#Epidemics

The Hans Scholl Liberation Front

uTobian

When I started my research on the political economy of autism, I had already heard all of the slurs: "Those anti-vaxxers are tin foil hat wearing, flat earth, conspiracy theorists!"

Kate

Asilverlining20

Thread: 1) Massive PCR testing campaigns are resulting in the quarantine of healthy individuals, temporary business & school closures, mask mandates, & unnecessary panic and fear. Damage is being done

Karin Kosina

kyrah

Wondering why lockdown seems so much less effective this time around?“Because the graph really reflects two epidemics: one, shrinking fast, that’s caused by older variants of SARS-CoV-2, and a smaller,

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

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ Read this. This is "global health"? This is our "solidarity"? This is extractive.Vaccines produced in South Africa & tested on South Africans are then deemed safe, & first given

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

DENMARK: 9 days of protests over a new law that "would be able to define groups of people who must be vaccinated. People who refuse the above can be coerced

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Humanity’s history is a battle against the microbes. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively.My new post – and visualization – on how vaccines allowed us

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Delhi #COVID19 update. Looking at cases, Delhi - like Mumbai - is "stuck". Peak has passed, but there's been no clear descent for the past one month.Corrected test positivity is

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

How increasing #COVID19 cases overwhelm contact tracing (CT) & lead to runaway/accelerating epidemics. Also, how delays make CT ~useless.(bonus: how heterogeneity can lead to highly variable timing of epidemics)New paper

Ron

CodeMonkeyZ

Why did Bill Gates meet the Chairman of the CCP Xi Jinping in 2015?Did they discuss epidemics?https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/topics_665678/xjpcxbayzlt2015nnh/t1250549.shtml Bill Gates with Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang."Chinese governm

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narchist161

Do you want to know why my generation hates this country? Do you REALLY want to know, because I'll tell you.My generation has given everything, we've fought in unjust wars

Miguel Hernán

_MiguelHernan

1/Look at the shape of these curves. New York and Madrid had similar epidemics until they spectacularly diverged.In March, both cities were caught by surprise and shut down because of

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

Deeply honored to have won a @AAASKavli Gold Award for my feature @NatureNews It is a profile of @Tedros & @WHO as they tackled #Ebola in DR Congo. It foreshadowed

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

the new COVID relief bill includes:- $4'000'000'000 for navy weapons- $2'000'000'000 for air force missiles- $500'000'000 for israel- tax breaks if you own a race horse- $600 for you https://twitter.com/lzgra

Benjy Renton

bhrenton

It makes sense that Vermonters are concerned about the recent spike in cases in today's record-high case counts (chart from @asuozzo). In order to not let our guard down, we

Yara Asi

Yara_M_Asi

It looks like we need a thread debunking some #Oslo Accord myths, specifically on Article 17. Let's assume the faulty and erroneous premise that Oslo displaces Geneva (let's be clear,

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