#Outbreaks

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

This new mink COVID-19 mutation story, which is making the rounds on Twitter is highly problematic. There are elements of truth in it but the reporting is completely irresponsible.1/https://www.berlingske.dk/nyheder/english-version-mink-cau

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Our new preliminary analysis looks at the potential impact of various isolation, contact tracing, testing, and physical distancing measures on COVID-19, using social interaction data from over 40,000 people in

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

My latest investigation: Where is #COVID data?With 5.7 million cases in the US, we should have a good sense of how often people are infected in grocery stores, on planes,

Jane Lindholm

JaneLindholm

Dr. Bell asks Vermonters to make decisions about their personal lives through a wider lens of equity. She hopes people will think about those who are more vulnerable than we

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

I have been working on pandemic outbreaks for 15 years.There is a misunderstanding of the difference between the response in much of the West, versus successful countries (including New Zealand

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Where did SARS-CoV2 come from? (a THREAD)The answer is... We don't know! (you should get used to it). But we can hypothesize. Let's tackle the first thing: laboratory escape is

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Wanna see how disregarding facts and believing Trump and the GOP's BS can kill you?A thread:First of all, I can barely watch any cable news channel talk about the coronavirus

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

This alarming chart illustrates the poor job the U.S. has done in containing Covid-19 compared to the European Union, a bigger region of independent countries that suffered an earlier outbreak.

(Cyriac) Abby Philips

drabbyphilips

I was invited to comment on a #preprint A Consensus driven statement for #Ayurvedic Nomenclature of Various #liver diseases (Yakrit roga) by Panda et al.@CCRAS_MoAYUSH @moayush @AIIA_NDelhi Please allow me

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

Ontario's ability to administer vaccine supply within 7 days is not an issue. The real issues at the moment are:1. Lack of focus on province-wide LTC residents in outbreak who

andreamoro

andreamoro

A paper with @albertobisin: Learning Epidemiology by Doing: The Empirical Implications of a Spatial SIR Model with Behavioral Responses.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3625361 1/ How does geography affect the diffusion o

Rebecca Huenink

RebeccaHuenink

At first I thought this wasn’t well thought out—a hasty decision—because it just doesn’t make sense. We really think it’s OK to go work out in an indoor gym, but

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

#COVIDisAirborne. It always has been. 120 years we should have known this. Be generous say 80). We should have been prepared for it, but experts mangled the science so we

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread : Gaslighters out in force today as a small group of MPs and lobbyists use the media to try pushing the UK down the GBD route.Worryingly looks like

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

People talk about science as if it’s a body, an organisation :“Scientists say”, “the science says”, “we don’t trust science”.But that’s not what science is. Science is a verb. A

AaronGenest

AaronGenest

Clear, cogent communication is a critical component of crisis management. I realised today that my mental health is poor in large part because of a cognitive dissonance I experience between

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