#Estimates

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n With Media is busy inciting hysteria in India wrt #COVID19 , I thought to compile data showing where exactly India stands.I have used https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus as the my source &

Henri Feron

henriferon

(THREAD) New UN Panel of Expert report on N. Korea sanctions out now. Good: estimates of damage on NK's economy, recognition of humanitarian & social impact.Bad: incoherent conclusions, and a

Allan Max Axelrod

213axelrod

Hey @GovPritzker, unlike Nicor, @AmerenIllinois refused to go on record about the # of households facing shutoffs. So I napkin-mathed it. Notes in thread! #NoAmerenShutoffsMore than 80k households likely are

Blair King

BlairKing_ca

Can anyone explain why the Federal gov't report serving as the primary reference for their plastic ban contains no references that can be accessed by the public? A funny way

Bjorn Lomborg

BjornLomborg

Economic analysis from @ThunstromLinda and colleagues shows the benefits of social distancing outweigh the economic costs by $5.2 trillion(Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561934)https://thehill.com/policy/fi

John Cherian

jjcherian

Ok, so what's wrong with the confidence intervals in this preprint? Well they publish a confidence interval on the specificity of the test that runs between 98.3% and 99.9%, but

Andrew Tarter

Andrew_Tarter

1/ Five years ago on Earth Day I published a research blog post with a provocative title—‘Haiti is Covered with Trees’.https://www.envirosociety.org/2016/05/haiti-is-covered-with-trees/ 2/ The article would get the attention of author

Justin | TheeFinanceGuy 📶

TheeFinanceGuy

Penny Stocks might be the group of stocks that I get asked about most.You see ads on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media telling you that you can "get rich"

Ajay Kirtane MD SM

ajaykirtane

1/Here’s a rant about meta-analyses in the CV space. I don’t mean to be disparaging (especially because the first meta-analysis I published was probably the most labor intensive project I’ve

Maggie Koerth

maggiekb1

And now, a few science reminders ... this will have to be a thread because there's a lot going on here.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313449844413992961 1) Flu deaths seldom top 100,000. Estimated flu deaths

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy_Hunt

Hospital acquired COVID-19 remains a major problem as it STILL accounts for 15% of COVID hospital patients: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/973495/S1147_CO-CIN_dynamic_report.p

Wokeman, #KBF, 96.5%, ALM

Wokeman8

1) What a sane PM would announce today. First he should announce all tests should be done twice. This would reduce false positives 1% to 0.01%. Simultaneously the cycle of

Ahmed Jamal Pirzada

ajpirzada

(1/n) While there is a general upward trend in food prices in #Pakistan, there is also a lot of heterogeneity is how prices of key food items have changed across

Rachel Glennerster

rglenner

In March we forecast indirect impacts of C-19 on developing countries through 3 channels: 1. global economic (eg commodity prices, capital flows); 2. containment's impact on livelihoods;3. other secondary impacts

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

We know that COVID-19 is bad in Maharashtra. But how bad? How prevalent is COVID-19 in Mumbai? Has it peaked? Is it going to be over any time soon? I

A. Tsai

drdrtsai

1/ Apparently @CDCDirector Dr. Robert Redfield is claiming that the spike in the #COVID-19 case growth rate in the South is _not_ due to premature relaxation of social distancing measures.