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Oh dear Jesus. I just read the tests on the Ferguson #COVID19 model.If I wrote code like this, with such excuses for tests, I'd get my ass fired, and you

Whether #hydroxychloroquine works for #COVID19 or not, it should be for scientists to test it, not for Dr Bright to unilaterally determine what is and isn't sound science. This is

I'd like to think so. But at the same time, I've seen too many outbreaks that ended as abruptly as they began (especially haemorrhagic fevers). It's an unsettling, eerie feeling,

What I hear is: "Hi, I'm Karen. I'm super white and super entitled and know little more than my own situation of profound privilege. How dare anyone demand I stay

The trending wild-ass guess on #COVID19 of the day is this paper by gastroenterologist Farid Jalali, joining a spate of papers that boil down to explaining how respiratory symptoms in

A week ago, I pointed out I do not see strong evidence for #hydroxychloroquine for #COVID19. The evidence is *still* not there.At the same time, people imagine a rift in

This may be a truth wasted on @mattyglesias, but over here in science, we generally draw a line between 'knowing' and 'assuming'. Asymptomatic transmission of the #coronavirus causing #COVID19 is

The two are not mutually exclusive. The big question in the issue of the proximal origin of the #coronavirus is its adaptation to the human ACE2 receptor. This means it

Yeah, err... when you leak information about the combat capabilities of a national asset, getting cashiered is probably the least you can expect. When you do so circumventing the entire

Some people have been asking me why I'm so sure that we're going to be OK amidst the #COVID19 pandemic. I keep telling everyone that while this is going to