When a scientific paper is immediately covered in lay media, you can almost guarantee a lot of incorrect takes. When a new paper comes out on any hotly debated topic, you are bound to see strong opinions lacking almost any nuance. The only thing that is somewhat strange about the […]
airborne transmission
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For some reason, masks seem to provoke very strong opinions in medicine. Despite being one of the closest things we have to parachutes – devices so simple and obvious that RCT evidence may not even be needed – people lament the lack of evidence, and mistakenly translate the paucity of […]
I have already written at length about the mechanism of transmission of COVID-19. Based on basic science and the transmission of other viruses, such as influenza, it was easy to predict in early 2020 that COVID-19 would spread through the airborne route. As more super-spreader events occurred, and more data […]
Took a quick break from paternity leave to have a chat with my good friend Casey Parker, which of course meant we were going to talk about some evidence based medicine. I will go back to not doing academic work for a while, but for now here is that hit […]