#POPULATION

David Sheppard

OilSheppard

Interesting numbers from Sir Patrick Vallance based on serology tests:~10% of Londoners thought to have had coronavirus~4% for rest of UKThat implies ~3m total across UK from population of 66m

Rokovich

ReasonInterest

Interesting (little noted) comparison between W. Europe (IT/SPA/FR/GER/AUT/BE/NL/UK/SW/IRE/POR) & USA:W. Eur Population: 384.3 MMCases: 674 KDeaths: 59 KDeaths/1 MM Pop: 154USAPopulation: 327 MMCases: 430 KDeaths: 15 KDeaths/1 MM Pop: 45

Franklin💀✨

ShartiTheClown

I cannot stress enough how silly you look when you say “trans people are only like 1% of the population so we shouldn’t cater to a tiny minority”.That’s 666,500 people

Mark Krikorian

MarkSKrikorian

In the first two years of the Trump administration (2017-19), growth in the immigrant population (legal & illegal) averaged only about 200,000 a year, in contrast to 650,000 a year

Zeal A. Jacobson

zeal_a

I don't think we all know & appreciate what @sgyemikale & @nigerianstat are doing for us with all the data they provide.Understandably, they just push the data & don't analyse

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Slaoui, speaking to @jaketapper, lays out an aggressive vaccination timelineIf he's right, we'll see virus spread starting to slow from growing population immunity by end of January into FebruaryAnd much

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KeeAliMalcolm

1|4 Let me break something down for those of you who think like Donald Trump. Black people account for around 13-14% of America’s population. Hispanic/Latinx people account for 16-18% of

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Today's novel stupidity strain: people sliding into my mentions with idiotic cod-evolutions theories that hold that viruses will, over time, attain a peaceful coexistence because more virulent and deadly strains

Peter Ellis

ellis2013nz

I've been thinking hard about test positivity rates and how they impact on difficulty of estimating incidence and prevalence when there aren't random samples from the population. Blog post with

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

In light of the most credible reinfection case to date () there has been discussion of what this means for herd immunity from infection or vaccines.Quick thread with a simplified

Mediocrates

DarwinParkin

Depressing take but the Johnson family are eugenicistsStanley wrote books about population issues and controlBoris said "let the bodies pile high" and has also written about population controlYet they have

Dic Aberdaron

welshchauvinist

Uganda had a population of 7 million when it gained independence in 1962, and is currently at 43 million. It's projected to reach 90 million people (and be the world's

Simon I. Hay

simonihay

Congratulations to Prof. Stein Emil Vollset (@IHME_UW)) on “#Fertility, #mortality, #migration, & #population #scenarios for 195 countries …: a #forecasting analysis for the #GBDstudy 2019 @TheLancet doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I've seen a number of unfair narratives used to try diminish the Irish response to coronavirus. I'm going to address a particularly disingenuous one here:That Ireland should be doing 'better'

Economissive

Economissive

It depends what your purpose is.If you're looking to show whether the spread is overwhelming the capacity of society / the health system to handle it (which is actually the

Steve Deace

SteveDeaceShow

Thread on current #coronavirus data courtesy of @covidtracking to put things in perspective: The US is approaching 31 million tests. 8% have come back positive, and that includes states like