday activities again. READ MORE
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700 EPIDEMIOLOGISTS WALK INTO A BAR—jk, we would never do that now!Pro epidemiologists surveyed by NYT on #COVID19 risks (I was 1 of 700):Most risky:Indoor diningWedding/funeral/churchConcert/SportingIndoor playdatesShared office workhttp
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Am I correct in the assumption that allowing the virus to spread among the "young and healthy" with stronger immune response means allowing for the conditioned emergence of variants even
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1/ An #EpiTwitter about theory... https://twitter.com/theatlantic/status/1295469921233772547 2/ Many epidemiologists are not trained in social or health behavior theory. Its value is often overlooked in a field that values quantitative
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Epidemiologists have a lot of words that start with "C": Causal (inference). Cohort. Collider. Collinearity. Counterfactual. Case-Control. However, a very important word that requires a lot thought in study design
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Here are my TWO simple rules for deciding who's an expert (both during a pandemic and in general)! I don't think we should automatically believe people who say they're
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1/ Quoted in this @BostonGlobe piece alongside colleagues @RanuDhillon @cmyeaton @svscarpino @BillHanage on new public health guidance changes in Massachusetts, particularly around curfewsMany important points here...https://www.bostonglobe
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the culture war over the vaccine stuff and the just rank dishonesty that chart pundit dudes are throwing out there about the process and how definitive a few slides might
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Fixed effects models are a great choice for longitudinal #epi research if: 1) your independent variable of interest is time-varying (& variation is present in the data), 2) you have
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1/ Yes, the mask has to stay on after you're vaccinated -- at least for a little while. I spoke with @robyn_s_lee and @JPSoucy about why, here:https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/12/10/yes-the-mask-stays-on-after-you-get-vaccinated-he
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4 #epidemiologists and a medical anthropologist, all moms, concerned about the health and safety of those forming #PandemicPods, got together to create a toolkit for families. A thread from our
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I have Matt blocked because I can't deal with his shitty takes on my timeline. That said this take is so incredibly bad. If you were on Twitter in late
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Why are so many epidemiologists so vocally unhinged on complex questions, while you don't hear nearly as much cray cray from clinicians e.g. infectious disease physicians?A thread.https://twitter.com/profmiketoole/status/135944927859530
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