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This is the statement on the research to fight #COVID19 taking place in #France at the moment, and below I will place a summary of what is said (Thread).(My own
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7 things we learned about #Covid19SA this weekend from @DrZweliMkhize and @alanwinde [A thread]. 1. The positivity rate (% of + tests of the total nr of tests) of #CoronaVirusinSA
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Thread below on an article I published today at The Conversation:https://theconversation.com/how-the-civil-war-drove-medical-innovation-and-the-pandemic-could-too-144181The article draws out lessons we can learn from economic history (inclu
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How the fork are tigers getting tested??!https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/us/tiger-coronavirus-new-york-trnd/index.html I'd make a Tiger King joke here if I wasn't so mad. Also, I get what this means for science. For understanding the
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Welcome to today's #COVID19 #Briefing! Are you ready for the Friday edition of the #Trump Gong Show? Because I'm not! So apparently part of the reason for the #Covid19 #Briefing
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[1] This needs peer review and fact-checkers ...Was the 1918 #SpanishFlu , which started on a US military base in Kansas (near Manhattan Kansas), the product of failed early vaccine
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"In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says "there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen." The "Big Pharma" insider
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4-5 years ago I* did an assessment of the unmet need for contraception in the Peninsula. We have Census Tract level data on a lot of things, age, gender, race,
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i don't know what/who these West Wing people are, but i'm told they're badass females, & really that's all i want.honestly peeved Chandler Bing isn't on this list, bc i
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Our daily update is published. States reported over 57K new cases today — another record day for cases, the third this week.We’re at 721K new tests today, a huge jump
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If you are pro reopening schools this fall, please read these points and actively think about them.Questions for school openings:- If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19, are they required
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Here's a remarkable example of a misleading visualization from the 4/6 White House press conference.They are using a bar chart to show *cumulative* tests run. Looks impressive, but that linear
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#HappeningNow: President Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House. (Thread) #BREAKING: President Trump says in a few minutes he will sign an executive order directing federal agencies to
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#AcademicTwitter This summer, I taught a 3-week long online Intro Geology course to ~30 students. Here are 10 things that I learned: 1. Many of my students assumed that online
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One of the first things the government needs to do is to tackle the testing and tracing system, before we move on too much to lockdowns/semi-lockdowns. Speaking from my experience
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Why we get false negative tests:The diagnosis of COVID19 using RT PCR method is made based on the threshold cycle (Ct) value. Ct is defined as the cycle number when
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