#Lockdowns

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREAD@newtgingrich isn't known for his wild overstatement.As some of you might know, I agree with Gingrich's assessment of @realDonaldTrump's prospects.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gingrich-expects-trump-landslide-an

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Whether or not you think local lockdowns work (& the evidence so far is ... not great), given the huge costs they impose, they should only be considered when there

Sinead O'Carroll

SineadOCarroll

The biggest difference for me btw now and March is the strength and loudness of the debates around strategy. And I find it hard to figure out where to land

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th

TraderTodd

TraderTodd

I think a sizeable amount of error from this pandemic has been in our inability to admit that this virus is complex and our scientific experts are unable to predict

Martin Kulldorff

MartinKulldorff

Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health#1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease like #COVID19. It is important to also consider harms from public health

Robert Freudenthal

RobFreudenthal

so helpful to read a lockdown critical article from a leftist position, which is a perspective I share. Lockdowns, in my view, protect the healthy and financially well-off, enforcing working

Muhammed Dennis

muhammadalien

Thanks to #Sweden we definitely know there is no “calamity”: A comparison between 1990-2019 and 2020 death rates. Only in April, there is a spike, which still is 19th in

Illan rua Wall

ruawall

OK, lets say you're a Uni VC... over the summer you have been advised that with social distancing you can bring students back to campus, which is good because without

Eric Topol

EricTopol

The temporal sequence of #COVID19 lockdowns around the world. And the US as a country still does not have one.https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest via @simongerman600 @jburnmurdoch @FT It is more than sobering to

Miss Nikki 📚

MissNikkiIn5th

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. As schools grapple w decisions about reopening buildings, there’s a major concern not being talked about: teachers will be put in the

Mikko Packalen

MikkoPackalen

1/ I welcome the apparent change of heart by the Ontario Science Table. Zero Covid fantasies are now permanently off the table. This allows Ontario to finally focus the debate

Bjorn Lomborg

BjornLomborg

Economic analysis from @ThunstromLinda and colleagues shows the benefits of social distancing outweigh the economic costs by $5.2 trillion(Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561934)https://thehill.com/policy/fi

Lia

LiaSae

[CW: corona, covid, the plague, yada yada]This piece makes decent points - and might help you understand the Swedish approach - but it’s also so very, very ripe with issues.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-lockdown-please-w-re-swedish

ELIJAH SCHAFFER

ElijahSchaffer

As Trump nears closer to a guaranteed 2020 victory World's largest producer of COVID vaccine says mass quantities of the vaccine will likely not be available until 2024Setting the precedence

A.M.

bhalomanush

Depending on which numbers you look at (infections or deaths), these lag 2-3 weeks, and up to 4 weeks. It takes time for these measures to take effect. April was