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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

Sydney, New South Wales
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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 21

      Health Nerd Retweeted NSW Health

      People: #ZeroCovid is impossible! Australia:https://twitter.com/NSWHealth/status/1352407318500057089 …

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      NSW HealthVerified account @NSWHealth
      NSW recorded zero new locally acquired cases of #COVID19 in the 24 hrs to 8pm last night. There was 1 case recorded in a returned traveller. Two previous cases have been excluded after further investigations, bringing total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 4,894 pic.twitter.com/10azDOpNHF
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 21

      "But Australia is an island" Vietnam and Mongolia are also famous islands I guesshttps://fortune.com/2020/12/28/asia-covid-success-stories-lessons-learned/ …

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    3. Polly‏ @oi_tillymint Jan 22
      Replying to @GidMK

      you seem overly confident of the reasons. Theories include Pacific Rim countries and demographics re age and health. Obesity and diabetes is not an issue like the UK for instance.

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 22
      Replying to @oi_tillymint

      Nonsense. Pacific countries mostly have as bad or worse issues with diabetes, Australia included. The problem with these theories is that they are almost always spread in bad faith by charlatans who don't even bother to do basic research such to support their position

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    5. Polly‏ @oi_tillymint Jan 22
      Replying to @GidMK

      but it's a combination of many factors, not just one thing. I think people who are very confident that it was a quarantine that did the trick are also reaching. Obesity? I mean that is one of the main factors for severe disease and death isn't t? You can't say it's nonsense.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 22
      Replying to @oi_tillymint

      I'm not saying obesity is nonsense, I'm saying that the idea that the burden of chronic disease is substantially different in countries that have failed with COVID-19 and ones that haven't is ridiculous. The main factor is quite clearly government action

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        2. Polly‏ @oi_tillymint Jan 22
          Replying to @GidMK

          Personally, I look forward this being explored in the years to come. It seems premature for anyone to say what was the 'main' thing.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jan 22
          Replying to @oi_tillymint

          I think any reasonable examination of the facts as they stand strongly supports the position that the main difference between, say, Vietnam and France was the action of governments and not some nonsense about how many people in each country have T2DM

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