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John Finagin #FBPE
JohnFinagin
1/111 Thread: I wanted to give them a chance. Surely every government around the world is facing the toughest of challenges & we were no different, but the more I
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Dr. Melvin Sanicas 🩺🔬
Vaccinologist
We need some #GoodNews. Yes, this is a study in mice but this is so far the first peer-reviewed #coronavirus #vaccine study with promising results in @EBioMedicine published by @TheLancet
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Bebo
BoldBebo
Also real talk, I've been hating on the Democratic party since I was 10. Just because I vote with Dems doesn't make me a Democrat, it just means y'all are
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Azra Ghani
azraghani
1/ Today is #WorldMalariaDay. Every year, 400k children die from a preventable disease. Right now malaria-endemic countries are rightly focused on the threat from #COVID19. But it is important that
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
'Herd immunity' has been reached during previous epidemics of influenza, measles and seasonal coronaviruses. But it's subsequently been lost (and then regained). What are some of the reasons for this?
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Greg Muttitt
FuelOnTheFire
With a week’s post-thesis holiday in Cornwall, I finally got round to reading Frank Snowden's Epidemics and Society. I found it absolutely gripping. A few things stand out for me
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
A short thread about a dead salmon and implausible claims based on epidemic curves... 1/ A few years ago, some researchers famously put an Atlantic salmon in an fMRI machine
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Iñigo Abellar #NoStudentLeftBehind
InigoAbellar
- A THREAD ON WHY ONLINE CLASSES SHOULD BE SUSPENDED.- Having a stable internet connection in the Philippines is a privilege at the moment. Continuing further would increase the gap
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𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻
HaramainInfo
THREAD: BRIEF ACCOUNTS OF SUSPENSION OF HAJJ IN ISLAMIC HISTORYAround 40 times in history the Hajj was suspended or the number of pilgrims was extremely low according to King AbdulAziz
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A Marm Kilpatrick
DiseaseEcology
New #COVID19 serosurvey in Italy. Report in Italian so I couldn't read it carefully. Nice thread from @stats_q with some details. Some @nataliedean @AdamJKucharski @isabelrodbar are questioning results b/c they
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Health Nerd
GidMK
The weirdest thing about the whole herd immunity through natural infection argument is that it's never happened ever for any disease long-term so it was always a wild idea for
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Tom Inglesby
T_Inglesby
The US gov threatened to cut off aid to @WHO today. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/coronavirus-updates-news-live.html#link-5e3b2c82 This would be a mistake on many levels. 1/x .@WHO is the organization that provides health guidance and
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Jan Choutka
jan_choutka
As days get shorter, evenings longer, and the world in turmoil due to a pandemic, let me tell a sad and forgotten story. A tale of the early outbreaks of
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David Fisman
DFisman
I'm not sure if anyone's in the mood for this, given the state of N America right now, but I keep getting asked whether another wave of COVID-19 is "possible".I
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National Coronavirus Recovery Commission
covid19recovery
We've released a NEW set of recommendations focusing on the steps that government leaders and the private sector can take to prevent future pandemics.https://www.heritage.org/press/national-coronavirus-recovery-commission-releases-recom
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David Fisman
DFisman
Corresponding with a journalist from SW Ontario just now, made me look up the numbers. Some Ontario hot spots are those that share border with Michigan. In infectious disease modeling,
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