#Outbreak

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Here's a thread of my latest blog post, on Japanese homogeneity. Lots of people say Japan is a "homogeneous society". But how homogeneous is it really?https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/how-homogeneous-is-japan 2/Lots of peop

Eduard Soler Lecha

solerlecha

What a start! 2021 will be a quite intense for those of us working on international affairs, isn’t it? A THREAD with the ten topics that we’ll keep us busy

Brumby

the_brumby

1.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484 “there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (“lockdowns”) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germ

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://www.pscp.tv/w/ccissDI2MTAyMHwxbERHTHlEUnF5ekptyeK2G8Yo5-sfNUEVo7cCB03EI1pJ_KH7-RJPJZtKPDI= "Tomorrow marks six months since WHO received the first reports of a cluster of cases of pneum

The New York Times

nytimes

It was a year like no other: 1.5 million people around the world died during a pandemic, racial unrest gripped the world, and democracy itself came under unprecedented assault. This

Ali Genova

genova_ali

"Stochastic terrorism": the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted. (thread)https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/13

Melissa Sweet

MelissaSweetDr

A thread to acknowledge those who've contributed to @CroakeyNews in recent weeks, covering topics ranging from #COVID19 to the #climatecrisis, #healthequity, #mentalhealth, #publichealth, #agedcare, #SDOH & much more besides. First

Brumby

the_brumby

studies since March 2020. Below are 30 published papers finding that lockdowns had little or no efficacy (despite unconscionable harms) along with a key quote or two from each: 1.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484

Juan Cambeiro💡

juan_cambeiro

Reposting to make some minor corrections. Building on @kristjanmoore and using info available up to today, I assign a 90% probability to at least one of the new variants being

Brumby

the_brumby

This will be my first and possibly last tweet (thread) as I am mostly here to learn. It is prompted by a recent study questioning lockdown efficacy that is getting

Stephen Moore

smooreBofB1940

1. This is a thread about the Bristol Beaufighter & how it was the most important (if not the absolute ‘best’) heavy fighter of the SWW. Beaufighter origins go back

Tom Elliott

tomselliott

Starting a thread of deaths resulting from Covid quarantines. 1) NHS Scotland sees hundreds die after hospitals keep patients on waiting lists as Covid is prioritized 2) In Bay Area,

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 34th instalment of #deanehistory.Admiral Maximilian von Spee was a good sailor who died in the 1st World War during the destruction of the East Asia Fleet he

Marianna Spring

mariannaspring

NEW Conspiracy theories ripped through the internet this year, destroying relationships and endangering lives - worlds apart from legitimate concerns.Here I reflect on their casualties and my year reporting

Russ

RussInCheshire

18. Gavin Williamson is on record instructing Ofqual to design a system that could not allow grade inflation19. But this week, in a wildly unpredictable turn of events, he blamed

TUMI 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚲🛴🚊🚍🔌📲

TUMInitiative

#COVID19 transmission risks and infection rates in public transport - what do we know? Collecting information, developments and appreciating (scientific) feedback. @c_drosten @mugecevik @rki_de @CDCgov @UITPnews @VDV_Verband @NACTO @APTA_T

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