#Epidemic

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

The US gov threatened to cut off aid to @WHO today. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/coronavirus-updates-news-live.html#link-5e3b2c82 This would be a mistake on many levels. 1/x .@WHO is the organization that provides health guidance and

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

On Friday (Sept 18), #Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer told us that Case counts in Canada indicate “accelerated epidemic growth”. Is this true or is it ye olde #Coronaphobia? Let’s

Lee Fang

lhfang

Comparing the US to super safe countries like Iceland & Japan is absurd. A more realistic comparison would be to Brazil, El Salvador or the Philippines: countries w/ ultra high

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Daily #COVID19 case counts are increasing in the US and we seem to hitting a third wave (or second surge if you'd prefer). Here I wanted to look at how

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

It took President Ronald Reagan seven years to say the word AIDS, because the disease took its early toll on the fags, whores and junkies. 1/ But let's be clear:

Catherine Moore 🦠🧬🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

SmallRedOne

Request from a virologist- on #influenza As you can see from the Southern Hemisphere flu season, there is very little flu. This is great news..except, we select the viruses that

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

How can we assess the total number of #SARSCoV2 infections that have occurred up to this point? As others have noted, it's not easy to extrapolate from confirmed cases to

plaforscience

plaforscience

Are u at (local, regional, nation) government position & u don't know how to spread fear properly?Do u rule on a media channel & ur audience isn't showing the proper

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

#TheGreatBarringtonDeclaration calls for allowing #covid19 to spread openly while “protecting” the elderly/vulnerable.While I actually believe the authors mean well, there are multiple reasons why I believe this is a seriously

Aaron Mc Nicholas

aaronMCN

The first question Carrie Lam receives at a presser about economic relief measures is regarding HKMAO's comments yesterday.Lam said that Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy "doesn’t mean the central

Gökhan

bopvangnon

We need a laughter epidemic now. Please upgrade that to a #Pandemic https://youtu.be/eKY8qpPmGnk Can a mega account RT this thread so we can start it?https://youtu.be/WC696BfV_6k https://youtu.be/TKhVE-pP7hA

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ One of the big failures in our epidemic response is expertise that is rightfully concerned with all the nuances and details but fails to see the bigger picture— so

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Does anyone old enough remember the 1977–1978 Soviet/Russian flu epidemic? It was caused by strain Influenza A/USSR/90/77 (H1N1). It infected mostly children and young adults under 23; because a similar strain was prevalent

dasPost-CV

dasvee

Spoke to a leaver today.Blames science for mishandling of Covid-19 epidemic. Refused to accept anything I said (that gov relied on a single team of modelers ignoring scientific consensus, WHO,

Amy C🍩🍩pes

coopesdetat

Australia's official #COVID19 modelling has been published by @TheDohertyInst. This is the work being used by the government to inform their decisions. You can access the papers here https://www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/news/covid-19-modelling-

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Given my statement that the US has 300k - 600k new infections per day, I've had a bunch of responses telling me that #TestTraceIsolate is futile and we should give