#Epidemiologist

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

Everyone knows that the case numbers in Ireland aren't real, right? Or rather, that they're wildly undercounted?That we've hit a ceiling of 1700 cases per day *because that's the max

Dr Benjamin 'Ward Viking' Janaway 💙

drjanaway

#COVID19 Mythbuster thread. Holy shit, get a cup of tea. Let's break these apart. I will take each common myth and address the evidence and provide an explanation. Feel free

Enrique de-Madaria

DeMadaria

Is #COVID19 associated to acute pancreatitis? A very simple question, but difficult to answer, let's discuss it in this Twitter thread based on the review written by @lelecapurso and me

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Medical Experts said covid-19 meant we must close businesses, cancel weddings, cancel church, miss funerals and stay home.Most of us, through tears and broken hearts, listened.The same experts then gave

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

What time is it?Death time. It appears that excess deaths may be peaking. Data next week should give us true confirmation of this. But as projected two weeks ago, falling

Liz Specht

LizSpecht

I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n Let’s conservatively

Ed Yong

edyong209

I’m really grateful to everyone who read the big new cover story this week. If you’ve liked my work, perhaps you’ll also like the work that I like. Here are

Avik Roy

Avik

New: my @WSJ Review cover story on the compelling case for reopening schools, especially for younger children. Children themselves are at extremely low risk of serious illness or death. So

Daniel Tuijnman 😷 #TeamAliëtte #CodeZwart

DanielTuijnman

The newest addition in the disinfo campaign against RNA vaccins comes from none other than Andrew Wakefield himself, in a 10 minute video "Dr Wakefield warns: Thisis not a Vax,

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DrutangAtHome

We have all seen the memes mocking those who question the safety of pharmaceutical products as crazy & "anti-science"Can we really afford to trust Big Pharma & our regulatory agencies

Architects for Social Housing

9thfloor

Last September, Pfizer’s CEO, Albert Bourla, assured the public that ‘we will develop our product, develop our vaccine, using the highest ethical standards’. And the NHS has assured us of

Mar Hicks

histoftech

resolution for 2020: tell and hear moar Dad Jokes(tm) Q: why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?A: because they’re so good at it. a skeleton walks into a

Patrick Galey #BlackLivesMatter

patrickgaley

I cannot believe the events of the last 10 days aren't getting greater attention Events which will live on infamy as a cautionary tale of western hubris, journalistic malpractice, and

Ken Yeung

thekenyeung

Room’s open. Already at 1,500 people at least in the room. Now at 2,000 people. 2,500 people. 3,000 people. 3,500 people. 4,000 people. 4,500 people. And the @GoodTimeShowCH room with

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Mutation “feat never seen before”...UPDATE on UK strain of #SARSCoV2 & how it evolved so fast:Variant B.1.1.7 (aka VUI-202012-01) has 23 mutations—but acquired suddenly 17 mutations “all at once”—which

Wear A Mask And Stand Back

robfardon

A THREAD OF TWITTER CLICHÉSYes, I have missed some, but there are over 100 of them so please check first. (A nod here to older readers of Language Log, who

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