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Sally Nicholls
Sally_Nicholls
I've been thinking about those hateful comments about how most of the COVID deaths have been older people and those with underlying conditions. And how most of the replies were
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Prof. Devi Sridhar
devisridhar
FM @NicolaSturgeon: Relief to hear cases in Scotland fall under 1000 (but could be due to weekend). Let’s keep sticking with it- get outside for exercise & socialising, avoid crowded
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Paul Jakma
pjakma
An interesting paper on lessons from Foot and Mouth outbreak in UK, and mathematical modelling:https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/use-and-abuse-of-mathematical-models-an-illustration-from-the-2001-foot-and-mouth-disease-ep
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Josh Marshall
joshtpm
On the @SWAtlasHoover front, there’s a fascinating story to be told that @Stanford and particularly the @HooverInst has been a hot spot of covid misinformation from basically the beginning of
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
'Herd immunity' has been reached during previous epidemics of influenza, measles and seasonal coronaviruses. But it's subsequently been lost (and then regained). What are some of the reasons for this?
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Sylvester Equation
neoliberal_dad
Anthony Fauci is a person who was completely unqualified to run a pandemic response and indeed failed miserably by any measure. You can sum up a lot of problems with
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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
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David Fisman
DFisman
An observation on schools and COVID-19. In both Ontario and BC, there is what I will call a "magical unicorn" narrative related to schools and COVID-19. In these provinces public
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Jan Choutka
jan_choutka
As days get shorter, evenings longer, and the world in turmoil due to a pandemic, let me tell a sad and forgotten story. A tale of the early outbreaks of
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Louis du Plessis
laduplessis
After many months of hard work our analysis of the lineage structure and importation dynamics of the first wave of the #SARSCoV2 epidemic in the UK is out in @ScienceMagazine
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akhivae
akhivae
We often define the greatness of historic states by how much territory they controlled. But, early states were more concerned about population > land.Having a sufficient number of people to
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
A 2006 paper was written by a team of epidemiologists led by perhaps the most famous of them all, Don Henderson (credited with smallpox eradication). They wrote it as a
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Joel Smalley
RealJoelSmalley
Do interventions control the spread of SARS-CoV-2? If you believe that, I think you might have a hard time explaining why every European country from Germany and Switzerland to the
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(((Caitlin Hollander)))
effortlesslycat
(THREAD: 1/5) As a #genealogist, you have to be fairly emotionally insulated against tragedy. Otherwise, we'd all lose our minds early on, between high infant mortality rates, genocides, and epidemics.
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Lucy Bernholz
p2173
Just had an amazing chat with a colleague within a foundation. They're talking about "post covid"... 1/x I said to them, "post covid?" 1st - until/unless every person in every
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Zalika U. Ibaorimi, M.A. (THE FINAL GIRL)
thinglygrammar
“The ho and her dysfunctional siblings—freak, skeezer, chickenhead, hoochie, hoodrat, and golddigger—are figures that trouble the notion of black collectivity that rests on ideologies of racial uplift and moral citizenship.”-
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