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Our beloved mother, Zena Athene Stein Susser died peacefully on November 7th. She was a brilliant and extraordinary woman whose warmth, caring and insights illuminated the lives she touched at home and thousands across the world. Ida, Ezra, Ruth
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Very sad news that the legendary Zena Stein has passed away; one of the very smartest, influential, committed, effective (and nicest) epidemiologists of all time. Both a true scholar and activist @wilcoxEPID interview with Zena 👇#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jstor.org/stable/3703805… A life to celebrate
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Can I ask a favor? Please visit invisiblepeople.tv on your phone or desktop and let me know if it’s loading fast or slow. I moved to a new server and am wondering what the site speed is for users.
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@mendel_random @bmj_latest @mrc_ieu @jackiecassell @sdbaral @mugecevik @nicolamlow @angelaraffle @AllysonPollock @drphilhammond Like the school one
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The next @bmj_latest @mrc_ieu "covid-19: known unknowns" webinar with be 11th Feb 4-6pm on "Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic people, with @jackiecassell @sdbaral @mugecevik @nicolamlow @angelaraffle @AllysonPollock &MC @drphilhammond #CovidUnknowns
zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Want to end the pandemic?
Lets marshal global manufacturing effort to make lots of vaccine quickly
And vaccinate everyone
Because large outbreaks anywhere can give rise to variants that can escape vaccines everywhere
At the end of the day, we really are in this together
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Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan?
No?
How about one from South Korea?
No?
Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam?
Of course not
Because these places haven't given rise to scary variants
But what places have.....has big implications for ending the pandemic
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So let’s talk about where variants ARE coming from and under what circumstances
Variants arise when infections run wild
And selection pressures lead to dangerous mutations that can then thrive
Remember, every infection creates opportunities for “errors” – or mutations
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There is only one solution to put this nightmare pandemic behind us
Get outbreaks under control everywhere
How?
Put in place virus control policies, get people to wear high quality masks, have more testing
AND
Vaccinate the world
Now
As quickly as possible
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@miquelporta I would argue it is still unmatched .. what comes close on hunting for causes and finding them? For a practical example Stein, Susser et al Famine and human development (1975) shows the careful application of the methods. It’s called praxis - sadly now epi “methodology” is /cont
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With so many of us having spent part of the holidays and January #grant_writing, these words written about 50 years ago - this book by #MervynSusser was unmatched for very long
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Thrilled to see this paper finally available! W @FrancoMasc @DrOluwoye & others not on Twitter. Structural Disadvantage and Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Early Psychosis Services: International Provider Survey ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.11…
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Video editing takes a long time when you have no idea what you're doing, and are learning as you go. Although I imagine video editing also takes a long time when you know exactly what you're doing.
I have newfound respect for all the amazing video content creators out there. 👏
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Another exciting paper arriving at my desk reads: Causal Relational Learning: arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03644… which promises to revolutionize causal inference the same way first-order predicate logic has transformed Boolean logic.
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