#Outbreak

1. When plotting epidemic curves or death totals, should we divide by population size? Here on twitter this question has generated a lot more heat than light. The answer is
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THREAD: We hear that India is not testing enough for COVID19.During April, our testing rates (line thickness in chart) grew c.11 fold: from 36 to 401 tests per million. Case
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On this day in 1374, the city of Aachen in the Holy Roman Empire experienced the strangest of occurrences--a phenomenon in which men, women, and children danced erratically uncontrollably. In
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Several months ago #TheCoronavirusBook discussed the false dichotomy between droplet and aerosol transmission. “Some nuance can be lost in the oversimplified false dichotomy of airborne versus droplet transmission; they are
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My overwhelming suspicion, living in a place where there is very little community spread, is that this stuff is massively overplayed. We'll all go back to almost totally recognizably normal
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THREAD PART II of II: To mask or not to mask?Now to explore modern day implications regarding airborne spread...1/15 First let’s officially define contact vs airborne.Contact spread includes large droplets
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How much could potential biases in early data affect our current understanding of COVID-19? This question crops up a lot, so let's look at three crucial aspects of that early
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As Covid-19 continues to impact all aspects of our lives, I want to emphasise what a great job the charity sector is doing, under unprecedentedly difficult circumstances. We commend @NCVO’s
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I think some clarity on how the state is including cases from the Cummins Unit would be useful, given how much it is being discussed on this website. (1/X) The
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#1 "Pandemic of the Vaccinated" #2 From: The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasingHigh COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission.. by reducing the number of possible
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overwhelming evidence: despite black Americans taking #COVID19 more seriously than white Americans, they are dying at higher rates-- all while suffering the daily insult of being blamed for the disparityhttps://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/125005828942
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1/10 - Today is the 36th anniversary of one of the largest/deadliest tornado outbreak on record in the Carolinas. Stats of this outbreak are staggering. 24 tornadoes touched down: 11
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COVID-19 UpdateThere are 2 new cases of COVID-19 to report. Both are cases in the community and both have epidemiological links to the Auckland cluster. 2 previously reported cases are
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I think it's probably not right to claim the NHS "coped with the first wave of covid".Yes, we avoided a triage situation of choosing between covid patients for the last
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Due to the technical problems with under-reporting of cases, which has led to more than 22,000 cases being reported today (which date from 25/9 to 2/10), it is increasingly difficult
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What is interesting about these dark times we live in now is that a new set of wealthy people will emerge from it. Deaths, loss of jobs on all sides,
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