#Epidemiologists

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

If you were in power, what would you do to end the global pandemic? Would you try everything possible to maximize vaccine production? Of course, you would. So would I.

Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD is practicing resurrection

dynamicsymmetry

One of the things about this whole situation that I think must be absolutely maddening to epidemiologists is how people persist in thinking and talking about this virus as if

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Here's an important discussion that people are missing in this polarized environment. Not only can we not remain in full lock-down forever because of its human costs, we should not.

Kit Yates

Kit_Yates_Maths

As epidemiology seems to be taking over the news I thought I’d provide a little glossary of phrases that are appearing in the media in the context of the #COVID-19

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

.@GovRonDeSantis asked Dr. J. Bhattacharya about dissenting views in the scientific community.Bhattacharya: “Very, very disappointed with the scientific community… also the press as well. There have been open calls by

Michael Morrah

MichaelMorrah

1/2 A good summary of the ongoing border bungles, misinformation, and why it matters from @Bryce_edwards. @dchengnz who’s questions went unanswered, @JennaLynchNZ showed the Minister hadn’t read testing strategy, @thomasmanch

Faisal Ahmad Jafri

faisalahmadj

Jummah & Milad un Nabi Mubarak! And may Allah bless us to follow the guided path laid down by our Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny)On today’s

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

The EU, UK, US, and others have for months been blocking wider vaccine production globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver at the World Trade Organization. They are trying to fight a

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

1/ "We locked down the population that had virtually zero risk of getting any serious problems, and then spread it wildly among the highly vulnerable. If you had written a

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

Our COVID intervention was a syndicalistic tyranny of the minority.A union of academic epidemiologists who could work from home drove our entire country’s response without interfacing with other sectors and

Justin Lessler

JustinLessler

While I 100% agree with @DrTomFriden's skepticism about herd immunity kicking in at 20-30%, the logic of this statement is wrong. You can have a >50% attack rate if herd

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kirabira

Sorry to be a broken record but I think it’s really hard for a lot of white people to believe that the government is letting things stay open not because

Daniel Haran

danielharan

This is really tragic, and a symptom of a deep dysfunction in our body politic.For those wondering, I voted for @RubaGhazalQS of the same party, and convinced many friends including

Matt Feld

mattyfeld612

Taking a few moments to make a thread clearing up the most common questions/comments of confusion I saw yesterday.... A popular comment I saw is that states nearby are allowing

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

Testing 10 lakh people each day will cost approx.100-120 crore rupees. Each day of even a partial lockdown costs India >20000 crore. Testing a million people will be 10 times

el gato malo

boriquagato

the first rule of economics is that resources are scarce and there are never enough goods or services to meet demand.the first rule of politics is to ignore the first