#Epidemics

Ryan Panchadsaram

rypan

1/ As a state leader, you cannot hide from the virus. What you can do is mandate masks, ramp up your testing, require symptomatic folks to isolate, and restrict large

CulturalHusbandry

APhilosophae

In February of 2010 Forbes published an article in the Workd Health Org falsifying the level of concern related to Swine Flu. The title was "WHY THE WHO FAKED A

David Fisman

DFisman

I'm going to get back to writing this morning...working on some stuff about age distributions and invisibility of epidemics in "young" countries. But first... I want to do a tweetorial

President Elect Mondo Lopez

mondolopez2

Unit 731..also referred to as Detachment 731, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of Worl

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

In retrospect it's maybe fun to notice that the idea of the pandemic was the best model we had for the spread of powerfully compelling ideas. We are facing two

Maestro Rayo

maestro_rayo

1/n. Everything you wanted to know about Herd Immunity, but were afraid to ask.What is HIT exactly? What’s the relationship with R_t? Will the virus vanish? A thread by @maestro_rayo,

Mencius Moldbugman

moldbugman

Just who is Director General Tedros of the WHO?Recently I found a very interesting blog post by @nvladivostok1 - who has spent considerable time in Tedros’ native Ethiopia - that

Breanna

gringabre

Circumcision: a thread (Don’t cancel me for this) Disclaimer: I am not here to criticize your penis if you’re cut. Your body is a good body!I’m also not shaming parents

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Someone explain Brazil to me. Excess deaths *fell* early in the epidemic, and no metric of any policy or social distancing behaviors predicts the peak in excess deaths now occurring.

Eric D Perakslis

eperakslis

Thread . Lots of positive energy towards #ContactTracing from the tech sector, but not sure we need more/better apps for #COVID19 #ContactTracing is much more than just maps, which

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

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Ed Yong

edyong209

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,

Cas: @AnonResearcher on Parler

CowgirlCas22

1. Thread: The facts about [COVID-19]. Anons have been speaking out about this for a while. One of China's foremost experts (Dr. Li Wenliang) tried to warn the world in

vanessa beeley

VanessaBeeley

1."620,000, sometimes less if we had a mild winter, sometimes quite a bit higher if we had a severe ’flu season." - average annual deaths in UK. So, number of

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Michigan hitting new peaks. Just as a political question, Whitmer closed down for FAR LESS last year. Not sure what her science advisers are telling her now. So, lot of

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Thread: Predicting #COVID deaths in the US from 8k to 100k.I started predicting the US COVID death toll ~2 months ago. All of my predictions to date have proven accurate.