#Diseases

Tonya Song

Tonya_Song

I don't know why I need to keep saying this even in leftist circles. If you are concerned about climate change, as everyone should be, then you should care about

Laura Stone

l_stone

NEW: Co-authors of SickKids report tell @globeandmail they did NOT call for specific class sizes, used eg. of 10-15 but focus on physical distancing, not specific #. “There will be

MikeP

UK_Optimist

Thread from an eminent Professor of Medicine...."When I learned my trade at med school we were taught that pandemics spread in waves through populations.First wave killed a lot of people, then

Rajeev Venkayya MD

rvenkayya

Excellent analysis of the Moderna news from @nataliexdean. Some thoughts on the implications for #COVID #vaccines in general, reflecting my personal views only. Disclosures at the end. 1/https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1328356802380

Francesco Marconi

fpmarconi

We just entered the most critical decade for the news and information industry. A thread: 1. The pandemic forced many news orgs to innovate how they use technology, rethink how

Ancient Wisdom

WiseAncient

The Lost Cities of the Amazon Rain Forest.It covers nine countries, is home to the largest collection of plants and animals in the world and is traversed by one of

brian lucey

brianmlucey

1/20 Everybody is sick of covid. Everybody wants it to go away. But ....it wont. Sorry. It wont. A thread #covid #simples 2/20 Despite what we wish for, this is

Daniel George

drdanielgeorge

A research team I’m part of just published data looking at the ‘diseases of despair’ crisis over the last decade (full article is free and available online). A brief summary

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Genomic sequencing of viruses from the #COVID19 pandemic can help reveal transmission patterns. Thanks to data sharing through @GISAID from groups all over the world, @nextstrain is now showing 1882

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

Remember, John Snow was an armchair epidemiologist. https://www.practicalplaybook.org/success/story/map-making-and-myth-making-john-snows-map-didn%E2%80%99t-solve-1854-cholera-outbreakAnd the guy who checked his work was a priest.http://kor

betsy ladyzhets 🌳📊

betsyladyzhets

COVID-19 DATA DISPATCH: this week, I surveyed state reporting on COVID-19 in K-12 schools. 35 states report case counts in schools; 6 states report in an incomplete form, and 9

Bill Gardner

Bill_Gardner

1 | Election polling failed in 2020, the most striking example being perhaps the failure of any poll to predict Susan Collins' re-election.Unfortunately, the problem with surveys affects more than

Dr. Tara C. Smith

aetiology

Scare-mongering about the #COVID19 #vaccine: a thread. The scare posts about the vaccine have begun. You may have seen video of a Tennessee nurse, who felt light-headed and then passed

Jessica Lahey

jesslahey

My partner, @TimLaheyMD, is on call today, taking care of people hospitalized w/ infectious diseases, including COVID. He has been concerned enough over rising numbers in our area that he

Lazarus Long

LazarusLong13

Please sign and retweet/share on social media this petition to get the World Health Organization to clearly acknowledge that CoVid is airborne (they haven't fully), and be crystal clear about

Save our Antibiotics

ASOAntibiotics

It's * World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020 * and we want you to know that 73% of all antibiotics used worldwide are used in farmed animals. Often to prevent or

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