Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social
@BillHanage
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Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Gooner. Tweets are personal
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Joined February 2009
Don't forget - vaccines don't help on their own. We need *vaccination*.
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Recently my daughter told me that she used to think that, at the climactic moment in ‘Let it go!’ instead of “I’m free!” Elsa was actually singing “Highbury!”. Proud #arsenal dad :).
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RT @jsm2334: There is a lot of talk about claims about vaccinations increasing autism in the news lately, with a focus on MMR vaccines. I….
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RT @dwallacewells: I wish that American schools had reopened in the fall of 2020, and been smarter about doing so (making more use of poole….
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Making pumpkin pie from scratch. Happy thanksgiving to all celebrating it today!
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Finally a modest suggestion for how we might investigate transmission and get more information on the range of severity
academic.oup.com
Abstract. Serological surveys can provide evidence of cases that were not previously detected, depict the spectrum of disease severity, and estimate the pr
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And can’t really say anything about possible transmission. Would be interesting to know about symptoms among household contacts. Although these could easily have been caused by any of the many other viruses out there….
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The sample’s not huge. Nor do we know how many dairies or workers were contacted. But there must have been at least 2 places involved because of the 8 positives, 6 were in CO and 2 in MI
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It was also a ‘convenience sample’ meaning that it might be skewed towards people who had reason to suspect they might have been infected, and so overestimate the true exposure.
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That’s a qualified reason to be cheerful - these infections could easily have been nastier for other people (eg older folks). As ever, the key element is onward transmission among humans, which this study did not set out to examine.
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Important study in @CDCMMWR on evidence of prior infection with H5N1 among dairy workers in MI and CO. Results suggest many more such infections have been happening, but that they’ve been mild
cdc.gov
This report describes serologic testing to identify recent highly pathogenic avian influenza infections among dairy workers in two states.
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For all that I’m a big fan of Albert Camus, I think we should all be able to agree that Sisyphus is entitled to ask “what is it with rolling this bloody rock AGAIN?”.
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RT @HarvardEpi: This November, we're spotlighting @CCDD_HSPH!. Led by @mlipsitch & @BillHanage, CCDD works to improve mathematical modeling….
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Looks like @RoryStewartUK is using a Lenovo thinkpad while @campbellclaret and everyone else on the coverage are apple users… . The divide is real .
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How to show you don’t understand casual inference without using the words ‘causal’ or ‘inference’.
There are some confounders here, but the inflation thing is actually statistically significant! Each additional $100 of inflation in a state since January 2021 predicts a further 1.6 swing against Harris in our polling average vs. the Biden-Trump margin in 2020.
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Which was, for a few months in 1990, my favorite REM song….
the legend Michael Stipe performs "Driver 8" at a Harris/Walz event in Georgia
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Just thinking, not for the first time, that “I’ll be your mirror” by the Velvets is the most moving love song I’ve ever heard.
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Paging @dieworkwear.
I’ve been criticized my entire career for “overdressing” for work. But I will die on the hill that it’s more professional to show up as a scientist in a dress and heels than an ill-fitting free vendor shirt with a GFP-expressing cell and a Sigma Millipore logo on it.
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I actually think the title of this is overblown. But this is blistering regardless.
nytimes.com
John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
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