#Estimates

David Flor

BrainClouds

It seems a lot of people only know the name "Krakatoa", but aren't aware of what actually happened over 100 years ago in 1883. This has been one of those

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Very provocative new paper by @dylanhmorris @jlloydsmith on effects of temp & humidity on survival of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces. Need to be careful in interpreting most novel aspects of this

ice9

__ice9

COVID-19 antiviral EC50s expected hittable:- amodiaquine- atazanavir- camostat- chloroquine- ciclesonide- dipyridamole- doxycycline- favipiravir- hydroxychloroquine- HTCC polymer- IFN-α 2b- indomethacin- itraconazole- mefloquine- nelfinavir- niclosam

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/There's been a resurgence in the myth that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, kills ~0.26% of the people it infects in the US.In other words: The infection fatality rate

John Haldeman 📉

JLHaldeman

ER wait time details for @WRHospital and @ESHCare - a thread.A notebook containing all this data and graphs can be seen here (updates daily):https://observablehq.com/@johnhaldeman/windsor-essex-emergency-rooms-an-analysis-of-wait-time-dataT

Bruce DePuyt

Bruce_DePuyt

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) and Bureau of Revenue Estimates Chief Andy Schaufele report that the state is on pace to lose $2.8B in general fund revenue from the economic

Mark Paul

MarkVinPaul

It's time for our government to build a just, inclusive, and sustainable economy. The #AmericanJobsPlan is a step in the right direction. But @adamshersh & I explain in a new

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

This article was just published on how far we are from herd immunity for COVID-19. Although the title is definitely correct, the article has a surprising number of important issues

John Cherian

jjcherian

I've seen a lot of news about the LA study, and the error bars of that study may be seriously flawed as well. It is plausible that the data in

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

While the economy is based on fundamentals, a lot of the economy is based on emotions and psychology. If most believe there will be a depression, chances are there will

Tom Wenseleers

TWenseleers

The BA.4 & BA.5 Omicron subvariant-driven increase of new confirmed Covid cases in South Africa gives a good idea of what the endemic equilibrium will look like: a significant wave

Quantian

quantian1

1. Quick THREAD on using the Kelly fraction to optimally size positions in your portfolio, just like Ed Thorpe did in the 1970's (1/N): Don't do it, you colossal idiot.

Jon Ralston

RalstonReports

Just tuned into the Trump rally here, and @RichardGrenell said, "Nevada matters."May change my opinion of him. He gets it. Dana White is in Henderson bragging about how great Las

Ziv Gan-Or

ZivGanOr

This a short thread about PRKN mutations and #parkinson's disease. It seems to some people that there are contradictory results between my team's paper and a paper by @vuvuzelo1 and

اسریٰ

freakonomist5

A well timed report on Civil Service Compensation by @PIDEpk, to quantify the benefits and perks that civil servants enjoy, and calculating the cost of the service.Thank you @durre_nayab_ @nadeemhaque!https://pide.org.pk/pdf/reports/Civil-S

Timothy Gowers

wtgowers

It's good to do a cost-benefit analysis, but this is not the right comparison. It needs to be between the number of avoidable deaths caused by the lockdown and the