#Mortality

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

The White House is devoting significant energy today to trying to justify Trump's unscientific mouth noises about how masks actually can be bad "I'm not going to give you a

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

"Criminal damage is not acceptable but..." Some of Corbyn's cheerleaders need to learn when to keep their own counsel. Is it a fact that austerity killed 120,000 people? No. It

Soutik Biswas

soutikBBC

THREAD: On Saturday morning, Dr @akshaygn, a Mumbai-based eye surgeon, was waiting to operate on a 25-year-old woman who had recovered from a bout of Covid-19 three weeks ago. 1/8

Joshua Salomon

SalomonJA

1. Did the latest @IHME mortality forecasts making the media rounds - 410,000 deaths - seem high to you?Yeah, me too. I wanted to understand what’s driving projections of 220K

Sen. Jeff Jackson

JeffJacksonNC

The big question: "How bad will the coronavirus be in NC?"There’s a new estimate and I want to share it with you - not because I’m certain it’s completely accurate,

Robert Peston

Peston

What is also extraordinary is that Spiegelhalter is on the SAGE science committee that shapes the government’s #COVID19 policies and yet he has to make this savage attack on the

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

There is no way we are fully opening on April 30th. Why?Because numerous models show huge risk of mortality if we open up that soon.The most used is the University

Erik Angner

ErikAngner

This thread by @NAChristakis, on the Swedish corona strategy, appears based on a simple causal fallacy. I know it sounds implausible, but let me explain. /1https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1262012815663149058 Christakis's central

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

The latest @ICNARC intensive care weekly report has been published. A short thread to summarise, including a link to the full report. The report covers critical care admissions to 15

Bill Mitchell

mitchellvii

OK THIS IS NUTS:"According to data obtained from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System website, total U.S. deaths for the first three weeks of March are

Dr.Sanjeev Balakrishnan

sanjeevhastir

In 2002, Neil Ferguson forecast that up to 150,000 people could die from beef-borne mad cow disease. The final death toll in the UK was 177. In 2005, Neil Ferguson

Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement.

SandyDarity

1/4 As a number of us anticipated black folk are being recruited excessively as subjects for coronavirus vaccine clinical trials, including college presidents at Xavier and Dillard imploring their students

Paulo Martins MD, PhD, FACS

Paulo_MartinsMD

Interesting Covid-19 read for all surgeons:“Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgery during the incubation period of #Covid19”. All pts developed pneumonia and mortality was 20.5%. @AmCollSurgeons @AcademicSurgery @me4_so

Lukas Hensel

LukasHenselEcon

My paper “Coronavirus perceptions and Economic Anxiety” (with @cp_roth, @johanneshermle, and @fetzert) is now available @restatjournal (https://bit.ly/37Ss94v ). A big thank you to the referees and the editor for the quick

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

I was hesitant to bring attention to this but I suspect it will be picked up soon. I am concerned that a recently posted preprint will cause another panic about

Ben Lazarus

BLazarus1

Rough and Rowdy Ways is a masterpiece. Full of riches and a total entity in itself. Brilliant. I’ve been going to see Dylan every time he’s in London with my