#Epidemiological

Soutik Biswas

soutikBBC

THREAD ON WHETHER THE PANDEMIC IS SLOWING: India has been recording an average of 64,000 cases daily in October, down from more than 86,000 daily cases end September. It's also

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Quebec on Friday reported five more cases of the feared P.1 variant, including a single case for the first time in the Capitale-Nationale region. In this thread, I will

KittyGF

KittyGF03

"In 1948, the WHO defined health as follows: ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or other physical impairment’."~Belgian

Alexander McCarron ⚔

alexmaccaroon

1. A thread why we are in this mess: It's simple really, as @hector_drummond has repeatedly pointed out, scientists are just as venal and compromised as anyone else./ 2. Basic

el gato malo

boriquagato

"we need to wear masks in public to stop the spread of covid" seems to be a popular opinion.but, like so much other covid lore, it is revealed to be

josh grubbs

JoshuaGrubbsPhD

Excited to share this one with you all! After over a year of work, including hundreds of hours of work by my lab, we have concluded our systematic review of

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

I have spent the past day weighing whether to like article because it is a fantastically executed example of #scicomm or dislike it because it is propaganda that distorts the

Malt

maltsphere

This Professor of Logic thinks this article is conclusive evidence that masks work. But he hasn't actually read it to see that there are a number of inconsistencies and half

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

Great essay by @mlipsitch. But I must disagree with one thing, a big thing. Contrary to the essay’s implication, it is NOT “good sense” that any action— however excessive—is justified

MitrofanovDeception

FokkerPlanck

#COVID19 epidemic forecast, updated 24-3-2020:Number of total confirmed cases for #Greece and #Italy are lying along the bisectrix of the corresponding exponential and parabolic trendlines.(blue dashed line: x2/5days) #coronavirus #menoumespiti

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

Please add to these rapidly evolving “laws” of 'Covidisation' of research:1. Every Covid-19 study will attract another study with equally opposing conclusions.2. The longer the duration of lockdown, the greater

Eric Earling

ericearling

Good threat on the importance of caution & situational awareness in how we look at slowly coming out of stay-at-home orders. Not only is the epidemiological trend not as fast

el gato malo

boriquagato

"US covid deaths have been flat since august!" has become one of these odious refrains.the problem is that is flat out not true.US deaths are down by 60-70% since august

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Glasgow University @UofGlasgow has reported 124 students testing positive for Covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54268780 . This was entirely predictable. And predicted. I wrote this two weeks ago: https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Roberts

NewsBytes

NewsBytesApp

A 33-year-old man in Hong Kong has contracted COVID-19 twice this year in what is said to be the first documented case of reinfectionhttps://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/world/65102/306779/study-finds-first-case-of-coronavirus-reinfection

Hillel Neuer

HillelNeuer

World Health Organization expert advisor Jaime Metzl: "The most likely starting point of the coronavirus crisis is an accidental leak from the Chinese virology institute in Wuhan.” He believes researchers