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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉
ASlavitt
COVID Update April 24: What is the game on the next Congressional relief package? People talking about why we should be like Sweden so I called Sweden. How are states
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Youyang Gu
youyanggu
Here's a thread that contains my findings regarding the relationship between true infections, reported cases, test positivity rate, and infection fatality rate for COVID-19.Full write-up: http://covid19-projections.com/estimating-true-i
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Alexis C. Madrigal
alexismadrigal
So 9 days ago, I tweeted what I thought was a joke about states conflating antibody testing with their viral testing data. It was so obviously bad to do this
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Farzad Mostashari
Farzad_MD
1/ We have heard about a number of potential breakthroughs for COVID response- large scale/cheap testing, immune therapy, vaccine progress. But when it comes to "getting eyes on the outbreak"
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Jens Boman
JensBoman
Did you ever hear something and felt "What the fuck!?"?I did in early 2020, from Swedens chief epidemiologist Tegnell and his boss. Dangerous ideas about SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic response.Nobody shut
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A Marm Kilpatrick
DiseaseEcology
What is #herdimmunity threshold for #COVID19?A topic of much discussion due to large uncertainty & huge consequences for long term impact. New paper illustrates 1 key aspect that can reduce
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Heart-wrenching—A mother in her 50s dies of #COVID19 after she had low oxygen. But there’s no ambulance, so her dead body is carried by motorbike—by her son & son-in-law, her
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Narumi Momose
HardFastAndFree
What has changed from the past? Let me elaborate.1. The WHO wasn't headed by a total fuckwit like @DrTedros who was too busy covering up for the Chinese regime's lapses
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Chaotically S(pooky)cience (ACAB)
drpepperis100
Alright... I do dumb things but never dumber than buying the 16 page book, “Kissing the Coronavirus” Here’s your live take on it word by word from me: Going over
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Dan Waidelich
dan_waidelich
The communication breakdowns around COVID-19 can't help remind one of the way communication breakdowns magnified the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s. So I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist
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Paul Romer
paulmromer
The Public Should Ignore Both Skepticism About Testing in Wuhan and Recommendations for Repeated Lockdowns; and Scientists Should Take CareA thread that will lead to this ... 1/ Conclusion: When
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Kathryn Andrusky
kandrusky
If a certain Premier can *decide* to be an Epidemiologist-for-a-day, I figure I can take a crack at being an Economist. A lot of “party line” misinformation is still being
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Allen Cheng
peripatetical
A thread about epidemic modelling, prompted by calls to "release the modelling" and the MJA paper. #COVID19 Disclaimer: I'm an epidemiologist and ID physician. I have published the occasional mathematical
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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA
celinegounder
1/ THREAD on Sweden & "natural herd immunity":COVID cases RISING in Sweden since August/September, as is the case across Europe. DEATHS are a LAGGING indicator (~6-8+ weeks after infections). It
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JD
GrimmWarrior19
It's gonna drive me nuts if ignorant people keep saying "wear masks", so I'll pin this thread explaining why it's wrong once I'm done. Some don't understand how Indirect Transmission
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
HUGE. **Rapid** 15 min tests approved by @WHO—a bold & right step for #COVID19. Akin to home pregnancy tests, rapid antigen tests better than PCR where labs scares & lag
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