#Spike

Peter Cook

_Peter_Cook

Public trust is a precious currency that was spent far too blithely this summer by public officials who should have known better.https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1328148358582689792 Americans did trust the science in March, when

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 177Nice to re-start our Covid grand rounds today. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yyw5myns . We covered a range of epi issues (the shape of the pandemic, changing mortality

Niall Conroy

NICU_doc_salone

Five things I’ve done in the last year as a public health doctor that, like most of what we do, flies under the radar.... 1) Our surveillance system found disease-causing

Christine Gibson MD

GibtrotterMD

Watched vaccine webinars Alberta Health Services and Public Health Agency of Canada, now sharing takeaway points. This vaccine is critical, lucky that the ones approved by Health Canada 95% effective.

Jacques Joubert

JacquesQuant

I am finding more and more that the HFT papers have some of the best insights into machine learning for finance. I often get asked what are some good features

David Willsey FF

willson8tor

Does Williams opting out drastically change the volume for CEH?Kareem hunt got 325 tch. You think he's getting that? Hunt handled 19.43 touches per game over the course of his

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: The British dampened some vaccine joy yesterday with news of a possibly hyper-transmissible variant. How scary is this new variant? Bottomline: Scientists should watch and worry, yes, but the

Pond Games

gamesbypond

RITE has been out for an entire month already! Here's a little peek at what the game looked like on 16th Jan, 2019 when it was 2 weeks into development

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

It's curiouser and curiouser that the trans community as a whole is unwilling to say: "Whoa, something else is going on here!" when confronted with a ~4000% spike in girls

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

Quick thread on current UK COVID19 numbers based on my @IndependentSage briefing yesterday... (H/T to @GabrielScally for twitterising the slides) 1/8 Deaths continue to decline (ONS gold standard measure), hospital

Lydia⁷ IA-ish: Uni

Lydia130613

Okay I need to talk about something I’ve observed here when we disagree on things. I don’t think people are going to like hearing it, but it makes me really

David S. Bernstein

dbernstein

So, here's the thing. Starting back in the Spring, there was a widespread argument from Paul & many, many libertarian conservatives in favor of letting the virus run amok. The

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Good and bad news about the Novavax protein subunit vaccine. 90% efficacy in the UK, but only ~50% in South Africa, largely because of the B.1.351 variant. Hopeful news too:

PLC

Humble_Analysis

California was the first state to issue a stay at home order, has mandated masks for months, and has been one of the 10 most restrictive states over the past

Kyle

DrKyle

The New COVID-19 Variant, explained for curious kids and twitterers.Imagine the virus in the book "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Think of the book cover (pictures and words) as the

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

Let me attempt to explain why I believe that Big Pharma’s push for monoclonal antibody treatments may have played a role in the development of the more contagious B.1.1.7 coronavirus

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