#Outcomes

This piece cuts to the core of a liberal-minded critique of San Francisco and California writ large that I think has a lot of merit.Ultimately, it is by our *outcomes*
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A about case-fatality rates (CFR) in FLI've seen a lot lately about CFR decreasing over time. Even if we restrict to Mar-Oct cases (to remove egregious lagged reporting), for
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Are populist parties (still) challengers?I've just read the umpteenth article considering (almost all) populist parties as challenger parties. This conclusion is disconfirmed by empirical reality and is grounded on this
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RTE is a symptom, more like secondary infection, never the root cause. Why we needed a sarvasiksha abhiyan that got morphed into the vile RTE? Answer to this question is
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1/ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!We can and should acknowledge that bariatric (metabolic) surgery is a superior intervention for the treatment of obesity. [thread] 2/ Independent metabolic and CV benefits outside of
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If you asked inner-city minority ethnic communities to design a vaccine programme that worked for them, I bet half of all Old Etonians would feel uncomfortable participating. 1/ Here’s a
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I want to talk about an important new study on racial disparities in infant survival, from @RRHDr & colleagues.The tl;dr: Black infants in the US are less likely to die
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A lot of right leaning thought leaders are saying unironically, "show me a single example of structural racism." We still have a lot of miscommunication around the term "racism." Many
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A short summary of a preprint on interpreting Mendelian randomization analyses with categorical exposures with @nm_davies @mendel_random and @tudballstats https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.20248168v1 (1.) Categorical phenot
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AVOID AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE:- Sugar, processed carbs, and artificial sweetners- Wheat, corn, soy, and other grains- Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and other recreational drugs- Smoke- Industrial seed oils (soy, canola,
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WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC: If there is a time to push to make healthcare a human right, its now. Ppl of all income levels need to be able to
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School funding matters. But researchers (me first) need to do better at articulating what inequalities segregation actually creates. E.g., the $23B disparity cited here excludes federal Title I funds, so
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#911Remembered Responding @CBSNews reporting on 9/11 families still waiting for the five al Qaeda suspects to be tried at Guantanamo Bay: Full statement from the Office of Military Commissions -
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Today on the @translatingadhd discord we are discussing ADHD and grieving the past. Grieving for our past selves is a common experience when we are newly diagnosed with ADHD. We
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I was in the early stages of my dissertation. I sat at the round table, exhausted, as they criticized my work. I was calm. 1/8https://twitter.com/academicchatter/status/1285918768300847104 The complaints ran over me,
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Post this lockdown we are going to again be faced with a lobbyist demand for careless rushed opening based this time on the idea that IFR will have fallen because
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