#Virus

With the increase in testing going on, we’re now seeing people testing positive now in May, who tested negative in March and April. These are not due to failure to
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Just a reminder that we have two-fifths of FA real data on how any single person or group gets infected by SARS-CoV-2. We're not there to observe the process. We
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Another sign of soaring xenophobia in China. A cartoon imagines foreigners as trash to be sorted. It invents their crimes against the virus response, mixes it with their malign motives
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1/n Back in March @nntaleb had a tweet about SIR models that got me interested studying models of virus spread a bit more.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1239171413342289921 2/n As I often do, I started
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Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science
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This statement from the president, released through Rudy Giuliani to the New York Post, is a fundamental misunderstanding of the coronavirus threat https://nypost.com/2020/10/03/trump-tells-rudy-giuliani-im-going-to-beat-covid-19/ First off
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My friend from Bangalore says people in last few months followed zero precautions and parties as if there was no tomorrow. Understandably they ONLY blame Modi today as if he
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Hi, former public health professional here. A thread to clarify a few things for my fellow Oklahomans:1. If you have symptoms, such as body aches, you’re not asymptomatic. The presence
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I AM THE DESTROYER OF THE 5G CONSPIRACY THEORY. HEAR ME ROAR!Yes, we are living in a disaster movie. It's really sad. We all hate it.No, 5G has nothing to
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1/x Start thinking about how we are going to re-open the economy. Are you assuming that the virus is 100% gone when we do? I wouldn't. So let's say you
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1/I look at COVID data every single day and usually spend a couple hours at itWhat I've been seeing recently is that vaccination is kicking in in a huge wayAnd
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1/x Rep. Shawn Dooley's juvenile piece against the governor represents something more fundamental I've been thinking about for months: how the virus will affect conservatism as a governing force, even
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OK, this stuff makes me cross. COVID-19 is serious enough without reporting research in a way that scares people unnecessarily. For example, this piece from The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/virus-can-live-28-days-on-phone-
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Ok. Here's a little insight into the life of an infectious disease epidemiologist trying to handle uncertainty and report responsibly. Warning - the coming thread will contain many "i'm not
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It’s interesting Rudy Giuliani is tweeting that Donald Trump invested 3.7 million American taxpayer dollars in a Wuhan, China lab that Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump are blaming for a
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1 - This is an opportunity for those of us lucky enough to be young and healthy, to show how courageous, driven and and capable we are in the face
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