#EPIDEMIC

Edouard Mathieu

redouad

When it comes to vaccination, data reporting and accountability, France wins the award for most absurd situation: for 2 weeks people at the Ministry of Health have privately sent the

Craig Mauger

CraigDMauger

This includes the state’s hospital association giving $5,000 to Senate Leader Mike Shirkey in December as he publicly pushed against an order the association said was necessary to prevent capacity

Sarah Jackson 💙

DrSarahEJackson

Are e-cigarettes causing an epidemic of youth nicotine addiction?Thread summarising results from our new paper in @AddictionJrnl https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.154031/8 The US has seen a marked increase in the prevalence of

Kelly Hills

rocza

Wait. WAIT. #bioweapons twitter - am I the only person who didn't know someone tried to assassinate Abe Lincoln with yellow fever?! And that the rest of DC was just

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Although the US is continuing to hit records for daily #COVID19 cases reported, the rate of exponential growth has slowed. Mortality is still catching up to increased case loads and

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

This thread from December pointed out that convenience samples are not suitable for any but the coarsest estimates of prevalence, and that the popularity of a prevalence study like this

Pratip Chattopadhyay

pratweetc

@washingtonpost @nytimes @maggieNYT @PhilipRucker Reading through Bannon's indictment, and the list of accounts (34i) holding the fake charity money is curious. One of the account holders is an organization called

Síle Ginnane

sileginnane

THREAD: Let's talk about agendas.Throughout this pandemic, we have been guided, quite rightly, by our public health officials. Most people understand the science and logic behind their advice, and they

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

I know I speak for everyone in saying how much I hate this pandemic. But I hate this pandemic more than I've ever hated anything. I've been lucky. Obviously, I

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

In the UK, as in other parts Europe we are at an inflexion point in #COVID19 pandemic.Transmission & new cases of infection have increased. Social restrictions of the last 4mths

The Hans Scholl Liberation Front

uTobian

Autism is an epidemic. The first autism prevalence study (Treffert, 1970) showed an autism rate of less than 1 in 10,000 kids. Today the autism rate in the U.S. in

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

#Variants. Thread. Aside- as they really seem to behave clinically differently, maybe we should call them strains? Anyway,also looking forward to naming conventions as it’s really inefficient to say B.1.1.7.

raj

internetraj

1/ Let me tell you a story about how the Singapore government handled Covid-19. 2/ When cases and local transmission began to steadily rise, we had a strict, two-month-long, country-wide

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Incredibly valuable reporting on how COVID spread across the US and opportunities we missed to slow it. So much we all should take away from this. 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-spread.html?action=click&modul

Jim McManus OCDS

jimmcmanusph

several folk today said ”covid isnt a pandemic, WHO cant declare a pandemic, this is only an epidemic and legal measures illegitimate.” Several fellow DsPh have been asked this too.

TFW your hand is a cactus

pockysquirrel

I had to reframe my expectations for Kamen Rider Black, and it's amazing the difference it's already made in my enjoyment of the show. And that gave me a theory

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