#EPIDEMIC

Patrick Strudwick

PatrickStrud

Most people have no idea what it was like to be young + gay in the 80s/90s. When straight friends were holding hands in the playground I was in gay

Tara Moriarty

MoriartyLab

Any excess mortality experts out there?I'm looking the cumulative excess mortality tracker table on @OurWorldInDatahttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-cumulative-deaths?tab=table&stackMode=absolute&time=earliest.

Matt Malkus

malkusm

This viral thread is disingenuous - it compares cases today, when in reality, the countries listed either opened schools months ago (near the height of their epidemic), or, in the

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: This is a hard moment - but it’s a brief moment in our long history. It’s six months until we get to a technology to end the Covid epidemic

Jason #StopSISEA Rosenberg

mynameisjro

As the prickly discourse of shame and the novel coronavirus breaches new heights, I’d like us to explore what accountability looks like in a police state and what we’ve learned

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

Texas hospitals have received over 600,000 doses yet only about 100,000 vaccinated so far? These aren’t bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon. We don’t need age vaccines, are we overthinking this? Texas

Oregon Historical Society

OrHist

As Oregon enters into new state-and county-wide restrictions due to rising COVID-19 cases, we continue to look to history to better understand current events. Thanks to historian Dr. Kimberly Jensen,

The Vegas Refund

VegasRefund

My pops sent me this, and I think it really hits hard. Rarely will I tweet out anything like this out, but this is my exception... It’s a mess out

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

It is now abundantly clear China tried to cover up COVID-19 for weeks by confiscating samples and data, punishing outspoken scientists, and ordering others into silence. The implications are profound.

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

US daily numbers via @COVID19Tracking:Newly reported deathsToday: 644Yesterday: 701One week ago (6/25): 647 + 1854†Newly reported casesT: 53KY: 53K6/25: 39KNewly reported testsT: 635KY: 621K6/25: 638KPositive test rateT: 8.3%Y: 8.5%6/25:

Great Barrington Declaration

gbdeclaration

1. Is there a middle ground between lockdowns – with school, business and officeclosures, curfews, and isolation – and a laissez-faire "let it rip" approach?https://gbdeclaration.org/ 2. In the Great Barrington

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

The "mink mutant virus" stories have focused too much on the mutations and not enough on the fact that we have a raging COVID-19 epidemic in mink. The decision by

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th

Ed Yong

edyong209

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,

hayley reads stuff 🌈

haereads

4 of 5 stars to Hollowpox by Jessica Townsendhttps://goodreads.com/review/show/3036894649 I want to write a full length essay on this book but it’s getting late and I have to wake up

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

In discussing control measures, many people think in terms of intratemporal tradeoffs (health vs wealth), while most economists think also about the intertemporal tradeoffs (health AND wealth today vs health

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