epidemiology
How a disease moves through a population, and what modelling it can and cannot settle.
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John Mandrola quoted
Cardiac electrophysiologist in Louisville, Kentucky
Our readingThe shorter antibiotic course in the POET II trial is a worse strategy than the standard course.
Their wordsThe bottom line is that you don't need to be an academic or infectious disease specialist to take from this trial data that the shorter course is clearly the worse strategy.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Jeremy Faust quoted
Emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital…
Their wordsExcluding these measles-associated/provisional deaths desecrates the CDC's long history of reliable public epidemiology reporting.
↗Inside Medicineinsidemedicine.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March…
Their wordsThey face a fundamental biological trade-off: highly lethal or highly contagious, but typically not both.
↗What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Their wordsThe West, like California and Hawaii, has bigger waves in summer than in winter.
↗Respiratory increasing, while Covid-19 peaking? Also, the air after 9/11 killed more than the actual attackyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Their wordsmeasles really only spreads in tightly knit, unvaccinated pockets.
↗Respiratory increasing, while Covid-19 peaking? Also, the air after 9/11 killed more than the actual attackyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 3 days earlier
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Awais Aftab quoted
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case…
Our readingIn providing care, there are no ideological sides — only the patient and what actually helps them.
Their wordsWhen it comes to providing care that helps patients, there are no sides. There is only the patient; the illness or disorder disrupting the patient's life and the lives of loved ones; and, in the case of mental illness and infectious disease, the question of whether that illness adversely affects the broader community.
↗The Lawsuit That Came to Symbolize the Fall of Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: Eric Caplan on Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodgepsychiatrymargins.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
- KJ
Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Their wordsThe problem is that "number of recalls" is a terrible metric because we don't know what we don't know.
↗Foodborne illness increase? Common cold, Covid-19 summer wave, and more.yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Zeke Hausfather quoted
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst
Our readingStrong agreement among forecast models does not by itself mean those models are skillful.
Their wordsModel agreement this strong is unusual, though I'd note that agreement is not the same thing as skill as I discuss later on.
↗The Strongest El Niño Evertheclimatebrink.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- JB
Jamie Brandon quoted
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes…
Our readingUltra-processed foods have epidemiological evidence of harm comparable to what existed for smoking.
Their wordsThere's strong epidemiological evidence associating ultra-processed foods with a range of negative health outcomes, at least on par with the evidence we had for smoking.
↗0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net 1st of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- KY
Kit Yates quoted
Mathematical biologist
Their wordsThe main reasons for males suffering from a higher burden of global TB cases, compared to females, may be in large part due to population-scale factors, such as employment type, the quantity and type of social contacts they make, and their health-seeking behaviours (e.g. differences in diagnostic and treatment delays between genders).
- 5 months earlier
- JT
Jacob Trefethen quoted
Head of global health R&D at Open Philanthropy
Their wordsMeasles is technologically “solved”, but not everyone trusts the solutions or their messengers.
↗AI will not suddenly lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com 5th of 5 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Jacob Trefethen quoted
Their wordsInfectious diseases as a category receive vastly less R&D spending from industry than non-communicable diseases, per death they cause, because they disproportionately kill people in lower- and middle-income countries where the payoff for making a cure is less lucrative.
↗A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Fundingblog.jacobtrefethen.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Saloni Dattani quoted
Researcher at Our World in Data with a PhD in psychiatric genetics
Their wordsIn my view, without smoking, we probably would have seen cancer mortality decline much earlier.
↗The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smokingscientificdiscovery.dev 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 years earlier
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Caitlin Rivers quoted
Infectious-disease epidemiologist and associate professor…
Their wordsHowever, if we do not move swiftly to interrupt transmission, monkeypox could be the second emerging infectious disease to become endemic this decade.
↗We need simple, transparent metrics to pursue monkeypox containmentcaitlinrivers.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
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Yuval Noah Harari quoted
Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976
Their wordsHowever, while short-term quarantine is essential to stop epidemics, long-term isolationism will lead to economic collapse without offering any real protection against infectious diseases. Just the opposite. The real antidote to epidemic is not segregation, but rather cooperation.
↗In the Battle Against Coronavirus, Humanity Lacks Leadership (TIME)time.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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Voltaire quoted
French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
Our readingHad smallpox inoculation been practised in France, it would have saved thousands of lives
Their wordsThe Chinese, indeed, do not communicate this distemper by inoculation, but at the nose, in the same manner as we take snuff. This is a more agreeable way, but then it produces the like effects; and proves at the same time that had inoculation been practised in France it would have saved the lives of thousands.
↗Letters on England (1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 1894)gutenberg.org All 7 from this book