#POPULATION

Yossi Gestetner

YossiGestetner

Death rates are deaths relative to known cases. Why would you think that a country’s known case count is really all the cases that a country has? Most countries tested

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

One thing these two idiots in St. Louis remind us is that if we’re going to have a less paramilitary and hyper aggressive kind of policing and approach to public

LA Beachy

LesleyABeach

In the "majority" of the UK's hardest hit local authorities, case no.s seem to be reducing, whilst less hit areas see larger daily increases. 1. Is this simply as testing

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

lisa_iannattone

Informative thread on B1617 in England. I disagree that the only thing that matters is that vaccines protect against severe outcomes. If vaccines are less effective against non-severe illness, the

vlachofagos

vlachofagos

Thread:What we mean when we say that the Armenian genocide never happend is not that the sufferings of both the Armenians and Turks never took place, it simply means there

Max (E2 Review Podcast)

MaxE2review

Uplifting fact: Over the last 38 years, the number of people living in extreme poverty has reduced by an average of over 100,000 per day. In 1800, there was not

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

Imagine the economy as a train roaring towards a precipice. All that is needed to avert catastrophic disaster would be for a few levers to be pulled.Long ago, the First-Class

Abhijit Chavda

AbhijitChavda

Spot-on. Let me illustrate this with an example.Take Narasimhan, Reich et al.'s paper titled "The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia". It suffers from a number of glaring issues.https://twitter.com/ProfVemsani/status/

Nipun Malhotra

nipunmalhotra

Starting a thread on common myths around Disability. Will post one everyday! Hope it makes people understand Disability better. Myth: Only a small number of people live with a disability.Truth:

Tiffani Ashley Bell

tiffani

From this report: "During the majority of the past 50 years Black Americans have experienced unemployment rates that, were they experienced by the entire population, would be seen as recessionary."

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

listen, if your take about poor statewide political leadership in the South doesn’t attempt to explain how a politically and demographically diverse region of the country is dominated by MAGA

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Very interesting that the Irish screening program estimates their false positive rate lies between 0.7-0.8%. They rightly say that retesting positives almost eliminated this issue. I agree. Even U.K. Govt

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Let me summarise a really important new #COVID19 modelling paper from Rosalyn Moran, Karl Friston and colleagues from Kings and UCL, London. Published in ArXiV. (1) https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf "We sought to

Aairah Hasan

AairahHasan

Problem with Hindus is: they think short-term. Bringing NaMo to power in 2019, 2024,.. and they are content after that. We #Christians and #Muslims think long-term. We keep trying. Our

Mikesh Patel

tomilis

Spending time with the cuzzies from the US, the differences between the Gujarati/Indian diaspora in the US and NZ, UK, etc. is fascinating. Wealthiest demographic in the US, most definitely

markyyy

mrkvntbl

ECQ STORYOne of the staffs from Dinagyang 2020 added me on Facebook and pm-ed me if may temporary jobs ako nga ma offer sa iya and I offered her some