#Epidemiologists

Danny Boy

Care2much18

For a supposed journalist, you're pretty flippant on throwing out serious accusations.I cited him EUROMOMO excess mortality stats, which he ignored and countered they are being fed by FG.EUROMOMO is

Keletso Makofane, MPH and 1000 others

klts0

The thing about an infectious disease is that risk shifts as the epidemic plays out. People offering a facile understanding of “relative risk” - that the relative risk for younger

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

I'd like to address the “armchair epidemiologist” accusation that I've seen (not necessarily targeted at me) a number of times, e.g., in the fairly snarky thread https://twitter.com/joel_c_miller/status/1257553963756355584 (abou

Rachel Widome

rwidome

The pandemic illustrates one of the challenges I face as an epidemiologist in communicating to the public (and media). I've been thinking about this for years:As an epidemiologist, what I've

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

I’ve seen a bunch of epidemiologists snarking about negative oil prices being their chance to play amateur economist, but I think when weird stuff happens the views of smart outsiders

ml8_ml8

ml8_ml8

A combination of micro-economics, principal-agent theory and corporate theory teaches us what I think may be the most intuitive yet least understood aspect of leadership and management, and in this

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

With a Fox News liar once again saying COVID-19 is just seasonal flu (cause, you know, TV commentators and lawyers know more about virus outbreaks than infectious disease experts)a quick

Supriya Sharma

sharmasupriya

Very strong statement by three medical professionals associations on the Indian government's mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic.#Thread The signatories are members of the Indian Public Health Association, the Indian Association

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

A good faith discussion would start with a discussion of models versus model parameters, so let’s do that!https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1248581686352318464 A model is generally a mathematical and/or computational method that is used

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

You can argue that, in normal times, patent rules are essential. But a global pandemic is not normal times. We need the #TRIPSwaiver Over US$12bn (€10bn) in public money was

silvanus

SilvanusDuke

Some of the worst epidemics and pandemics to hit mankind1. Plague of Athens, 430 BC - 100,000 deaths2. Antonine plague, AD 165-180 - 5 million deaths3. Plague of Cyprian, AD

Sarah Gower MD

GowerMD

I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this. But I’m noticing a serious lack of primary care inclusion in Ontario Covid discussion. Public health is a great specialty, so

Jónas Haraldsson Balding 大老板

BaldingsWorld

The 3 most widely cited models forecasting the end of civilizations come from Imperial, Harvard, and Washington. We knew their modeling assumptions were wrong from the beginning. How do we

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Early in the pandemic we noticed that some countries responded very successfully to the #COVID19 pandemic.We teamed up with colleagues around the world and studied 3 countries in depth –

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

Back in mid to late February when I started closely following Covid19 news and talking to epidemiologists and public health experts, I quickly noticed a huge gap between their level

Know Your Enemy

ItsWhatsername

Due to some odd symptoms, my doc Rx'd a bunch of tests since I was covid + at the spike of NYC pandemic 3/10.I assumed it was routine. Turns out,