#Moderate

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Two preprints recently make an important point: for any infection, including COVID-19, it is possible that herd immunity can be accomplished with more than 1/R0 of the population still susceptible.

Dr Phillip Lee 🔶

DrPhillipLee

We could have been ready for #COVID19. That’s what makes me so angry about this Government’s mishandling of this pandemic....1/ In late 2016, I took part in a government exercise

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)Let it be known that Reza Aslan is a member of #Iran's lobby group @NIACouncil.https://www.niacouncil.org/board_of_advisors/reza-aslan/?locale=en https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330 2)Sen. Warren officially

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I want to step back and give some thoughts about the Coronavirus developments this week and some sense of the 3 months ahead from my perspective. Context: I am an

Devan Sinha

DevanSinha

Fantasy commentary letter in Lancet (not a peer reviewed study)!It's an unreasonable proposition for most countries like the UK to achieve elimination + constraints of reality negates claimed economic and

Alexander Gaffney

AlecGaffney

Reading through FDA's vaccine guidance now. Will be Tweeting out a few observations. https://www.fda.gov/media/139638/download I know most folks will skip right by the manufacturing stuff, but there's a really interesting

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)This is a periodic reminder that Sen. Chris Murphy had a secret meeting with Iranian FM @JZarif during the Munich Security Conference back in February.Murphy also has strong ties with

Saathi 1013

saathi1013

Seeing some discussions of early-internet fandom vs current, & what I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that EI fandom was filled with a lot of unlabeled, discrete boxes. Things

SambhavāmiYugeYuge (check pinned thread)

WindsOfChange72

#THREAD Effects of chanting Hare Krsna Maha Mantra.3+ Neurologist and Empirical Studies. Brain scan effects explained and shown. There is a reason why all sages whether Chaitanya Mahaprabhu or Tulsidasji

Ajey Pandey

AjeyPandey

Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan ThomasWelcome to #BurnBryte, a space-fantasy RPG by @JamesIntrocaso, @GMJimMcClure, @DarcyLRoss, and @kat_kuhl_The galaxy

Sam Westrop

samwestrop

1/ Regarding claims made by Jamaati and Zakir Naik-linked Islamists in India’s Supreme Court about me and @meforum, here’s a thread giving a quick run-down of the actual facts. https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/out-of-29-cr-1-

Matthew Boedy

MatthewBoedy

Turning Point USA just ran ad on CNN during #VPDebate coverage about #SCOTUS. My bet: CNN ran it because it doesn’t have easy lies to disprove but misses a

The Sultanate

TheSultanate_

[Thread, Part 3 - Response to those justifying Yaqeen's CVE collaboration]1. Ibrahim Abdul-Saleem, Yaqeen collaborating with a leading CVE proponent that has the ex-CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell as its

Jason Pitre

Genesisoflegend

Let's take a little bit of time to talk about software for RPG designers and publishers. There are a lot of free and affordable programs that you can use for

pristine 🥂✨

TheOnlyPristine

there is something that bothers me about the way the left idolizes representative AOC.it’s not that i’m threatened because she’s loud and proud about being a progressive brown woman. i’m

ClearingTheFog

clearing_fog

Emotional ContentA significant portion of viral content on social media is either staged, or somehow manipulated (lacking context, creatively edited, etc) to evoke an emotional response.They may be videos, memes,