Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

I am often asked how it is that I can talk openly about my work & myself on here, without being afraid of negative feedback.

This is an important question, and the answer is: practice.

A short thread on how I’m learning to embrace critique and criticism.

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

@meralco Hi, sorry for the late reply. Power came back sometime while I was asleep. Thanks!

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

@meralco there's power outage in Sampaloc near UST. Is this part of the rotational brown out? If not, then I am reporting that there is an outage.

[Women in Statistics and Data Science @WomenInStat]

I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer.

[Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @KBibbinsDomingo]

Relationship advice & why to block those toxic people who send you WhatsApps in the middle of the night

PLUS

An #epitwitter lesson in collider stratification bias

Something for everyone in this useful 🧵 from @klts0

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

This is your irregular reminder that if you’re interested in reading a scientific paper but can’t access it online, send an email to the author & they will be more than happy to send you a free copy of the pdf.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Now, with all 3 of the leading Phase 3 vaccine trial protocols released, we can see their design, assumptions, endpoints and major differences. I've summarized those here and infections (events) in the short🧵below
https://t.co/fTlKiACI4X

[Miguel Hernán @_MiguelHernan]

Contact tracing of #COVID19 cases isn't working in many places.

Bad contact tracing is dangerous for 2 reasons.

The 1st one is obvious: If we don’t trace contacts, we miss infected individuals (many asymptomatic) who infect other people.

The 2nd reason should be obvious too.

[SER @societyforepi]

#Epidemiologists can help the community understand diagnostic test results and what this means for community transmission of #SARSCoV2. https://t.co/ibKi1fvFwE #Scicomm #diagnostictests #COVID19 #coronavirus

[UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics @UCSF_Epibiostat]

Scientists, share what you know on social media and in media interviews to help educate the public on #covid19. https://t.co/lNzF7FK3kq

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

In as much as we have up-to-date reporting, I wish our infographics would look like this. Let's actually see that curve flattening.

[Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @KBibbinsDomingo]

Hey Bay Area!! Thanks for all you are doing to keep yourself & our communities safe #Covid19

Look at the nice flat curves & declining hosp rates declining!! (orange=Bay Area, blue=CA)

This weekend is going to be beautiful - but please stay safe! #SocialDistance #MaskUp

[Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @KBibbinsDomingo]

Fascinating take on the Stanford seroprevalence study & network analysis on uptake to support political positions on reopening

A Study Said Covid Wasn’t That Deadly. The Right Seized It. https://t.co/vBQuGo4wgA

[Miguel Hernán @_MiguelHernan]

BREAKING NEWS: Preliminary results of Spain's seroprevalence study #ENECOVID.

>60,000 participants

Antibodies for #SARSCoV2:
5% of Spanish population
11% in region with highest incidence (Madrid)

So far from herd immunity in country with 2nd largest number of cases after U.S.

[Implementation Science @ImplementSci]

Mentored training and its association with dissemination and implementation research output: a quasi-experimental evaluation #ImpSci

https://t.co/GkZC9A9pmM

[UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics @UCSF_Epibiostat]

Epidemiology Grand Rounds REPLAY: https://t.co/T3zdQUFFJh

[Miguel Hernán @_MiguelHernan]

Conventional meta-analyses of #randomized trials lack a clear causal interpretation when
1. each trial is in a different population
2. the treatment effect varies across those populations

Here we propose steps toward causally interpretable #MetaAnalysis.
https://t.co/SZ4kX2hYgm

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

@algenegrace @rapplerdotcom PH coronavirus cases in maps and charts: What the data says

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

My first interview and true to form I advocate for better data collection so that sound data guide decisions. Thanks @rapplerdotcom for the opportunity and for such a well written article. #FilipinaEpiBiostat

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

@algenegrace @rapplerdotcom Can't paste the link. But it's out today.

[Dr. Maria Elizabeth Mercado @MEMercado489]

Will give out comments on COVID-19 situation in the Philippines in a while. I would like to thank my #USTFMSClinicalEpidemiology faculty seniors for the help in prep work and @UCSF_Epibiostat for the 2 year prep on these concepts. And @gelza for putting me up to this.