#Superspreaders

Sarah Tuttle

niais

Something the Democratic party doesn't seem to understand is how demoralizing it is, as a Democratic voter, to have the Democrats not be standing up to fight for us.We worked

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

It is remarkable that you have idiots like this "Prof" @BallouxFrancois who conflate additive risks with multiplicative ones (fat tailed), a mistake your grandmother wouldn't make.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/129

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socialistbangrs

This is basically what Qanon looks like right now. I'm not saying it is Qanon, but I think these protests are a manifestation of the Qanon phenomena and thus people

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Ok, so let's play a thought experiment. We reopen, fully, on 5/1. Without widespread testing, adequate PPE, or any of the other underlying #covid19 issues addressed. What happens next?https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1250457165611053056 1.

SternLab

SternLab

Finally excited to share our work with @KoelleLab @m_a_martin and many others on features of SARS-CoV-2 spread. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.20104521v1What did we find:1. Sequenced 212 genomes from Israel @GISAID @next

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

Friends, there is a mob of "COVID is not serious" (even hoax) politicized attack dogs w/no notion of science nor interest in it who tag to the very few play-the-system

Dennis Jernberg

dennis_jernberg

#Spanner #amediting update (for once): Thanks to the "qrazy" turn of the altmed set, Sia's "uncostumed" superheroine sisters Charlie & Desiree now have a Berserk Button: "q-wackery".Charlie: Quack?Desir

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

.@President_MU I recognize youve heard things like “50% sensitivity”In light of your comments it’s clear there are key pieces youve missedSensitivity nears 100% to catch potential superspreaders and others currently

David States

statesdj

Let’s talk testing, specifically the coronavirus test we really need and essentially no one is talking about. What we need is a fast, low cost field test for highly contagious

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

If Hope Hicks traveled within close proximity to Trump aboard Air Force One—presumably while NOT wearing a mask—then Trump likely was exposed to the #coronavirus.However, that does not necessarily mean

ARSLab

ARSLab_CU

1/6 I’m sharing with the general public internal guidelines from @ARSLab_CU. On top of the mandatory regulations from @Carleton_U, we are giving our students extra instructions. Feel free to use

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

I do not understand the logic of the graphs in this (NYT article shared with alarm) article at all. At best, they're uninformative, but at worst, wildly misleading. Percent share

Nora Loreto

NoLore

As I've mentioned a few times, I'm writing a book about how journalists shaped how Canadians understand COVID. And early on, already, the theme that I keep coming back to

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

There's a lot of chatter about the so-called "Great Reset." Some of it is conspiracy theory.One thing, though, is right out in the open: the pandemic has triggered one of

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

COVID is characterized by clusters, rather than sustained transmission like e.g. flu. This determines variability in numbers (high) and actions we should take (early and decisive).A short thread on the

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

Let me try to explain a point which I think isn't widely known: in computing attack rates, the distribution of infectious contacts a person MAKES is less important than the