COVID-19 Has Never Been Less Of A Problem Than It Is Today Some good news for the start of the year.

COVID-19 has never been less of a problem than it is today.

A piece inspired by @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social

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Et problem i epidemiologien til antibiotikaresistens er å regne ut hvor mange som dør av selve resistensen. Det kan være viktig å følge med på. Her bygger vi videre på tidligere forsøk og lar oss inspirere av moderne metoder for å beregne en sånn overdødelighet. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...

Researcher with statistical competence in causal inference for infectious disease The Section for Modelling and Bioinformatics, in the Department of Method Development and Analytics, is recruiting a researcher for a permanent position. In our Section we develop mathematical and sta...

We are looking for someone to join our team to work on statistics and causal inference for infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institue of Public Health.

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Researcher with statistical competence in causal inference for infectious disease The Section for Modelling and Bioinformatics, in the Department of Method Development and Analytics, is recruiting a researcher for a permanent position. In our Section we develop mathematical and sta...

We are looking for someone to join our team to work on statistics and causal inference for infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institue of Public Health.

945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

This is a retrospective analysis of a method developed during the pandemic. By combing estimates from many different surveillance indicators we got a better holistic understanding of the overall trend and could more easily correct for biases in individual surveillance indicators.

Figure describing the growth rate from 10 different surveillance indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway

We have published a paper where we estimated the growth rate of COVID-19 in Norway by combining data from 10 different surveillance indicators.

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I can't help but wonder how much of the strange Superstitious Skinnerian pigeon-dancing scientists have started doing in response to the replication crisis could be alleviated if we altered the targets of our inference to mechanistic insight over crude estimands and whether they're not zero.