#Epidemics

Yogesh Kumar

YogisViewFinder

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Ji was dealing with an exceptional crisis. He was the first and only PM of India who had to face such a situation that had impacted

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

Smallpox was one of the worst diseases humanity has ever faced—and also the only human disease we have ever eradicated. It was also the first disease with a vaccine.You may

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

One problem with the "demand suppressed by the pandemic" story is that no prior pandemics created even close to this degree of suppressed demand, and none of the economic papers

Aaron Carr

aaronAcarr

New Zealand, South Korea, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, HK, Japan, Norway, Canada, + CA have a combined population of nearly 500m people, but 1,900 fewer COVID deaths than NYC.

☣️ Dr. Syra Madad

syramadad

Everyone wants to know "what can we do better to prepare for future pandemics?"As someone in the field of biopreparedness & infectious disease emergency management we've long advocated to end

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In a deceptive software update, @TXInstruments removed a popular feature from its bestselling TI-84 graphing calculators, removing the ability of calculator owners to write and run their own C and

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

The Swine (Spanish) Flu of 1918 is the most lethal pandemic ever to hit Earth, 200 times deadlier than the 2019 coronavirus, killing 21 million in the first 4 months.

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Recently, I’ve come to think we are quite LUCKY, in fact, with COVID-19 – because, although it’s quite transmissible, it could indeed have been much deadlier. There's no reason it

Gregory Travis

greg_travis

1/Time to dissect https://www.pandata.org/a-critical-analysis-of-the-covid-response/* "All prior knowledge indicates that epidemics are not driven by asymptomatic individuals"A: Polio has a 95% asymptomatic incidence. Virtually ev

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/9 Covid Epi Weekly: Stalling and FailingContinued spread of Covid in the US will continue to undermine health, jobs, economy, and education. A concerted, strategic approach would help, a lot.

Tinker: Unmasked 🇬🇧

TinkerTailor10

62 years ago, today, in a castle to the north of one of the greatest industrial cities in the world, I came kicking and screaming into this mad world.In all

Jake Walker

Jake_W

What I really want to know about #covid19 beyond the fatality rate:>R0: is it 2.7? 3? 5?>Hospitalization rate among infected>Temp/Perm disabling rate among infected.Many people don't realize that a disease

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/ W/Ebola in West Africa, there was a term 'Ebola business' that referred to the idea that Ebola was either made up or overblown & used as a way to

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Must read piece in the Medical Journal of Australia."Herd immunity" is a terrible idea, requiring 61% of pop. infected to protect remaining 39%.May be up to 9 undetected cases for

el gato malo

boriquagato

professor gato here with this morning's thought experiment:every year, a pandemic of flu and colds spreads through the world.there is no plausible method by which we can stop this spread

Osma Ahvenlampi

osma

Solar power capacity has increased, and price decreased, faster than anyone's predictions. It's already below fossil power operating costs at parts of the world, will be so everywhere, as @ramez