#Epidemiologists

Daniel Hannan

DanielJHannan

People claim that Sweden's liberal response has failed because it has more fatalities than its neighbours. But the purpose of the lockdown was to "flatten the curve" - ie, the

Nathan H. Lents

nathanlents

Something I have heard WAY TOO OFTEN from otherwise smart/thoughtful people: "What about all the harm to mental and physical health by saying home/alone this much?" Y’all need to STOP

P. Chidambaram

PChidambaram_IN

Dear @narendramodi,We will listen to you and light diyas on April 5. But, in return, please listen to us and to the wise counsel of epidemiologists and economists. What we

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Thing about the "herd immunity" debate is, there isn't one. Herd immunity was discarded by WHO virologists and epidemiologists and their US/UK counterparts. So why are we still talking about

Marco Pangallo

mrcpangallo

Really proud of our new paper! https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/Pichler-Pangallo-del-Rio-Chanona-Lafond-Farmer-Production-networks-and-epidemic-spreading-how-to-restart-the-UK-economy.pdfWe design a brand-new economic model to capture the co

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

In the second essay @mlipsitch makes a full throated defense of there is good science vs. everything else.PS there is a lot of everything else online these dayshttp://bostonreview.net/science-nature/marc-lipsitch-good-science-good-science A

Saifedean.com

saifedean

Epidemiology is a pseudoscience based on the astonishingly idiotic idea that diseases are programmed to spread & kill according to mathematical curves when there is absolutely no reason to believe

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

Dear EU Citizens, Dear UK Citizens, Dear US Citizens, Dear Australian Citizens, Do you want a longer pandemic? No, of course not. But your governments, by blocking

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary thread of today’s #COVID19AB public health update. In the last 24 hours, we confirmed 50 new cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, bringing our total to 1,423.We

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

There are a lot of things I could say about this article, but in the interest of fairness, the authors at least aren’t wrong about the need to use the

Roko - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

I wonder what the professional epidemiologists were posting about here on twitter in mid-late January when we had our last chance to stop the worst pandemic in our lifetimes? Let's

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

Thread: Consolidating my criticisms for the health ministry's handling of COVID-19 with some examples here, because I think it's important for people not to dismiss these criticisms are not just

Maria Chong

mariachong

Conservative thinktank AEI says that before states can move into Phase II (gradual re-opening), they must have in place the capacity "to test all people with COVID-19 symptoms, along with

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. This is going to be a personal thread about the experience of working at the intersection of infectious disease modeling and the study of misinformation during the worst pandemic

The New York Times

nytimes

100,000 people have now died in the U.S. from the coronavirus.We highlighted 1,000 of them this week — their names and their stories.https://nyti.ms/2zBLVEP “A number is an imperfect measure when

James Todaro, MD

JamesTodaroMD

1/ There is growing evidence that T-cell immunity allows populations to reach herd immunity once only 10-20% are infected with SARS-CoV-2.This would explain why a highly transmissible virus in densely