#Epidemics

mahendra parihar

mahendr46642796

Dr @ARanganathan72 in 2 minutes beautifully tried to imply hightened need of antibody testing in our country . I would just let others with limited knowledge about these tests understand

xťřåbíğģğ *Watching my RTs & Ls removed L & R!

xtrabiggg

Every #COVID19 death is a tragedy for the individual and their family. But there are tens of thousands of tragedies of all kinds every day. People die. It's an uncomfortable,

rains

siointerrupted

So much misinformation or... non information on this website surrounding international students and fall 2020. Let's make a couple of things clear. #highered Normally, international students in F-1 status are

Soumyadipta

Soumyadipta

A photo that killed the photographer.Left: Photojournalist Kevin Carter.Right: A child struggling to reach a UN food distribution centre while a vulture waits.This picture of Sudan's severe famine got Carter

Sudipto Mondal

mondalsudipto

For the first time in India a private news channel was taken off air by a group of cops without authorization. My story on Kannada news outlet Power TV which

Adewunmi

eadewunmi

We are few days away from social chaos, few weeks away from the coronavirus peak and a few months away from a recession. The outcomes are all catastrophic with different

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

OK, let me write a thread, with some numerical experiments, about the influence of the social graph structure on the attack rate of epidemics (attack rate = number of people

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,

Michael (Noble Continuation)

OmanReagan

America, with or without Trump, was already a disaster. The Democratic elite's obsession with Obama-era politics and the concept of "civility," seeks a return to Neoliberal policies that kill people

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

It seems like the fundamental fallacy underpinning misguided mitigation strategies is prioritizing the elimination of the highest-risk interactions ever experienced by the lowest-risk (most privileged) people.1/12 Through the lens of

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I'm seeing more and more suggestions that groups at low risk of COVID-19 should go back to normal while high risk groups are protected. What would the logical implications of

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Globally, the end of the pandemic isn't near.More than a million lives depend on improving our response quickly.Don’t be blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel. There

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'

Jonah Gelbach

gelbach

Here's a thread with some thoughts about the various forms of snark going round Twitter regarding expertise, and its absence, in discussions of COVID-19, epidemiology, economics, and so on, in

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

I wanted to respond to news of #COVID19 death in Santa Clara County on Feb 6. This is an interesting, if slightly puzzling, data point. 1/9 We know that there

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Short thread on some of the available evidence re: restaurants, much of the best data comes from US, which have similar requirements for staff on masks and table layout to