#Epidemic

François Gemenne

Gemenne

We often hear it said, in certain circles, that the current #COVIDー19 crisis would be "good for the climate and the environment," or that we ought "to apply the same

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

As cases surged this week, I asked more than half a dozen researchers (epidemiologists, virologists and psychologists) if the U.S. has lost its COVID-19 war and if widespread lockdowns are

MFoxhunter™️

mfoxhunter

Time to clear the air on #COVID19 The most important thread you read today!You want to survive and not become a death statistic?STOP what you are doing and read!The answer

Robinson Meyer

yayitsrob

1/ Okay, this is a special one. 2/ A few months ago, I brought an idea to @AdrienneLaF and leadership at @TheAtlantic.I wanted to make a new kind of climate

Steven Simmons

dr_sjsimmons

Happening now (11am - 12pm ET)! Resurgence of Illicit Stimulants in the Ongoing Substance Use Disorder Epidemic - notes below #CPDD20 Matthew Ellis (WUSTL)... Overdose deaths related to coc and

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

As we all grow weary of lockdowns & restrictions, & some case-counts seem to plateau, there's restlessness towards ending these to limit economic harm & 'get back to normal'Let me

WesElyMD

WesElyMD

1/ What is “Brain Fog” in #COVID19: discussion, papers & pts Brain Fog is a non-medical term but it works since it’s what pts describe. Whether in a ward,

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ The Texas House approved a bill that would allow handguns to be carried without a permit, and Texas Republicans are vowing to defy federal gun rules. The moves come

David States

statesdj

Let’s talk about Fall Semester. Colleges and universities have to make some big decisions soon1/ And it won’t affect just students. For example, the University of Michigan #GoBlue has 46,000

🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸

mrddmia

Dear ⁦@jack⁩:Why did ⁦@Twitter⁩’s Censorship Department suspend conservative attorney ⁦@Yoder_Esqq⁩’s account?What part of his tweet below is false? Dear @NickPacilio:Were you behind @Twitter’s decision to suspend conserva

John Mandrola, MD

drjohnm

Thread on a potential silver lining of #COVID19 My friend @BenMazer is a pathologist and he's noticed huge declines in specimens obtained for cancer diagnoses. Reason: hospitals have stopped elective

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

If you asked your barber whether you needed a haircut, would you expect an unbiased answer?And what would you expect, if you asked the vaccine industry whether the world needed

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Let me summarise a really important new #COVID19 modelling paper from Rosalyn Moran, Karl Friston and colleagues from Kings and UCL, London. Published in ArXiV. (1) https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf "We sought to

sree sreenivasan #sreecovid19call #WBAIsree

sree

Thoughts on media/society/travel aspects of #coronavirus. Ongoing - send items. Nothing will make me happier than to end this thread!@CDCgov issued Level 3 China warning - Avoid non-essential travel -

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Comment on https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764658 with @sarahcobey @KeyaJoshi3 shows conclusions change dramatically if use more appropriate Wallinga-Teunis method for R(t) estimation. Comment on the site and at https://github.com/

Steve Conaway

steveconaway1

One of the reasons for this trip was that I wanted to see if the poverty and opioid epidemic that the news talks about having a strangle hold on this