#Epidemics

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

I talk a lot about the mistake people make thinking it is always safer to err on the side of extreme action.Here is a simple thought experiment to illustrate this

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

Is the rise and fall of COVID in Florida “inexplicable”?A thread on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI).https://alachuachronicle.com/is-the-rise-and-fall-of-covid-in-florida-inexplicable/1/16 Dr. Michael Lauzardo, Chief and Assistant

Ben Bleasdale

Ben_Bleasdale

The 2020-21 allocations for R&D are out, and they'rehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-research-and-development-rd-budget-allocations-2020-to-2021/beis-research-and-development-budget-allocations-2020-to-2021Significant

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

The Covid-19 pandemic has been traumatic for New York City. But just how traumatic, by historical standards? @foxjust turned to health records that date back to 1804 to find outhttps://trib.al/0ZhrSp8

@MavourneenRebel

MavourneenRebel

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @WHO @WHOAFRO @DrTedros Let's discuss this violent, third world thug who is loyal to China shall we... Ethiopian Minister of Health from 2002 to 20121. Member of

Eliot Fishman

FishmanEliot

Criticism of failures at the FDA and CDC re:ventilators and COVID screening (among others) and what they say about the state of big American domestic agencies. Examples here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-showed-americ

Erin Mordecai

morde

Reporting in @nytimes by @apoorva_nyc and others proclaiming that herd immunity is out of reach are missing the point in several key ways 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-herd-immunity-vaccine.html?rref=va

Mary Beth Sheridan

marybsheridan

THREAD: Mexico appears to have far fewer cases of coronavirus than the U.S. Why? 2/The difference is huge in states on the US-Mexico border. As of Sunday, California reported over

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to

Victor Adeyemi

VictorAdeyemi

ACTS OF GOD AND COVID -9Hurricanes, famines, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters are known in statutes as ‘Acts of God’. Wherever this started from, it represents the worldview about

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ We are here on a Congressional Briefing with 4 independent primary care docs, I will highlight some notable quoteshttps://twitter.com/PEPC_DC/status/1266386021303947271 2/ Dr Sumana Reddy describes how community PCPs knowledge of

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

We have to stop for a second & realize how crazy all of this is.We have multi billion $ corporations (@NBA) forming literal bubbles through immense power & wealth to

MoveOn

MoveOn

By now you've probably heard about how, for months, Trump failed to take the coronavirus threat seriously.Here are 5 things you may not know about Trump’s botched response: 1) In

Mentorshipzim

mentorshipzim

So, epidemiologists study determinants of health and disease."Health" is state of wellness, a continuum rather than an absolute term. A person without a known disease can be unwell and a

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

For years, the pharma giant Novartis ran a "speaker program" that laundered vast payments to doctors - speaking fees, trips, top-shelf booze, strip club nights and fancy meals - in

Keith Williams

keithwms

Courtesy of @Healthline, here is an informative review of the worst epidemics in the US, from smallpox to typhoid Mary, polio and beyond. You might want to add something stiff