#EPIDEMIC

“Teddy”

itsmeheythere

A lot of male abuse goes under the radar because women abuse men and then tell people that they were abused themselves by the man and people demonize the man

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ How do we deal with a Republican Party that’s become a traitor to humanity itself? (THREAD) 2/ Politicians in New York State are discussing making Covid vaccination mandatory, and,

OK then

Kdenkss

As dark as 2020 was, I hope we never forget the sense of possibility that this year conjured. Nothing is impossible anymore. We were told that UBI was a distant

Anthony B. Bradley

drantbradley

I’m tired of taking phone calls & getting texts from devastated & near suicidal men because their wives are cheating. This happens to me every year. For 19 years straight.

Planet

planetlabs

In three recently published papers, researchers across the world used satellite data to observe substantial changes in human behavior caused by the #COVID19 pandemic. From increases in water quality to

Robert Rogers

choirdoc

The daily "new cases" report from Tarrant County Public Health has become meaningless, due to the backlog of results now being released by the state. I recommend looking at the

Anshel Pfeffer

AnshelPfeffer

I took a family member yesterday for a Covid test in Jerusalem and spent this morning reporting at a vaccine center. The drive-in testing center was chaotic and the wait

Bansi Sharma

bansisharma

1. On Covid Testing: What We Have, And What We NeedThis is a thread on a few basic scientific concepts, but they can be very, very confusing. Bookmark this thread

Patrick I. Emelife, M.D.

IfesinachiMD

1) This morning, as I listened to Chapter 10 (America’s Three Opioid Epidemics) of Dr. Travis Rieder’s book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids,” I could not control

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789241516839-eng.pdf#page=9Does anyone have an explanation for why we’re doing almost all of the things which, last year, were explicitly NOT recommended under any circs in relation

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

NEW TEXAS THREAD 1/12: Thought I would update on where I think we stand in #TexasCovid19. Trigger Warning: Mostly it's bad news, but there is also some good news. The

Carl Zimmer

carlzimmer

Today was a day that vaccine researchers had been hoping for and dreading all year, ever since—back on January 10—scientists started designing coronavirus vaccines. Why? A thread! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/health/coronavirus-va

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

One possibility I have not seen discussed much is that B.1.1.7 might appear more transmissible just by having a slightly different susceptibility profile than "wild-type" strains.A thread on how this

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

A follow up to the thread two weeks ago on rising case counts and "reopening", looking at continued trajectories in states with large epidemics. 1/15https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1279187556106723333 When looking at epidemic dyn

Caroline Voaden

CarolineVoaden

The government wants to draw up a new strategy for Violence against Women and Girls. It is asking people with lived experience to respond to a survey to inform this

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

The UK government is flying blind, introducing policies without proper prior assessment of their likely impact on the epidemic or the economy. This is now completely clear. Below I'll go

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