#Outbreaks

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Two Radical Proposals for ‘Getting to Zero’"Health experts around the world are now re-evaluating their nations’ responses..as “mitigation policies” have failed to contain two waves of the pandemic — with

Taniel

Taniel

Florida primaries are next week (voting is well underway) & for anyone who cares about criminal justice, there are major battles on the battle that could upend policies around incarceration

Nicholas Bagley

nicholas_bagley

Yesterday, @MichiganHHS issued guidance on university testing strategies for COVID-19.Neither @Umich and @MSU’s testing strategies are in compliance with that guidance. That’s a big problem. A thread. https://www.michigan.gov/documents/

Stéphane Helleringer

helleringer143

NYT quoted me in article & if I may concur, this headline is horrendous. This pronouncement is wrong for any country in Africa. There is civil registration throughout continent; deaths

Hayden O'Connor

HaydenJOConnor

Murdoch's Peta Credlin interviews 'Patient X'. I've watched it so you don't have to. Unsurprisingly the interview is used as a political attack on Dan Andrews. A thread #auspol #springst

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

1/ The most important evidence regarding pediatric transmission comes from Iceland, and their study published in NEJM. Be suspicious of any expert ignoring this paper and discussing anecdotes instead. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NE

Russ

RussInCheshire

#TheWeekInTory 1. The govt said they had to "balance the nation’s health with our economy", and in that respect, they have succeeded: both are evenly balanced as the worst in

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Lets discuss the WHO release...This is the anniversary of the WHO populating their web site with the Drosten test that caused many of these problems. Document penned on Jan 13th

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Analysis by @edyong209 @TheAtlantic of the impact of the pandemic on how science is done.I'm reading it from the POV of one of "Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles

Doc Fancy: Born of Sea Foam

Kate_Biscuit

Got into it with a bloke at the supermarket today.In Victoria, we must wear masks in supermarkets, shopping centres, etc., but not outside or in cafes (as of today). We

Farmers Of The UK

FarmersOfTheUK

Morning all! As it’s my last day on the account, I thought I’d share some of the stories I’ve covered in the last sixth months. It’s certainly been a baptism

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

There is media bias around discussing an elimination strategy- which is considered 'unrealistic' or not possible in the UK- where the rhetoric from govt & its advisors has been 'acceptable

M.P.

OmanReagan

Starting early in 2020, British Columbia spread pandemic misinformation. The province told us that there was no such thing as asymptomatic spread. Scientists and other health experts had already made

James Sumner

JamesBSumner

I once asked a mystic who dwelt atop a mountain what the secret of a contented life was, and the mystic replied: "Act as though your actions might get written

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 317Today was medical grand rounds: brief summary below but worth watching for latest on vaccine distribution in SF, current state of the pandemic, & the

Dr. Jana Lasser

janalasser

A thread about COVID in schools. This recent nature piece summarizes the situation from a research perspective well: we still do not know enough about the biology of the virus

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.