#Covid

Neil Before Zod™

WaytowichNeil

I have finally realized the main differences between my ideology and that of Canadian conservatives. Conservatives see poverty as a personal failure, I see it as a societal failure. They

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

As with so many acute severe infectious diseases it is a delicate balancing act - the immune response is both essential & part of the problem.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/04/scientists-study-whether-immune-response-wards

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Demand for #COVID19 vaccines will outstrip supply for a while. This will be the case in all countries, and could last for years, if not indefinitely so, globally. As such,

Kiran Kumbhar

kikumbhar

What I wish to convey is that in the post-Covid world, India's elite are not suddenly going to be convinced of the towering idea that the underprivileged deserve the same

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

It is becoming clearer & clearer that we have a situation much more like the second scenario.Young people feel immune & many are symptom freeWhite people have lower mortalityWell off

✝️ BFrownfelterND⚖️🇺🇸

BFrownfelterND

1) #America #Michigan #GrandRapids taking place right now direct relationship:Person had tightness in chest & shortness of breath after exertion, stops after resting. Started last weekend after lifting concrete sack

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

I disagree. Say there's a 1 in 100 chance someone acquires COVID because of a delayed vaccine (maybe conservative in the US where spread is still quite high) and a

NNPC Group

NNPCgroup

GMD @MKKyari: “#NNPC has never published its audited financial statement in 43 yrs.We came & started doing that & released the 2018 financial statement.We were not afraid of doing that

Ananth Krishna Subhalakshmy

Ananth_Krishna_

Yet another controversy is brewing regarding the allocation of Disaster Relief Funds to Kerala - which is a lower ₹157 crore compared to higher amounts other states received. Is this

Steak-umm

steak_umm

breaking news and storytelling will always be spun with interpretive bias from different media perspectives, but data is a science that can't be replaced by one-off anecdotes. try to remember

Beͫvͣaͬnͨd

zorinaq

Excited to share this new COVID modeling script:It applies various age-stratified IFR estimates to calculate the expected overall IFR in a given country. It's based on demographics (countries population pyramids):

katie, from 6ft away,

FurmanK8

woke up today with a cough, sore throat, and shortness of breath. I decided pretty quickly that I needed to do the responsible thing and get a #COVID test. Here

Amy 🦓

skepticalzebra

Facemasks: A threadLet me prephase this by stating I am a doctor who works for the nhs. I have worked on covid wards, and have had covid myself. That being

Bill Ferguson

SenBillFerg

Today, @GovLarryHogan discussed initial considerations related to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on MD state budget. Fortunately, the General Assembly's enacted budget allocates record funding for the State's

Marius Meinhof

MariusMeinhof

I try to collect some articles that use a #postcolonial perspective to make sense of #coronavirus pandemic. I will add more later and I welcome anyone to add more articles.First

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) protects people against infection with #COVID19. Two clinical trials addressing this question are underway & WHO will evaluate the evidence