#Outcomes

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

chr1styharrison

High BMI is NOT a risk factor for hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, or mortality in COVID-19, according to this large new study of 10,000+ people with the virus (CW: weight-stigmatizing language,

Jane Merrick

janemerrick23

Due to the technical problems with under-reporting of cases, which has led to more than 22,000 cases being reported today (which date from 25/9 to 2/10), it is increasingly difficult

Per Bylund

PerBylund

What's a telltale sign of economic illiteracy? I'm starting to believe the worst is the claim that market leads to monopoly and the accumulation of wealth in a few hands.

Ateev Mehrotra

Ateevm

Lots of anecdotes on how the pandemic has led to drops in visit volume and the dire financial situation at outpatient practices. In a new @commonwealthfnd piece published with @DavidLinetsky

Sheldon Bailey

sheldonbailey

(1) The fact that the medical community does not adequately diagnose or treat addiction is not a revelation, nor is the importance of integrating the voice of people with lived

Marcel Harmon (he/him)

MarcelHarmon1

1/4: I agree w/ the underlying ideas expressed here. But in some ways the distinction between "human-centered design" & "environment-centered design" is a question of scale. I've argued previously HCD

Brad Johnson

bradleyjohnson2

Real estate investors have a deep bias towards cheap. ** We all want a screaming deal **I believe this is a flawed framework for long-term investing. Evergreen is researching this

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Question from someone enduring a real "anti-racist" struggle session right now: "Wait, so being not-racist is racist?"Thread time. Haha, yes. "Non-racist" means racist.You have to understand that one of the

Jaclyn A. Siegel

jacasiegel

Gather 'round, children. We need to have a conversation about confidence in graduate school. I've been a graduate student basically forever, and younger PhD/MA/MS students often ask me how I

American Oversight

weareoversight

A new report says the parents of 545 children separated at the border can’t be found. We obtained a January 2018 memo from DHS highlighting problems with the early “pilot”

Dr. Robert Rohde

RARohde

So, I made a little animation trying to explain how herd immunity works.When enough of the population has been vaccinated, a disease is no longer able to spread effectively, protecting

Tyler Rablin

Mr_Rablin

The push for minimum grading (ie. - giving 50% instead of 0 for missing work) often creates friction in a staff because it isn't approached correctly. It's a stop-gap solution

Renzo

k0001

Monads are hard to understand because you are terribly obsessed with objectifying them. Monads are not objects, they are not things. Stop trying to point a finger at

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD

MVGutierrezMD

Dear #MedTwitter, Please do not make statements assuming a person with a major disability has a poor quality of life. This is ableism. 1/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11968402/disabled-man-died-texas-docs-refused-to-treat/ 2/St. David’s D

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

1. I often see people argue that if we raise the cost of labor (by dictat) businesses will be forced to use labor more efficiently, thus boosting their productivity, which

Tim Morris

tmorris_mrc

This is a great point. People sometimes introduce trials as 'easy' because in the simplest cases they permit causal inference with very simple analyses. This is never true in observational