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Melinda Mills
@melindacmills
Prof University of Oxford @Oxford_NDPH, @NuffieldCollege, Director @OxfordDemSci + Prof Data Science & Public Health Policy, @UniGroningenFEB @UMCGgenetica
Jul 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Out today extensive systematic review on #facemasks that I led for @royalsociety @BritishAcademy_ going beyond medical but also including behavioural & policy literature – thread of the main findings….
royalsociety.org/-/media/policy… Many countries (~70) recommended #facemasks already in mid-March immediately after WHO announced #COVID19 pandemic with over 120 requiring them, mostly everywhere. Asian countries with previous SARS experience had early and universal usage
May 28, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
RT – FINALLY out! Our new genetic study of number of children born greatly extends our 2016 Nature Genetics GWAS. Newly identified associations indicate genetic loci under present-day natural selection - here is a summary thread....biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Extending our 2016 Nature Genetics GWAS of number of children nature.com/articles/ng.36… with a sample of around 785K, we find 43 loci associated with number of children ever born or childlessness
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Apr 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
You asked for a simple & concrete examples of how our #COVIDー19 network #exitstrategy can move from mathematical simulation models to real life examples – see arxiv.org/abs/2004.07052 (pages 14-16) @block_per But I break it down here…. Public adherence is essential for #COVID19 social distancing. We all need an easy to understand #exitstrategy to help us gradually return to work and school. Here is our advice... arxiv.org/abs/2004.07052
Mar 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 9 min read
UK & US 2.5-2.8 hospital beds per 1000, Germany 8, South Korea 12. Will this matter? We look at differences for general & critical care hospital beds in England and Wales #COVIDー19 #CovidUK @MarkDVerhagen David Brazel @drjenndowd @ikashnitsky osf.io/g8s96/ Estimating hospitalization rates of #COVIDー19 & taking #demographics into account, we estimate coming high pressures in certain regions such as #powys (#Wales) and #IsleofWight (England) #CovidUK See our new paper: osf.io/g8s96/
Jan 7, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Published open access today @CommsBio our review of all ~4000 #GWAS (genetic discoveries) from @GWASCatalog nature.com/articles/s4200… 1/9 Although explosion in number of #GWAS studies, sample sizes, associations and diseases – genetic discovery still largely of European ancestry subjects – when non-European groups included more often for replication 2/9