#Epidemics

An open letter to software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson's epidemics simulation code https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2020/05/18/an-open-letter-to-software-engineers-criticizing-neil-ferguson-s-epidemics-simulation-code/ Added a pos

Infectious Diseases

The epidemic in India is echoed next-door in Nepal.The numbers are even more concerning in Nepal when looking at case positivity. Case positivity in Nepal reflects an epidemic that is

1/ The case against panic: Why we need to be a little more Vulcan than usual. 2/ During the epidemic, I've seen a lot of strong statements. "He wants to

Have you see this story about a saint named CORONA, the alleged guardian #saint against #epidemic from @atlasobscura? Well, let me offer you a couple more interesting epidemic-related saints (a

Climate change as symptom not problem (open whether genotype or phenotype): may help to view the & the Degrowth question from this angle.The more clearly I've been

A Marm Kilpatrick

Serosurvey suggests ~21% of NYC was exposed to SARS-COV-2 despite 1 month lockdown, while less impacted states are now lifting lockdown. Paradoxically, the latter may be at much higher risk

1) Raymond Rivera was killed by this system.He was locked up in Rikers Island on a technicality.Then he contracted Covid19 inside (no surprise, it is a petri dish for spread).On

Some of the worst epidemics and pandemics to hit mankind1. Plague of Athens, 430 BC - 100,000 deaths2. Antonine plague, AD 165-180 - 5 million deaths3. Plague of Cyprian, AD

NEW: "As we start to emerge from this pandemic, we're going to have to rethink what US national security is all about" per In-Q-Tel Exec VP Dr Tara O'Toole at

Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.)

Can it be justice if it's also racist?This company is pleading guilty to hooking primarily white people on a drug that has caused a drug crisis that dwarfed the crack

Matthijs Korevaar

How do housing markets respond to a major pandemic? In a new paper, Marc Francke and I study historical outbreaks of the plague and cholera to answer this question. TL;DR:

An incredible chart: three countries had earlier and more effective “social distancing” than any others: France, Italy, and Spain - the three countries with the WORST epidemics. Wonder why. (Maybe

Myth: polio was already declining before the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955Fact: the epidemics were actually getting worsehttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910 1952: pe

Kai Kupferschmidt

This nice piece by @carlzimmer lays out very clearly how our understanding of how #SARSCoV2 spread around the world and established itself in certain places is evolving (with all the

1/ TL:DR - @who published a massive review/meta-analysis of interventions for flu epidemics in 2019, found "moderate" evidence AGAINST using masks. (They actually missed the 2015 Vietnam study, yet another

Kurt Eichenwald

Since @larry_kudlow is too stupid to look up basic info about pandemics/epidemics - & thus says "nobody could have predicted" COVID-19 would have an exponential rise - thus *proving* Trump