#Epidemic

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boriquagato

let's say it one more time:"discussing case counts without reference to testing levels is tantamount to lying."let's look at just how much difference it makes.i plotted raw "new positives reported

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

There have been misunderstandings and noise surrounding the UK Government's COVID19 strategy. There are some very smart people advising the Government. I respect them greatly. Still, even after the clarifications

Andrew Bostom

andrewbostom

1/9 Yoram Lass, former Dir of Israel’s Health Ministry on “monstrous hysteria” of Covid19: “This is nothing more than a flu epidemic if you care to look at the numbers

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

Let me explain why using models to simulate epidemics basically doesn't work when it comes to predicting the future (and why it doesn't mean models are useless). And also why

Back in Time West London

OldLondonW14

London has often faced the terrible challenge of disease outbreaks. The smallpox epidemic in 1881 led to a desperate shortage of hospital beds. London’s Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB) considered housing

Jodi Schneider

jschneider

"Doing science in times of crisis: #Sciencestudies perspectives on COVID-19" webinar First talk starting now.Not being recorded - so join anytime in the next 3 hours to discuss #covid_science_studiesAgenda (times

Prashant Bhushan

pbhushan1

The GOI has no power to issue binding orders to States about Lockdown within States. Public Health is a subject in the State List. 'Preventing Inter State spread of infectious

Jon-US Senate candidate MD 2022

Johnheretohelp

As the Coronavirus continues to invade the US and spread very quickly, I would like to reassure everyone that the CDC is doing everything they can, and not only do

Steamed Hamjanette

__anjanette

Wearing face masks and staying 6 feet apart was also recommended during the 1918 flu epidemic in the Twin Cities (the 6 feet exactly figure was surprising to me): https://www.influenzaarchive.org/f/flu/cities/city-stpaul.html#

James Hay

jameshay218

Ct values can be used to estimate epidemic dynamics! We show that the distribution of viral loads changes during an epidemic and develop a new method to infer growth rates

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

This article describes a radical approach to (not) managing the COVID epidemic in India. It misrepresents my views worse than almost any article I have ever been quoted in. We

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SicTransitPHL

Needd to rant longform about this, but: right now, all macroeconomics is broken. Any system, from full communism to Mad Max ancap nonsense, relies at its core on keeping as

Himani Chandna

ChandnaHimani

Finally, results of sero-prevalence study are out by @MoHFW_INDIA . On an average, across Delhi, the prevalence of IgG antibodies is 23.48 %. The study also indicates that a large

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

We now have enough #SARSCoV2 genomic data from different states to make some broad conclusions about how the #COVID19 epidemic has unfolded in the US. 1/14 We see a spectrum

Ahmet S Yayla

ahmetsyayla

My new piece:Corona Epidemic in Turkey under One-man Rule: How Efficient is Authoritarianism?On the 26th day after the first case reported, had approximately 1144 times more coronavirus cases than

molly

molllliy

One thing that is very interesting to notice is the role of digital payment systems playing during the coronavirus outbreak, and it very likely to accelerate the development and the