Inside Medicine -- Data Snapshot: Are we overcounting Covid-19 deaths? No. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/data-snapsho…

Question for #EpiTwitter: Have you ever written to a journal editor to refute another reviewers comments and ask them to give a paper a chance? I reviewed an excellent paper and the editor rejected it due to another reviewer’s methodologically incorrect takes. Thoughts?

It's not often that a presentation at CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices earns an ovation But this week, a late afternoon session reflecting on the impact of the varicella vaccine ended in applause cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…

On this last day of heart month, there is still time to commit to learning CPR! Whether you choose in person training or an online course with active practice modules, they can teach you how to save a life. #HeartMonth #CPRwithHeart

Hey #epitwitter give me your best “correlation ne causation” and “association ne causation” memes! Preferably with animals!!! Causal inference jokes also appreciated. By me. Maybe not as much by my students. 😁

Public health is not the same as a bunch of individual health. That's it. That's the tweet.

The argument that children getting exposed to viruses at a young age reduces severity in adults ignores the U-shaped mortality curve for most infectious diseases, where mortality is higher in under 5s.🧵

Remember that every single dollar of profit made by an insurance company is a "healthcare dollar" that provided precisely zero healthcare. We are paying insurance companies to gatekeep us from healthcare services and charge us big premiums. And we're paying them well.

In these final days of #MaternalHealthWeek, I will share my story. I met my baby when he was 36 hours old. (Pic of our first meeting below) The lines from the children's book "Are you my mother" kept ringing in my ear as I wonder what my son thought those 36 hrs before we met.

Scientific journals: I’m begging you! Do NOT make me log in to decline a reviewer invitation!!! Even more, do NOT make me an account with a username that looks like a secure password, or make me fill in the author reg details before I can tell you I’m not available right now.

🆕: This statement identifies promising opportunities & innovative or practical approaches to effectively & systematically bridge implementation gaps in clinical environments & advance population-level management of obesity. ✍🏽@mcarnethon Chris Longenecker, MD Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin Fatima Cody Stanford MD MPH MPA MBA FAAP FACP FAHA

I am so excited to be joining MHRI MedStar Health Research as Scientific Director of Population Health Research! I can’t wait to start new collaborations and find more opportunities to make a difference and improve health with this wonderful team!

If you have a leadership job, then you also have a kindness job. Yes, there is work to get done and goals to meet. But we also have a responsibility to leverage our authority and decision making capability to uphold human dignity.