#Mortality

(((Dan Hodges)))

DPJHodges

OK, quite a long post, but I was asked by several people yesterday to respond specifically to the points @JuliaHB1 made in her own thread. So I’m going to try

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

We’ve published updated analysis on #COVID19 deaths by local areas and deprivation.Between 1 March and 30 June 220,636 deaths occurred in England and Wales that were registered by 11 July.

Kiera Feldman 😷

kierafeldman

Happy weekend. Plz remember that social distancing does not mean hanging out w/a friend 6ft away. Covid is likely transmitted by breathing/talking alone https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/aerosol-coronavirus-spread-white-house-letter/index.html6ft

BK Titanji #ILookLikeAScientist

Boghuma

Where we are with #tocilizumab for #COVID19 . Neat summary in @JAMA https://ja.ma/2IJ8HPc . The fact remains that we need good RCT data. The observational studies so far are small,

Nicolas Vandewalle

vdwnico

1/5 Today, we already saved 8200 lives in Belgium from #covid19 ! And this number is growing every day. Arguments, calculations and plots in this thread. #StayAtHome #FlattenTheCurve 2/5

Aaron Carr

aaronAcarr

To those blaming density for pandemics: Here’s a picture of Singapore, which is the 3rd densest place in the world, and has only *six* corona deaths. If Singapore were a

Maurizio Cecconi

DrMCecconi

Today I am receiving several requests to explain we should wait for Trial data before a new routine treatment become standard practice.First of all, unless a disease has a 100%

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ Q: So the CDC just released data that said 94% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths had underlying medical conditions?A: FALSE.We’ve heard this interpretation is making the rounds, but it’s just

Tom Pugh

TomPughLab

Why do global terrestrial biosphere models differ in calculations of forest carbon turnover? Finally out today in @EGU_BioGeo! With @ttrademacher @DocAHarper @JoergSteinkamp @anjarammig @westsyduhie @TreeMort_ERChttps://bg.copernicus.org/ar

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

France is extremely accurate in its daily reporting of Covid-19 deaths (much more so than UK) judging by the latest “excess mortality” figures issued by the French statistics agency, INSEE.

David Fisman

DFisman

The numbers are just staggering: on March 15, 2020 the United States had 60 COVID-19 deaths. 31 days later the total is approaching 30,000 deaths. The average number of deaths

Shannon

ayoitsmcgovern

In Honor of minority health awareness month, i’m going to be educating yall on some things that should be common sense but our common disparities for minority patients in the

Todd Jones 🦊

toddrjones

How has the world changed? This compiles many of my plots on, eg., child mortality, fertility, GDP, women's education, and life expectancy. Thanks to @Gapminder for the data! #rstats

Lyz Lenz

lyzl

Watching the moms in Portland get tear gassed this morning made me think about how in America, the virtue and sainthood of "motherhood" is only given to hetero white women

Fernando Zampieri

f_g_zampieri

So @JAMA_current is having a blast of corticosteroid papers for COVID-19 today and I strongly recommend you have a look. You can start with the WHO metanalysis that summarizes everything

Justin Hart

justin_hart

1/ OK. Lots of charts making their way around comparing deaths Year-over-Year. I pulled the data from the CDC for the last 3 years comparing influenza, pneumonia, COVID-19 and ALL