#POPULATION

Shanmukh

maidros78

1) I just did a back of the envelope calculation about the `Massacre of Muslims in Jammu'. Let us look at the numbers coldly. There were no massacres of Muslims

Beͫvͣaͬnͨd

zorinaq

Today in NEJM, a new #covid19 study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2026116Let's see what they find about:- percentage who develop antibodies- antibody levels (not) changing over time- Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR)Spoiler:

Peter Corless 🌎☮

PeterCorless

We keep getting conflicting reports re #coronavirus overall mortality and morbidity. Are we going to see 100k's die or millions? In my spreadsheet here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_jLQVedAK_-3nHdok7aoyYMY19qj1OtfaMTaguAOME/edit#gid=

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

Something I think is deeply underappreciated right now is that, while social distancing has been tremendously effective, that efficacy is going to expire in about two weeks, when anyone infected

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

I’ve been asked to explain why I thought the high reported number of #COVID19 cases in Sheffield was misleading, so here it is: Essentially, the COVID19 tracker is a type

Micah Blake McCurdy

IneffectiveMath

Ok I threatened y'all with a thread about this and now there is no escape. It is technical in places; I mostly understand it but not completely.https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/1252222727785775104 There are (at

Rebecca Vincent

rebecca_vincent

Okay. A personal thread about #Karabakh - not pretending to be a conflict resolution expert, but as someone who spent a decade working mostly on human rights in Azerbaijan, lived

IndiaSpend

IndiaSpend

4 in 5 (79%) of India’s rural habitations have access to a minimum of 2 buckets (40 litres) of safe drinking water per capita per day (lpcd), 18% have access

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Nr of tweets circulate claiming Finland has higher excess mortality than Sweden.This seemed very strange so I took a closer look at long-term mortality in Sweden, Finland and Norway.Thread.TL;DR: The

BIANCA! Jy MAG NIE!

booksbakesbants

One thing I love about being Muslim in Cape Town is a gadat. Yoh I love a gadat. I live in a town where the Muslim population was very small

Simon D. A. Clark

Sunkensie

Interesting new preprint on diagnostic uncertainty - a higher quantity of COVID19 tests will probably do more harm with poor test targeting (eg. contact tracing) i.e more "no test is

Sunny Hundal

sunny_hundal

Non-whites are 13% of the UK population but a full third of Covid-19 critically ill patients.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8191443/NHS-data-suggests-people-black-minority-backgrounds-vulnerable-coronavirus.htmlWorrying. Possibly because:-

David Burge

iowahawkblog

After 6+ weeks of never venturing more than 1.5 miles from my house (

Regis Portalez

PortalezRegis

Allez petit thread sur ce que je tire de la conf @X__Alternative sur le maintien de l'ordre. 3 problèmes principaux : - le lien avec la population ;- l'encadrement ;-

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I'm seeing more and more suggestions that groups at low risk of COVID-19 should go back to normal while high risk groups are protected. What would the logical implications of

TheValuesVoter

TheValuesVoter

For those of you who are trying to reach your brainwashed family members who still believe Trump's lies about the election, here are some maps that tell the story of