#Pandemics

Jónas Haraldsson Balding 大老板

BaldingsWorld

I see lots of hand wringing about the WHO decision but rather than cliched kumbaya hand holding let's unpack some of this. Let me posit at the start I am

Jack Jenkins

jackmjenkins

1. Last week an AEI poll found that *12%* of faith communities are worshipping as normal (in-person).And the rationale for the media attention is pretty straightforward: it doesn’t take a

Amine Korchi MD

AmineKorchiMD

Why most #radiology evidences about the use of CT during COVID19 pandemics are not clinically impactful (1/3):Radiology is just one aspect of patient management !Selection bias +++Blurry cohort descriptionRetrospective studiesEmergency

David Sanger

SangerNYT

Some highlights from our NYT team:The NSC office responsible for tracking pandemics received intel in early Jan. predicting the spread of the virus and warned that shutting down cities could

Jim Charlier

TheCharlier

Kudos to Denver for closing 4 sections of city streets to through vehicular traffic, making them temporarily available for safe human use during the pandemic. Denver may be coming to

Minyoung Sohn

minyoung_sohn

#OOTT @Samir_Madani In 1 hr, you are cordially invited to our webinar w/ @CornerstoneOil Mike RothmanThis is open to the public but requires registration, k?https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E7G6i66VTJyd83TbldzL_A Bring your Q&A, would

IPPR

IPPR

Once again Covid-19 is running along racial linesToday a new report from IPPR and the @RunnymedeTrust sets out how the government should be respondingThread 1/7https://www.ippr.org/blog/ethnic-inequalities-in-covid-19-are-playing-out-again-

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I wrote this 2 months ago to caution people who were drawing the conclusion that Eastern Europe had escaped the brunt of the pandemic due to better politicians than Western

RustBelt Rebel

RustBeltRebel

for some people, dealing with a family member's guilt tripping/shaming or the fights that come from a 'no,' is literally worse than death. they wld rather die of covid than

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Yesterday I tweeted criticism of Trump, and I dropped a F bomb. Some have complained in the replies about how this vulgar display of uncontrolled emotion, as well as me

James Rosen-Birch 🛸🔮🛠

provisionalidea

I'll start this off by saying I hope and pray for a swift end to the pandemic, and am deeply concerned for all those currently in the line of fire.As

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

We like to refer to the U.S. as the strongest nation in the world. But this crisis has revealed how deeply fragile we are. In a nation in which millions

Jonathan Myerson Katz

KatzOnEarth

I talked to the head of USAID/PREDICT, who worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, about @joshrogin’s article. Its goal was to stop viruses from jumping from bats, etc, into

Anthony Smith

adr_smith

1/5: While there have been previous examples at national level of emergency measures combined with disruption of parliamentary business (eg Ebola), the #COVID-19 pandemic has made this a global phenomenon.

Matthijs Korevaar

MKorevaar93

How do housing markets respond to a major pandemic? In a new paper, Marc Francke and I study historical outbreaks of the plague and cholera to answer this question. TL;DR:

Matthew Greenberg

greenycapital

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10511522/ this paper (written in 1999) estimates the impact on the US economy of $71.3-$166.5 bn for an influenza epidemic that led to just 314k-734k hospitalizations, 18-42 mil outpatient visits,