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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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    1. Kos Samaras‏ @KosSamaras Jun 2

      Sydney v Melbourne. Never exclude social disadvantage from any comparison. As I suspected. The differences are not just family structures (large families, small dwellings) across connected LGA corridors. Melbourne has this. Sydney does not. But differences are also about class 1/pic.twitter.com/DZNXeIacaM

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
      Replying to @KosSamaras

      I don't think this is particularly true. Part of the issue is that you're using LGA rather than a more granular measure - here's what those maps look like if you use SA2 (~10,000 person blocks) rather than LGA (~100,000 people)pic.twitter.com/CgEq94IR4G

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
          Replying to @GidMK @KosSamaras

          In fact, I'd argue that Sydney has more "corridors" of disadvantage if anything - if you change the measure to make these relative to the state (i.e. compare Sydney to NSW, Melb to VIC), there's this big low-income area in the west/swestpic.twitter.com/VcqibUEpWB

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
          Replying to @GidMK @KosSamaras

          More broadly, I'm not sure having interconnected regions of disadvantaged populations says much about the transmissibility of COVID-19. Most large Australian cities have some measure of interconnectivity to disadvantage, but they have different numbers of outbreakspic.twitter.com/Xpmmh7Cg5K

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        2.  🌍 Gaik Masis‏ @PoppySarafan Jun 2
          Replying to @GidMK @KosSamaras

          Is there any explanation as to why Vic gets so many times more exposure sites per each identified case on avr than in Syd? All these graphs say nothing about behaviour. It also seems crazy that we have thousands&thousands of primary contacts for just 60 cases. Why?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
          Replying to @PoppySarafan @KosSamaras

          Does it? What's the # of exposure sites per person in NSW vs VIC?

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        2. Kos Samaras‏ @KosSamaras Jun 2
          Replying to @GidMK

          I can use SA1, you will find the same. All COVID hotspots last year were in the named LGAs. Specific suburbs being the key drivers.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
          Replying to @KosSamaras

          I'm not saying social disadvantage is not related to risk of spread, simply that the interconnectivity of suburbs isn't associated with larger outbreaks. In most Australian cities disadvantaged areas cluster, it's sadly a common theme

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        1. Xander R - TVT‏ @xander_tvt Jun 19
          Replying to @GidMK @KosSamaras

          Precisely. Honestly, these attempts to explain Victoria's failures are little more than rationalisations that come as the logical conclusion of reality coming up against the cognitive dissonance of decades of smug assumptions of superiority over the rest of the country.

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