#Severe

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

We've got excess death data!U.S. deaths still appear to have reached "normalish" levels. High end of normal, of course. But in the universe of normal.However, cumulative excess deaths remain very

Kasper Planeta Kepp

KasperKepp

With many empirical studies now showing more modest effects of lockdowns vs. other NPIs, voluntary behavior, and other confounders, the original model concluding large effects is increasingly criticized, incl. a

Dr Michelle Kelly-Irving

shell_ki

The difficult choice of keeping schools open or not during lockdown is a social inequality & child welfare issue affecting life course trajectories in wellbeingA lot is at stake, so

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Labour’s abstention today is interesting. They should oppose as should all MPs. There’s no evidence of a public health crisis nor that one is imminent. Even early in winter, some

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ Rebuilding trust in democracy and our American government requires both holding seditious Republicans accountable and restoring the protective functions of government. Here’s what Democrats must do and why. (THREAD)

Tom Hancock

hancocktom

Writing this assessment of how the Trump's administration's trade war with China produced few clear wins provided a chance to read through some of the academic research on what happened.

disney was a mistake

aiukliAfrika

"DPRK starves their people" is a very popular meme among Western imperialists, but far too often when pressed on their understanding of the situation of food security in DPRK, it

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW: long overdue, I’ve updated our excess deaths data, expanding the list of countries to 30We have tracked 1.5 million excess deaths so far, considerably more than the 960k attributed

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Updated preprint: Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies by age and serostatus. Smart suggestions from formal/informal review mean that the paper still asks how demographics, contacts, vax efficacy, & seroprevalence a

Vince Holly

VinceHolly2

most of our ancestors come from Masonic backgrounds including a few of the signatures written on the Constitution. finding sources to back up claims of occultism within Freemasonry is the

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Interrupting your doomscrolling with more good news. As most had expected, the vaccines continue to work well against the new variants. Our problem remains producing enough of these amazing vaccines

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

I’m not sure if the significance of the travelling at Christmas is well understood.Kenney is thumbing his nose at Albertans. This is no ordinary thumbing. He’s basically letting Albertans know

BDW

BryanDeanWright

I’m at Day 10 following COVID diagnosis.So far, so good (though miserable).Here’s what I learned, and what I’m glad I did to make my sickness a little less awful &

Dave Harford

dharford79

Thread start...At 2.5 years old we noticed our son George had communication problems. There was nothing. The health visitor checked him over and confirmed she was also concerned about his

Pauline Deglume

PaulineDeglume

"Le juge habite Uccle et roule en SUV", c’est une "victoire du lobby voiture", "trop de lois ne protègent pas le peuple mais les privilèges de certains". Au-delà de ces

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

Why I hate the Conservative Party with a fiery passion and why you should too(CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, upsetting images of emaciated people) The Conservative's program of austerity since 2010 has

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