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Jack Herrera
jherrerx
There are many ppl in the US who would feel safer with a border wall. In the last 4 years, rates of violence in Mexico have reached historic levels; a
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
I still see the persistent, but incorrect, claim that control measures just delay - rather than reduce - the impact of an epidemic. A thread on the problem of 'overshoot'...
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Infectious Diseases
InfectiousDz
The epidemic in India is echoed next-door in Nepal.The numbers are even more concerning in Nepal when looking at case positivity. Case positivity in Nepal reflects an epidemic that is
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John Schmalzbauer
OzarksWatcher
Last weekend I did some genealogical digging motivated by our current crisis. Since childhood, I'd heard that my great-grandmother's sister died in the flu epidemic of 1918. A few weeks
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UKIP Camb & SE Cambs
UKIP_Cambs
95% of victims dying with covid-19 have serious pre-existing conditions. The average age of those dying of covid-19 in the UK is 80+yrs, and fully a third are residents of
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Alex Best
DrAlexBest
Humour me in showing how restricting movement can #flattenthecurve of an epidemic using some models (my aim is no more nor less than this - I claim no groundbreaking science
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Teelix 🌊 🌊🆘
Lvteelix
When I was a very young girl a polio epidemic struck. Dr. Salk’s vaccine was just recently made available, and there was a vast shortage. Parents took their kids to
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Philippe Lemoine
phl43
This thread is very interesting, but it furthered my view that suppressing the epidemic with "test and trace" is a pipe dream. It would require a degree of competence on
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Eric Earley, PhD
EricJEarley
This is a long and well-written piece that presents a lot of ideas that I think are often absent in #prosthetics discussions online. Allow me to summarize some of these
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Jin Russell
DrJinRussell
If we’re going to critically review NZ’s response, we need to ask why, in the almost prophetic words of David Skegg (5 Feb 2020)“New Zealand is one of the few
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Angela Marie
LiteracyLove716
I recently finished the book "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson. It covers the Yellow Fever epidemic that swept Philadelphia. It was brilliantly done. Here are some things I learned
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Andrea Herd
AndreaHerd2
CHINA HAS BEEN THE CENTER OFVIRUSES SINCE MERS, SARS, EBOLAAND CORONA VIRUS...WHEN EBOLA OUTBREAK IN CONGOI WAS monitoring this. WonderedWhy it took World Health Organization.So long to make it an
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David Ucko
DavidUcko
The terror group added that “the healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it”...#ISIS also reminds followers to “cover the mouth
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Joe 😷 Hanson
DrJoeHanson
The current administration's COVID response has been tragically ignorant, deceptive, and dismissive of science. But it is not without precedent. In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan completely ignored the AIDS
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
Contrary to recent claims, #SARSCoV2 is expected to be seasonal, as are essentially all >200 respiratory viruses in circulation, including the four 'common cold' coronaviruses (see below). (1/5)Source: https://smw.ch/article/doi/
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Ramya Kannan
ramyakannan
Sunday mid morning gyan: what we have got to remember is that Tamil Nadu has a very robust system in place, on the field, a system that is tuned like
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