#Outbreak

Joanna Slater

jslaternyc

We dug into India’s mysteriously low coronavirus fatality figures. We found both misreported deaths and signs of “excess” unexplained deaths linked to the pandemic /1https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-

Ryan Hisner

LongDesertTrain

1/ So I found out this garbage meta-analysis is apparently being shared all over the place. I decided to take a look at the studies they cited as evidence that

Lawrence Gostin

LawrenceGostin

Did @WHO wait too late to declare a PHEIC as so many have claimed? Clearly not. In this thread, I provide a timeline that shows @DrTedros acted promptly. It's impossible

Stephen McDonell

StephenMcDonell

The @WHO presser in #Wuhan has started with the leader of the Chinese team Liang Wennian going through the kinda boring history of setting up the inquiry, terms of reference

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

Jake Cordell

JakeCordell

Russia seems to be - finally - rolling out a coronavirus contact-tracing app.Mini thread: Why so late, how they got here & some lessons for Russia's insistence on home-grown technology

Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈

leahmcelrath

Current projections=Need to implement Phase III in terms of ICU capacity on July 21st(https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/overview-of-tmc-bed-status/)Houston’s Texas Medical Center is the world’s largest, so has outsized bed capacit

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

NEW—The coronavirus was in the US in mid-December 2019, a few weeks before it was officially identified in China, according to CDC analysis of blood donation samples. This also matches

Emma Beals

ejbeals

2 weeks ago we published an investigation on #COVID19 in Damascus: https://tande.substack.com/p/syria-in-context-investigation-covid Since then, we've worked with Imperial, who modelled that for each recorded death there's likely 50

AZ Alison

NobleBirth

My Story 2009 H1N1 PandemicIt was late in Q1 of my son’s kindergarten school year. There were just a few days left until our 17 day Fall Break. Suddenly, the

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

Krugman’s bafflingly-inaccurate thread shows why it’s important to talk about the way all American Muslims were demonized post-9/11, and why that wasn’t an acceptable response. We can’t just pretend “there

C. Michael Gibson MD

CMichaelGibson

Many have become numb to pandemic statisticsHealthcare workers, though, must face the reality that there are now MORE PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED THAN AT ANY TIME in 2020, 40% more than 2

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Good morning in sad, jealous tweets. All schools in Taiwan have been open since February. They did not listen to China or WHO in January and immediately masked up and

Ryan McGreal

RyanMcGreal

A narrative has taken hold around Doug Ford and the #onpoli Government that he stepped up during the #covid19 pandemic and became the leader we need. As a result of

Hillel Neuer

HillelNeuer

I couldn't make this up if I tried: World Health Organization 'Goodwill Ambassador' James Chau now has his tweets locked. "Only approved followers can see @jameschau's tweets."Move comes after

Andrew Heald

andyheald

Yesterday @guardianeco & @newscientist ran this story based on a @nresearchnews article - alarming headlines based on "satellite data". No-one involved in these stories or research seems to have checked

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