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Philippe Duchesne
pduchesne
The @nytimes (among others) recently analyzed excess mortality.As a Belgian I was surprised by the results (we would be over-reporting ?!), and did my own analysis for BE, NL, FR,
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Dr Pieter Peach
DrPieterPeach
Just came across the opinion of somebody deeply respected in health that I need to address.John Ioannidis makes some good points but unusual & major errors in his comparison of
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
The situation in the Czech Republic is now looking extraordinarily bad.Left: There are now 856 confirmed cases per million per day. A rate higher than what we've seen almost anywhere
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Neelanjan Sircar
NeelanjanSircar
As you extend testing you should move from riskiest populations to less risky (due to more tests). But if you chase hotspots & wait until things are bad to test,
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Alfredo Manzano
a_manzano_g
Entiendo que HLG sea un actor del "triunfo sobre la epidemia". Pero me molesta lo mucho que subestima la inteligencia de los demás. Hoy presentó unas gráficas animadas de @OurWorldInData.
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
Without testing there is no data – and without data we can not know what is happening in the world right now.We need to know how much different countries actually
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Philippe Lemoine
phl43
In general, I think that @OurWorldInData is great, but this analysis is extremely misleading and doesn't show what its author and @MaxCRoser claim it does. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1305799189004247040 What the author did
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
The rise of confirmed cases in Europe is very rapid.– This is showing the 7-day rolling average. Over the last week 138,500 cases were confirmed every day.– The doubling time
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly.But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog.The
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Fabio Rojas
fabiorojas
1/ Developing the intuition behind "reopen" position. Here are a few things to assimilate into your thinking. 2/ Thought experiment: What if you knew with 100% certainty that no vaccine
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Michael Plank
MichaelPlankNZ
What an amazing achievement to have reached a high probability of having again eliminated community transmission of COVID-19 in Aotearoa. This is thanks to Aucklanders in particular playing their part
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Elaine Doyle
laineydoyle
Because they weren't tested.And you have to have a positive test, before death, to be counted in the UK deaths. The UK isn't testing nearly as much as it needs
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
The success of Japan with a *unique strategy*, emphasizing attention to super-spreader venues and the 3 C's (closed spaces, crowds, and close-contact settings). Little testing, no lockdown.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/japan-e
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Markku Peltonen
MarkkuPeltonen
Use of care and mortality due to corona/Covid-19 in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia; data from 14.8.Thread. (English).Fig 1a-d. Number of persons in intensive and hospital care per day.
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
This is to me one of the saddest and most important charts on the pandemic.Those countries that are doing bad right now (high on the y-axis) are largely the same
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Jason Crawford
jasoncrawford
Myth: polio was already declining before the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955Fact: the epidemics were actually getting worsehttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910 1952: pe
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