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A beautiful if heart-wrenching column by Rachel Kennedy @Princeton on why we must focus now -- not only later -- on disparities in COVID impact by race and other factors. Including a tribute to her mother on anniversary of her death. dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/0…
Apart from the personal aspects (the author's family and @meiralevinson's family are old friends so I have a little connection) this column reminded me of a remarkable document from @who: who.int/ethics/publica…
This document focuses importantly on the fact that if a particular group does not have its health outcomes monitored, it cannot get the resources needed to improve those outcomes. Powerful case for racial/ethnic/etc reporting of COVID outcomes.
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Potential biases arising from epidemic dynamics in observational seroprotection studies medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #COVID19 w @rebeccajk13 @LeeKShaffer @yhgrad and Jamie Robins.
Seroprotection studies in #COVID19 willbe quite challenging.Because we are trying to study we got to the fact of one infection against future infection, Exposure and outcome are essentially the same event at different times. This creates many opportunities for confounding.
Often direction will be positive. People at higher infection risk in the past will continue to be at higher risk of re-infection. Our paper shows that can happen but also the opposite: confounding makes seropositiviy look protective when epidemic is controlled....
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This article is better than its headline (can we just stop the antiquated tradition of letting late-night copyeditors write the titles that may be all anyone reads of our long articles that we labor over?), "Models vs. Evidence". bostonreview.net/science-nature…
I appreciate the effort to figure out what is going on with the debates over the pandemic response. But I think this article gets a few things right and a number of key points wrong.
It gets right that "Public health epidemiology uses theory... to model infection and understand patterns and causes of disease. Public health epidemiology also relies on a diversity of data." Thank you for that description of our field at its best.
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This article describes a radical approach to (not) managing the COVID epidemic in India. It misrepresents my views worse than almost any article I have ever been quoted in. We talked for 1/2 an hour and my quote is wildly unrepresentative of what I said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I suspect (though I am unsure) that it misrepresents the views of Ramanan Laxminarayan @CDDEP . Since the journalist Ari Altstedter can't be bothered to present the story clearly I will explain what I thought Ramanan had proposed, which I said very clearly to him and what I said.
The writer from @business sent me a slide deck of Ramanan's talk. I was unsure what point it was trying to make, but after several reads I took it to make the following claims: 1) India's current lockdown is not sustainable and will kill many through economic damage.
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