#Covid

Hi Twitter, I’m Tim Manning, the White House COVID-19 Supply Coordinator. There’s been a lot of confusion around the use of the Defense Production Act as it relates to the
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Why am I obsessing over My Little Ponies right now? Because I have multiple underlying medical conditions, all well-managed and medicated under my doctor's supervision, and a surprising number of
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Since the Task Force, specifically @alexjahangir has decided to pick outlier anecdotes and obscure statistics with no context in order to advocate for continued closure of schools (all while his
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Republicans are the largest vaccine hesitant group in the US and their hesitancy is not declining. What can we do about it?In this new piece in the @LAtimes, I &
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1 Covid has us living in unprecedented times. Lockdowns? Police state! Well, look @ 1918...Read it all"In October, the virus burned through the nation. Dozens of cities across the U.S.
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The Covid pandemic poses a very interesting evidence-based policymaking challenge. Sorry, very busy, barely on twitter, but here's a mini splurge. There are legitimate questions about the strengths and weaknesses
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NEW: @martgnz and I have added four more countries to our excess-mortality tracker: Sweden, Belgium, Austria and Turkey (using data from Istanbul only). (1/9)https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-c
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We (epi & biostat folks) have a major conflict of interest when it comes to evaluating COVID research that I’m not sure we’ve fully acknowledged. 1/ Mostly, when we assess
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If @jkenney or @shandro wanted to direct research towards something productive, they might want to consider what's alluded to in this case: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/emergency-room-doctor-near-death-with-coronavirus-saved-with-experime
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1. “Nothing is normal right now” is what I’ve just heard on BBC News regarding prospect of mass unemployment and Covid-19. Nothing has been “normal” for a very, very long
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Alright, I didn't want to do this, but I may as well seeing how crazy all of this shit is getting.Sorry if I get too harsh in this rant, but
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This week, I and other @theBMA committee chairs wrote to Trust CEOs across England to urge them to:- adopt risk scoring tools- alongside measures to allow staff at risk of
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NHS Covid-19 app: How England and Wales' contact-tracing service works some very clear info from ⁦@LeoKelion⁩ herehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54250736 I have some queries I may report back on. Its not exactly a
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So where is the UK-Rapid Test Consortium AbC antibody test we are still waiting for?And where are the results from the PHE independent study? @Abingdonhealth have not responded to my
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"In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says "there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen." The "Big Pharma" insider
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This thread is not so dissimilar to what we’ve been dealing with in my family’s covid outbreak this past month. Luckily everyone in my family made it out alive but
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