Jenn Dowd
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Prof. Demography & Population Health @UniofOxford @OxfordDemSci. Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, COVID-19. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
London & Oxford, England
Joined December 2008
1/ “Historically, no one lived past age 35.” Somewhere, a demographer hears this & dies a little bit inside. #demography #mortality #aging #lifeexpectancy
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Allow OneDrive to share that notifications are silenced?" This innocent Mac notification just revealed Microsoft's entire surveillance playbook. 🧵
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1/ “Historically, no one lived past age 35.” Somewhere, a demographer hears this & dies a little bit inside. #demography #mortality #aging #lifeexpectancy
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Can COVID infections really re-awaken cancer? A recent study generated a lot of scary headlines for cancer survivors. In reality, the human data presented provides no evidence of a link between COVID and reactivation of cancer. https://t.co/mRWPMZvNZF
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Certainly an encouraging trend, but can you provide confidence intervals for these estimates, @Gallup? ("Statistically meaningful" isn't very helpful...)
After peaking at a record high of 39.9% in 2022, the U.S. adult obesity rate has gradually declined to 37.0% in 2025. This is a statistically meaningful decrease representing an estimated 7.6 million fewer obese adults compared with three years ago.
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Are the cardiovascular benefits of GLP-1s just a result of losing weight? Probably not--a recent study suggests a significant portion of risk reduction is independent of weight loss.
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A Surprising Link Between Mono and MS | Psychology Today
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For decades, experts have suspected that Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), known for causing mononucleosis, might also be involved in triggering multiple sclerosis (MS). Recent research strongly supports...
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Happy World Menopause Day! Women's earnings can take hit during menopause, but hot flashes need not necessarily turn into a loss of cold hard cash. #menopause #WorldMenopauseDay
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At this rate, the total number of prompts put into ChatGPT this *YEAR* will still be less than the total number of searches on Google *TODAY*. And today is a Saturday. I had a really interesting conversation with the head of growth for a Fortune 500 company this week. She said,
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Bonjour Paris! 🇫🇷🗼 The #HMDsymposium2025 ✨Growing divergences in longevity in high-income populations✨ starts today, and we are looking forward to two days of inspiring presentations, posters, and vibrant scientific exchange. #poptwitter #epitwitter #Longevity
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“The loss of any life is tragic. No SPOG member uses deadly force unless it is absolutely necessary to protect lives and safeguard the community.” - Mike Solan, President Seattle Police Officers Guild.
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1/ TL:DR: With our health, “stuff happens” every day. But in science, coincidence is not the same as causation. To separate out a real signal from background noise, we look for whether an adverse event is happening above and beyond normal baseline rates.
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If you're not a #DataForHealth from @drjenndowd subscriber, then what are you even doing?? #StayCurious
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Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear: ➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19. ➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted. #rfkjunior #COVID19
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Please make the time to read this thoughtful post on understanding how we can know about mortality from COVID from @drjenndowd. [chef's kiss] https://t.co/f0SF6NCmOh
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