#Estimates

Soumya

skarlamangla

the most stunning takeaway from LA's recent press briefings: officials estimated last week that 1 in 400 people in LA County were infectious with covid and not isolated. this week,

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

I’ve been asked to explain why I thought the high reported number of #COVID19 cases in Sheffield was misleading, so here it is: Essentially, the COVID19 tracker is a type

Microsoft On the Issues

MSFTIssues

We’ve addressed:Carbon Biodiversity Waste What’s missing? More than 70% of the planet is covered with it, and more than 60% of the human body is made up of it. A

Carl A. B. Pearson

cap1024

Thanks to the folks at @cmmid_lshtm and @SacemaQuarterly, and particularly @carivs, @kathmoreilly, Anna Foss, and @SACEMAdirector. This work is now peer reviewed at: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.18.2

Andy Verity

andyverity

Official estimates from the ONS: 'UK average house prices increased by 8.6% over the year to February 2021, up from 8.0% in January 2021; this is the highest annual growth

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Friday's employment report was devastating — and reality almost surely worse. The BLS itself says that the unemployment number was probably understated 1/ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm True unemployment probably ~20%. If so,

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

I am increasingly frustrated by the short time frames imposed on global health projects by funders.Donors & agencies want to see "impact" in 2-3 years, while everyone knows that ground

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

VACCINE EFFICACY 101: A biostatistician's primerTen tweets to cover:- How is vaccine efficacy calculated?- Distinguishing between infection, disease, & severe disease.- Measuring reduced infectiousness.- Vaccine efficacy vs. effecti

yue

yueko__

I used to do headshots for $50 when I started out a couple years ago, now they're $300 and full illustrations are $1000-$2000 AT LEAST, multiplied by a healthy amount

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Mortality and use of care due to coronavirus in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Estonia; updated with data from yesterdays (2.4) reports. Read the whole thread. (English version)Fig 1(6).

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

Thank you for holding the #Lockdown!So important, as ~1 in 11 UK people (6.4 million) might have #COVID19.That would mean there are infected people in every park, in every

Adriano Pedrana

adrianopedrana

Honored to be with @BrandAid_World and @MahaRafiAtal among the authors of this @CBDScbs working paper on Italy's cooperation for development in the past and present. Here are a few highlights:

Chris Danforth

ChrisDanforth

Ensemble forecasting has been the gold standard in Numerical Weather Prediction since the 1990s when it was introduced by one of my PhD advisors Eugenia Kalnay.https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477%281993%29074%3C2317%3AEFANTG%3E2.0.

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

It's the first Monday of Eastertide here in Hong Kong, a lovely, sunny, breezy day with incredibly nice air quality, and around the world people are dying of a novel

Tobias Schneider

tobiaschneider

Over the years, 100s and 1000s of survivors, responders, medical doctors, local and int journalists, military defectors and investigators have witnessed and testified to the impact of these attacks. Samples,

Jason Lyall

jaylyall_red5

5 observations from @MujMash's outstanding article on why the Taliban have managed to outlast the US THREADhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html?smid=tw-share 1. The Taliban have suffered extraordina