#Epidemic

dameyon

dameyon

Communities along Australia’s northern coastline, home to some of the world’s most intact Aboriginal cultures, are caught in an epidemic of child suicide and self-harm that has claimed at least

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trvlyblessed__

Centuries of anti-Haitian sentiments that the French and US spread around the world to give us a bad name for revolting from slavery.https://twitter.com/kweendasavage/status/1386703039705362433 I mean how else to keep a

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

I'm being asked about whether US Congress should convene a "911 commission" for the #COVID19 epidemic in the US? My ANS: Certainly not now when we're still fighting the virus,

richard horton

richardhorton1

My interpretation of Boris Johnson this evening: the pandemic of COVID-19 in the UK is much more serious than we have been led to believe. Johnson was unusually serious, fists

Supriya Sharma

sharmasupriya

Very strong statement by three medical professionals associations on the Indian government's mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic.#Thread The signatories are members of the Indian Public Health Association, the Indian Association

Amrita Bhinder

amritabhinder

Locusts invade Maharashtra, alert in Mathura and Delhi as swarm expands area After crossing Pakistan, swarms of locusts entered India through Rajasthan on April 11. On Monday, locusts entered some

David Spiegelhalter

d_spiegel

My blog on the COVID risks faced by *population* during the peak of the epidemic (great ONS E+W data)https://medium.com/@d_spiegel/what-are-the-risks-of-covid-and-what-is-meant-by-the-risks-of-covid-c828695aea69 1 in 1800 died over 5 weeks. Risks dou

FQ Coyle

francisqcoyle

tfw you definitely know how averages and time workhttps://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1245613091208826885 this thread deals with a related though slightly different problem & I think is usefulhttps://twitter.com/DFisman/status/12456898239497

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Yes, the geniuses at @IHME_UW have updated their model again. According to them, we are now PAST the peak of hospitalizations - which were cut yet again, to 57,000

Askeladden Capital

AskeladdenTX

Hi COVID Twitter - I’m back(ish).How likely is a second wave? How big would it be?Let’s talk about seasonality and herd immunity so that you can better interpret models and

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I've seen a number of unfair narratives used to try diminish the Irish response to coronavirus. I'm going to address a particularly disingenuous one here:That Ireland should be doing 'better'

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

The brutal truth of 'the best of British science' advising our government.1. Hardliners: don't suppress, protect vulnerable, go for herd immunity. No point testing.https://twitter.com/jemimajoanna/status/1247423351074807810 2. Moderates:

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Herd immunity (community immunity) is not a strategy. It is the process describing that not everyone in the population needs to be immunised before an epidemic recedes. It is at

Ken Gardner

KenGardner11

I can’t speak for your county, but in my very large county (pop. well over 2 million people) we have been partially reopened for 3 weeks, activity is almost back

Leonydus Johnson (leave/me/alone)

LeonydusJohnson

And you would be incorrect. Police, as a whole, almost never kill anybody of any race. When compared to total arrests, police kill 0.01% of suspects. That is 1 person

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anivar

I think it is time to demand mandatory post-epidemic retiring plan for all contact tracing apps including @SetuAarogya Apps in Govt hand with user base have a tendency to misuse/convert