#Epidemics

Cheltenham Festival truthers on here have some interesting talking points. "It should have been canceled" is the one I'll agree with but there's some morally obtuse arguments being made on
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They left off a few folks. Wonder why? & it turns out many of the comments are correct:Cuomo: “Many people will get the virus, but few will be truly endangered...
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Taking stock of COVID in October - for followers, in particular journalists. My scope is broadly across Europe, with a particular focus in the UK. Context: I am an expert
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This is a great post from FB. Stay with me.1)Robert F. Kennedy's niece, who was fighting Bill Gates on vaccine policy, mysteriously ended up dying along with her boy in
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Treatment for #COVID19 has improved and there may be some 'mortality displacement' effect with a proportion of the most at-risk population having deceased in the spring epidemic. Both factors could
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I took a single undergrad class on the social impact of epidemics and I feel like that has informed a lot of how I’ve interacted w/ people about Covid. Understanding
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This is among the weirdest & scariest stuff I've read. A 3500-years-old exorcism ritual from Babylonia (from W Faber’s essay, How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic
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[substance abuse, mentions of drugs & alcohol]ik every1 loves 2 dehumanise n demonise addicts, but can u fuckin stop w/ all the names ?nobody deserves 2 b called a “j*nkie”
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Built in 1894 to carry virus carrying citizens to their isolation island in the middle of the Rideau River, the iron truss bridge to Porters Island still exists...A Sunday Ottawa
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A thread on the election of China's handpicked Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus (the first non-physician to ever lead the organization, FWIW), and how he came to lead the organization tasked with
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As Nigeria confronts the current #COVID19 pandemic, join us by 2pm tomorrow for a tweet chat with @nighealthwatch's director of policy and advocacy @ekemma to discuss Funding for Epidemic Preparedness
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1. An hour ago I posted a thread explaining the concept of herd immunity and the problem of overshoot, whereby an epidemic infects more people that are required for herd
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What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where
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We’ve by now all seen the government warnings and guidance on how to stay safe during the current COVID-19 pandemic. But this kind of messaging is nothing new, as these
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"He has contended that the 1897 law infringes on fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Mirashi has blamed the erratic enforcement of the Epidemic Diseases Act for threatening the rights."
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In the COVID19 era @ScottHalpernMD reminded me that the most common refrain nowadays is "All models are wrong but some are useful." Here's a walkthrough of how we built a
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