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| bio | website | confounding.net |
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| location | United States | |
| age | 29 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | 15 hours ago | |
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Infectious disease epidemiology doctoral student with a focus on the intersection of mathematical models of disease transmission and observational study methods - how observational studies can be used to parameterize models, and how models can help develop targets for observational study. Has a known, documented fondness for enteric pathogens.
Fluent in SAS, good enough in R, barely hanging on in Python and C.
Also the author of Confounded by Confounding, a blog of public health, statistics, and life as a graduate student.
Currently trying to get the 'Public Health and Epidemiology' SE site off the ground: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/34565/public-health-epidemiology
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Mar 5 |
answered | Is there a strong reason to be sceptical about the “cured HIV patient” being reported by mainstream media? |
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Mar 5 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Mar 5 |
reviewed | Close Types of bacteria that will kill other types of bacteria? |
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Jan 15 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Jan 4 |
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Is it possible that the recipient of a heart transplant would display some of the donor's personality traits, as if the heart has memories? Alternately, they could be lied to about who their donor "was" to see if they manifest the memories and feelings of a 22 year old woman when their donor was actually a 35 year old man. Though I'm pretty sure an IRB would clobber that too. |
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Jan 3 |
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Are there people cured of HIV by means of HAART? @RoryM Indeed - a drug-based 'cure' for HIV is hardly a finding that would go under the radar. |
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Jan 3 |
answered | Are there people cured of HIV by means of HAART? |
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Dec 20 |
answered | Can paper/plastic currency serve as a medium for pathogens? |
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Dec 15 |
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Vaccination and population dynamics of an epidemic Yes, that's correct. |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Dec 11 |
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Vaccination and population dynamics of an epidemic You should ensure that the basic reproductive number for your Finland model is capable of sustaining an epidemic without vaccination. |
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Nov 22 |
awarded | Critic |
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Sep 17 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Sep 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 16 |
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How is duration of efficacy estimated for vaccines? Added information about viral evolution |
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Sep 16 |
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How is duration of efficacy estimated for vaccines? I've added some details to my answer. Your answer doesn't particularly conflict, its just asking about a subtly different process. |
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Aug 23 |
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Does making yogurt from non-pasteurized milk work against possible disease bacteria? @nico And you have not established that there are not. I pointed to a raw milk outbreak in Finland less than a month ago. There are others - your perception that they're aren't any doesn't necessarily mesh with reality. But foodborn outbreaks have to be very large to get much press, and raw milk products, even in Europe, aren't big enough to command that kind of attention. Also steak tartare has a very different pathogenic risk profile to hamburger meat ;) |
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Aug 23 |
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Does making yogurt from non-pasteurized milk work against possible disease bacteria? @nico As to the Slow Food page, while I have some issues with it overall, whether or not raw milk is good 'on the whole' was not the question - the question was whether raw milk yogurt would represent a new positive prevention for disease bacteria. I'd argue that the weight of the evidence for that is still firmly "no". |
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Aug 23 |
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Does making yogurt from non-pasteurized milk work against possible disease bacteria? @nico I very much doubt there's a genetic component - the time scale we're talking about between the divergence from raw milk to widespread pasteurization is quite short. Odds are that people in France simply accept the risk, in the same way people in the U.S. accept the risk of say, medium/medium-rare hamburger. |
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Aug 23 |
awarded | Commentator |
