#Infections

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

In the tenth week of the lockdown much of Beijing is back to work, but it seems to me that consumption – or at least shopping – is going to

Justin Fox

foxjust

This so totally confirms my priors that of course I believe it. :-) But it's also almost by definition a more meaningful result than the ones that have come out

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

There's no perfect panacea to the nation's testing crisis, but one oft-talked-about strategy is frequent, fast, cheap at-home testing. Lots of really interesting pros and cons to this 1/12https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/health/ra

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

At any given time between 14 and 27 June 2020, we estimate that an average 0.04% of people not in care homes, hospitals or other institutional settings in England would

Lauren Leatherby

LaurenLeatherby

Today we published new charts and tables that show five ways to monitor the coronavirus outbreak. Here's where outbreaks might come next based on current growth rates: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-cor

Buck Sexton

BuckSexton

“Test and trace” is what those who want to drag out lockdowns say, but the moment you think through what such a program would entail in a nation of 320

Jason Beale

jabeale

Honest questions for any Democrats willing to answer: Is there any option available to Trump for re-opening the country that you wouldn't criticize? If he waits until the end of

Eugenia C.

ADejeuville

1/ Independent SAGE demands #ZeroCOVID strategy for #UK after the government announced that infection rates would not decrease until a vaccine became available. Via @noawitheringlyhttps://www.independentsage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/A

Brynn Tannehill

BrynnTannehill

I'm not an epidemiologist. But, we've got kids that are supposed to go back to school in the fall. This is what we're seeing, and it's pretty freaking bleak: a

Yan Sychevskiy💡

yxung_s

"Coronavirus is an invisible enemy and we need to prevent it where it strikes". Reactionary approach. Method of population control 2.0. #thanksboris #COVID19 (1/8) Vaccines can help but have you

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Whether or not you think local lockdowns work (& the evidence so far is ... not great), given the huge costs they impose, they should only be considered when there

PoliMath

politicalmath

this is incredibly annoying b/c by mid march we almost certainly had a million casesthe case count is not a representation of reality but a complicated confluence of case surges

Karol Markowicz

karol

Thread: NYC’s Health Dept is referring to a COVID spike in some parts of Brooklyn as the "Ocean Parkway cluster," and, well, I've got a problem with that. Ocean Parkway

Ammar Rashid ☭🌹

AmmarRashidT

Imran Khan, Asad Umar & Insafians keep making a fundamental mistake about the entire purpose of lockdowns and social distancing, which is clearly sabotaging Pakistan's entire covid-19 response. This urgently

Glen O'Hara

gsoh31

Now that Williamson has made very clear that universities are on their own, it's time for universities to buckle up and try to get through the crisis without government help.

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/5) Study of #SARSCoV2 antibody prevalence in children from Bavaria, Germany, showing infections in children were 6 times higher than PCR tests suggested, and that young & older children were