#POPULATION

Portland Press Herald

PressHerald

Morning, fellow Social Distancers. We're back with another daily thread of all the stories you need during the coronavirus pandemic. These are free to access as a public service. You

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Here is a new French Covid numbers crunch…With 7,379 new cases confirmed in the 24hrs to 2pm yesterday, the official daily count of Covid-19 in France has almost doubled in

A.M.

bhalomanush

This is a very confused thread arguing testing isn't perfect and therefore it should only be done where probability is high. But it's fundamentally flawed because you don't know where

Special Adviser to the President on Infrastructure

SAIP_NG

@arkazaure was on @TVCconnect earlier today, and he had an extensive chat where he spoke on Electricity generation and the future projections of Infrastructural development in Nigeria. A Thread

Stefan Rahmstorf

rahmstorf

How is it going for those people trying to make us believe #Corona is hardly worse than ordinary flu? Mortality in New York is double what it normally is.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html Mort

Nick Short 🇺🇸

PoliticalShort

"COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory...the sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that 'patient zero' worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in

Dr. Christine Eady Mann

DrChristineMann

.@GovAbbott I have questions: What research institution is overseeing this experiment? When will you show us the IRB’s protocol and selection process? How was informed consent obtained?What is your control

Aidan Hollis

aidanhollis

#COVID19AB is not going well. I have been asked repeatedly to comment on the effect of temporary measures on the economy. People seem to be worried about this question: (1)

Kannan Gopinathan

naukarshah

Dear PM @narendramodi, wonderful speech. Brilliantly abdicated all accountability by saying everyone was saying so!What data shata. brrrrr... shoo shoo.Anyway, in today's briefing let us take a look at how

Jacob Koella

jacob_koella

It seems that in this #Covid-19 crisis we are sometimes forgetting some basic aspects about interpreting test results, in particular with regard to issuing 'immunity passports'. Immunity passports are a

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Hard not to conclude that's a fairly thin Queen's Speech. Reasonable people might say that's understandable given the Government has had this pandemic thing to deal with. But it's quite

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

2/ The authors (and Karen in other work) describe people who have authoritarian dispositions, and distinguish such people from traditional or "status quo" conservatives. Those with authoritarian dispositions are averse

Prof Courtenay Norbury

lilacCourt

our @PALS_SCALES paper showing language, but not general non-verbal cognitive ability, longitudinally predicts emotion recognition from face & voice cues has finally been published: https://peerj.com/articles/9118/ 1/ This is fabu

Zachary Binney

zbinney_NFLinj

Quite a bit to unpack from MLB's first testing round !-Across players and staff, total +s is 1.2%.-Don't know denominators for each but looks like players test much higher than

Nana Kofi Quakyi

nkquakyi

THREAD: The "positivity rate" on which the future of the lockdown was decided is a particularly awful data point that tells a misleading story about #COVID19 infections. Take the travelers

Brent Bellamy

brent_bellamy

There’s a little known remnant of an important part of Winnipeg’s history still standing on Clare Avenue in the Riverview neighbourhood. This yellow house rising above its neighbours was once