#Epidemics

liz chatterjee

natterjee

Our second plague is an #envhist classic: yellow fever. The great disease of the transatlantic slave trade, it was a key symptom of our entry into a new, environmentally ruinous

Monica Trinidad

monicatea2

The car action is over, but there's work to get done at home right now! We need you. Get your let-me-speak-to-the-manager voices ready to make calls & emails, demanding #MassReleaseNow!

Synaps

SynapsNetwork

THREAD Lebanon has continually warned of a looming covid crisis over the past six months, while doing very little to shore up its capacity to manage one. The reason is

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

1. The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It’s one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last two hundred years. I wanted to explain

paulmuaddib61

paulmuaddib61

#WorldWarPM part 1 ill combine later. my theory was 100% correct and with this CV right now it should be our rallying call bc they did it before & will

Eric Lofgren

GermsAndNumbers

One modeler’s thoughts on the UIUC thing. Because while there are some valid criticisms to be had here, I think there’s also some unfair aspects running around #epitwitter .So here

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I hate to invest precious time on taking apart the atrocious @aginnt article pictured below, but it is getting too much traction here and even in traditional media. This

shananalla

shananalla

Tamil Nadu provides detailed information on its fatalities in its daily bulletinI scraped that data (Jul-1 to Sep-10).This thread contains a preliminary analysis, and a comparison with Karnataka/Odisha (at the

Senator Scott Wiener

Scott_Wiener

1/ Lots of takes that density is to blame for #COVID19 spread.Yet some of the densest cities in the world have been effective containing the virus & low density areas

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ Is the #COVID19 outbreak in the US going down? Are we ready to lift lockdown? How would an epidemiologist look at the data to help us understand these questions?

Navroop Singh

NavroopSingh_

Mangal represents armed forces, police, surgeons, accidents, fire, terrorism. Its a planet of wars & strife. While Shani represents old people, dieases, common people, labour class, strikes & discontentment in

Akili Dada

AkiliDada

As #Women’sHealthWeek comes to a close, we can’t let it end without touching on #SexualReproductiveHealth as it is at the center of women’s and girls’ rights. #SexualHealthMatters #SRHR #EveryGirlsRight #EveryWomanCounts

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

How much could variation in social contacts and susceptibility influence the size of an outbreak (and hence notions of herd immunity)? Well, it depends on a few things... 1/ It's

Catherine Amayi

catherine_amayi

Today is the final day of women's history month 2020 and I'll be damned if I let this day go to waste. I'll be sharing coronavirus (and other past epidemics)

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Some general thoughts (in random order) on COVID-19 death undercounting in India following the recent article in The Hindu (https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/covid-19-deaths-are-not-as-low-as-reported/article32310814.ece) by @giridar10

Stephen Goldstein

stgoldst

I want to spend a bit of time clearly laying out where #SARSCoV2 probably comes from, and how it could have ended up in Wuhan. Though it can't be ruled