#Epidemiology

Bud Silverstein

SilversteinBud

I'm curious to hear what y’all think about coronavirus models, peer review, and open science.In general, the expectation with mathematical models in a field like epidemiology is that the authors

Michael Mackley

MichaelMackley

1/ I am a third-year medical student. Yesterday, I was assigned a new patient. I hadn’t met them yet, but knew they had presented with liver-related symptoms. In preparation for

Melissa K Sharp, MPH

sharpmelk

While I write my discussion I'm going to add to this thread. 1 #dissertation in numbers....3 years. 4 countries. 1 topic. The STROBE #reportingguideline (drop the bass :P) #phdlife #phdchat

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Thing about the "herd immunity" debate is, there isn't one. Herd immunity was discarded by WHO virologists and epidemiologists and their US/UK counterparts. So why are we still talking about

Mike A. Merrill

Mike_A_Merrill

1/n: As COVID (hopefully) begins to wind down, it's time for mobile health researchers (myself included) to address our failure to usefully respond to the global pandemic. 2/n: In some

Ryan Calo

rcalo

Al Gidari is a smart, good faith interlocutor. Otherwise I would respond to this rather amazing tweet... differently. But I think some response is indicated.https://twitter.com/agidari/status/1263837397776650246 I’m starting at the end

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darkestimeline

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Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. There's a perverse notion I keep hearing; it sure looks like an excuse to avoid doing things that people know they ought to be doing. It's that imperfect disease

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%

Robyn, aka sunsong23

WPCelebration

THREAD: Important/Valuable information. Please be aware:1."Statement from Jonathan P. Smith, epidemiologist:"As an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we ar

Alana Jones

alanacjones_

Over the weekend, I learned some troubling news about my beloved alma mater @HowardU. The Classics department would be dissolving. The non-tenured faculty would be fired, and those with tenure

John Brownstein

johnbrownstein

So I recognize that the concept of participatory surveillance might seem novel and potentially scary. But actually there is a rich history.Historically, it was used in the eradication of smallpox

(((Sara Gee))) 😎✡️

Tiggles15

There seems to be a misunderstanding of what people mean when they say “follow the science”.OF COURSE there isn’t consensus. There’s never consensus. So what? Do we do nothing? Do

David Fisman

DFisman

The epidemiology of covid in Ontario is very dynamic right now, both in terms of actual disease and in terms of testing. We need to consider both to understand what

Justin Hart

justin_hart

"...we will see more deaths because of social distancing."Take a moment and watch Dr. Knut Wittkowski, former head of Rockefeller University's Dept of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

My dentist’s first question to me, knowing I’m an epidemiologist, was “when will this all be over”. Was super unsatisfying for us both for me to have to answer, “whenever