#Epidemics

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

ID2020 is an organisation pursuing the implementation of digital Identity Documents for everyone in the world, as the name suggests, starting in 2020. How are they planning on implementing this?

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

The more I read about the literal violence that is erupting around the use of masks, the more I am realizing that this is the symptom of a failure of

Test tweets

Practictweet

School closures + bad science (THREAD)Remember that 6 Apr Lancet C&AH systematic review on school closures--with that media-amplified "2-4%" statistic--by a UCL team led by RCPCH president + SAGE member

Carl Minzner

CarlMinzner

(1/x) Large swaths of USA now adopting extensive lockdown orders paralleling those in Wuhan. But Wuhan's response had another crucial element: central quarantine. Read this for a crazy, only-in-New York

Chad Loder

chadloder

Why does @AlexBerenson continue to spread dangerous and inaccurate information about COVID19?He seems so invested in his reputation as a contrarian that he’s giving out bad info. Chasing clout at

Elaine van Dalen

elainevdalen

A few days ago I tweeted a picture of a clock in Germany with an illustration of ʿAlī Ibn Riḍwān. Who was he?A thread on a pretty fascinating Egyptian physician.

Fahad al-Sudaid

fahadalsudaid

THREAD Lebanon has continually warned of a looming covid crisis over the past six months, while doing very little to shore up its capacity to manage one. The reason is

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

When folk estimated a herd immunity threshold, not only did many miss the importance of heterogeneity in transmission and susceptibility in lowering HIT, but they may have also missed important

Tallahassee Memorial

TMHFORLIFE

THREAD:Dear Big Bend Residents,As the number of #COVID19 cases continues to rise across our region, we need you to take the pandemic seriously in order to slow its spread. 1/18

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourced list

Christine Stabell Benn

StabellBenn

ORAL POLIO VACCINE (OPV) – SOME CLARIFICATION. I’m a big OPV fan, but when I write about OPV I get negative feedback. So time to go through why I’m a

Yonatan Grad

yhgrad

Preprint: NYC has been the epicenter of COVID-19 in the US. What is the prevalence of COVID-19 in NYC, and how does it vary by borough? To what extent does

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

I strongly agree that the curve is flattening in NY. In fact, it's flattening.... almost everywhere.And not because of lockdowns. I strongly support this paper's thesis:What's flattening the curve is....

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 21: As the world approaches 1 million deaths, and the U.S. 200,000, where we go from here is the most important thing.And there is a simple trick

Rachel Strohm

RachelStrohm

Thread: I've got a new piece out at @africaarguments talking about how public markets and cash transfers can mitigate the economic effects of coronavirus in Africa. It rounds up research

Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein

drNYCnerd

I want to take some time to make use of my professional training as a linguistic anthropologist and explain WHY this is such a good headline. 1/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-police-violence.html I'll