#Epidemics

Fabio Rojas

fabiorojas

1/ "Reopen" should be the default position of sociologists. 2/ A central idea in sociology is that relationships and communities matter. People with social ties are healthier, our culture improves

Jonathan Reinarz

reinarzhistory

Many historians of med will be thinking about projects that your students can do in the coming year without the usual access to archives. In order to perhaps create a

Wellcome

wellcometrust

Has Britain’s pandemic response been hard to follow? Our latest survey reveals that Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in Britain have had a worse experience of #COVID19. Understanding inequalities

Saifedean.com

saifedean

Epidemiology is a pseudoscience based on the astonishingly idiotic idea that diseases are programmed to spread & kill according to mathematical curves when there is absolutely no reason to believe

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Haven't done #Coronavirus update in a while, but since we now have economic openings, worth looking at a couple of states. First...Georgia. Kemp took a lot of heat (including from

Robyn, aka sunsong23

WPCelebration

THREAD: Important/Valuable information. Please be aware:1."Statement from Jonathan P. Smith, epidemiologist:"As an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we ar

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

I once asked someone running a very big bank a question. Why do you fear unions and unionism? He said one word - ”unreasonableness”He explained that people tend to become

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Plan Continuation bias (PCB) - playing a role in COVID19? Lessons from aviation industry. A fancy name for “get-there-itis”. PCB which is an unconscious cognitive bias to continue the original

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

I don't want to fucking hear any shit about how what we're going through in the US was inevitable and the quarantine/containment strategy was an impossible dreamI have relatives in

John Brownstein

johnbrownstein

So I recognize that the concept of participatory surveillance might seem novel and potentially scary. But actually there is a rich history.Historically, it was used in the eradication of smallpox

🇺🇸 3Days3Nights 🇺🇸

3days3nights

1. Did [BG] flip on 12.13.16?#QANON Certain people would be NECESSARY to take [them] down. Near the top of this EVIL list would be [BG]. He could take down (a)

📚Philliteracy📚

Philliteracy

This is now my cumulative thread of the best threads I've done here (IMHO).It contains layers upon layers of philanthropy history. Like Inception, but nerdier and mostly consisting of screenshots

Sarah Anderson

myrubypearl

“When Rick Perry was Governor of Texas he took money from the paychecks of blue collar workers & turned it into millions in welfare grants for companies like Lockheed Martin,

Kano Chronicle

KanoChronicle

TRUTH ABOUT THE RUMOURED MASS DEATH IN KANOThread There has been rumoured mass death of the elderly in Kano with individuals likening it with COVID-19 pandemic. In separate reports by

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

Let me try to explain a point which I think isn't widely known: in computing attack rates, the distribution of infectious contacts a person MAKES is less important than the

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Great paper by a fellow @CarnegieEndow nonfellow @FGodement on the role of the @WHO and the coronavirus crisis we are facing globally. Allow me to summarize his key pts (thanks