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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 14 May 2020

    What's the one epidemiological concept you had never learned before 2020 but are now weirdly familiar with (think R0, specificity etc)?

    2:47 PM - 14 May 2020
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      2. Lindsey Summers  😷 ✊🏼 🎗‏ @biopharmasleuth 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Social distancing. Also I’m not an epidemiologist.

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 14 May 2020
        Replying to @biopharmasleuth

        I think most epidemiologists were pretty familiar with social distancing before this pandemic despite never having formally studied it

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      1. Dave‏ @davecoghlan 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        The word "Epidemiologist"!

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      1. NFT sale w/ free planet burning gift‏ @groby 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        SEIR models continue to be a source of fascination. I am oddly excited about the open sourcing of some of them.

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      2. Thomas Crow‏ @scicrow 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Not an epidemiologist, but some of your tweets on false positives/false negatives and how they translate to actual testing cases for COVID were pretty enlightening.

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      3. Beardless Batnurse‏ @BobbyBoop86 14 May 2020
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        pic.twitter.com/fYJGAZzTXd

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      1. Johan Wallström‏ @Plantbiased 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        That R is independent of number of cases, so a certain set of measures that keeps R at 1, will keep cases from growing exponentially both when cases are very low and very high... Hence suppression doesn't need to be much stricter than mitigation over time. To my understanding...

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      1. extrapickles  🥒 🥒 🥒‏ @HPMcCall 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        This is probably weird, but I actually learned what sero-positive means. That's the term the French were using for HIV-positive patients when I lived there in the early 90's.

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      1. DouglasHolt‏ @dlloydholt 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Certainly R0, also using genetic mutations to trace origins of viruses, that hospitals have a capacity limit (I’m pretty naive about hospitals, only time I was a patient was when I was born). I have really learned a lot reading your posts and articles. Glad I found your Twitter!

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      2. transplantrockstar‏ @tx_rockstar 14 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        That finance bros with their ARIMA and Monte Carlo games in SPSS and R think theiy can do epi

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 14 May 2020
        Replying to @tx_rockstar

        Not sure that's an epidemiological concept per se but I like the way you think 😅

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