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Dublin Airport
DublinAirport
Myth 1) 1,000 passengers on these flights. We had an average of 80 people per day arriving from US last week. Myth 2) Tourists. Pubs shut, restaurants shut, shops shut,
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Dr. Theresa Tam
CPHO_Canada
1/9 #COVID19 key concerns in : We still face considerable challenges, including the need to extinguish ongoing outbreaks + we need to continue ramp up of testing to find/manage persistent
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
It's been now slightly over two months that I decided to dedicate some of my time to inform the public on #COVID19 and try to fight disinformation. It feels like
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el gato malo
boriquagato
true competitors are never content to stand on past glories and always seek the next one.the IHME, goes for the gold, reaching for new heights of bad prediction and disrepute.they
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Trevor Tombe
trevortombe
Today's COVID vaccination update*:- Total shots given: 15,652,046- Shots per 100 people: 41.2- Shots reported today: 326,863- Inventory: 8.8 days (at avg pace)- Adults w/ 1+ Shots: 45.7%Source: https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtrack
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Andrew Lilico
andrew_lilico
Anyone who asks "Why have so many died in Britain so far?" not "Why so few?" merely demonstrates that they haven't been following events properly since early February. The qstn
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Christian Thomas
CtIgnatia
I would like you to consider the proposition that Bill Gates is an amateur - in everything he does! It's a different perspective, but I know it to be true.
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Dr Vyom Sharma
drvyom
Absolutely none of these commentators are looking at the first part of this quote - preemptive shutdowns have been a method to buy time while evidence accumulated. To now point
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Rudi Bachmann
BachmannRudi
Ich finde, darauf verdient @larsweisbrod eine Antwort. Ein Versuch.https://twitter.com/DIEZEIT/status/1265289550341029890 Zunächst einmal sollte man noch mal an die Tatsachen erinnern: 1) es sind nicht nur Oekonometriker (so heißen grob g
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
I still see the persistent, but incorrect, claim that control measures just delay - rather than reduce - the impact of an epidemic. A thread on the problem of 'overshoot'...
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Aaron Wherry
AaronWherry
It's probably worth establishing that elected officials, not experts, pretty much have to have the final say on major decisions about public policy -- it's the politicians who were elected
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Irenes (many)
ireneista
Quick reference to COVID-19 variants of concern:B.1.1.7: first identified in the UK, more transmissible.B.1.351: first identified in South Africa, some vaccines are less effective.We're going to try to use the
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Bill Hanage
BillHanage
One of the things scientists do when facing an outbreak of a new disease is build 'phylogenies'. These estimate how pathogen isolates are related by comparing their genomes, and using
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Scott Gottlieb, MD
ScottGottliebMD
THREAD: Many analyses try to estimate what the “right” capacity is for weekly #COVID19 testing. One touchstone is positivity rates. Unless diagnostic tests are being administered with unusual precision only
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Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
DeNovo_Fatima
In this thread I'll address the INACCURATE claim that the #COVID19 strain found in Québec is somehow more virulent & therefore the reason Québec was the epicentre of the pandemic
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Liz Garrett-Mayer, PhD
LGM_Biostats
THREAD: Biostatistician vs. data scientist? Please vote in comments: (A) All biostatisticians are data scientists, but not all data scientists are biostatisticians. (B) All data scientists are biostatisticians, but not
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