#Influenza

Christophe Fraser

ChristoPhraser

Discussions emphasising 'COVID19 is more serious than flu' will probably become moot in the coming days and weeks, and for many people already have, but in case you are engaged

Ciarán Murray

C1aranMurray

"New York had 4,749 deaths as a result of influenza and pneumonia in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control".NYC = ~50% so ~2400. There have been 1867 deaths

Danny Boy

Care2much18

The outstanding response of Irish people is routinely shit on by a minority, who use emotionally-charged ignorance, in place of facts.The reality here is your dedication to hand-washing and social

Patrick Adler

UrbanAdler

Some thoughts about Urban tech to accompany this piece with @Richard_Florida and @HendrikHoelzer. It's hard to be skeptical of urban tech now as delivery technologies are permitting so many people

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

Hi Wade. Keep in mind that many things impact the case fatality rate and that rate has not and will not be constant over time. For example, right now, the

Corey Wallace

CoreyJWallace

Nikkei seems to have revived the debate about excess mortality due to COVID-19 in Tokyo with this article: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO59508030U0A520C2NN1000/ A few things to say below: It argues that excess

Dr Tarun Deep Singh

tarunds

#COVID19 and drawing parallels to the mother of all pandemics. (A Thread) Has something remotely similar to COVID-19 occurred before?Let’s try to take a journey to a bygone era and

The 33 Mutiny

33Mutiny

1.) A thread of coronavirus related incidents prior to Covid-19. We can see from this thread, the threat posed for a long time and how advice to cope with outbreaks

ChiroQUACK

QuackChiro

So I'm really trying to search out some confirmation on these claims made by chiropractors regarding their miraculous cure rate for the #SpanishFlu in 1918...They're all copied verbatim from this

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

This @cdcgov chart on pneumonia/influenza deaths is stunning: that 2018 peak translates into about 50,000 deaths for the first eight weeks of 2018. Remember how we shut down the country,

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

The Covid-19 pandemic has been traumatic for New York City. But just how traumatic, by historical standards? @foxjust turned to health records that date back to 1804 to find outhttps://trib.al/0ZhrSp8

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

A few thoughts about language and the pandemic. We are hearing a lot of talk of ‘second waves’, which I think has the capacity to seriously mislead. Talk of a

Leah Samuel

leah_samuel

It's old news that feels like it just happened yesterday.Newspaper coverage of the influenza pandemic of 1918 in California (thread) People stayed home and local businesses stayed homehttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/49208755/local-businesses-lost

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

There are a variety of ultimately “don’t worry about the trajectory of COVID in the UK arguments” from mainly right wing commentators that are either plain wrong or missing the

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

"To our knowledge, there are no trials of cloth masks in the general public."https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1435.long "Compared to no masks there was no reduction of influenza-like illness (ILI) cases or influenza for

Thunder Patriot

ThunderWins

@austere1A In September 2019, Trump signed an EO regarding vaccines. In it we see that, under the Secretary of Defense, it is ordered that the efficacy of vaccines be evaluated.