#Epidemiology

I've seen suggestions that the idea younger children might be less susceptible to infection with #COVID19 is a "myth", based on children just not being tested enoughThat is untrue!Whilst it's
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It's time for another quick update on paediatric #COVID19 evidence!Most new information is about transmission so we'll focus on that for now. It's pretty interesting!Lets take a look...#FOAMed #tweetorial 1/9
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#EconTwitter I want to take a moment today and list all the topics that economists study that aren't the stock market:- student debt- racial wealth gap- prison industrial complex- sex
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Researchers & pharma companies, especially in the US, produce very little in terms of achieving results, especially as it relates to cancer research & epidemiology.This is, in large part, due
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Is #COVID19 associated to acute pancreatitis? A very simple question, but difficult to answer, let's discuss it in this Twitter thread based on the review written by @lelecapurso and me
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Some potential explanations for the #COVID19 Science Wars (select multiple): 1/https://twitter.com/JeanneLenzer1/status/1333408972288774146 The polarization of everything: discussion is often anchored along the lines of this horrible, vague
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1/Medical Experts said covid-19 meant we must close businesses, cancel weddings, cancel church, miss funerals and stay home.Most of us, through tears and broken hearts, listened.The same experts then gave
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Understanding the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of AL Amyloidosis. Excellent review article @JACCJournals for students and residents. Thanks for the recommendation @daehyunleemd @USFIMres #cardiology #cardiotwitter #amyloidosis #M
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COVID was a preventable disaster. Many ideas existed that could have helped that were not tried because no one had an incentive to test them. The government can provide incentives
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I'm glad to announce that our Covid-19 epidemiology simulation, called JUNE, is finally out in medRxiv!https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.15.20248246v2.full.pdfThe whole code (100% pure Python) is openly available under an
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(1/11) If we combine strategies of:risks preventionepidemiology process design We can ensure that we reduce or even eliminate certain risks, in our new process design. We will call it
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A letter from myself, @mugecevik and @AshaBowen about #COVID19 in children and #schoolsreopening in reply to an opinion piece in @theMJAWe've been following the literature since the beginningCareful and weighted
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this is exactly what many of us were predicting back in march.the knock on effects of lockdown are not just economic.it's going to kill more people than covid.this is an
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How should we create knowledge?We know "The Scientific Method" well: we ask questions then seek answers. But what about having many answers, and no questions?(Paper summary + more) "Here is
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anyone still presuming that a + PCR test is showing a covid case needs to read this v carefully:even 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of "positives" are not "cases." virus
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As expected, our @washingtonpost editorial today on the delayed second dose vaccine strategy has generated a vigorous and interesting dialogue. https://tinyurl.com/y7c6v9hz  Here are my takeaways (a thread): 1/18 The debate
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