Renee Wurth, PhD

Population researcher #responsibletech #healthequity PhD @Northeastern postdoc @HarvardChanSPH, scientist @fitbiomics, write @guardian

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

@kcolbin @timfblogger I wrote this piece about how Wuhan has already shown us what to do https://t.co/icrKQq6hr6

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

3 of 5 stars to Recursion by Blake Crouch https://t.co/lORw2eozeF

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

Marked as to-read: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt https://t.co/plgeW9X7iT

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

5 of 5 stars to The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman https://t.co/IyWB750qgV

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

3 of 5 stars to Vladimir by Julia May Jonas https://t.co/wLQQBvmWMM

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

4 of 5 stars to Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr https://t.co/nCD8OsZ3CQ

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

1. Turning this into a thread.

[Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch]

Reupping this. Existing vaccines may well have been unable to get us to the herd immunity threshold before the variants made things harder. Now more unlikely. But if we can identify (hard) and vaccinate (harder) the most vulnerable it will make continued spread less destructive.

[London Breed @LondonBreed]

San Francisco's COVID-19 reproductive rate is back under 1, at 0.99!

That means for every person who gets COVID-19, on average they're passing it to less than one other person. We're slowing the spread.

If this continues, we could soon start reopening under CA's guidelines.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

I see this argument all the time from tech people: Building gargantuan AI models may be computationally, environmentally, and financially costly. But if those models then go on to solve cancer, isn't that on balance better for the world?

NOOOO.

A thread.

[Herman Saksono (he/him) @hermansaksono]

“It takes strength to admit you don’t know everything.”

[Michael Lee @MrMichaelLee]

Did Colin Sexton really cook Kyrie in a pair of Kyries?

[Mission Local @MLNow]

San Francisco and its big health care providers pledge to vaccinate every city resident by June 30.
https://t.co/msbQw6Pqez

[London Breed @LondonBreed]

The first of these sites will be ready to go next week, as long as we receive a sufficient supply of vaccines from the state.

Starting Tuesday, you can sign up to get notified when you’re eligible at: https://t.co/dLLoXHFvnf

[Herman Saksono (he/him) @hermansaksono]

In our correspondence article in Nature, @rwurth and I argued how medicine and technology must reckon with historical racism or else we run the risk of the vaccine worsening the #COVID19 pandemic disparity. https://t.co/6uyHJHJVIR

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

@zeynep “The art of slacking”

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

@SteveLohr Yes on 1 and 4, not so much on the rest of the article. Hard skills are still not designed to provide sustainable upward mobility. AI and re-skilling are not moving towards equitable work.

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

@DumiLM Bay Area could use this. As well as what is open vs closed for physical activities. Public basketball hoops are literally dismantled but tennis courts and ski resorts are open 🤔

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

@niloufar_s Do well put. It feels like a very tech response (aka missing the bigger picture)

[Renee Wurth, PhD @rwurth]

@emilymbender @timnitGebru its very fortunate that this fateful paper included you as an author-- as you could shine light on the ethical issues of having a company be allowed to veto research done by their employees (on a topic about ethics)