#Epidemic

Sridhar Ramesh

RadishHarmers

New Yorkers furious at all the "Why I left New York" pieces, defending their choices to stay in the city. Same as ever. Same grumbling happened in 2019, 2018, 2005,

Marco Pangallo

mrcpangallo

Really proud of our new paper! https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/Pichler-Pangallo-del-Rio-Chanona-Lafond-Farmer-Production-networks-and-epidemic-spreading-how-to-restart-the-UK-economy.pdfWe design a brand-new economic model to capture the co

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

States with highest death tolls pursued same approach. Nursing homes placed on the front lines of epidemic. Suppression strategies (closing schools, shelter in place, etc) increased total death toll. Doing

Utio Connect

ConnectUtio

Hello all today we’ll be talking to you about the Ethiopian/Swedish Chef Marcus Samuelsson Kassahun Tsegie was born in Ethiopia. His father, Tsegie, is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church priest.

Anshuman Kumar

AKumar2202

Once we are done with Corona Virus In the near FutureGoI would like to start building capacity on a large scale to Handle1)Large scale Earthquakee of magnitude 9 on Richter

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Some #COVID19 rates: their meanings and implications (very roughly). Thread.- recovery rate- case fatality rate- infection fatality rate- mortality rate- test positivity rate- case detection rate Recovery rate: % of

Aaron Lockhart 🇺🇸

arabbitorduck

[thread] 1 of 10How much will the economic-induced death toll be for the sustained lockdown suicide pact into which we've been involuntarily entered?Scaled for today's population, each 1% increase in

Jarrett Skorup

JarrettSkorup

1) So the @nytimes featured a 7,000-word profile of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In several places it is factually incorrect while also being very misleading in its focus and what

Maestro Rayo

maestro_rayo

1/n. Everything you wanted to know about Herd Immunity, but were afraid to ask.What is HIT exactly? What’s the relationship with R_t? Will the virus vanish? A thread by @maestro_rayo,

Lionel Page

page_eco

Important news for Australia:The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estimates that R is already below 1, following the shutdown (right graph). It is much better than the numbers

vanessa beeley

VanessaBeeley

Chris Whitty, UK Chief Medical OfficerI will keep sharing this until it fully sinks in.1. Over the whole EPIDEMIC (note he does not say Pandemic), even if there is no

Matthias #WashYourHands Egger

eggersnsf

5256 new #Covid19 cases today, test positivity 20%. Could this situation have been prevented?Time to look back at the recommendations of the @SwissScience_TF. A few quotes from key policy briefs

Tom Rayner

RaynerSkyNews

Asked whether indirect imapcts of lockdown were fully considered, Whitty says "our view was the impact of secondary effects were likely to be relatively smaller than if we had not

Amy C🍩🍩pes

coopesdetat

Some really interesting stuff in this thread. Suggests even a 40% COVIDSafe uptake (in and of itself an undersell according to some) may be more difficult to achieve than seems

Hakique Virani

hakique

Our generation of public health doctors has seen SARS, pandemic H1N1, a drug poisoning epidemic and now #COVID19. Post-SARS commissions called for public-health independence. I wrote about that 4 years

Iikka Korhonen

IikkaKorhonen

Corona epidemic is hitting as well. What are effects of the announced one-month shutdown. My colleagues Heli Simola& @LSolanko investigate 1/https://helda.helsinki.fi/bof/bitstream/handle/123456789/16994/bpb0620.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Loo