#Epidemiological

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

These are dark days for science. Reason, the scientific method, and objectivity are our preferred weapons. We believe thoughtful engagement should drive public policy. But what happens when the powerful

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

The Imperial report on the new UK B117 strain is out. Very concerning findings, that highlight why we need to act on this *now*. These findings suggest that the situation

Jim Ritchie

ChorltonJim

Expect to be corrected quite a lot here for day 3 of #CcioHomeSchool when dipping into the differences between algorithms and AI. Because AI will fix everything, won't it... #disrupt

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Thread on the recent report on the possible risk of increased death associated with the new UK variant (B117)- with a discussion of the evidence around this, and what this

philwoodford

philwoodford

Ok, I know I'm going to stir up some controversy here and probably should live the quite life, but here goes. I think that when we come to write the

Law and Other Things

LAOT_Blog

"Supreme Court modifies its past orders to allow the Puri Rath Yatra with restrictions"After putting a stay on the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra held at Puri, Odisha on June 18,

Andrew C Ahn

AndrewCAhn2

Part 6: COVID and OverdispersionIn Part 5, we talked about epidemiological implications of overdispersion.In this section, we explore potential CAUSES of COVID-19 overdispersion1/https://twitter.com/AndrewCAhn2/status/1344792823204360192 1:

Jillian Hurst

hjillianh

SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study | medRxivhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.18.20166835v1 A prospective cohort study evaluating #SARSCoV2 exposure

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

The Sydney Beaches cluster is growing. This is a great example of why it is overly simplistic for anti-lockdown proponents to rail against mandatory Covid-19 suppression strategies. If people aren't

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A perspective on COVID from a sunny, crisp London house, in a break between zoom calls. Context: I am an expert in human genetics and computational biology; I know experts

Xihong Lin

XihongLin

Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87%

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

We’re in a new year and we have also entered a new phase of this pandemic. So I thought I’d start off the new year with a quick catch-up thread

Julia Smith

cv19comm

I saw earlier the same ideas in this op-ed coming from Nate Silver and the data bros types, so I'm disappointed to see Marcus promoting this. This thread is going

Rafael Fonseca MD

Rfonsi1

*** 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙊𝙑𝙄𝘿-19 𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙙 *** One possible analysis of recent data would suggest that there is an end in sight (cannot be soon enough) and that perhaps that

Andréa Kaniuka, MA (she/her)

andreakaniuka

My intention this #SuicidePreventionMonth is to better myself as a researcher and advocate via a deep dive into the critical suicidology literature. I’ll be tweeting out articles I find helpful

P. D. Mangan Health & Fitness Maximalist 🇺🇸

Mangan150

Top 10 things that health authorities got wrong, by request.Time for a thread 1. Pride of place must go to saturated fat as a putative contributor to coronary heart

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