Marco Carone

Registration is now open! The Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics is online Nov 22-25 from 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. PST daily.  Topics explore the role causal inference in biomedical research.  Check out keynote speakers, daily session topics, and more: biostat.washington.edu/seattlesymposi…

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

"We kinda don’t need this vaccine any longer."

Our new paper is out @Nature We report that fibrin drives toxic inflammation, impaired viral clearance & neuropathology in #SARSCoV2 infection treated by #fibrin antibody #LongCovid #Coagulation #Immunotherapy #fibrinogen #COVID19 nature.com/articles/s4158…

New @UCSF #LIINC paper: immune activation & viral persistence in tissue up to 2 years post-COVID. Found double-stranded RNA in #LongCOVID, suggesting active reservoir persists and evades immune clearance. Thanks @polybioRF, @NIH for support. @ScienceTM science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@scott_squires We've been using it quite regularly for months now and are very happy with it. No false positive so far. You buy the reader once and then can buy single tests (w/out the reader) for $25 each -- all on Amazon.

Does anyone have any experience with the Metrix COVID Test? The specs look good, but the reader in the single kit is different than the reader they sell? Do they sell tests w/o a reader? Thx.

Finally!! Journalism that is highlighting the role of illness in the chronic absenteeism crisis. Here are two articles (1 published yesterday; 1 published fall of 2021 that discuss how classrooms are too-often the source of illness spreading to classmates & teachers. 🧵

Introducing Efficient Plug-in Learning for HTEs! EP-learner solves two issues with orthogonal learning: 1.Extreme pseudo-outcomes lead to bound-violating predictions 2.Loss functions can be nonconvex We establish oracle bounds! (Not quasi) arxiv.org/pdf/2402.01972…

“This is a reckless policy change that will only serve to promote more spread of Covid and Long Covid,” Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, said cnn.com/2024/02/13/hea…

Wow, quite the interview of Dr. Deborah Birx (remember her?) from @ChrisCuomo discussing the failures of the early response, long covid, and complications from even mild infections. Worth a watch youtu.be/kYYt4thaaow?fe…

Dear all, today is the last day to submit your abstract to the American Causal Inference Conference! sci-info.org/annual-meeting/

Excellent UCSF grand rounds on long covid with leading experts @zalaly, @VirusesImmunity & @MichaelPelusoMD. If you watch nothing else, see the last few minutes where each affirms their continued efforts, including masking, to avoid infection/reinfection. youtu.be/rMt6ZV-hHSE?si…

Armenia’s greatest tragedy since 1920. After Western Armenia and Nakhichevan, Artsakh now becomes another historical land of the Armenians from which they have been exiled by pan-Turkish imperialism. sovereignty.pl/the-azeri-exte…

Peter Gilbert, a biostatistician and professor at UW SPH and @fredhutch shares how decades of HIV research methods and community activism paved the way for COVID vaccine development sph.washington.edu/news-events/sp…

The @LemkinInstitute is issuing a Red Flag Alert for the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Republic of #Armenia, due to the alarming potential for an invasion of Armenia by Azerbaijan in the coming days and weeks. Azerbaijan has long coveted Armenia’s southern Syunik Province, which has been discussed in the recent past as the site of an Azerbaijani-controlled “Zangezur Corridor” to Nakhichevan. Considering recent political developments in the region—including the Azerbaijani invasion of Artsakh on September 19, 2023 and the ensuing seizure of the territory—and well-established genocidal Armenophobia endemic in Türkiye and #Azerbaijan, an Azerbaijani invasion runs a dangerously high risk of devolving into genocide. We remind the world that genocide is not only expressed through mass murder. As was the case during the recent seizure of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh in September of 2023, genocide can also be expressed through a pattern of massacre, atrocity, and forced displacement from indigenous territory when the ideology behind these actions is aimed at destroying an identity in whole or in part. To see our recommendations, please read the entire RFA at bit.ly/AZEinARM

NEW In my latest @TIME piece I reflect on the threat of an invasion of Armenia, arguing that history is teaching us that some democracies—like some lives—are worth more than others. time.com/6327596/turkey…

The 2024 American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC) will be held in Seattle on May 14-17, 2024. Abstract, Invited Session, and Short Course submission deadline is Jan 10. Submit at: sci-info.org/annual-meeting…. Please spread the word! 📢

The U.S. FDA has granted Emergency Use Authorization for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, Adjuvanted (2023-2024 Formula) to prevent COVID-19 in individuals aged 12 and older.