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Sue Crengle
tiekemanu
Di Safarti on Nine to noon yesterday syaing that the reason more Maori bowel cancer diagnosed under age fo 60 was because we dont live as long. In her mind
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פרופ' אייל שחר
prof_shahar
1/Sweden mortality in the last two “flu years”:Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 Oct 2019 – Sep 2020Inference from trend over 2 decades. 2/Preliminaries:Annual statistics usually computed by Gregorian calendar.Why? Does
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Andrew Noymer
AndrewNoymer
Let's talk influenza and COVID mortality (again!).THREAD.People keep bringing this up so I'd like to put this to bed once and for all (I hope).It is often said there are
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TheLadenSwallow
theladenswallow
Very important thread for the #justtheflu bros, if any still exist. 60k deaths more like 15k actual death certificates, rest based upon excess mortality. #COVID19 already far higher.https://twitter.com/AndrewNoymer/status/1252637412309651456 We have
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blasianFMA 🇵🇭🏳️🌈
blasianFMA
Nicole Lozano PhD:The pandemic exacerbates existing privilege. The End. As "kind" as it is to say "we're all in this together," we really aren't. A much more accurate descriptor is:
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Amy Washburn
AIWashburn
THREAD:More from my groovy hubby - he does the math in our family.1) I notice a lot of people talking today about Covid-19 mortality rates 'only' being around 1%. I'll
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Doomscrolling Reminder Lady
karenkho
it's really strange to see how much what happened in Puerto Rico really did not register as a major early indicator of the federal government's dysfunctional disaster response protocols that
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Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈
Amy_Siskind
2,000 American died today alone.400,000 reported cases in the US.The US mortality rate is now 3.2%. At 1,000 deaths it was at 1.5% and has been steadily rising. The mortality
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James Todaro, MD
JamesTodaroMD
1/ An unknown side effect of lengthy lockdowns may be decreased crossover immunity to COVID-19.Research on SARS-CoV-1 suggests that lack of exposure to the common cold coronaviruses could actually worsen
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Rex Douglass
RexDouglass
Today I'm going to be live tweeting:"Predictive performance of international COVID-19mortality forecasting models"(Friedman et al. August 26, 2020)What looks like a great evaluation of covid model performance over long periods
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Afshine Emrani MD FACC
EmraniMd
What it will take for us to get back to life after #COVID19.1- We need mass testing, not for the acute infection (IGM), but who has had it, by measuring
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Andreas Backhaus
AndreasShrugged
1) We've been hearing that #Sweden is supposedly doing well without a substantial lockdown. This depends on how we define "well". The graph shows weekly deaths for all ages in
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Balsher Singh Sidhu
balsher_sidhu
#COVID19 why is mortality rate defined as ratio of total deaths to total cases (today: ~50k/1000k globally = 5%)? Shouldn't it be ratio of total deaths to total_deaths_plus_recovered (~50k/250k =
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Colin Angus
VictimOfMaths
COVID-19 cases might be rising across much of the UK, but the latest all-cause mortality data (albeit from several weeks ago) still looks very normal for England & Wales, Scotland
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Stephen McIntyre
ClimateAudit
New article in journal published by Cambridge Univ Press says that testimony to House Oversight Committee in March 2020 mixed up case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR)
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Bloomberg Opinion
bopinion
The Covid-19 pandemic has been traumatic for New York City. But just how traumatic, by historical standards? @foxjust turned to health records that date back to 1804 to find outhttps://trib.al/0ZhrSp8
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