Professor of Demography @UMontreal. Director of the Research Group on Aboriginal Demography. Member of the WHO/UN TAG one COVID-19 mortality assessment.
Joined October 2017
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9 Sep 2022
Our paper on "Comparing COVID-19 fatality across countries: a synthetic demographic indicator" is out! rdcu.be/cUIKU
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
12 Sep 2022
In “Who Matters Most?”—by Yacine Boujija, Simona Bignami (@profSBVA), Valerie Delaunay & John Sandberg—the authors examine how networks shape internal migration flows from rural villages to Dakar, Senegal, with a focus on tie strength & social capital.
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
3 Jun 2022
Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82% | Reuters reuters.com/world/europe/ita…
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7 May 2022
Always important to remember what excess mortality measures, and what it does not. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle…
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
9 Apr 2022
« Past research for previous waves shows that COVID does spread through schools, and it’s not just a reflection of COVID prevalence in the community,” Bignami said this week. “Especially when public measures are inadequate — @profSBVA montrealgazette.com/news/sch…
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
22 Feb 2022
Décision surprenante dans le contexte
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17 Feb 2022
I completely agree.
17 Feb 2022
Canada’s omicron (b1) wave is heading to the finish line. That’s great, but we’re wasting an opportunity to make this wave our last by using vaccines, clean air and testing.
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
17 Feb 2022
The Moral Danger of Declaring the Pandemic Over Too Soon: « What would it mean to move into a future in which a common fate mattered as much as our own? It would mean no one was disposable. » says @gregggonsalves nytimes.com/2022/02/17/opini…
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
16 Feb 2022
My major concern: abandoning all public health/safety efforts, because of "endemic delusion", is essentially rolling out the red carpet for the next big surge (followed, of course, by the "we didn't see this coming" response).
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9 Feb 2022
Amen.
9 Feb 2022
Public health policies should be based on science and equity. Not political focus groups.
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Dr Simona Bignami retweeted
9 Feb 2022
The end of mask mandates while new cases remain this high is as much politics as it is public health. And it is probably more of the former.
Upgrade your masks, at least for a few more weeks while cases come down further. Getting infected right now is not inevitable.
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6 Feb 2022
“If we continue to treat Omicron’s transmissibility as an intractable problem that makes infection inevitable, we are accepting that, without a scientific silver bullet that so far doesn’t exist, we may be stuck in this pandemic indefinitely.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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3 Feb 2022
IMPORTANT from @NEJM: "Omicron is nearly as severe as Delta for cases that both would infect. Due to infecting more vaccinated and prior infected individuals, which have milder cases, it seems that it is milder, but is more severe."
3 Feb 2022
Review: Intrinsic Severity of Omicron: Hospitalization rate is 75% of Delta: "meaningful but fairly small difference"
@roby_bhatt @BillHanage
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