#Prevalence

Maître Pandaï

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Prépublication de l'Imperial College, étude séro sur 100 000 participants. Ils trouvent une séroprévalence de 6% en Angleterre (13% à Londres), soit 3,4 millions de personnes infectées du début de

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

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This is an important new finding and one that requires some quick reflections. ThreadWe have all been very interested in seroprevalence studiesWhy?Because we're wondering whether the proportion of the population

Mark Urban

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As somebody who served in tanks and who, reporting from war zones, has seen and smelt the ghastly consequences of armoured vehicle crews burned to a crisp, it would be

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

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1/7 Lots of folks trying to understand sensitivity and specificity. Maybe the most important concept to understand right now is that of POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE.Given a test result is positive,

Dan Bloom

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BREAKING - Documents slipped out tonight show SAGE demanded Boris Johnson go much further than he has done today. SAGE officially asked for an urgent 2-week 'circuit break' lockdown... 3

Dr Gaetan Burgio, MD, PhD.

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A question I often get. Why Lupus patients that have taken Hydroxychloroquine for years have no side effects whereas severe adverse cardiac side effects are described #COVID19 patients under hydroxychloroquine

Peter Ellis

ellis2013nz

I've been thinking hard about test positivity rates and how they impact on difficulty of estimating incidence and prevalence when there aren't random samples from the population. Blog post with

Kelly Ward 🧼👏🏻

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I just talked to a 94-year-old man in the 53206 zip code - one of the most disenfranchised areas of Milwaukee. He is so ill he can’t get out of

Phil Mitchell: Male Sexual Abuse Specialist

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1/19"Women don't really abuse"If anyone says this, below are some links that you might find useful: 2/19"Coercive Control and Domestic Violence" 2020https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9JfXs5QSfo"When we look at em

CPIPR

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Some chronic health conditions may put people at higher risk from #covid19.NICHD-funded research offers clues about risk factors Hispanic/Latinos renters in US cities with high foreclosure risk had a higher

Simon D. A. Clark

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Interesting new preprint on diagnostic uncertainty - a higher quantity of COVID19 tests will probably do more harm with poor test targeting (eg. contact tracing) i.e more "no test is

Sam Jones

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Congratulations to Mozambique's @IMocambique on their recent Covid19 serology surveillance survey in the city of Nampula (a hot spot). 1/3 In the community, around 5% seem to have been infected.

Rachael Bedard, MD

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I really want schools to open, and also really think the benefits of doing so in our current context outweigh the risks. But “we just don’t surrender” is an insane

Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.

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A thread for those who may not be aware.@airbnb uses AI to detect whether a user is a sex worker, mentally ill, or otherwise "un-desirable". Based on this algorithm, #airbnb

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

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Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA

John Burn-Murdoch

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ThreadHere’s the problem with per-capita stats for coronavirus:• Switzerland has seen ~same pace of outbreak as everywhere else, but its per-cap figure is higher coz it has a low population•