#Severity

alison whittaker

AJ_Whittaker

today, on the eighth day of his inquest, we will hear from Nathan Reynolds' family. outside the court, his sisters Taleah and Makayla delivered their statement. 'On the 1st September

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update October 7: Why Trump must be gone before vaccine distribution. 1/ Trump’s credibility on COVID-19 couldn’t be lower. No one trusts him any more.COVID has blanketed our country

Aliens in the Family

TheFamilyAliens

San Francisco reported 730 overdose deaths last year, on a population of around 800k. Nearly one in a thousand known to be dead from drug overdoses. That makes Covid look

Haleema Khan

haleemak_

Throughout the pandemic, there have been opposing views on this issue. So... Coronavirus, is it “a type of flu” or not? Was it right to assume at start of the

Colin Snover

zetafleet

I reported this privilege escalation w/ arbitrary code execution vuln to @Backblaze in Oct 2019. Instead of following my recs to fix it, they apparently cheesed in some broken mitigations

Children's HealthWatch

ChildrensHW

Our virtual #TownHall is starting now! We will be discussing the ways #COVID19 has disproportionately affects marginalized communities, including immigrant families, families with low-incomes, and communities of color.#WhatEquityLooksLike C

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

CulturalHusbandry

APhilosophae

In February of 2010 Forbes published an article in the Workd Health Org falsifying the level of concern related to Swine Flu. The title was "WHY THE WHO FAKED A

Zaf #WearADamnMask #Vote2020 Qasim 🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸

ResusOne

1/How does a city's trauma system come together to both prepare for the expected surge of the #COVIDー19 #pandemic & manage the ongoing #epidemic of #gunviolence & other trauma?Through a

Joshua Weitz

joshuasweitz

This thread will take a few steps, and begins with a premise:Testing for viral shedding (via PCR) is critical and we need more of it (far more), but it's not

Colin Davis

ProfColinDavis

Toby Young and Carl Heneghan and other “lockdown sceptics” have been making strong claims about how they can show lockdown has had no impact on the epidemic, based on simple

Darragh Wynne

darrwynne

So, there are some claims in here that need a bit of debunking.THREADhttps://twitter.com/MHealyRae/status/1384591229464334338 1. MHR says: "I am not a climate change denier."He acknowledges the climate is changing but clearly

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 38Still stable at @UCSFHospitals & in SF. @UCSF, 15 pts, 5 on ventilators (Fig on L). In SF: 38 new cases, 23 deaths overall (up

𝓝atalie @ #SciWri20

LeiaShotFirst

It's day two of #SciWri20 and I'm fangirling a bit because look at this lineup for our first session #EmergingDisease:@apoorva_nyc @edyong209 @mayadusenbery @davidtuller1 @julierehmeyer https://twitter.com/ScienceWriters/status/1318

Lindsey Fitzharris

DrLindseyFitz

(1/16) It’s #MemorialDay in the USA. In preparation for my next book on the history of plastic surgery, I’m immersing myself in diaries, letters, & literature from #WWI. Today's THREAD