#Epidemiological

el gato malo

boriquagato

yesterday, i posted this thread about the suggestive timing on the rise in US hospitalizations vs protests.the biggest pushback, as expected, was "but NYC had protests and no spike."i think

WorldCoffeeResearch

WCoffeeResearch

What can we learn about pandemics from looking at the history of plant epidemics? This week we’re going to dive down on coffee leaf rust, the most dastardly of coffee

Gabriela Prioli

GabrielaPrioli

Posso explicar: o artigo do NYT, que o senhor menciona agora, mas não mencionou antes, diz que “o número de novos casos parece estar diminuindo, provavelmente devido aos esforços rigorosos

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

Let me explain why using models to simulate epidemics basically doesn't work when it comes to predicting the future (and why it doesn't mean models are useless). And also why

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Professionals can draw recommendations based on scientific evidence using their own critical thinking. The authors' interpretation is not sacred unless science has become scripture now. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/Chaitmac/status/13906114055

Kate

Asilverlining20

Thread: 1) Massive PCR testing campaigns are resulting in the quarantine of healthy individuals, temporary business & school closures, mask mandates, & unnecessary panic and fear. Damage is being done

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

I was hesitant to bring attention to this but I suspect it will be picked up soon. I am concerned that a recently posted preprint will cause another panic about

David Thunder

davidjthunder

—TAKEAWAY LESSONS FROM PANDEMIC 2020-21: A THREAD—Below, a few basic lessons I have drawn, as a political philosopher and informed citizen who has made it my business to closely follow

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

Allen Yung's Golden Rules of ID @IDstewardship @davidantibiotic #FOAMed 1. Recurrent rigors are most likely to be caused by bacterial infections. 2. Severe muscle pain may be a symptom of

Limited Independent Variety

HenningStrandin

How to be a good amateur epidemiologist *thread*I'm a philosopher of science by training. So, while I'm not a scientist, science is my object of study. This seems like a

Milo Lab @WIS

MiloLabWIS

Our new “quantitative snapshot” of SARS-CoV-2 just out in @eLife. We combed the literature for reliable and useful numbers about the virus, interactions with human cells, and disease progression. Check

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

India has 1.3 billion people. 4 times that of the US. What’s going on is just amazing and needs in depth immunologic studies. These are raw numbers! When I adjust

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

So various media are reporting a new pandemic flu virus discovered in China.What does this actually mean? Let's look at the original paper. Actually, that's not so easy to do

Patrick Elliot

PatrickElliot_

I'm not an expert, but I have taken the time to fact check this tweet because it’s doing numbers – by actually reading the studies/articles it links to – and

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Since the start of the school year, the two demographics that have been observing the sharpest percentage increases in positive #COVID19 test results are elementary and high school students,

Supriya Sharma

sharmasupriya

We are in the middle of a ferocious second wave of Covid in India.It seems pointless to do postmortems. But one thing that has bothered me enormously over the last three months