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#epidemiology

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@Momodou

I just heard a talk by a pulmonologist from #TheGambia a few days ago! He's the dude that got lots of air quality monitors installed and broadcasting your incredibly high PM 2.5 measures. The take home message was; THERE'S A LOT OF DUST IN THE GAMBIA and also; find a way to smoke fish so that the women doing the work don't get COPD when they're 30!
Re really interesting talk!
#Epidemiology

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Daniel Dvorkin

I am a #medic. If you know nothing else about me, know that.

Whatever happens, wherever you are, whoever you are—call me and I will come for you. That's what medics do. That's what we are.

Mostly.

npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-53877

I've made my living many other ways over the decades. #Infantry, #writing, #web development, #database administration, #teaching, #clinicaltrials, #bioinformatics. Maybe one of these days writing again, for more than a few months this time. All of them have shaped me to one degree or another.

They're all things I did, all part of who I am. Medic is what I am. If you're lucky enough to have your own "what" as well as "who" ... well, you understand.

Until World War One, more #soldiers in every war died of #disease than of #injuries received on the #battlefield. The decreasing death toll of modern wars (you can look it up) is directly due, in large part, to advances in military public health. Those advances travel both ways, back and forth between the military and civilian worlds, preserving life all the while.

#Epidemiology and #immunology and #biostatistics and #environmental #medicine aren't TV fodder, generally speaking. It's hard to make them look glamorous. They're just the reason you're alive to read these words.

#PublicHealth, taken as a whole, is unquestionably the greatest advance in medical history. Nothing else even comes close. Arguably it's the greatest advance in history, period, with no qualifiers needed.

Deliberately breaking it is mass #murder.

I am a medic. I am also a human being. The alleged human beings responsible for this monstrosity, if they ever call me, will call in vain.

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Denis Haine

#epidemiology Updated #rstats 📦 episensr for sensitivity analysis of epidemiologic results (cran.r-project.org/package=epi). Breaking changes! The NORTA transformation is implemented for correlations between Se and Sp in Probabilistic Bias Analyses (PBA), replacing sampling from a std uniform distribution. Log-logistic and logit-normal distributions are replaced by a truncated normal distribution in PBA.
However, legacy versions are still available.
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Output of probabilistic sensitivity analysis (misclassification of exposure) - on Emacs-ESS
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Charlie McHenry

The US should step up efforts to combat its year-long bird #H5N1 flu outbreak and control the #pandemic risk to people, an international group of virologists has warned. The high historical human mortality rate from H5N1 suggests “the terrible consequences of underreacting to current threats”, say human and animal virologists from the Global Virus Network spanning more than 40 countries...Their intervention on Tuesday highlights alarm at the proliferation of the H5N1 avian pathogen now detected in #poultry in all 50 US states, infecting scores of people and causing at least one confirmed death…The US outbreak has spread nationwide since March 2024, affecting more than 1,000 dairy herds and killing or triggering the culling of tens of millions of poultry. At least 70 human cases have been identified, with one person dying in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —The Economist #Virology #Epidemiology #BirdFlu #CDC #HHS #PublicHealth

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STEAM Powered

How studying galaxies like a population helps unravel the universe's complex history, much like understanding disease in humans.

More in our conversation with Sabine Bellstedt, #astronomer.

podbite.link/bites/O21pSCtY

Watch or listen on your favourite platform: steampoweredshow.com

Show notes at steampoweredshow.com/shows/sab

"Studying space epidemiology" a STEAM Powered Podbite
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