#POPULATION

Kalu Aja

FinPlanKaluAja1

I commend and respect the diligent labour of the farmers across Nigeria, but this is no longer farming..... This is farming..... Agriculture is 99% science & 1% perspirationMalthusian said the

Liz Webster 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺

abcpoppins

London cardiologist friendly to Boris:“We discharged known, suspected and unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared with no formal warning that the patients were infected, no testing available, and

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

If you believe the survival rate is 99.8%, then that implies you think that ***110%*** of people in New York have been infected.https://twitter.com/PoliticalSock/status/1321543846698897410 This is actually a nice chance to

Biotech Hack

biotechhack

Um. Due respect, but Taylor doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. There is no way human beings could ever develop a virus as 'clever' as this one. Dissemination

Joe Hilton

JoeBHilton

I’ve spent the past six months modelling covid-19 in households. Here’s a thread on some Matlab code I’ve written to generate synthetic populations for infectious disease models from publicly available

Peter Castleden

peter_castleden

When a new virus emerges, there is naturally a reaction to worry in the absence of data. Epidemiologists will then typically use theoretical models to project the impact of the

Ryan Imgrund

imgrund

I want to respond to this thread, respectfully disagreeing with @ASPphysician that we should no longer use AstraZeneca in Canada.Aside from a critical math error, there is an assumption which

Alasdair Rae

undertheraedar

A short city population/datanerdfest coming up in this thread, beginning with a little panoramic tour of the Tokyo metro area - city as far as the eye can see(I made

UK Government England

UKGovernmentEn1

A thread:The English media tells us our neighbour Scotland is ‘too wee & too poor’ to leave the political union which currently unites our two countries.It seems only fair the

Dr. Dave Stukus

AllergyKidsDoc

When someone says they don't believe a disease is serious because "I don't know anyone who has been sick/died from ___",I'll often reply "Do you know anyone who has won

Parliament Must Decide

newpaulhearn

Is the UK a representative democracy? Will it remain one?At least Brexit got many people thinking more about how democracy works or doesn't. I'll be honest, I never gave it

PoliMath

politicalmath

So... here's a fun thing that I actually know from, you know, talking to people and asking questions.Why aren't we using South Korea's faster antibody test to test for COVID-19?Well,

Stats SA

StatsSA

[Thread] South Africa’s unemployment rate increase by 1,0 percentage point to 30,1% in Q1:2020 compared to Q4:2019. The unemployment rate usually increases between Q4 and Q1 each year. Read more

Kevin Bird

itsbirdemic

Let's play a fun polling game: Let's say some says they are concerned about integrated schools because Black students will struggle in school because they would be mistakenly treated like

Tim | ThatchamDad

thatchamdad

This. Look up the data on how the 2nd wave of Spanish flu dwarfed the 1st. Then justify why it’s so important to get your hair cut and go to

Alexandre Afonso

alexandreafonso

A thread about how the coronavirus seems to disproportionately affect certain ethnic groups/minorities in different countries. In Sweden, a disproportionate share of the first Covid deaths were among the Swedish-Somali