@gregggonsalves Here in Germany we have a lack of great epidemiologists in general. Not only on Mastodon.

@Veiel @gregggonsalves To be honest, those are the Twitter comments I haven't missed on Mastodon so far. I come from a radiation and cancer research background and don't really see the problem there. But since I know your specialist includes an infectious disease epidemiologist, why do you see a problem there? I do have a specific opinion on that, but I would be interested in your opinion. #Epidemiology #Epidemiologie

@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves I had prepared an answer to your first question, but you deleted it. I don't want to bother you with comments you haven't missed on Twitter.

@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves And probably I should have specified that I was talking about ID epidemiology.

@Veiel @gregggonsalves I had noticed that my question was also written in Twitter style. I like this here so much better than Twitter. I have to admit that I enjoyed the garbage there, but it just doesn't do any good to talk to you followers and not talking with each other.

@Veiel @gregggonsalves Yes, I understand with infectious disease epidemiologists in Germany your opinion. We have the RKI and the HZI in Braunschweig and after that I can't think of any infection epidemiologist outside of tropical medicine at any university.

@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves There are good scientists in ID epidemiology both at RKI and HZI, but there is no leader who navigates us through the pandemic. Maybe Gérard Krause has the potential, but either he hasn't been heard by the public or he didn't speak loud enough.