David L Smith

malaria nerd, he/his

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@joel_c_miller It depends on whether the analysis is designed to answer questions about what we know or what we should do. What’s the point of the study? Who is the audience?

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

Please look at Figure 4:
https://t.co/7QW8mMa6p6

Drug resistance (mainly chloroquine, but SP too) were rising during the 1990s. Some people wanted to blame rising cases on temperature. Drug policy changed, temperature kept going up, but cases stopped rising. Do the math.

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

This article is infuriating. In particular, the discussion of the Kericho data and analysis of it. The salient point, ignored by the commentary, is that if you follow the data set a few years longer, temperature kept rising, but malaria cases didn't.

https://t.co/2RWHJaiubq

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@RandPaul Red for Russia?

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

I would like to announce that I have been studying Darmok in order to speak only through allegory.

I am freeing myself from the need to speak plainly ever again.

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

[Mark Suzman @MSuzman]

New data from @WHO and @UNICEF show promising signs of recovery in global vaccination rates. But this progress hasn’t happened equally around the world, with many low-income countries faring the worst. https://t.co/hnOmkOe0Bk

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Fredros_Inc @JahnRek I want to hear what Barbie says about her newfound fame @JahnRek

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Fredros_Inc Local knowledge and the local populations are the most underused resource at present, IMO.

It’s time to invest more in education and engaging politicians in the fight.

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Noahpinion Sort of like the nuclear winter generation?

We’ve been doing well enough, once we learned to love the bomb...

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Jo_Maths Sort of the nature of things…

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

Following @skunkcabbages because parasitic plants.

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@GYamey The Xe is pronounced like “sh” and the 2nd e is the short “i” as in ick

[Nadège Sonhafouo-Chiana @ChianaNadou]

#PhD Position on improving our understanding of global #Dengue transmission dynamics and building seasonal dengue forecast models at @lshtm @cmmid_lshtm with @OliverBrady1 @yangliubeijing

Duration: 3 years
Closing date: August 21st, 2023

#VBDs #Epidemiology #Modeling #Climate

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

Listening to RFK Jr is almost guaranteed to lower your intelligence.

His brain is a convoluted mess.

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@benlandautaylor Reminds me of…

https://t.co/wYWDWkrrJV

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Carlos_Chaccour @alt_dave_smith @JuanCGabaldon Why not delete this tweet

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Carlos_Chaccour @alt_dave_smith @JuanCGabaldon You think a cluster of cases in a high resource setting is evidence that eradicating vivax is impossible.

I think that’s not attentive to history.

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Carlos_Chaccour @alt_dave_smith @JuanCGabaldon Now do Singapore…

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Carlos_Chaccour @alt_dave_smith @JuanCGabaldon Make an argument that these cases threaten progress in some real way, and I might be convinced.

Otherwise, I think that they must be seen, as I’ve said, in their context as quite ordinary.

Since vivax keeps failing to reestablish, over decades, here & elsewhere…

[David L Smith @ProfDavidLSmith]

@Carlos_Chaccour @alt_dave_smith @JuanCGabaldon I can’t see why you believe that.