#Epidemics

'In Truth We Trust'

SikhForTruth

Sun Thread:An Alternative Theory:1.Was an Influenza outbreak predicted to happen in 2019/20 in China? Was the Influenza pandemic instead mistaken for #Covid19 or was such an outbreak of Influenza masked

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

Widely popular in in the spring, I don't actually think these early remarks from Mike Ryan resonate today.Coming in March after cases declined in several Asian countries, they suggested to

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

There's a lot of people who understand that making vaccination mandatory won't necessarily lead to the highest vaccination levels, but don't seem to be able to apply that caution to

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Contrary to recent claims, #SARSCoV2 is expected to be seasonal, as are essentially all >200 respiratory viruses in circulation, including the four 'common cold' coronaviruses (see below). (1/5)Source: https://smw.ch/article/doi/

🖋Jo Mungovin 🔎

mungotalks

#OTD 21 January 1799 Edward Jenner's #smallpox vaccination was introduced. In 1872 #Leicester was one of the most completely vaccinated towns in the kingdom owing to the alarm of several

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

GYamey

On Feb 20 2019 @DukeCPIGH attended a joint @WorldBank @CEPIvaccines consultation in DC on 'Financing COVID-19 Vaccine Development.' We co-authored a background paper on funding vaccine development & manufacturing. I

CBG-san

OnlyNakedTruth

There are two malicious names that have constantly tried to undermine India's pandemic response.One of them is:Gagandeep Kang, professor at CMC Vellore.https://www.google.com/amp/s/indianexpress.com/article/india/gagandeep-kang-vaccine-

IndigenousXca - Mike Gouldhawke @M_Gouldhawke

IndigenousXca

"...biological warfare occurred in 1763, during Pontiac’s rebellion. At this time, the French had been defeated and Amherst was commander-in-chief of all British forces in N. America."https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/05/19

Imran Khan

imrankhan

What if the way we think about fixing #misinformation is wrong? My team at @wellcometrust's has done some work with @shift_org.A thread on how we should look at the conditions

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

COVID This Week The looming question: Internal travel restrictions1/22 This week: continued spread of Covid at a high rate in most of the US, continued shortages and delays in testing,

Richard Lawson

DocRichard

One of the most important and common tricks used by deniers of Covid and man-made climate change is to pick up on a single error made by their opponents and

COVID Impact

CovidSerology

New serology from Iquitos, Peru (~426k) has now been published. The serology covers two periods - a baseline study in July (2 months after the peak of the 1st wave

Sylvester Equation

neoliberal_dad

It’s a good thing we eliminated polio in the 1950s because there’s no way in hell we could eliminate it under the 21st century health economics conventional wisdom Imagine Ezra

Michael Story ⚓

MWStory

This BBC radio doc on Covid from January 23rd is a fascinating historical artefact. All the seeds of Spring 2020 assumptions are therehttps://twitter.com/surplustakes/status/1344564863771795456?s=19 > Academics advising Labour gov during

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

Yeah unquestionably they reinforce each other. No question. One interesting thing is that Americans tend to think about this as driven mainly by the South. There’s a lot of truth

Nenad Bakic

nbakic

CEE countries: A case study in inevitability of SARS-CoV-2 spreading and seasonality - a THREADEU CEE countries did remarkably well in the 1st wave and were praised as champions. In

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