#Epidemics

Jim

n_equals_42

.@EdConwaySky is having a good COVID-19 war & this is worth reading. It’s become obvious COVID-19 models are crap, to put it bluntly. And more importantly, it’s not clear they

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

Sitrep: situation report. This is what we call our daily briefings right now. Here’s mine. We are now fairly confident we have reached the high water-mark for the second wave

Dr. Alison Bateman-House

ABatemanHouse

Remember in Ebola all the discussion about needing to engage anthropologists to understand why African villagers would shun medical advice? Now we’ve got a much larger epidemic in our own

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

A thread of some of the misconceptions that fed the COVID hysteria. 1/ Little reporting of the sense of scale, that flu and seasonal influenza-like infections (i.e., colds) are massive

Dr. Joanne Freeman

jbf1755

1/ What would the Founders say about millions of people under curfew?First & most important:There was no single block of "Founders." There were different people w/different opinions, so they would

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After a ~2 month plateau from mid-Nov to mid-Jan, the US #COVID19 epidemic has undergone a steady week after week decline and is now back to daily case counts last

Elad Ratson

EladRatson

Israel excluding Palestinians from #COVID19 vaccine rollout? Answer is 𝗡𝗢! Here's the chronology of how reality is engineered. 1ˢᵗ to set the ranting tone was @AP's Middle East bloke @JosephKrauss

Sunni.supremacist

Sunnisupremaci1

Brief History of the suspension of hajj [thread]As we have come to know , this year's hajj has been cancelled but many Muslims do not know that hajj has been

MarCos

MarCosXM13

WEF launched the Global Health Initiative in 2002 by Kofi Annan.WEF launched the Global Education Initiative in 2003.WEF launched in 2017 the Water Initiative.WEF launched in 2017 the Platform For

Andrew Wehrman

ProfWehrman

Bostonians in the 18th century did not specifically close down churches during epidemics. They didn't have to. They didn't have germ theory, but with smallpox their system of close watch

Lynette Yorgason

LynetteYorgason

Throughout this pandemic I've been so frustrated with many people who have been arguing with health experts and I've been trying to figure out why I'm so comfortable giving my

Beth Thompson

Beth_Thompson

Here’s our view from @wellcometrust following the UK Govt announcement that @DFID_UK will be merged with @foreignoffice. 1/7 Aligning foreign policy and development goals mustn't mean losing sight of the

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

Anne Sosin

asosin

Choice dominates the discourse on #covid19. But lack of choice drives the epidemiology. A few thoughts on conversations around “choice” (and shaming) in the context of #covid19. Poor choices are

Jen Keane

zenbuffy

So it turns out more of ye didn't know about the WoW pandemic than did. 56% didn't know.It's honestly a pretty interesting thing. In 2005, a new raid and boss

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Which places have done the best job of protecting people from Covid? A thread. Best at early action: TAIWAN. Quickly halted flights, quarantined travelers, implemented widespread testing, and quadrupled face

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