David J Hunter
@DJHunter_EPI
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Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine University of Oxford. Formerly a Dean at Harvard. Chief Science Advisor to Our Future Health.
Joined November 2016
That’s it. I’m outta here after Elon endorses the White Replacement Theory and Grok undresses women without a response. Twitter was nice while it lasted…
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Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is threatening to unseat elected officials if they do not follow his orders to shut down the government during the holidays. Are we still a democracy or have we already moved to oligarchy and authoritarianism?
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Pure Earth welcomes a new Senate resolution calling on the United States to take a leadership role in ending lead poisoning globally. The data that @PureEarthNow and others have been generating is helping policymakers see both the impacts and solutions. https://t.co/AbVEjmPfg8
foreign.senate.gov
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Chair of Subcommittee...
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There is a cause and effect relationship with the stresses on primary care and the lack of GP time to focus on prevention (blood pressure, cholesterol) rather than acute care and management of established diseases.
Life expectancy data from @HealthFdn is grim. Progress stalled. Outcomes unequal. Costs to 🇬🇧 national finances immense. There’s so much we could be doing to embrace modern prevention technologies to enjoy long healthy longevity. Why don’t we? That’s the central health
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Life expectancy data from @HealthFdn is grim. Progress stalled. Outcomes unequal. Costs to 🇬🇧 national finances immense. There’s so much we could be doing to embrace modern prevention technologies to enjoy long healthy longevity. Why don’t we? That’s the central health
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great to see Our Future Health announced - Happy to be Chief Science Advisor to support a terrific vision and team!
#OurFutureHealth, the UK’s largest health research programme, welcomes first volunteers https://t.co/A0qCxNDHJU
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The Complementarity of Public Health and Medicine - we want the best in health for our patients - why the artificial distinctions between the goals of Public Health and Medicine? A new Series in NEJM. https://t.co/K1vVSMfXiH
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The approaches and achievements of public health and clinical medicine are often framed as dichotomies — “prevention versus cure” or “individual versus population health.” But the two fields are ...
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Today’s Sydney paper and the implications of the UK policy malpractice for Australia https://t.co/iJ83dC4LTL
smh.com.au
Britain is opening up on Monday even as COVID numbers rise. Boris Johnson’s government appears to have chosen the path of recklessness.
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OpEd in Sydney Morning Herald https://t.co/2rHCEvFuFt Countries that did the right thing and closed borders will face some difficult adjustments unless close to 100% vaccinated...G7 leaders gave the finger to the rest of the world - it is going to be a long haul...
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David J Hunter is an Australian epidemiologist who is the Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Oxford University and a professor emeritus at Harvard University.
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If you are in the UK and you have been offered a vaccine but refused, please think again, especially if you are over 50. There is a lot of uncertainty about whether infections might go up for a bit, so now is the time to reconsider.
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Test, test, test. As long as income replacement and support is available for self-isolators and the data are available to local public health. https://t.co/cCLkz4xPn5
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The speed of LFTs make them an important part of the armoury, says epidemiology professor David Hunter
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Retweet if you think Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should resign immediately.
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This is Sarah Gilbert who oversaw the team who did the actual work in creating the Oxford vaccine. This is the woman who deserves credit today and our eternal gratitude. Not politicians in white coats. #COVID19
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Powerful new paper in @bmj_latest lays out strong evidence-based arguments for suppression/elimination strategies over the mitigation strategy presently failing across most of Canada.
bmj.com
Michael Baker and colleagues argue that aiming for elimination of community transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could offer important advantages over a suppression or mitigation strategy with...
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No Heath without a Health Workforce
We’re getting so tired of having to explain this. Beds don’t treat patients. Staff do. And there are not enough. Please RT if you know that one is useless without the other. https://t.co/bW840zA3Ia
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perspective in NEJM - optimism about vaccines but many months left before they will have an influence
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A coherent roadmap for COVID response in the UK
Our letter in the Lancet today- signed by 79 world-leading scientists - outlining key recommendations for a sustainable COVID-19 strategy within the UK. Thread. https://t.co/72m7Bp8yfd
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Another exciting #WCPG2020 day ahead. My highlights: 1.Plenary session with @DJHunter_EPI on ‘Polygenic risk score and Diseases’ 8am EDT / 1pm BST
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Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.
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