#Estimates

David Roberts

drvolts

My new post: the latest research on air pollution is jaw-dropping. Scientists now believe its effects on health & mortality are roughly *double* previous estimates. If that’s true, air-quality benefits

Ali H. Mokdad

AliHMokdad

.@IHME_UW now projects 410,451 #COVID19 deaths by Jan 1st, this is about 224,000 deaths from now until the end of the year. These are not numbers or statistics but family

Olle Folke

OlleFolke

Me and @johannarickne’s paper on promotion to top jobs and marriage stability was just published in AEJ: Applied Economics. This picture shows the main finding of the paper: promotion increases

The Weather Channel India

weatherindia

At Least 5 Lakh #Sharks to be Slaughtered to Create #COVID19Vaccine Doses for All, Conservationists Warnhttps://weather.com/en-IN/india/environment/news/2020-10-01-5-lakh-sharks-to-be-slaughtered-create-covid-19-vaccine-doses(: NOAA) Conser

Jess Potter

DrJessPotter

Another day, another TB diagnosis. More patients with TB in the hospital than COVID right now. @WHO estimates the COVID-19 pandemic has set us back 12 years in the fight

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

uk_domain_names

6. Patients are facing much *much* longer waits in A&E.http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7281/CBP-7281.pdf 7. The 62-day waiting time target for cancer treatment hasn't been met since 2013. I'm sure everyone knows

Hammond Institute

HammondInst

This week, Hammond Institute scholars published a series of op-eds about #covid19: 1. "A Case for Proactive Policies." Rik W. Hafer, PhD https://bit.ly/2QZvuI5 2. "The Power of Civil Society: A

Doug Johnson Hatlem

djjohnso

Staff @SanctuaryTO (myself, @c_shadowspaces, @lorrainelamchop) completed counts for a reasonable estimate of homeless people in Toronto.In areas less familiar we asked reliable friends/orgs.TOTAL TENT COUNT: 419TOTAL TTC COUNT/EST 206TOTAL

Jo Michell

JoMicheII

I decided to take try and reproduce the results of the "5700 UK deaths" paper. These results have been cited by several high profile accounts on here and was reported

North American Society for Intelligence History

SocIntelHist

The stereotype in US #intelligence intelligence is that officers on the operations write autobiographies while analysts write journal articles. But there are a few analysts who have written autobiographies or

Mark Green

markalangreen

Excited to see our (w/ @hlambiemumford) paper on food bank usage in children is again one of the most downloaded papers in @RGS_IBG's Area Journal (free here https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/area.12233). Let's contextu

Ran Reichman

ranreichman

A lot of people have been talking about the Israeli response to COVID-19, especially as Israel has recently relaxed many of its restrictions. In a short THREAD I hope to

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

Thread on $DISDIS has gone down from $150 to $90 in no time. Is it a buy? After spending decent time on DIS, it's on my "too hard" pile. Here's

Scott Imberman

imbernomics

Settle in folks, because it's time for a tweetstorm about my new @nberpubs paper with @MeltemDaysal, Todd Elder, Judy Hellerstein, and Chiara Orsini. 1/25https://www.nber.org/papers/w28652?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This is a thread about how to interpret the seemingly sudden appearance of #COVID19 across the much of the US in the past week with some back-of-the-envelop calculations for number

Shai Akabas

ShaiAkabas

THREAD: This week, Social Security’s trustees projected that reserves in the retirement trust fund will deplete in 2034 & the disability fund in 2065. But the report didn’t look at