#POPULATION

Alex Howard

digiphile

“Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists. This finding held true…controlling for population size, distance to Washington, unemployment rate

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

5% of the entire population of the United States -- not just labor force, the ENTIRE population -- has filed for unemployment in the past 3 weeks. It's pretty, uh,

Danny Boy

Care2much18

World Rankings, Tests Per Million inhabitants (Countries >3m population:)1. Denmark 82,0572. Portugal 64,9383. Belgium 61,2774. Ireland 59,9515. Israel 59,3196. Kuwait 59,2797. Italy 51,3388. Russia 50,3839. NZ 48,53910. Australia 42,643

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

A fascinating blog post by Andrei Illarionov, considers carefully the infection and death rates due to coronavirus in different parts of Italy. He points out the big differences between different

Leonydus Johnson (leave/me/alone)

LeonydusJohnson

The very first narrative I saw this morning about Deon Kay was that was just an innocent boy, not a threat, murdered by the cops who shot him in the

Sudarshan Varadhan

sudvaradhan

THREAD: Charts on public hospital beds availability across India. Source is National Health Profile released in 2020: a little dated, but health infra is built over years. Safe to discount

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

The number of deaths from all causes in 2019 vs. number of deaths from or with Covid-19 in 2020-21. The 70+ age cohort accounts for only 12% of the

Meg Ruttan Walker

TricksyRaccoon

I'm noticing that all these (mostly white men) people defending Moore's film like to1) couple overconsumption with overpopulation2) Just kinda drop overpopulation out there and leave it hanging. This from

Laura Williams

MicroWavesSci

Reports about COVID-19 testing in the U.S. seem to frame the number of tests performed as if once a person gets tested and learns their result (COVID-19 pos or neg),

Manoel

manoelribeiro

Large scale population measurements will often (if not always) have biases. However, dropping such measurements is not the solution: we should acknowledge its limitation, correct for them using statistical methods

Market Musings

AndysCycles

Musing: Be careful about being bearish due to COVID-19 only.My completely undocumented guess is that a large set of population have already been infected and have recovered.If true and when

Samuel Sinyangwe

samswey

Arrests of Black people by Tucson PD:2019 - 5,607 arrests2018 - 4,189 arrests2017 - 4,031 arrestsTotal Black population of Tucson: 27,689https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/explorer/agency/AZ0100300/arrest https://twitter.com/ParxistLe

Robson Fletcher

CBCFletch

Here are the latest COVID-19 data for Alberta:• 1,996 new cases (1,980 net w/adjustments to past days)• 24,860 active• 659 in hospital w/ 150 in ICU• 4 more deaths. 2,106

Robert Peston

Peston

I am being inundated with messages from people with what they fear may be #Covid_19 symptoms who cannot work because they can’t get a test. So what is going on?

Victoria Brownworth

VABVOX

THREADThis J&J pause is a disastrous and unnecessary decision by @CDCgov and @US_FDA. There were NO blood clots in any of the thousands of women involved in the clinical trials.

Simon Bradley

SimonBradley8

I am increasingly concerned about relaxation of lockdown without having Test, Trace & Isolate in place. This brings a significant risk of an early second wave. I am sure TT&I