#POPULATION

Why is it imp to find asymptomatic carriers of the virus?"Because of asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus, we’re going to need a lot more testing and have public health officials
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A Beginner's Guide to Preservational Bias:How limited information can create faulty conclusions, and things to consider when imagining Mesozoic ecosystems. Note that not every Mesozoic formation is the same, and
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I’ll make a separate thread one last time on this #EndAnglophoneCrisis https://twitter.com/lfbiaka/status/1320975676816711680 I am sure, extremely sure that at this point most people want to put an end to this
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If you have been paying attention, you will have noticed that the Alt-Right, including the Boogaloo Boys (IDGAF - that's where I'm putting you), along with QAnon and propagandists are
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So far we've been trying to figure out the proportion of the population that had already been infected, hence the focus on serological studies, but do we have good estimates
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Don’t go outside at night, never walk alone, don’t park in the dark, go to the bathrooms in twos, never take a drink from a guy, carry mace, don’t wear
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My new @SMFthinktank briefing paper on "intergenerational fairness in the coronavirus economy" is now out. It sets out the case for ensuring that future austerity, to pay for the current
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COVID-19 hospitalizations in FLSummary: NOT VERY GOODSince 3 weeks ago (10/18), we are up 643 currently hospitalized patients, or 31.7%.1/ Of the 23 counties w/ >250k population:- 3 have more
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"There is no getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better"This is possibly the most damaging message in terms of public health and I believe
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#IndiaChinaFaceOff Getting quite a few queries on subject asking if there will be a War My Response : No For Three reasons 1. Poor economic state of China- Almost 40
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Twitter is full of wrong takes on Labour's Hartlepool lossWas Labour too left/not left enough? Would Corbyn have done better than Starmer? Should Labour have been more/less pro-Brexit? Wrong candidate,
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I'm feeling angry tonight, and I need to vent. The unjust killings that are talked about most often find us here. But you don’t have to look that hard to
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Thread:The purpose of testing in an epidemic is not to find the number of people infected but find as many infected people as you can and swiftly isolate them from
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I'm not an economist but one should be able to tell how bad things could ho wrong should we relax our lock down rules. From my point of view [a
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Useful thread that I’ll translate from Danish. I don’t necessarily endorse any particular statement. First translation in following tweet.https://twitter.com/MaMoMVPY/status/1321705590821920770 “Since March, I have spent a lot of time
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Since the Task Force, specifically @alexjahangir has decided to pick outlier anecdotes and obscure statistics with no context in order to advocate for continued closure of schools (all while his
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