A new study led by Department of Population Medicine w/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, U of U Sociology, Boston Children's, & Columbia Nursing collaborators found premature death higher among sexual minority women than their heterosexual peers.

Findings are online now in JAMA: buff.ly/3UvUx6E

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Very important to note here that qPCR positives are not the same as 'virus particles.' It's much easier to detect viral RNA by qPCR than it is to detect infectious virus or intact virus particles (as the article correctly notes).

This finding does have some big implications:

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There’s a bit of a twist, though! It turns out if you’re doing *deterministic* imputation you should NOT include the outcome in the imputation model, with stochastic imputation methods you must!

doi.org/10.1177/096228…

Curious why statisticians recommend including the outcome in your imputation models? Check out our new paper in Statistical Methods in Medical Research! Sarah Lotspeich (She/Her), Staci Hepler, and I show with some simple mathematical derivations why this is really a requirement!

I just listened the amazing podcast of Casual Inference Podcast with Mark van der Laan on target learning.

For all my #EconTwitter friends, listen to it!

The discussion about estimand, causal gap, and the entire enterprise is just so clean and 💡💡🤌🤌🤌

Really great!

casualinfer.libsyn.com/targeted-learn…

Casual Inference Podcast Dr Ellie Murray, ScD And of course the winning cookie — Epi textbooks! Ingrid shared these were vanilla cookies with piped icing…YUM 🤤 Thank you Sarah B. Andrea, PhD, MPH for organizing this each year!

🎙️ On this week’s episode of Casual Inference, Dr Ellie Murray, ScD and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Ingrid Giesinger, our #EpiCookieChallenge winner, about her career and the many paths to epidemiology!

Listen on your favorite podcast app!

Cool, how many self-identified non-experts are confidently correcting me in my mentions today. Almost feels like old twitter 😆😆

“it’s just semantics” as if the entire point and purpose of using words is to convey some specific and particular meaning to other people.

Of course it’s just semantics! Why else are we talking??

Another term like this is “endemic” which people often incorrectly assumed meant “end of the pandemic” instead of its real meaning “consistently and continuously present”.

What other technical words have this feature?

The comments here make me wonder how many US Catholics are aware that a lot of evangelicals don't see them as Christian. And it makes me wonder if knowing that might make Catholics less willing to align themselves with evangelicals politically.

As we round out #BlackMaternalHealthWeek ,
I want to remind us all of a role our society plays in maternal deaths. We teach people to go to work/school and push through their pain. We teach young kids to ignore their bodies signals and prioritize productivity over health.

'A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing'

14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates have been moved up in priority on the transplant list after a biased race-correction factor was eliminated.

apnews.com/article/kidney…

Y’all, I just went to open Duolingo after kinda a while and why does my icon look like this, omg?!😆