#Epidemics

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

January 31: Trump signs Presidential Proclamation 9984 responding to coronavirusThis from med journal Stat: "...Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich), a prominent conspiracy theorist and early Trump supporter, had agitated on Twitter for

Rising serpent 🇺🇸

rising_serpent

1. The only way to end the pandemic is through, not around it.We were supposed to flatten the curve in 21 days. Fast forward 213 days and we're still talking

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

1/n. Everything you wanted to know about Herd Immunity, but were afraid to ask.What is HIT exactly? What’s the relationship with R_t? Will the virus vanish? A thread by @maestro_rayo,

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

It’s easy to feel as if there’s no light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel:ICUs are filling upFresh lockdownsHerd immunity a long way offYet we shouldn’t ignore the better

Ed Yong

edyong209

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

One thing civil servants learn is to write things down. Here is @acadmedsci's 14 July report commissioned by @uksciencechief. For the record. It sets out what was known in July,

Pace 🙂

theotherphilipp

Upon multiple request, here’s my thread regarding the boundaries of epidemiological modeling in English.https://twitter.com/theotherphilipp/status/1355164530960199684?s=20 1/22: #Models are simplified images of our world. They are useful

CADDE Project

CaddeProject

Here is a thread to accompany our work published today in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/07/science.abe9728), comparing SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody prevalence in Manaus and São Paulo. @FAPESP @The_MRC @I

JAC-AMR

jac_amr

1/12 A question that keeps popping up: what is the impact of #COVID_19 on global bacterial #AntimicrobialResistance rates? -A thread with links to recent papers on this topic (please add

Ben Bleasdale

Ben_Bleasdale

A thread on Investment and Place in today's BEIS R&D Roadmap:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-research-and-development-roadmap 1/ It’s a staggeringly comprehensive (and honest) SWOT analysis for UK R&D, and a spra

mag

magmagmagnus

This is a deeply cynical response which refuses to acknowledge Israel's responsibility an occupying power. To unpack that a bit (ok, a lot) more:https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1346101473525047296 1/ In their response to this

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

An explainer thread (often I feel I am pitching these to journalists as much as anyone else) on COVID this month. Context: I am an expert in one area (human

Steve Brule

braidedmanga

Ivor Cummins has just released a new video: "CRUCIAL Viral Update Dec 7th - Europe and USA Explained!" and as usual it's more rubbish. I did a thread on Ivor

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I suppose because I'm an evolutionary biology who has worked on emerging infectious diseases for 20 years, a number of people are asking me whether we should expect the

Brian Roemmele

BrianRoemmele

1/ For the last month I have been plotting out the residual effect from the 2020 Pandemic.I studied past pandemics particularly 1919 and have ideas.I feel it useful for the

Mello.B33

B33Mello

1/ Probably one of the most important articles you will ever read. Brilliant, eye opening and combines all the relevant data & information. I was already aware of many things

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