#Mortality

alex 🇹🇹

awastenamealex

Why calling Trinidad & Tobago a "third world country" makes you seem just a little bit dense: A THREAD In modern society the term "third world" is used to

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

As lockdown starts easing up across India, what is the plan to deal with the massive surge of people who have been deferring care for all sorts of conditions? Undiagnosed

James Crisp

JamesCrisp6

Interesting op ed. Belgium has 2nd highest mortality rate per head of population. Why?1/https://www.lesoir.be/294338/article/2020-04-14/carte-blanche-la-belgique-est-desormais-le-deuxieme-pays-le-plus-affecte-par-le Author blames1. High population de

InProportion2

InProportion2

1/8Lockdown scepticism is on the riseLockdowns are costly in money, impacts to public health and liberty. We have jumped out of the plane first and only now are we taking

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

We’ve published analysis of deaths due to #COVID19 compared with deaths caused by influenza (flu) and pneumonia in England and Wales http://ow.ly/313i50BMT73 There were 48,168 death occurrences due to #COVID19

Chloé S. Valdary 📚

cvaldary

To all my new followers, Welcome! At http://theoryofenchantment.com , we give out a free resource on how to practice compassionate anti-racism, which is a training that's rooted in social emotional learning

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

"The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption & Policies to Increase the Supply of Medical Masks for Health Workers" by me @judy_chevalier @NAChristakis @thehowie E Kaplan, A Ko (Chair of

Muhammed Oğuz

MuhammedOghuz

WHY CANCER IS A GREAT THING [THREAD]Yes, people suffer from cancer and other illnesses. I hope that nobody has to go through something like that. But what indicates that sicknesses

jacobs emo

713tippin

very open to having my mind changed on this but i think taking elementary schools fully online will be the single most harmful policy decision of the covid crisis. it

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Fascinating new internal hospital report from Houston coming soon; the five-word takeaway sums it up.Meantime, @TheAtlantic has some hot panic porn suggesting deaths in the Sunbelt could reach New

Steam Ship

steamtug7

THREAD: How do we know that masks are effective? Want proof, to show mask-skeptic friends? Here's a thread full of evidence.It's medically unethical to do clinical testing in which we

David Fisman

DFisman

Asked by a friend to comment on the reasonableness of the IHME forecasts for Canada (30+k deaths by Feb). (https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=total-deaths&tab=trend). The IHME model is impressive... And again, based on the

Institute of Race Relations

IRR_News

THREAD: ‘Institutional racism in the NHS intensifies in times of crisis’Wayne Farah argues we must collate clear evidence from our communities to ensure that the gov inquiry into the impact

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Today brings a bizarre news story from the @WSJ about how everyone is being mean to poor John Ioannidis because of his coronavirus contrarianism. It's behind a paywall, but I'll

Kate the Ethically Unkillable

katehanson

Fun pregnancy "inconvenience" fact #1:The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.How inconvenient! Fun pregnancy "inconvenience" fact #2:Almost 1 in 10 women experience PTSD following childbirt

Denny Salas

realdennysalas

1/ I'm convinced the structural damage to the economy from this virus will have long-lasting effects that will not lead to a rapid recovery once it subsides. The legislation that