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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
This is a nice 🧵 of 🧵s.

Recent paper published on impacts of #COVID19 #K-12 school closures on well-being of students over the very longterm. This topic of major interest to me, but paper not great. Thread critiques methods & interpretation informatively & constructively!
I particularly appreciated @ikashnitsky’s critique. I believe her use of “deterministic” corresponds to #epitwitter term, “causal”. @MariaGlymour What do you think of her assessment of this literature?
Ok, LOL. Looking back, @jburnmurdoch’s tone is more acerbic than I recalled. I only note this bc I posed this thread as a model of constructive critique in tweet 1 but some of the tone spicier than my personal ideal. 😂
Also want to highlight this other thread from @jburnmurdoch’s thread. As always, @GidMK digs deep and has an excellent take.

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19 Nov
Been thinking a lot about this, especially the “for a paycheck” part. I have many relatives working in jobs where it’s impossible to distance, avoid closed spaces, etc. It is 100% a failure of govt (US senators esp) to provide money for businesses & workers to stay home...1/
But me getting on a soapbox about
the stimulus bill US should have passed this summer is neither here nor there for my relatives who need to make decisions today about work, even when they know perfectly well (thanks to yours truly!) that their work environments are not safe 2/
If I sat in my home office or in my empty campus office typing away about how “everyone should just stay home & this would all be over, The End,” I’d have no credibility with them. (They love me though, so they’d just 🙄 & quietly ignore my posts. 😂) 3/
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16 Nov
This is amazing, Amazing, AMAZING news!

Someone close to me is in this vaccine trial. I am so moved by every single volunteer for these trials. They took a risk to give the world a tremendous gift. I’m literally crying. The world owes them so much...
And it looks like all the severe cases were in placebo group, so vaccine may not just reduce risk of getting sick overall but also prevent severe illness. 🙏🏾
Also some promising news about placebo arm folks: “Dr. Zaks said Moderna’s study results were so strong that the company felt an ethical obligation to offer the vaccine to the placebo group as soon as possible.” From @nytimes. Stay tuned
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15 Nov
I know what I’m listening to on my Sunday morning walk!👇🏾

As you know from my earlier interview on this podcast, structurally defined Selection Bias is my fave #epitwitter bias. And @ER_Mayeda is a super expert. This will be a treat! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-w…
And here’s a link to my earlier episode, with hosts @ProfMattFox and @haileybanack. @societyforepi
.@ER_Mayeda cautions, Methods of correcting for selection bias, eg, IPW, only as good as understanding of selection processes that gave rise to data. Reminds me of polling in 2016 & 2020 US elections. When system is dynamic, can’t rely on past trends; need other ways of knowing
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28 Oct
Reading this article (in which I'm quoted near the end), I realized why I have such a strong visceral reaction to some of the negative coverage of @ProfEmilyOster's work on #COVID19 and schools...prospect.org/coronavirus/wh… 1/
..The treatment of @ProfEmilyOster reminds of 2016 press coverage of @HillaryClinton! An outsized focus on that woman's flaws had big long-term consequences.(I'm not a media studies or communications person, so I may be totally off, but I swear there's a PhD thesis in here! 2/
On to my promised tweets on #epitwitter data about #SARSCoV2/#COVID19 among children and particularly in school settings. It's less comprehensive than I hoped, but I'm trying not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good... 3/
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21 Oct
A compelling and deeply researched article with lots of great quotes, actionable ideas, and success stories. 1/
Again, many great quotes but this one deeply resonated with my personal experience: “Yet when Black women ‘do say no to additional projects, we are seen as anti-team player, unwilling to be collegial,’ Lima-Neves said...”2/
The most galling thing said to me in 2020 was from a senior leader in response to my asking him why his leadership team was all-White over many years despite the presence of talented non-White faculty (like myself)...
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21 Oct
Am I living in bizarro world?!

🧵 So..US POTUS & Senate have refused to give K-12 schools $$$ for #SARSCoV2 testing for school safety: “You’re on yr own!” 🤯

So district in big Democratic city comes up w $$$ itself to do spot testing with parental consent (hats off, NYC!)..1/
So THEN someone in our “You’re on yr own” US executive says, “Actually I do have some thoughts!”

and bullies the actual *CDC* (the home of elite force of disease detectives who live to identify and squash outbreaks) into saying...2/
“Hey school districts, in case you were thinking about doing the extraordinary & forward-thinking work of standing up a whole #SARSCoV2 surveillance system in your K-12 schools bc yr federal govt has abandoned you...3/
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