#Outbreaks

Alex Adamou

alex_adamou

Are standard epidemiological models useful for decision-making in a real epidemic in real time? We have been pondering this question recently at @LdnMathLab. Here are some (not too technical) thoughts.

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Hey students!Don't go back to campus! It's a fucking trap.Uni administrators are basically just re-opening so they can get your butts in seats long enough to charge you full tuition&

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

As cases surged this week, I asked more than half a dozen researchers (epidemiologists, virologists and psychologists) if the U.S. has lost its COVID-19 war and if widespread lockdowns are

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Seeing this claim more and more - that models were the main basis for shelter-in-place orders, so any revision in the model means the orders were overkill.It's total rubbish. The

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Yesterday, 2 strikingly similar events tells us the oppressive police state closes in. My sister is visiting her daughter in Lincoln & loves looking after her granddaughter. Daughter & husband

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Kerry

kerry62189

This is a thread for tracking disease experts' assessments of pandemic policies. https://unherd.com/2020/09/africas-catastrophic-covid-response/ https://twitter.com/kerry62189/status/1304291030766944257?s=20 I'm converging on a theo

Bloomberg Opinion

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Three of every four rural counties in the U.S. are in what the White House Coronavirus Task Force defines as a “red zone.”The virus is spreading out of control in

John Mandrola, MD

drjohnm

Thread on a potential silver lining of #COVID19 My friend @BenMazer is a pathologist and he's noticed huge declines in specimens obtained for cancer diagnoses. Reason: hospitals have stopped elective

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Let me summarise a really important new #COVID19 modelling paper from Rosalyn Moran, Karl Friston and colleagues from Kings and UCL, London. Published in ArXiV. (1) https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf "We sought to

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

Superspreader events are key to #Covid19.To limit the impact, we need to #StaySMARTS --> Stay home when sickM--> Mask when outA--> Avoid large gatheringsR--> Refresh indoor airT--> Ten feet is

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

1/ New #COVID19 #K12 paper in @ScienceMagazine: the part that most excites me is zooming in on the safety measures that best predict low #COVID19 risks...https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/28/science.abh2939 https://twitte

Cat Cardenas

catrcardenas

It's officially been one year since I joined @TexasMonthly full-time, so to celebrate, here's a quick recap of some of the stories I'm proudest of. First off: The

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

The @WHO recently announced that there are at least six Covid-19 vaccines in clinical trials. That’s encouraging, but these trials normally take years or decades to complete. We’ll go into

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Caitlin Rivers, PhD

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In April an average of ~2,000 people died of coronavirus in the US each day. That is more than daily average from cancer or heart disease. I fear there is