Continue to Wear Masks Despite Being Vaccinated...

[OhioChick]

87. It's a Little Stronger Than Advice...

Since you have such a lack of understanding of who plays what role in the practices of evidence based medicine. I'll just state the facts as a response to your nonsense.

Infectious disease physicians and epidemiologists are closely related, but they are not the same. Infectious disease doctors specialize in infectious disease medicine, which is a subspecialty of internal medicine. These physicians treat patients and help prevent, diagnose and treat diseases caused by a variety of pathogens, including; bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Most infectious disease specialists have additional knowledge in the areas of immunology, epidemiology and infection control.

They use their knowledge of epidemiology and clinical syndromes to make decisions about managing patients. This knowledge often saves lives because treatments can be started before patients become deathly ill. Often the infectious disease specialist is the first to notify the epidemiologist that a new disease is spreading in a community.

The role of an epidemiologist is a bit different. Some epidemiologists are also infectious disease medical doctors, while many epidemiologists have doctors of public health degrees and work outside of a clinical setting. Epidemiologists look at the big picture, using outbreak investigation methods and extremely large amounts of data to isolate the root cause of a disease. They are crucial in guiding communities to effective disease prevention. When it comes to epidemiology, it is the community that’s being "treated" or "studied" to reduce the total outbreaks of illness.

Epidemiology is the study of the cause and distribution of diseases and health conditions in specific populations. Epidemiologists use scientifically based, systematic data analysis to determine what is causing health problems within a studied community or region.

Infectious disease epidemiology includes the study of diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, food-borne illness and diarrheal pathogens, among others. It also includes research related to the development and evaluation of vaccines. Epidemiologists focus their efforts on how to stop it from spreading and prevent another outbreak or incident of the disease.

Both infectious disease physicians and epidemiologist are scientists, because they both are guided by the scientific method in the jobs they perform. Infectious disease physicians utilize the results of the data provided by epidemiology to treat individual patients in accordance to a method that will satisfy the needs of the overall community. For instance, a family medicine doctor would treat a patient with XR confirmed aspiration pneumonia with a specific type, dose and duration of oral antibiotics. This is not because he knows exactly the antibiotic will function and how long it will take to effectively eliminate the bacteria. The reason is because others have performed the studies to provide the physician with the best course of treatment. A duration too short, will produce antibiotic resistant bacteria strains, and will further complicate the patients outcome. These are from rigorous peer reviewed cohort studies, conducted and published by epidemiologists and pharmacologists.