#Median

Sam Trabucco

AlamedaTrabucco

I throw the term "expected value" (EV for short) around a lot. What is it, and, more important, why is it the thing that matters?A thread about the median and

Aaron Sibarium

aaronsibarium

I think @DouthatNYT is largely right here. But his main caveat—“Who are you going to believe, my stats or your lying eyes?”—seems a bit understated. Because, unlike the countries Ross

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

New paper showing very high household transmission of COVID-19 in US. I haven't seen detailed summary, so here's one. There's a ton here to think about. Kids, culture, COVID.Thread.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6944e1

Brian Cummings 💉💉

B_inShortsville

Small sample size, 100 recovered CoViD patients, median age 49, 2/3 NOT hospitalized, 80% with myocarditis, or other cardiac symptoms. From the Journal of the American Medical Association:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/full

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

A few weeks ago a study from SK got lots of attention for reportedly showed children aged 10 - 19 were just as, or more infectious than adults with #COVID19

Nick Hanauer

NickHanauer

If you were wondering why it is so important for Democrats to shed Neoliberals from their leadership, @CassSunstein is exhibit A. In this nutty editorial, he actively argues that raising

ESPRESSO Science Team

espresso_astro

We have some very nice news! Today we are announcing our independent confirmation of Proxima b using ESPRESSO. The preprint is available in arXiv right now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114 This is very

Joshua C. Doloff

DoloffLab

OMG. Who sent this thing, The Terminator?! (Work just published in @NatureMedicine shows antibody levels decline quickly in 2-3 months across both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.)https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Is Britain racist? This binary question is unhelpful and obstructs real progress | Sunder Katwalahttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/race-report-bame-sewell-commission-b1825074.html What happens if you ask a very binary question of this ki

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Another new and really interesting paper on #SarsCoV2 clusters and superspreading by @gmleunghku, @bencowling88 and others: “we estimated that approximately 20% of cases were responsible for 80% of all #SarsCoV2

ReciKnows

reciknows

Will be posting charts throughout today on @StockDweebs weekly stock picks. It’ll be a way to share my DD . Already loving these picks.https://twitter.com/stockdweebs/status/1307665828242812928 $JD - Lot of chatter on

Leana Wen, M.D.

DrLeanaWen

I'm a physician & woman who's in the under 50 age group. I'd chosen to receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. If I knew then what I know now about

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TeahCartel

There is no more destructive force in Washington than Mitch McConnell or who keeps his own state in total chaos. Why then is Amy McGrath lagging in her state? Why

Andrew Bostom

andrewbostom

1/9 Yoram Lass, former Dir of Israel’s Health Ministry on “monstrous hysteria” of Covid19: “This is nothing more than a flu epidemic if you care to look at the numbers

Seth Simmons

sethforprivacy

1/ Thread on comparing “reasonably private” spends in #Monero and #Bitcoin , and trying to find a better way to judge scalability/throughput if all spends provide reasonable/good privacy guarantees.Starting off

Greg “Big Ed” Meeker

yomeeks

This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room has had a full day! Time for the after action report.Bill 203 The Pension Protection Act hit committee. Watch it