#POPULATION

Annemarie Bridy

AnnemarieBridy

Contact tracing is a necessary element of the public health response to COVID-19. Privacy experts are rightly vigilant, but they need to take care not to undermine public trust in

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A key reminder of SARS-CoV-2 cases; in March/April the testing depth and testing criteria was far far lower - so different to now as one should mentally split away graphs

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musafirAD

[Thread]@ApostateRidvan made the point that if a society had widespread polygamy, then there wouldn’t be enough women to go around, and therefore it would throw society out of balance. He

cat_yawns

cat_yawns

What do you guys think about spaying? I've recently learned that some people think that spaying pets is bad because it's unnatural and causes health issues. Personally I'm not convinced

Orlando DSA 🌹🍊

Orlando_DSA

While this may seem like a niche issue, companies playing municipalities off of each other for subsidies and preferential treatment is a significant issue in Florida. Because city annexation is

Bubble Boy

A_bubbly_boi

I want to deal with a little bit of nonsense the Irish anti-lockdown conspiracy theorists are spreading, pertaining to this document, which is a recent report on the epidemiology of

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IAmMardikins

I don't like how supposedly sensible people are helping to build the much anticipated narrative that remain is to blame for this hard brexit with all its terrible consequences WTF

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Quebec Premier François Legault elaborated on Thursday about his endorsement of two tweets suggesting that Ontario might be under-reporting its #COVID19 deaths. In this thread, I will fact-check this

Rupert Myers

RupertMyers

The area of just Hyde park, Regent’s Park, St James’ Park and the serpentine alone is sufficient that 347,000 people could each occupy 10 square metres. On the same basis

Philippe Duchesne

pduchesne

Damien, tu dois aussi balayer devant ta porte. Il y a énormément à reprocher au #begov. Mais c’est aussi pcq ils doivent composer avec une frange de la population en

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astro_jaz

Should Humans Colonize Other Planets? (1) At any second, there could be a global catastrophe that wipes out a large amount of the human population. It’s dark to think about,

Ben

BenMarten

I came to this country because I believed in an idea. The idea is that every single person does contribute to the greater good. Contributing to the greater good in

Rajan Mehta

RealRajanMehta

Some things about those hill-shaped infection curves:1) they assume that R (which essentially measures the rate of spread) is constant. People are expecting the actual curve to look like those

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Did you know that Norway doesn’t do track & trace?Surprising? Not really. It’s not necessary & 2min of thought explains why not. Indeed, even WHO never recommended this method of

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

I made my submission to the @HLConstitution Committee yesterday. Here are some submissions about the WHO's pandemic advice from as recently as October 2019. In short, it does not remotely

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

India reports another 400,000+ cases, 4000+ death dayA sustained level of horriblenessAnd its not correctTrue number surely closer to 25,000 deaths, 2-5 million infections todayLots of ways to estimate but