#POPULATION

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

A very short thread on some interesting stuff around population growth that I think is worth talking / thinking aboutI read the article below recently and...it's great. It's a pitch-perfect,

Graham Appleton

GrahamFAppleton

#Curlew thread from the UK and #WaderTales, in preparation for World Curlew Day: 21st April (@WCDApril21) We need to learn to value and conserve the world's curlews before species disappear

panic! at the panopticon

MANlCBITCH

bpd affects approx. 4-6% of ppl in the united states . that’s nearly 20 million ppl TW SUICIDE// 20 million ppl who are at elevated risk for suicide relative to

Maitethia Mbaya

maitethia_mbaya

#ChinaMustExplain #ChinaLiedAndPeopleDiedThe other side of the story I agree evicting them and exposing them to the streets was bad and inhuman. Could it be a way to clear the African

Dr Kat (your friendly local epidemiologist)

epi_punk

People are starting to talk about "testing everybody" for COVID as an elimination strategy. I've got bad news for those people, I'm afraid. As far as I know, we have

Jean-Paul R. Soucy

JPSoucy

Masks help. But we should be careful not to over-interpret correlations like this. These uncritical takes regarding the efficacy of masks are very easy to poke holes in. Such arguments

Frank

FrankBullit67

Prediction: the US will lift the lockdown and India will follow suit. The Indian scientific "establishment" right now is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. It would ideally like

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

There's been increasing discussion about the role of immunity vs behavior vs interventions in the spread of COVID-19. Louisiana is a good case study because it's the only state that

Shannon Young

SYoungReports

A reporter at tonight's COVID-19 task force presser in Mexico City questioned its leader about the herd immunity approach. He started off with a fake news/infodemia detour, which has become

Lew

LewSOS

It would be good if the economists and economic hawks would take this epochal moment to reflect on why such a large portion of the population is so alienated from

Valar Morghulis ♮

tommy_viccetti

TOP TEN ANIMALS THAT HAS GONE EXTINCTS.1. THE PINTA ISLAND TORTOISECause of Extinction: goats that humans introduced to Pinta Island who destroyed their habitats, rats (also introduced by humans) who

Atul Butte

atulbutte

Wow, another seroprevalence study, this one in Los Angeles! @LAPublicHealth estimating 4.1% of the county's adult population has antibody to the virus. This would seem to match the earlier @Stanford

Heidi Heidi

Bo_Beidi

I would like to model out the argument that we should just "let the virus burn through the young and get to herd immunity". And I would like to do

Bridget Casey

BridgieCasey

The problem I really have with this whole new pandemic culture of shaming people for failing to adhere to your interpretation of social distancing & isolation rules is that it’s

Punished "Venom" Minstrel (read pinned)

soarel325

Prussia is really crazy to meLike, as a conceptIt was basically the closest thing in reality to one of those always-evil fantasy races whose entire society and culture is oriented

Jake Tapper

jaketapper

The White House is currently having difficulty keeping COVID19 out of the White House itself. Three senior members of the coronavirus task force — Drs. Redfield, Hahn, and Fauci —