Epidemiology
The Basic Science of Public Health

Tell me you don’t understand epidemiology without telling me you don’t understand epi.

These might help:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/logic-critical-thinking-duke

Here, maybe this will help you understand: https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

I haven’t taken the course, but this free course looks excellent. Epidemiology is really worth studying, it’s an incredible field

Here's a freebie taught by UNC https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

Yeah - your source doesn’t contradict a single thing that I said. And no, my source didn’t assume a high rate with “no basis” - their results are literally pulled from quality assessments and field-based data.

And now you’re talking about a test developed in the first weeks of a pandemic with a novel virus. You conveniently (purposefully?) ignore the massive strides we’ve made in our understanding of and ability to detect COVID since then. The issue was detected rather quickly and those tests were recalled by mid-March, so, no, we weren’t using them for months: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/early-coronavirus-cdc-tests-distinguish-covid-water-2020-3%3Famp

Speaking of convenient, I also noticed how you shifted the conversation to be about testing after all of your BS mortality arguments fell through.

You seem genuinely invested in this topic - I’d recommend some basic Epi and infectious disease courses. These might help your understanding:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemics

Biostats: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/biostatistics-public-health

Epi: https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/professional-epidemiology

For Epi, the methods may not apply to you, as it's more focused in public health.. as you're focusing on Exposomics and Metabolomics (I actually had to look this up) it seems it's more biomedical focus. But most MPH and MSc in Epi take that intro to public health epi course.

You falsely equated COVID-19, virus that has killed millions in the last 15 months, to the common cold, which is mostly caused by rhinoviruses. My point stands.

In case you ever want to actually learn something about public health:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemics

https://www.coursera.org/lecture/health-protection/an-introduction-to-vaccines-e0X59

I did a lot of online review to prepare me for my Masters program, mostly through Coursera. They have a lot of great Biostats and Data Science courses:

Basic Statistics - University of Amsterdam

Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Statistical Reasoning for Public Health - Johns Hopkins University

Mathematical Biostatistics Bootcamp Johns Hopkins University

I don't know of any resources for developing your SPSS skills, but Datacamp helped me a ton with learning R.

The ones I found are on Coursera and are free if you don't want a certificate.

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https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/essentials-global-health?

Here are a few basic ones to lay down fundamentals . Plenty out there Have fun!

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/immunology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/sars-cov2-and-acute-respiratory-viral-infections

https://www.coursera.org/learn/methods-of-molecular-biology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemics?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/wgs-bacteria

https://www.coursera.org/learn/epidemiology

https://www.coursera.org/lecture/covid-19/intro-to-the-virology-of-covid-19-bjsa5

https://www.coursera.org/learn/covid-19-genome-assembly