#POPULATION

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

A big challenge in determining the effectiveness of policy interventions (i.e. social distancing) is that there are really several buckets that determine how bad the outbreak is in any given

Hannah Nicklin 🌹

hannahnicklin

It is wild to me that (according to DR) the Danish R number is 1.4, and in certain cities (Aarhus) 2.2 and no one seems concerned about that? Anything above

Elliot 🏳️‍⚧️ (He/him)

dreamycrow

“The north wasn’t colonised!” Erm. Yeah? Everyone knows that? The NIPs aim might be more in line with the hundreds of years the north has been suffering and neglected by

अरुन् पुदुर्

arunpudur

Unpopular truthHindus (Indics) are at the most 60% (max) of India population Christians are easily around 18% including cryptos / SC ST Indian Muslims plus illegals from Bangladesh & Myanmar

Charlie Hancock

Hancock2001

I've been thinking about this a lot recentlyCan a writer(or book)truly be considered "great" if its portrayal of women is lazy and incompetent at best, or misogynistic at worse? Surely

James Wilson

jamewils

Many here asked what worries me most about India's #COVID19 trajectory based on tests dataAnswer is look at the number of tests needed to confirm a positive case, call it

Marie-Louise Ramsdale

mlramsdale_law

We are well into month five of economic impact. Had S.C. handled COVID-19 correctly to start with, we would likely be in recovery mode with schools gearing up to open.

Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance

nickreeves9876

Why does the hard-right want herd immunity?Mass-testing & tracing will take months to implement. Unchecked, Covid-19 will infect most of the population in one month. So the ground will be

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

Important finding. It suggests that herd immunity could be achieved at a lower threshold than what's typically assumed, because the most susceptible people are the ones who get infected first.

Firass Abiad

firassabiad

1.6 President @EmmanuelMacron’s visit to RHUH, and the announcement of a €7 million to support the hospital, are very significant: Both acknowledge the important role of the health sector especially

British Army Majors’ School 🦉

icsc_l

In 1994 Lt Luc Lemaire was in command of a company tasked with guarding a police station at a school in Kigali, Rwanda. There were c2,000 civilians at the school

iam@scorpio

ngsukhlecha

Fuck all ye bastards who are going on yet about testing & zones & positive cases & social distancing & masks & sanitizers... the poor and all right thinking give

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

UK policy is reckless: they’ve stopped population testing, contact tracing and rigorous quarantine measures - the bedrock of epidemic control and WHO advice. This will not delay but accelerate the

blakequinn

blakequinn77

“Variations neither injurious or useful aren’t affected by natural selection but would be left a fluctuating element”.This is central to the discourse of intersex phenomenon from an evolutionary perspective. The

Sarah Otto

sarperotto

1/n I've been asked a few times about the math in this recent Science paper, so here's a thread to help unpack it: A mathematical model reveals the influence of

Parikshit Tank

pariktank

THREADWhy vaccinate pregnant and breastfeeding (P+BF) women against COVID-19 in India?A decision that will affect the lives of 50 million Indians over the next year.1/n At present, @MoHFW_INDIA has contraindicated