Preventive medicine and public health expert Dr David Katz on Real Time with Bill Maher: https://youtu.be/Lze-rMYLf2E
Also shares interesting views about his experiences as a volunteer physician in Bronx hospitals
Preventive medicine and public health expert Dr David Katz on Real Time with Bill Maher: https://youtu.be/Lze-rMYLf2E
Also shares interesting views about his experiences as a volunteer physician in Bronx hospitals
https://worldisraelnews.com/back-to-school-australian-study-suggests-kids-arent-corona-spreaders/
Interesting that the retort from another academic, criticising the study, also included this: “Is this the work of some politician somewhere who doesn’t like their own kids and don’t want them at home? I don’t know.” Well, obviously she doesn’t know, because it’s a rhetorical question she made up to add rhetorical force to her (perfectly reasonable) critique, and to personally attack the authors of the study by suggesting they are politically motivated. Scientists should leave this sort of junk to the politicians, except where they actually do know.
And you have to ask what would have happened if there had been no filming.
https://m.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/pics-protest-over-food-parcels-erupts-in-johannesburg-20200428
You know it’s real when people protest in bad weather (seriously, it’s a real factor in turnout, as anyone who has tried to organise a protest will attest)
‘Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not’ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext ‘School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review’
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5, P397-404, MAY 01, 2020
https://unherd.com/2020/04/which-epidemiologist-do-you-believe/
And as well as asking this, he provides a nice analysis. “…right in spirit, wrong on numbers” is something that I’ve tried to account for in my model of good epidemiological prediction. In no other field of knowledge besides forecasting do we so easily accept accuracy to indicate knowledge. In no other field do we suffer so severely from a lack of tools to distinguish knowledge from lucky guess. Now we are seeing that I think.