#CoVID

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

Testing asymptomatic people for COVID is a classic case of overdiagnosis—on a massive scale.So why are we doing it? (Read the excerpts...all the way to the end.)https://ebm.bmj.com/content/23/1/1 The pushback to

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

I’ve been following this story for months and am struck by how confident epidemiologists are here in the US despite the seeming inability of their theories to generalize.https://apnews.com/article/india-dramatic-fall-coronavirus-cases-199

Makenzie Huber

MakenzieHuber

Couldn’t sleep so I went for a walk downtown tonight. Lucky’s and Wiley’s were full. Pave was out the door.And I am livid. Minnehaha’s COVID-19 numbers are rising again.WHAT HAVE

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

So physicians and epidemiologists alarmed at rising cases urge @GovNedLamont to shut restaurants, bars, gyms in #Connecticut. He refuses to do so. @PMounds @JoshGeballe 1/https://www.theday.com/article/20201207/NWS12/201209531 NYC and Rhode

Nsikan Akpan, PhD

MoNscience

Moderna claims its #COVID19 mRNA vaccine is 95% effective via results from its first interim analysis.Let's unpack what they've presented...https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/modernas-covid-19-vaccine

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) The low efficacy of the Novavax vaccine candidate against the B.1.351 is concerning. However, the data is also reassuring in many ways. First, the vaccine itself worked very well

Valerie A. Fitzhugh, MD

DrFNA

For those of you saying you’re not going to get the COVID vaccine because you’re not going to be the guinea pig- stop it. 10s of thousands of people have

Danny Boy

Care2much18

When you look around Europe, the picture is totally desperate. Hospitals and ICU's are in turmoil, positivity and case rates are through the roof and essentially this is disastrous.A fair

Karl Knights

Inadarkwood

The UK has the highest Covid death rate in the world, a third of deaths are disabled people, and GPs are phoning disabled people and the parents of disabled children

Anthony Sinnott

librarianth

“Comparing individual print costs to a digital licence does not represent the reality of how the different formats are used, nor the additional functionality etextbooks provide."from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/29/

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

Let me tell you a story. It's about six passenger flights from Wuhan that led to an unprecedented global disaster.These six flights help to explain why the entire world was

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jvipondmd

Thread: So back to school go Alberta kids in four days. What does that mean? 1/9 There is still quite a bit of debate as to how much in-person school

Alex Kettwich

michigan_onesie

A THREAD for Michigan fans that don’t understand the sports shutdown:Michigan athletics has been paused for 2 weeks because 5 athletes (so far) have tested positive for the B.1.1.7 strain

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Rapid Antigen tests for #COVID19 in UK are working! Purpose is to rapidly identify infectious people - that is exactly what they are doing!And doing it very well!With an R=1.4,

Peter Cayton, the Stats Guy

PJACaytonPhD

Note: I am a stats guy. The learning that I will share is based on interactions with experts far more knowledgeable than me (like @darwinbandoy).So, let's talk vaccines and numbers.

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

Somehow even 12 months into the pandemic, people are saying "yes but how many of those 100k UK deaths were due to Covid and how many were due to lockdowns?"Time

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