#Lockdowns

Paul Cotterill

Bickerrecord

1/ One of the things the govt seems to have absolutely no handle on at all is that the cases in universities are likely to be much, much higher than

Kristoffer Pasion

indiohistorian

Notable key concepts on this very informative video on South Korea's SUCCESS in "flattening the curve" of COVID-19 cases: - Contact tracing - Aggressive testing - Breaking transmission chains -

John Fetterman

JohnFetterman

scientists. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/coronavirus-hot-spots-farm-belt-189272 Has *one* gut been right, yet? Team Gut on this thread:

Stay Home, Stay Delphi

DelphiDoggo

A thought has occurred between discussions with @PupBijou and @aquailafterdark. The demand for tops outstrips demand at the best of times. When these lockdowns are over there will be a

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

Great essay by @mlipsitch. But I must disagree with one thing, a big thing. Contrary to the essay’s implication, it is NOT “good sense” that any action— however excessive—is justified

Jesse Kelly

JesseKellyDC

1. These things are absurd.2. We’ll keep mocking them.3. We just had an election. Democrats hold the House, likely the presidency, and maybe the Senate. So I’m fresh out of

Dominic Minghella

DMinghella

Now is not the time.Now is not the time to ask Where are the masks and the gowns?Now is not the time to ask Where are the tests?Now is not

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is a stunning quoteit's from the CDC pre-pandemic planning guidance for use of non-pharmaceutical interventionthey flat out KNEW that lockdowns have rapidly declining effect once infection rates hit 1%they

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW: great story from @alekswis & @BillyEhrenberg shows Britons sharply reduced activity during early phase of lockdown (and indeed pre-empted govt reccs), but in recent weeks activity levels have been

Kaushik Basu

kaushikcbasu

The virus will be around for some time. Social distancing/lockdowns are a must but we also have to slowly allow trade, exchange & markets to function. Otherwise there can be

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Covid-19 spreading too fast to lift lockdown in England. Agree with John & clear science advice. TTI has to be in place, fully working, capable dealing any surge immediately, locally

Live Monitor

amlivemon

There are two paths here for Trump which takes careful political calculations.1. Fight on into the courtsOr2. Concede and Declare the election rigged to come storming back in 2024.America is

Atlas Research

AtlasAlphaTrade

$TSLA's 2020 experience in the EU is a preview to what's about to happen globally. It was the first year when strict new EU emissions regulations forced Europe's best OEMs

Nicole Saphier, MD

NBSaphierMD

Democrats say they're the party of science, but they've repeatedly ignored the science on Covid. They can't expect to be taken seriously when Biden's chief medical advisor says fully vaccinated

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

THREAD: In forecasting Trump's fate, one needs to be careful as there is a fair amount of uncertainty as to what the trajectory of the pandemic will look like by

george davey smith

mendel_random

Watch this without preconceptions - views from an unusually well qualified infectious disease clinician and epidemiologist (author of a standard text) who also has years of policy influence. A little