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Math Epi, infectious diseases at National Taiwan University College of Public Health
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An interesting title with "China and its provinces" doi.org/10.1016/S221... Although it assumes some external provinces, they are not part of the study: all analysis is about PRC and two SARs.

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Interersting and important study of Chang et al on pregnancy and associated severe injuries during the car crashes based on Taiwan data (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Severe injuries: adjusted odds ratio, aOR = 1.79, 95 % CI = 1.54–2.08) and mild injuries: aOR = 8.63, 95 % CI = 8.21–9.07)

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I don't understand this kind of reviews. Are people kind of not ashamed to submit just one paragraph of a summary for the review?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Recently, we published a comment on 2022 Sudan virus outbreak in Uganda www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The study estimated the (constant) effective reproduction number Rt at 1.25. We have investigated a time-varying Rt, highlighting that its temporary variation can also provide important messages

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

When I received the automatic reply that the person was out of office for some time, but then they wrote "Your message will not be processed". Is it kind of a new fashion [in Europe]? :/

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, the news in Independent about the largest outbreak of TB in Kanzas, but the article states that TB has two different strains: active TB and latent TB. But they are definitely not two strains, and latent TB may progress to active TB... :/ www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

新年快樂！🎉

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, so the cumulative excess mortality due to COVID-19 is at highest in Russia, Belarus, and Balkan republics as of July 2024 according to Cowling and Wong (doi.org/10.1007/978-...)

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Another example when Taiwan with its 23-million population is simply excluded from the statistical data

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

In our recent paper, we showed that the incubation period of mpox infections for the 2022 global outbreak and historical data were quite close to each other (8.1 vs. 8.2 days). However, the incubation period for clade I was relatively shorter than for clade II (7.3 vs 8.9 days).

submitted 262 days ago • 1 comment

Today I was told that patients with advanced liver cancer would never be cancer-free, so their only one solution is to control the tumor.

submitted 309 days ago • 0 comments

My first post in ProMED :)

submitted 322 days ago • 0 comments

It's of great pleasure to be a part of joint effort on trying to clarify some challenging aspects for estimating epi time intervals of infectious diseases. The project mostly led and mostly realized by Sang Woo Park and Sam Abbott (@seabbs.bsky.social) - many thanks!

submitted 486 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting, a study from HK: "We calculated percentages of asymptomatic cases of 41.8% among reported SARS-CoV-2 infections and 72.1% (95% CrI 70.8%–73.0%) among total (reported and unreported) infections."

submitted 493 days ago • 0 comments