#POPULATION

Rattlecans

rattlecans

"A Covid cardiologist at a top London hospital – friendly to Boris – has been so incensed by the daily charade of bogus omniscience that he vented his spleen in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

’FALSE POSITIVE’ ANTIBODY CONFUSION: there are 2 different types. 1) Classical false positive rate is when true negative people test +, aka 1-Specificity. 2) Another is low POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE,

Justin Karter

justinkarter

OK, I can't stop thinking about @SocialDilemma_ and @shoshanazuboff's #SurveillanceCapitalism. Here are some more thoughts and provocations for those interested in debating and discussing these issues. 1/17 We live in

Bertrand Delsuc

BertrandBio

Trial negative for all 4 tested interventions (HCQ, remdesivir, inferferon, lopinavir) but the reports terribly lacks granularity Repurposed antiviral drugs for #COVID19; interim WHO SOLIDARITY trial results https://www.medrxiv.org/content/

Yoruba History - by NNP

YorubaHistory

The Influenza Global Pandemic of 1918-1919. Á ò rí’rú eléyì rí, a fií dé rù b’omo ni; unprecedented is just a word, there’s really nothing new under the sun! In

#SaveSheikhJarrah

dialectichiphop

Reading about the heartbreaking massacres in #kabul yesterday I can't help but think of how we're so far removed from what goes on 'half way across the world' that we

Haresh Chawla

hchawlah

1/n While we mull economic packages, the IMMEDIATE PRIORITY should be to procure FULL protective gear (not just masks and gowns) for our healthcare workforce (Doctors, Nurses, Assistants). No matter

Taal Levi

taaltree

Antibody tests are coming online. Never before have humans needed to understand Bayes rule more. Let's talk about why it's critical NOT to assume you are immune to covid-19 when

Nick Bluhm

nick_c_bluhm

Great discussion by @medicarepayment right now. Opening comments by @Michael_Chernew: "CMS has a portfolio problem" that is holding back its evaluation and management of advanced alternative payment models. @Michael_Chernew: CMS

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becyea

People need to stop pretending like medication abortion is dangerous, and start talking about what it really means to have a uterus. The uterus is a fucking BEAST of an

Dimiter Toshkov

DToshkov

Mortality in The Netherlands has risen sharply since March 2020. According to the latest @statistiekcbs numbers, number of deaths (per million of population) in week 14 (March 30 - April

William Keel

NGC3314

Today in #BeyondSolSys class material - galaxy history. (Astronomers often speak of galaxy evolution - but as population change rather than descent w/modification, biologists and @GrumpyKelson complain). Anyway, galaxies show

Syed Mohammad Murtaza

syedmohdmurtaza

How many of us know that civilian version of #ISIS i.e. Hizb-ut-Tahrir has its Headquarters in London?HuT is banned in Central Asia, West Asia, South Asia but legally work in

SS

ssozinha__

THE AFRICAN ISLAND WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE, AND MEN CANT SAY NO.A look into the Matriarchy of the Bijagò in Guinea-Bissau A THREAD [1] - For some background, the Bijago

Annie Boustead

AnnieBoustead

Looking forward to reading this! FWIW, I worry so much about error in legal variables because some common sources of error seem likely to be correlated with characteristics of jurisdictions,

Ash

ashindestad

London's seats vs the Black British population: Asian British: White British It's so interesting to me how ethnicity (and class) plays a major role in vote patterns in London. London's