#Epidemic

As a result of #COVID19, academics are working from home, often while simultaneously caring for their children. As clinicians & scientists, @nataliexdean @DrDianaMW & I worry this will lead to
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Toby Young and Carl Heneghan and other “lockdown sceptics” have been making strong claims about how they can show lockdown has had no impact on the epidemic, based on simple
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The US is at war, make no mistake. The war has been going on for quite some time using sneaky methods to change way people think. Some suspected but people
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While it is good that @jkenney will look at changes, he continues to be spreading false information about this Bill.UCP going 'back to the drawing board' on controversial Bill 10,
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UPDATE: Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate. What does this mean for reproductive health, rights, and justice? Here’s a quick look at her record. THREAD: As California
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I'm going to get back to writing this morning...working on some stuff about age distributions and invisibility of epidemics in "young" countries. But first... I want to do a tweetorial
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It's always interesting to see the Western argument around 'dignity' surface, in things like this, and how one-sided we are in terms of who we afford that dignity to.Like, this
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The Australian #COVID19 modelling was published today. My thanks to James McCaw (@j_mccaw) for checking this thread. I’ll do two threads - one explaining the results and how we might
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The covid-19 is causing an outbreak of pseudo-science. I thought I'd spend some time talking about what science actually is. It can be summarized in the following graph: This is
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Eight More Steps to Crush Your Virtual Interview, Part 2A thread https://nnamtique.com/eight-more-steps-to-crush-your-virtual-interview-part-2/ Welcome to part 2 of our two-part series, Eight Steps to Crush Your Virtual Interview. Yesterda
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Paedophiles aren't just roaming the Internet. They're in our homes. They're our brothers & sisters. Aunt/ uncles. They're in our children's schools. In our Churches & Mosques.THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!DON'T WAIT TILL
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CFR, IFR, CMR & one more R:Reality check. I was deeply disturbed yesterday to hear a friend of mine claiming that the mortality from C19 is 5%. Well, it is
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Catania1/n My ride for the next 30 days.Almost 1/2 than other agents.I can drop off at another airport for a 85 EUR extra charge, but I am told that if
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Donald Trump threatened to ‘put on hold’ funding for the World Health Organization and Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has pledged to donate $1bn to coronavirus relief efforts. Follow our
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This thread is on the history of all 10 #Sikh Gurus.The paintings of the gurus are from an album with @RCT, c1800 by unknown artist, all are similar looking. To
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Oh man, so many things:On hospitalizations1. I thought US hospitals would be more overloaded.2. I thought hospital overload would be a bigger factor on death rate3. I thought ventilator access
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