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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 11 min read
Thanks to @jburnmurdoch for the shout-out & support for women putting in the work during the pandemic (yes-including data science ;).

Some of our fave follows: @Lizstuartdc @WhitneyEpi @kmpanthagani @IDEpiPhD @Tiffany_L_Green @v_dilego @monjalexander @LucyStats @ewrigleyfield
Of course "Those Nerdy Girls" themselves: @abuttenheim @lindsleininger @drjenndowd @m_simanek @Rpiltchloeb @AshleyZRitter @S_AlbrechtPerez @fueledbyscience @malia_ailam @sarahmwc @JoannaInNY_MPH @LaurenHalePhD @Ga6 @shoshiaronowitz
+ our beloved "Nerdy Neighborhood" of women in #scicomm: @ersmith2016 @LizMarnik @unbiasedscipod @dr_kkjetelina @heysciencesam @evebmd @scimoms @mommyphd2 @DrGlorioso @FutureDocs @DrEmilyRSmith @IMPACT4HC @YEpidemiologist
For a recap of the @DearPandemic mission:
#womeninSTEM #womeninscience #epitwitter #poptwitter #medtwitter #womeninleadership

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1/ Q: Is it true that #Omicron is less severe than previous variants?

A: We HOPE so, but we don’t know yet. The evidence so far is mixed.

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2/ We are WAY past due for some good variant news. But pinning our #Omicron hopes on a less virulent variant is not wise for 2 reasons:

1) It might not be less severe in those who are “immune naïve” (neither vaccinated nor with a previous infection—still millions of people).
3/ 2) Many more infections *even* if less severe can still lead to an avalanche of hospitalizations and deaths, and the risk of long Covid.

@AdamJKucharski raised this last December w/ the rise of Alpha:
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16 Dec
1/ Nerdy Girl @drjenndowd (🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧 ) writing from not-so-sunny England, home of the strangest shaped epidemic curve ever seen.

"Buckle up America."

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2/ And by buckle up, I mean BOOST-UP. And take other sensible precautions, especially leading up to the holidays. Things are not looking so good.
3/ Omicron has a significant foothold here, currently estimated at over 30% of current cases in the UK and doubling every 2-3 days 😳. In London where Omicron is a whopping 60+% of the cases, Omicron cases are adding to, but not displacing Delta…yet .
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16 Apr
1/ Q: Do we know more about whether the vaccines reduce transmission?

A: YES! Evidence continues to mount that the vaccines DO in fact reduce transmission.

#vaccineswork
dearpandemic.org/do-vaccines-re…
2/ ➡️ While the Nerdy Girls are still dreaming of transmission being tested in the clinical trials (call us☎️), the data pouring in from around the world strongly suggests that the vaccines are very good (but not perfect) at reducing ALL infections & by extension transmission.
3/ Recall the clinical trials (largely) tested only participants who developed symptoms. One possibility is that vaccines reduce the severity of COVID-19 to the point of no symptoms, but still allow the virus to replicate in the nose and throat & potentially be spread to others.
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1/ Breaking news: Federal officials hit the pause button on #JohnsonandJohnson vaccine.

Giving themselves runway to perform all appropriate due diligence, the @US_FDA & @CDCgov have called for a temporary pause in the use of the #JandJ vaccine. Image
2/ Their diligence will analyze the cases of 6 U.S. women who developed very rare blood clots after receiving the J&J vaccine. Nearly seven million people have received this vaccine to-date in the U.S.
3/ Clinical notes:

All 6 events happened in women ages 18-48. All happened within three weeks post-vaccination. The pause is specific to the #JohnsonandJohnson vaccine, & not the #Pfizer & #Moderna vaccines.
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7 Apr
1/ A: “Great trend, but terrible levels.”

That’s the TL;DR from well-respected labor economist @aaronsojourner in response to last week’s release of the March 2021 jobs report.

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2/ 👍The good news: The numbers roundly beat Dow Jones expectations. (Expectations: 675k added jobs; Actuals: over 900k added jobs). Yay! cnb.cx/2R877KY

👎The less good news: The economy was still approx. 10 million jobs below pre-pandemic trend.
3/ The President’s Council of Economic Advisers (@WhiteHouseCEA) estimates that we could be back to pre-pandemic employment by the end of this year if this faster pace of job growth continues.
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1/ 💥It's been a minute since we launched on Twitter as the 3rd channel in the @DearPandemic line up.

Actually, it's been a year!

➡️We'd love to boost our year-old signal here with some new follows.

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2/ The pitch: We're a bunch of Nerdy girls posting real info on the pandemic. We curate COVID-19 content and battle disinfo for the greater good. We love facts.

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3/ Read more about our story & our committment to #womeninscience & #scicomm in @NatGeo here:

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