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Cromwell
Cromwell606
As another 563 people in the UK lose their lives to #Coronavirus, here's Boris Johnson explaining 3 weeks ago why we should just #TakeItOnTheChin #TakeItOnTheChin #Another563Here's Sir Patrick Vallance, gov
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Pauli Alin
pauli_alin
So the Swedish approach was influenced by "viral coronavirus conspiracy videos" created by a dude referred to as a "virus truther" by the Bulwark and defended by Laura Ingraham when
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Dan Szymborski
DSzymborski
Whether you're looking at COVID-19 projections or baseball projections from ZiPS, remember: all models are wrong, some are useful. We're not giving you the right answer, but how wrong an
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scott cunningham
causalinf
I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false
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Zoe Keller
KellerZoe
#COVID19 Uk/Sweden modeling comparisonSweden has chosen not to lockdown based on different assumptions on the number of cv patients who will end up in intensive carehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-swedish-experiment-could-prov
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A New Radical Centrism
a_centrism
[THREAD]1/ I came across this unadulterated cringe: A nice white lady recommending on MLK Day that we follow some "seriously badass scholars of color," in particular @black_epi, an epidemiologist whose
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Amber Gustafson
AmberForIowa
To recap: .@IAGovernor has 1)Spent $26m on an untested, no-bid testing scheme that took weeks to become functional (recommended by an actor)2)Covered up the severity of #COVID19 infections in #Iowa
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david lilienfeld
lilienfeld1
We now have a name for all those Covid-19 sequelae: "Long Haul Syndrome" or LHS.What exactly is included in LHS?It includes:https://www.wbrc.com/2020/08/31/beware-covid-long-haul-syndrome-it-may-have-lingering-symptoms/ 2/Brain fo
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Aaron Massey
mrfixitdiy
While I empathize with the indiviuduals protesting because they just want to have food on the table for their families because they need to work, the images I’m seeing don’t
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Van Den Wymelenberg
Wymelenberg
Let's #UnPack (some facts) before we #FlyAgain. Lots of threads lately about if it is #Safe2Fly & how to #FlySafe. Here are a couple with really good information. This article
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The COVID Tracking Project
COVID19Tracking
This is a clear example of why it is best to think of the number of confirmed cases we report as a lower bound, not the true number of coronavirus
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Michele Hansen
mjwhansen
I wonder whether medical experience will become a near-mandatory prerequisite for federal politicians in the same way that military service was until a decade ago. Large scale wars used to
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Heidi Przybyla
HeidiNBC
Epidemiologist Op-Ed:Estimated 90% of deaths in U.S., at least from first wave of the epidemic, might have been prevented by putting social distancing policies into effect two weeks earlier, on
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Stylstc Clmnst
Sime0nStylites
The end lockdown question is very interesting and very very complex. There’s no point in saying we’ll leave it to the experts to give their recommendation. Because although the experts
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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
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Noam Blum 🦉
neontaster
I don't know who needs to hear this, but projections and predictions are not the same thing. I'm starting to think that this whole fomenting frustration about the models being
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