#Outbreaks

Dominique Heinke

Epi_D_Nique

A few thoughts on this... (Other folks who know much more than me should definitely chime in! Looking at you @Theresa_Chapple @JasonSalemi @COVKIDProject @EpiEllie!) Mini thread. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/profemilyoster/status/1314572214621143

Nadya Ivanova

nadyaivanova

1/ A new essential job is emerging in the "trace, test, contain" #COVID19 world: the contact tracer. Some countries will need to hire tens and hundreds of thousands of people.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

My god India ... and it’s not just more testing, because positivity had quintupled (5x) in recent month. India could be the next Brazil in terms of #COVID19 crisis

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update December 17: This is my worst thread. I hate writing it. But I have to write it. 1/ This is what happened yesterday in California. 61,000 new cases

Elizabeth Yin

dunkhippo33

As VCs start to make predictions around the future of industries, here are my thoughts on trends: 1) B2B software will be a BIG winner. Remote work was already a

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I don't have the energy to keep blocking 200 people like you every day.None of whom ever discuss threads I invest a lot of time into and skip directly to

Texas Observer

TexasObserver

1/ For eight years, Marco Antonio Galvan Gomez would leave his home in Mexico to work at Larsen Farms, one of the biggest potato producers in the U.S.At the end

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Sorry this has taken me so long but I have a definite answer to your question. Drinking age people (19-24) have a far higher incidence than school age people (15-18).And

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1 - The fact that the govt ignored SAGE's advice on #circuitbreaker lockdown doesn't come as a big surprise as SAGE has been increasingly sidelined since the setting up of

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/YMany criticized the article below co-authored by Jay Bhattacharya, who also co-wrote the Great Barrington Declaration.But I haven't seen a detailed explanation of why the article was wrong + dangerous.

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

As we struggle with the difficult decisions about reopening K-12 schools, one thing I've been unsure about is the degree of transmission by children. A new study from Korea provides

Ander

anderws

Some weeks ago, I was talking about masks again. This topic is very controversial, and people tend to oversimplify it.https://twitter.com/anderws/status/1277963962034708481?s=20 Today, France has made masks mandatory.I saw the following pic

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A brief summary of the very precarious situation we are in now, and why we have a very narrow window to act in the UK. If we don't act now,

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let’s talk about the “Swiss cheese model” of combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a classic conceptualization of how to cope with hazards, and it powerfully illustrates several features of

Cory Morningstar

elleprovocateur

World Economic Forum: "Lockdown is the world's biggest #psychological #experiment - & we will pay the price"Apr 9 2020 "With some 2.6 billion people around the world in some kind

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/16 COVID Epi This Week: The Peril and Promise of ImmunityCovid continues to spread in most of the US at rates too high for effective contact tracing, safe in-person schooling,