#Ourworldindata

Thomas Backhaus

ThoBaSwe

.@OurWorldInData is great for cross-country comparison of the #Covid dynamic. Thread below, comparing the #Covid situation in #Germany and #Sweden. Seems to confirm my previous tweet stating that both countries

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Wanted to send you 2 articles today that indicate when an epidemic can be downgraded to endemic for an infectious disease. What is an epidemic? An epidemic is when a

Liam Saddington

Saddy_94

"Is the fundamental problem human overpopulation?" Disappointing answer from the BBC here. We need to be tackling neomalthusian/neocolonial discourses around overpopulation of black/brown bodies. Fundamentally, this is a question

Hannah Ritchie

_HannahRitchie

Where does the plastic in the ocean come from?A new study published in @ScienceAdvances updates our understanding.My latest @OurWorldInData article looks at the global picture of plastic pollution: https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics&

TheValuesVoter

TheValuesVoter

How badly is the United States doing in our battle against COVID compared to some of the other major developed countries of the world?Let's take a look at the numbers,

Oona Hathaway

oonahathaway

I teach national security law and worked at the Pentagon for a year on counter-terrorism programs meant to keep the US safe. The COVID-19 crisis has proven that our national

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

1/n A cautionary tale of bad #scicomm, in *four* sections, the fourth part being where I learn to take my own advice, the first part where I retro-implement doing so.

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

One thing we’ve learnt about #COVID stories: Often something that looks too scary to be true isn’t quite true when you look at the small print.Often something that looks too

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

1/n Op vraag dan toch een iets uitgebreider draadje over die open brief. Ik laat U zelf oordelen of dit virus al dan niet gevaarlijker lijkt dan een griep. 2/n

Ilya Kashnitsky

ikashnitsky

if I had just one shot to share an important ideahere it is. No joke. Look RATIOS DEMAND LOG SCALE the coolest non-trivial example when a log Y-axis is required

Johnny Fekete

FullStackMaker

We expect my niece to be born today. And as the excitement grows I started thinking about how lucky she is to be born into this family.I wouldn't say we're

Taeyoon Choi

tchoi8

I'm working on a comic that explains how to read a logarithmic graph. Here are my references. https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg Bad use of two linear graphs with different scales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2HgeK73ctU Gov Cuomo's

Trevor Tombe

trevortombe

Today's COVID vaccination update*:- Total shots given: 7,814,748- Shots per 100 people: 20.6- Shots reported today: 245,427- Inventory: 12.6 days (at avg pace)Source: https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html* Saturday/Sunday up

Matt Greenfield

sobri

With Thailand’s outbreak stuck with an R hovering above 1.0, stubbornly refusing to decline, I went looking for more uplifting numbers. Our cumulative Case Fatality Rate is at least comforting!

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Humanity’s history is a battle against the microbes. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively.My new post – and visualization – on how vaccines allowed us

Martin Daniel

martindaniel4

Just published an interactive #visualization of #greenhousegas emissions by country and sector - https://observablehq.com/@martindaniel4/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-country-and-sector. It helps me get a sense of where we should focus our ef