#Prevalence

Margarita

margaritaevna95

Huxley’s Brave New World is more reflective of the ills of our society today than Orwell’s 1984 (thread) Brave New World features a society where everyone can, and is encourage

el gato malo

boriquagato

yesterday, i posted this thread about the suggestive timing on the rise in US hospitalizations vs protests.the biggest pushback, as expected, was "but NYC had protests and no spike."i think

Clive Bates

Clive_Bates

1/12 So "prohibition does work" says the editor of the research journal 'Tobacco Control' @MaloneRuth Really? Where to start? A thread.https://twitter.com/MaloneRuth/status/1289045074542698497 /2 Firstly, the comparison wi

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I have never done anything like this in my life. I’ve played no role in politics beyond voting. I didn’t pick this fight. Merely the uncovering in recent days of

Micah Pollak

MicahPollak

Some back-of-envelope math from #Indiana randomized #COVID19 sampling results:- 2.8.% prevalence w/pop. ~6.73 million means ~188.5k infected- Testing has found ~25k infected- So, testing is finding ~13% of all infected-

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some things worth noting about this. 1) it really does look like a reinfection if the sequence is that different and typical of what is circulating in Spain 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/health/coronavirus-reinfection.html 2)

Will Fithian

wfithian

The authors said they used “ci means” in Stata on the 0/1 variables (test - / test +) for the 3330 participants, and they don’t know how the weights were

Prof Shamika Ravi

ShamikaRavi

#DailyUpdate #COVID19India Total cases are 85,784 and ACTIVE cases are now growing at 3.6% - so doubling every 19 days. Total cases, total deaths and growth rate of total cases

hana riaz

hanariaz

Whenever I see the ‘Why?’ are people of colour disproportionately dying from COVID I see a scrambling for some pathological, biomedical explanation. quite frankly, like all patterns of health inequality,

BYU

BYU

1/ Thx to all who've helped keep campus safe this week. We're encouraged so many are following requirements on campus. However, we're concerned w/ reports & videos circulating about off-campus

David Gillis

davegillis

Here are a few hard questions we wrestle with on integrity that I am curious to get the larger design community’s take on (eg. what principles or frameworks would you

Sarah

coolcurrybooks

It’s getting to the point where I don’t usually trust the word “lesbophobia.” I feel like I see it misused more often than not, usually leveled at other queer people

Stefan Kertesz, MD

StefanKertesz

1/great piece by @CarlynZwaren addresses how we misconstrue associations between substance use and homelessness. The stories we tell, often enough, are “my addiction made me homeless”https://filtermag.org/drugs-homelessness/ https://twi

Isobel Braithwaite

izzybraithwaite

1) Had a few people ask today what I think about Heneghan & co's narrative that the risks of COVID-19 have been overhyped & we should aim to avoid all

Dr Jo Poole

Jopo899

Olfactory genes are one of the largest gene families in mammals. A stonking 1% of the genome. Our last commonly conserved olfactory receptors were with fish called lancelets 700 million

samememe

s_amememe___

What's been done to women over the last 50 years is nothing short of dystopic. Once wives and mothers, they've since been turned into slaves to neolib captial, sterilized by