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Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
I am often asked how it is that I can talk openly about my work & myself on here, without being afraid of negative feedback.
This is an important question, and the answer is: practice.
A short thread on how I’m learning to embrace critique and criticism.
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer.
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Relationship advice & why to block those toxic people who send you WhatsApps in the middle of the night
PLUS
An #epitwitter lesson in collider stratification bias
Something for everyone in this useful 🧵 from @klts0
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
This is your irregular reminder that if you’re interested in reading a scientific paper but can’t access it online, send an email to the author & they will be more than happy to send you a free copy of the pdf.
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Now, with all 3 of the leading Phase 3 vaccine trial protocols released, we can see their design, assumptions, endpoints and major differences. I've summarized those here and infections (events) in the short🧵below
teapawt.net/EricTopol/status/13074…
The @AstraZeneca vaccine protocol has now been released
Transparency 👏👍
s3.amazonaws.com/ctr-med-711…
Key points: 20,000 participants in vaccine arm, 10,000 placebo
50% efficacy target (30% lower 95%CI), matches FDA minimum
Only 1 interim analysis: 75 events
Completion at 150 events
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Contact tracing of #COVID19 cases isn't working in many places.
Bad contact tracing is dangerous for 2 reasons.
The 1st one is obvious: If we don’t trace contacts, we miss infected individuals (many asymptomatic) who infect other people.
The 2nd reason should be obvious too.
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
#Epidemiologists can help the community understand diagnostic test results and what this means for community transmission of #SARSCoV2. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… #Scicomm #diagnostictests #COVID19 #coronavirus
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Scientists, share what you know on social media and in media interviews to help educate the public on #covid19. sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…
In as much as we have up-to-date reporting, I wish our infographics would look like this. Let's actually see that curve flattening.
Hey Bay Area!! Thanks for all you are doing to keep yourself & our communities safe #Covid19
Look at the nice flat curves & declining hosp rates declining!! (orange=Bay Area, blue=CA)
This weekend is going to be beautiful - but please stay safe! #SocialDistance #MaskUp
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Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Fascinating take on the Stanford seroprevalence study & network analysis on uptake to support political positions on reopening
A Study Said Covid Wasn’t That Deadly. The Right Seized It. nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opini… – at San Francisco, CA
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: Preliminary results of Spain's seroprevalence study #ENECOVID.
>60,000 participants
Antibodies for #SARSCoV2:
5% of Spanish population
11% in region with highest incidence (Madrid)
So far from herd immunity in country with 2nd largest number of cases after U.S.
🔴EN DIRECTO
Rueda de prensa del ministro de @sanidadgob, Salvador Illa, y el ministro de @CienciaGob, Pedro Duque, sobre la primera fase del Estudio Nacional Sero-Epidemiológico del #COVID19.
#EsteVirusLoParamosUnidos teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1lPJqVmqq…
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Mentored training and its association with dissemination and implementation research output: a quasi-experimental evaluation #ImpSci
doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-0…
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Epidemiology Grand Rounds REPLAY: m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXgbN…
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Conventional meta-analyses of #randomized trials lack a clear causal interpretation when
1. each trial is in a different population
2. the treatment effect varies across those populations
Here we propose steps toward causally interpretable #MetaAnalysis.
journals.lww.com/epidem/Abst…
My first interview and true to form I advocate for better data collection so that sound data guide decisions. Thanks @rapplerdotcom for the opportunity and for such a well written article. #FilipinaEpiBiostat
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Will give out comments on COVID-19 situation in the Philippines in a while. I would like to thank my #USTFMSClinicalEpidemiology faculty seniors for the help in prep work and @UCSF_Epibiostat for the 2 year prep on these concepts. And @gelza for putting me up to this.
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
The only COVID conspiracy I will accept is that the cats and dogs of the world have united to keep us home.
Long live the lap!
#coronavirus #lockdown
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
Interested in the effects of #socialnetworks on health? In this #tbt @AmJEpi article, Kauppi and colleagues investigate the differential impacts of strong versus weak social ties on mortality risk #socialepi @societyforepi
doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx301
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
To “methodologists” whether it is Methods related to analytical/statistical methods, study design, data collection, quality assurance/control
This call for papers by Epidemiologic Reviews for 2021 issue is for you! #epitwitter #epidemiology
academic.oup.com/epirev/page…
Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado retweeted
“Is coffee good for you?” is a really hard question to answer because every word needs to be defined:
What do we mean by ‘coffee’? What do we mean by ‘good’? Who do we mean by ‘you’?
This @nytimes article actually does a pretty good job of describing the nuance here👇🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Yes, coffee is good for you — but it depends on the kind of coffee you're drinking and in what quantity
nyti.ms/2uXkkeP