#Outbreaks

Anne Soy

annesoy

The #Talai clan of the Kalenjin (Nandi, Kipsigis, Tugen and poss. Marakwet) have long been feared by the rest of the community. People don’t often talk about them. Members of

Leanne

MsLods

And some traditional media outlets in Australia have also engaged in a persistent campaign of misinformation concerning COVID-19 https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1285941555149320194 https://twitter.com/ebatruth/status/1284751022871568386?s

William Yang

WilliamYang120

Latest: @LowyInstitute released their #COVID19 Performance Index today, assessing and ranking 98 countries' performance to deal with the #COVID19 outbreak. New Zealand, Vietnam and #Taiwan are the top three countries

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Breaking REVERSAL: @WHO has formally recognized that #COVID19 can be transmitted indoors by droplets in the AIR: people in crowded settings with poor ventilation run risk of being infected by

segacs

segacs

And now, a thread about the #COVIDvaccine in #Quebec:While TVA helps the #Legault government boast about how amazing they're doing at administering the vaccine, here's a reality check using some

Anthony LaMesa

ajlamesa

Europe’s schools still open, still relatively safe, through covid-19 second wavehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-schools-covid-open/2020/12/01/4480a5c8-2e61-11eb-9dd6-2d0179981719_story.html “It is still difficult for

Tim Cook

doctimcook

PHE COVID infection control guidance updated todayYou’ll likely love them or loathe themhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control High medium and low risk pathways created.Elective

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Justin Hart

justin_hart

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."100 years ago the mask debate raged on and on just like it does today. One set of doctors came to

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

CovidZero: How to end the pandemic in 5 weeks CovidZero is an EXIT strategy. 1/ It is unlike the usual strategy called "living with the virus" "mitigation" "flattening the curve"

Joscha Bach

Plinz

Some brain defects let you perceive social reality in a deeply distorted way while often leaving the rest of your reasoning intact, eg. Capgras illusion: in her last weeks, my

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Preprint: COVID-19 screening and surveillance are critical, but molecular tests haven't come close to meeting needs, and temperature checks fail. We modeled the epidemiological impacts of using loss of smell

Hcx

Hcx93397354

1.climate change is not only about destruction of the environment. Very real human consequences are about to hit the world in the form of climate migrants and refugees. Vast amounts

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

1. The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It’s one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last two hundred years. I wanted to explain

Andreas Steinmayr

a_steinmayr

With lockdowns being introduced in today and tomorrow and already being in #lockdown, I was interested in how the #COVID19 situation compares in these three countries. Thus,

Adam Waxman

awaxman

I'm going to do a little threat celebrating all the #philanthropy supported journalists across @mcclatchy's southeast markets. Many of them started amidst earth-shaking events and have been working tirelessly to

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