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Justsaytruthnow
H2N2 virus was first noted in the U.S. in 1968. The estimated number of deaths was 1M worldwide and about 100,000 in the U.S. Most excess deaths were 65yrs &
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David Montgomery
dhmontgomery
In October 1918, San Francisco Health Officer William Hassler successfully lobbied the Board of Supervisors to make mask-wearing mandatory as a measure against the pandemic flu.In November, Hassler was fined
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Fred Bauer
fredbauerblog
One note of caution about extrapolating too much from this statistic (and related studies): The U.S. economy is balanced very differently compared to 1918--much more dependent on service sector now.
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Danny Boy
Care2much18
If Irish media insist on giving this "herd immunity" guy a platform in the interests of balance, there should be fact checking at the bottom of his articles because some
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Allen Cheng
peripatetical
"Case fatality risk" has various definitions, and it is important to know what it's referring to. This has resulted in substantial confusion when trying to compare influenza and COVID-19. It's
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Ed Burn
EdBurn1
Happy to share our latest @OHDSI research published in @NatureComms. A few incomplete takeaways to follow https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18849-z 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨? Studied the profiles of 34,000+ pa
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Dr Duncan Robertson
Dr_D_Robertson
Glasgow University @UofGlasgow has reported 124 students testing positive for Covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54268780 . This was entirely predictable. And predicted. I wrote this two weeks ago: https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Roberts
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Blue Canaries
CanariesBlue
(thread)1. The 1918 Influenza epidemic was dubbed the Spanish Flu. Check out the recommendations. Did you know that the CDC recreated the Spanish Flu in 2005?? 2. STATEMENTUnmasking the 1918
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Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan
DrTamilisaiGuv
look at new drugs to target SARS CoV-2 and COVID19. compounds identified is Camphor! In traditional medicines Ayurveda, it has been used as a remedy. camphor was used to fight
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Matt Malkus
malkusm
1/ @BallouxFrancois - I am curious if you have examined other aspects of the 1889 Russian flu pandemic, which you mentioned here. There are several similarities to #SARSCoV2 which I
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Avik Roy
Avik
Correct, we don't have "gating criteria"—our core concept is that the conventional gating criteria falsely assume that everyone is at equal risk of morbidity & mortality from #COVID19. The evidence
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Paul Nuki
PaulNuki
1/ BREAKING: Top officials admit no mass testing capacity was ever planned in UK despite WHO warnings. @journobill reveals: no mass testing planned for in national pandemic planno mass testing
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Fabiola Cineas
FabiolaCineas
For @voxdotcom, I took a deep dive into why and how Covid-19 is disparaging black communities based on the data we have. The bigger question I wanted to answer: Will
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Charles Seife
cgseife
I've just plotted the number deaths in NYC due to the COVID-19 epidemic versus those due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. The results are... striking. A bit of background first,
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File411
File411
We.Could.Have.Been.South KoreaTrump couldn’t/wouldn’t instruct FEMA to cut a PO.President Moon held thousands of test for US.I’m serious Jared Kushner should be criminal charged with:Involuntary Manslaughter orGross-Negligent Homicide Frankly I’m ove
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Linsey Marr
linseymarr
Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi
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