#Epidemic

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

It seems like the fundamental fallacy underpinning misguided mitigation strategies is prioritizing the elimination of the highest-risk interactions ever experienced by the lowest-risk (most privileged) people.1/12 Through the lens of

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

1918 letter describing Influenza I've treated countless patients with #COVID in NYC and Arizona and I have NEVER seen anything like this deadly virus. 100 years ago during the 1918

Jonas S. Juul

jonassjuul

New paper with @stevenstrogatz is online!We ask: If an infectious disease mutates as it propagates, what fraction of the population will catch the mutant strain? How does this depend on

Rev Dr Charles Harrison

charlesharriso5

When I was 14 yrs old I almost made the biggest mistake in my life in trying to avenge the murder of my brother. I was a good kid. A

Felix D. Katz

FelixDKatz23

Are you rich enough to survive this pandemic? It was true in America during Colonial times- Yellow Fever the rich quarantined at “country homes”in Germantown, outside Philly. Were we being

Chris Heaney

chrheaney

Early in covid times I was asked to pitch a public piece on the epidemic that shook the Inca empire in the 1520s, likely killing the ruler Huayna Capac. I

Ryan Deto

RyanDeto

Two large investigations came out recently revealing some of the motivations behind UPMC's decisions to ignore earlier orders to halt elective surgeries & to downplay the dangers of PA’s coronavirus

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

A new paper is out exploring the impact of heterogeneity on the herd immunity threshold.It explores two types of heterogeneity- variation in susceptibility - and variation in contact rate.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.2

Shailaja Teacher

shailajateacher

I was interviewed by BBC World yesterday regarding our fight against COVID-19.https://youtu.be/_JMEgLSu-RI While speaking, I intended to say that there were three deaths in Kerala and the fourth one was

Primary Geography

primary_geog

After seeing the devastating photographs of litter being left around tourist attractions this summer, I have just replanned our Y3 UK / Lake District unit and included a lesson on

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

Americans have saved hundreds of thousands of lives by following #StayHome guidance.The economy can come back. Those lives would have been lost forever. 14/ Even with this, we have

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Another issue with charts drawn on a log scale is that they literally compress what has been happening *recently* when the stakes are very high (10s of thousands) while placing

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

US now has daily average of 71,000 cases, all time high for the pandemic. And trends are pointing higher. Nearly 1 in 6 new daily diagnosed cases in the world

Suhas

Suhas_AN

Supreme Court said migration of lakhs of labourers was driven by fake news that lockdown would extend for 3 months.Who spread such fake news & created a crisis?This tweet is

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Listen. This isn’t pleasant.There’s a real possibility Trump and his corporate friends will reopen this country without necessary precautions or due diligence and thousands upon thousands will die while the

Jacinta Keast 柯洁欣

jacintakeast

1/8 Trending post on Chinese social media in Australia this week - Charles Darwin University Engineering prof accused of racism over wording in a COVID-19 themed homework assignment #auschina 2/8