Scientist. Math epidemiologist. Healthcare consultant
Boston, MA
Joined April 2013
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Oscar Patterson retweeted
My latest post on Medium: "Anthropomania: The Eighth Capital Sin of Obsessing Over People and Humanity" medium.com/@GomezLievano/ant…
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New research by @GomezLievano & @OPatterson4 develops a model for how individuals combine their #knowhow with the collective #knowhow of the city in which they work, to generate outputs in urban activities of varying complexity. growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/pu…
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New science, society and policy article in #RSOS - Estimating the drivers of #urban #EconomicComplexity and their connection to economic performance: ow.ly/rXlC50GhLIB @GomezLievano @OPatterson4 #OpenAccess
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I’m very happy to *finally* see our paper out in @RSocPublishing with @OPatterson4
royalsocietypublishing.org/d… on estimating #Urban #EconomicComplexity measures, from a simple probabilistic model of #cities and straightforward regression analysis (1/10 🧵)
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Vaccine safety: We compared excess adverse events after #COVID19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech) and after documented #SARSCoV2 infection.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Take-home message: Low excess risk of adverse events after vaccination, higher after infection.
Some thoughts👇
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How not to talk about vaccines:
Only half the population is vaccinated, and anti-vaxxers are to blame. Vaccines are safe and effective.
A better option:
Over 160M Americans are fully vaccinated. Yes, vaccines have risks, but COVID poses greater risk.
adamgrant.bulletin.com/56825…
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What are best approaches to testing to safely reopen schools & keep offices / workplaces safe? What options do businesses & schools have. Why rapid vs lab-based test?
I gave a short talk to Massachusetts legislators on precisely this. Watch here:
youtu.be/R4tUV8eYVaU
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An early warning approach to monitor COVID-19 activity with multiple digital traces in near real time. Great collaboration with an outstanding scientific team advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
Coauthors include: @nkiocgoalne @SKNKsmash P Liautaud, J Kaashoek, @NicholasLink10 ...
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New preprint on estimating and Interpreting vaccine efficacy trial results for infection and transmission | medRxiv. With @rebeccajk13. Long discussion on applications to observational VE studies medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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A balanced discussion of the controversy surrounding rapid antigen tests for #COVID19.
Simply put - it shouldn't be a controversy. PCR & Rapid Ag tests can have different uses. Ag a test for infectiousness. PCR a test for current or recent infection.
bioworld.com/articles/503784…
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Happy administration is pushing for rapid tests
But we also need scaling of inexpensive $5 or less tests that can scale to millions per day if we want to make any dent on transmission
We need the inexpensive ones that can scale like Innova to be authorized
Ppl are dying...
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Brilliant short video on rapid antigen tests and their use for public health testing as compared to PCR - which - I feel - should be reserved for clinical diagnostic testing.
By @aatishb youtube.com/watch?v=IZ_8b_Yd…
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Honestly @US_FDA @CDCgov
HOW have we FAILED to get frequent rapid testing out?!
•The science & plans are there
•All you've given is pushback
Almost 5 months ago I wrote:
"So we're not looking back 5 months from now wishing we acted"
PLEASE ACT NOW!
@ASMicrobiology @APHL
This doesn’t look good and doesn’t bode well if anyone is expecting #COVID19 to just sort of... hopefully... maybe... disappear.
Unlikely.
What we should have done five months ago and didn’t... let’s do that today so we’re not looking back 5 months from now wishing we acted
Oscar Patterson retweeted
Our latest peer-reviewed research, published today in @ScienceMagazine
We examined the coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic, finding that recent, high-quality science is being heard, but rather unevenly.
science.sciencemag.org/conte…
#ScienceOfScience
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Oscar Patterson retweeted
If we wanted to get serious vs B.1.1.7
—get N95/K95 masks to all and enforce their use
—get rapid home testing big supply to each household for daily use
—amp up digital, mobility, genomic and wastewater surveillance 100X
—vaccinate 24/7 like it's an emergency. Because it is.
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New requirements mandate -ve #COVID19 test within 3 days of flying to US
Have we learned nothing?
Cannot stop transmission by asking for tests a full 3 days before
Much better to use a rapid test at gate
Can be Antigen or RNA... but must be rapid.
washingtonpost.com/local/tra…
Fantastic podcast by @lexfridman & @michaelmina_lab on a wide range of relevant topics, from importance of rapid testing to mitigate Covid19, the (absurdly bureaucratic) tension bw clinical regulators & pub health, to the meaning of it all podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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If the state of a #ComplexSystem (a city) is represented in a network as occupying some nodes, can one quantify movement through the network? @mikk_c @FrankNeffke J. McNerney and I answer this question in our new paper tinyurl.com/y345lsut "The NVD Problem in Complex Networks"
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Rapid tests can slow #COVID19 by Xmas!
If we act TODAY to get simple paper strip tests made / into the mail: to use at home, frequently, privately, voluntarily
Meet the people where they are
Read the plan I wrote in @TIME to get America back on track
@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris
"If we act today, widespread and frequent rapid antigen testing could allow us to see our loved ones, go back to school and work, and travel — all before Christmas," writes Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) ti.me/3kEGOoM