#Covid

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

A on Delhi's COVID epidemic - to put the devastating current news in context. The desperate hunt of beds, the shortages of oxygen, almost 30K positive tests and over

tuthanhha

TuThanhHa

As a regular obit writer, this is a recurring fear, when a key part of the colourful life you profile turns out be a fabrication.Cuban-born novelist and classical pianist Hermán

George Conway

gtconway3d

“Major catastrophes lay bare the truth about our leaders. Trump’s criminally negligent, chaotic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed, once and for all, that he is a corrupt, narcissistic

Stacey - 1776 & MLK

ScotsFyre

The very idea that Trump “deserved” this because he did not mask all the time & go into isolation is just a lie. One of my “essential employees” did everything

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

We've got another day of COVID data! Tests down, positive rate up. Death rate continues its inexorable rise, up to 6.2% now. The pace of curve flattening seems to be

Shaun Ratcliff

ShaunRatcliff

While most Australians believe government lockdown measures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic “are about right”, new public opinion research by @andrea_carson, @SimonJackman , @leahruppanner and me finds Americans are deeply

Stephen Gruppetta

S_Gruppetta

Modelling is dodgy, some say. But if we fit the real published data to it, using data to adjust model parameters, we increase confidence in the model, perhaps? THREAD full

Kannan Gopinathan

naukarshah

Dear PM @narendramodi, this is just a heads up thread.Your covid relief economic policies are pushing the country into a dangerous triple balance sheet crisis.And unlike the twin-balance sheet crisis,

jon kirby

jonkirbysthlm

The main excuse the govts are using to force control and disruption to our everyday lives is Case Numbers. This thread is going to be looking at the pcr tests

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

THREAD: In forecasting Trump's fate, one needs to be careful as there is a fair amount of uncertainty as to what the trajectory of the pandemic will look like by

watching life

callingitaspade

A thread of global coverage on the Modi created disaster. April 25th in the New York Times 1/n#ModiMadeDisaster May 10th cover of the @TIME Magazine https://time.com/5964796/india-covid-19-failure/ and https://time.com/5957118/india-covid-1

Noah Halpin

Noah_Halpin

Can we talk about the ZERO availability of public toilets right now? I've had to travel into town for meds twice recently (3.5hr round trip). No public toilets open, no

Vasudev Bailey, PhD

vasudevbailey

The list of serological tests. Summary: tons of choices and very little quality control or standardization. What sensitivity / specificity you ask? Most of these companies don't publish it, and

PoliMath

politicalmath

A lot of states get left out of the new when it comes to COVID numbers. For today's newsletter, I charted every state's COVID data.I grouped the US into 8

Alex Kaplan

AlKapDC

We're now hearing multiple cases of people refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine due to the false coronavirus vaccine microchip conspiracy theory -- which came from social media. https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/bill-

Alasdair McKillop

AGMcKillop

Neil Findaly has lodged two questions about the Rangers-Leverkusen game. The first asks "for what reason it considered that the Rangers versus Bayer Leverkusen football match on 12 March 2020