#Epidemics

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s.https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 "I hadn’t interviewed s

Kata Farkas

KataFarkas211

When it comes to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for #COVID surveillance, people ask the same question: How come it hasn’t been used before? Well, it has been. Here are a few

Rán blessing the #KrakenOnSteroids

RanBlessing

ThreadSo, the UK reported a new Covid strain. What's up with that?https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-from-chief-medical-officer-professor-chris-whitty-about-new-strain-of-covid-19 First, let's take a look at the natural ev

Health Nerd

GidMK

So, I have had a proper read of this document, and I thought it might be worthwhile to actually go through and carefully analyze the documentLet's do some peer-review on

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

A while ago, my friend's kid started throwing a birthday party every day.It was a pretty stylish affair. She'd grab all her teddies and line them up one by one.

Nova Scotia Museum

NS_Museum

The Black Loyalists founded settlements throughout Nova Scotia. The largest was at Birchtown, near Shelburne, with an initial population of about 1500. Birchtown today is the home of the Black

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Covid-19 IFR is *NOT* 0.13% (THREAD)There's a lot of confusion and some downright appalling falsehoods in the heated debate about Covid-19. One particular point around which the "let the virus

Bella Rophon

FoolsMultiply

"The Lancet‘s fraudulent concealment of genetics, and its own conflicting interests, while condemning #coronavirus conspiracy theorists, gives the appearance of “crisis capitalism,” and complicity in the COVID-19-SARS/HIV-1 #Wuha

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

Dr Emily Munro

ellomunro

To keep spirits up, I'm starting a thread of contagion-related #archive films. Share your favourites and help archives go, erm, viral? #FilmContagion #archives #cinema First up: Edison's sneeze (1894) https://www.loc.gov/item/006941

Michelle Cohen, MD

DocMCohen

Let’s talk about a common, problematic way that we conceive of “health.” Too often we equate the absence of illness with morality. This leads down many bad paths both on

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

OK. I may get slaughtered here, but there is a kind of pundit who doesn't know what he doesn't know. I'm not talking about ordinary people on @Twitter who shoot

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about big cities, and why they might not bounce back triumphantly after COVID is gone.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-10/new-york-san-francisco-u-s-cities-will-struggle-after-covid-19 2/COV

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread (longish but hopefully interesting): While reading about the sudden collapse of the Balkan Neolithic cultures, like Vinča culture (pic) at the end of the 5th mill BC, I came

Karlin in a galaxy far far away Lillington

klillington

An odd side aspect of the pandemic: the many images of chest X-rays in science articles/ tweets, makes me think daily of my dad. He was a respiratory specialist &

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A short thread about covid herd immunity. First let's look at New York & Sweden. NY wears masks, closed business, closed schools, and mandates social distancing. Sweden did not but

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