#Outbreaks

Renee DiResta

noUpside

The policy change that Facebook made in 2019 during the Brooklyn measles outbreak involved splitting HEALTH MISINFO ab vaccines off from POLITICAL DEBATES about vaccination. "vaccines cause autism" - no.

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

THIS IS A HUGE FUCKING DEAL As we're getting a chance to look at more COVID clusters, we're finding cloth masks don't necessarily *keep you from getting infected*But they DO

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Is the reproduction number currently 0.7, or 0.85, or 0.641? Was it bigger yesterday than today? A thread on real-time estimation and false precision... 1/ Most real-time estimation of R

Dr David Allen

AudiologyPhD

Let’s talk prediction models.My background is in health, and I’m working on a prediction model at the moment (although I can’t talk about it until after it’s released by Government,

Katherine Ellen Foley

katherineefoley

A lot of people, myself included, have taken a #Covid_19 test before going to see a new group of family or friends. Practically, though, these tests can create a false

Daniel Wood

DanielPWWood

New this morning: an ambitious data collection effort by @ProfEmilyOster and @AASAHQ is underway and early results aren't showing widespread outbreaks at in-person schools. @anya1anya and I report their findings

Brett Kelman

BrettKelman

Today I return to covering the coronavirus in Tennessee after a much-needed vacation. This thread is will recap major outbreak trends over the past 10 days or so, just in

Beth Linas, PhD, MHS 👩‍🔬👩‍💻

bethlinas

@CDCgov vaping investigations seemed off to me as an #Epi & now we see why: 1. They required new systems to access vape carts ...3-D printers manufactured custom parts so

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

DGBassani

Covid is airborne, but the continuing insistence in pushing fomites as the major source of infections makes ‘the idea of fomites as the main infection route’ a large contributor to

el gato malo

boriquagato

this study is garbage and the lancet should be mortified to have published itit's riddled w/ assumptive and mathematical errors so glaring i'm honestly stunnedit makes both prevalence & simple

James S Murphy

James_S_Murphy

428,620.That is the number of *just freshmen* who moved to another state to attend college in 2018.Why are we about to embark on a mass migration during a pandemic? Another

Adam Briggs

ADMBriggs

Week 8 NHS Test and Trace data summary. 16/7/20 to 22/07/20.Short thread this week in a rush as on a staycation.Headline data in pic, brief summary of main points in

Elad Gross 🇺🇸

BigElad

I've done some more digging into the McChrystal Group contract with Missouri.From June 1 - July 31, we spent over $522,000 out of Missouri CARES Act funding. There's a bunch

Benita Kolovos 🐯

benitakolovos

It's almost showtime on the final day of the $3m hotel quarantine inquiry. The man who called the inquiry - Premier Daniel Andrews - is the final witness at 2:15pm.

Mary Beth Sheridan

marybsheridan

THREAD: Mexico appears to have far fewer cases of coronavirus than the U.S. Why? 2/The difference is huge in states on the US-Mexico border. As of Sunday, California reported over

Paul Romer

paulmromer

The twitter thread version of my plan: 0. Stop testing people with symptoms. Presume positive and isolate. 1. Offer all frontline health care workers a quick turnaround molecular test for