#Epidemiology

Matthew Peddie

matthew_peddie

.@OCFLMayor says the Disney layoffs will accentuate the need for assistance Demings says with $187.2 million of CARES Act funding spent there's still some $56 million to be spent before

Andrew Bostom

andrewbostom

1/ “WE CANNOT TEACH IN MASKS”-“Historically, the deprivation of the face & the refusal of contact with others (frequently in the context of virulent disease) have been the very first

National Science Policy Network

scipolnetwork

Thinking of a career in #SciPol, but unsure what that looks like? The Eastern Hub's RETREAT @ HOME includes a career panel to explore several science policy careers! We

Siddharth Shirole

SidShirole

#Pune is a few days away from a medical catastrophe. State Govt. has failed. I on behalf of every Punekar have written to Hon. PM @narendramodi ji, Hon. HM @AmitShah

Mukund Thattai

thattai

The so-called Covid “supermodel” commissioned by the Govt of India is fundamentally flawed.Not surprising, since it was built by people who had no clue about epidemiology or public health (the

@WeAreDisabled

WeAreDisabled

I planned to talk about my passion today (like stuff I do to keep myself happy and occupied), and it'll mostly be academic stuff I suppose, since I'm a uni

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

Here is the story behind this rather interesting tweetby @UofGlasgow @UofGCOO David Duncan. 1/https://twitter.com/UofGCOO/status/1313756939692711937 This is the tweet which @UofGCOO posted yesterday & has since deleted. 2/ .@UofGlasgow&

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Wanted to tweet on masking as getting a lot of interest in this today (I am not a ventilation scientist; I am just an epidemiologist/ID doctor who can see from

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Any mandate to wear masks has to recognize that throwing people off transportation for not wearing masks is wrong, counterproductive, and also absolutely unacceptable. It’s not people’s fault there is

Sebastian Seung

SebastianSeung

Asian countries (China, S Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong) have already beaten the virus with "five weapons" of public health. So anyone with common sense would fight the virus by

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

I can’t sleep, cuz I’m worried again. I want to tell my kid one day that daddy did all he could to stop the pandemic. Daddy failed in January, despite

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/ W/Ebola in West Africa, there was a term 'Ebola business' that referred to the idea that Ebola was either made up or overblown & used as a way to

Anthony Staines says WASH YOUR HANDS!

astaines

Dr. Peter Navarro, advisor to @realDonaldTrump is quoted “My qualifications ... in terms of looking at the science is that I’m a social scientist. And I understand how to read

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

New CDC school reopening document is pretty junk, many other experts agree. Almost no epidemiology, only 2 paragraphs, one on flu. No community risk, no teacher risk, no severity for

Stefan Baral

sdbaral

A Public Health Perspective on the Potential Harms of #COVID19 #Elimination (my first thread)I have provided a reference for each post which I think should be the standard moving forward

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

"Essential, front-line workers" is 2020-speak for "low-waged, economically precarious workers who risk their lives for us." To all that, add "workers who are showered with abuse by right-wing anti-mask bullies."