#Severity

Marc Daalder

marcdaalder

A common canard in NZ, spread by talk show hosts, misguided academics and conspiracy theorist political candidates, is that the @WHO revised down its estimate of the death rate of

Sir Rantsalot

ThadeousC

Why does the recent allegations of sexual assault affect me so much? Because it happened to me at my own damn industry party. A few years back at PAX East

Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️

Imani_Barbarin

Ok, so last night I made a thread of using ableism as a strategy for talking about #TrumpHasCovid that will inevitably backfire on liberals, leftists and democrats. Since then I

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Vinisauce

Democrats are so bad at holding Trump accountable that he is getting away with shifting the blame to China. He knows no one's gonna challenge him on that front cz

Shematologist, MD

acweyand

A #hemetwitter #tweetorialDIC.In med school, we were taught that DIC stood for disseminated intravascular coagulation.Or...Death. Is. Coming. 1/n This is severe and may be a bit hyperbolic. But DIC is

ElectionBabe

ElectionBabe

I just read the Anderson v. Raffensperger lawsuit and I’m torn between screaming, laughing, and going up to Georgia and going full election valkyrie on some people. I can tell

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

It has been requested that I do a simpler version of this thread, explaining why the modellers advising the Irish government are so amazingly wrong in their forecasts and in

Martin Steiger

martinsteiger

1/n «Rather than tell you comforting lies and what you want to hear, I’m going to tell you some unpleasant truths. The world has fundamentally changed […]. If you are

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Phislash

#MentalHealthMonday5 Different Types mental health professionals in South Africa. A short thread (4 minute read): 1. Lay Counsellor: These are usually counsellors found in VCT facilities in SA and they

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

The debate on voluntary infection-and-quarantine coming up again. Estimates of COVID CFR for 20—40 y.o.s is around 0.1%. (Selecting on those without underlying conditions would likely make this significantly lower.)https://www.thelancet.com/journals/

CSIS

CSIS

1/ The entire world is consumed by the rapid spread of COVID-19. @CSISHealth experts Steve Morrison and Anna Carroll look at what a post-COVID-19 world might look like and what

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Watch Live Technical briefing on #2019nCoV with @DrTedros http://bit.ly/EB146 #EB146 "The latest data we have is that there are 20,471 confirmed cases in #China, including 425 deaths.Outside #China there

Matt Britton

ThunderingEIk

In the fall of 1918, as President Woodrow Wilson scrambled to end World War I, the Spanish flu slithered its way through D.C., unsettling daily life in the same ways

balajis.com

balajis

Incredible.Last week I called out a journalist who I thought was writing a piece that would be a disservice to public health.Unfortunately, my concerns proved well-founded. Recode’s virus piece ignores

Hazem Fahmy

Haz_Fahmy

I'm glad to see that a lot of Arabs and Arab Americans here have been discussing the infuriating fact that it was an Arab business which called the cops on

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

To understand a global pandemic we need global data.But even more than one year into the pandemic some of the most basic international data on COVID is missing.Just because there