#Pandemics

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

☣️ Dr. Syra Madad

syramadad

Everyone wants to know "what can we do better to prepare for future pandemics?"As someone in the field of biopreparedness & infectious disease emergency management we've long advocated to end

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

But in addition to age, race/ethnicity are a strong factor in predicting death from #COVID19 in the US. It's just the facts. 23/ So if you wanted to frame vaccine

Ferg

trader_ferg

ThreadHad a few aha moments thanks to the work of Mike Green @profplum99 & @HorizonKinetics 1. Passive being ‘buy and hold’ is misleading as really they are actually systematic active

'In Truth We Trust'

SikhForTruth

#Wuhan:The Perfect Mix? Peak Flu SeasonPolluted AirWaste IncineratorsMandatory Flu Vaccines20K 5G AntennasAtmosphere thinnest Over ChinaDeepest Grand Solar Minimum11 Year Sun Cycle= Influenza Pandemic Rebadged as #COVID19. Human studies att

CoffeeMeetsCarnivore

cofemtscarnivor

Here’s the thing about pandemics. No one REALLY knows the perfect solution. Even the best countries have dealt with it and their people have laughed at or scoffed at their

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

And when young people die? They are often again from African-American, Latino communities. This is what the data shows. So discussing racial equity in health isn't a conversation about affirmative

Kat Woods

Kat__Woods

Once upon a time there was a boy who cried "there's a 𝟱% 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗹𝗳!"The villagers came running, saw no wolf, and said "He 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 there was a

Lauren Weber

LaurenWeberHP

1 in 8 Americans lives in a community that lost a local public health leader, our @AP @KHNews investigation foundLawmakers in 24 states are crafting legislation to strip public health

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

“A Tale of Two Pandemics” - Brilliant, self-aware, lacerating email from a man whose #covid experience has been very different than his brother’s.“I don’t want to hear ‘we’re all in

Los Angeles Times

latimes

This photo went viral on Twitter. As protests continue in the U.S., some say it perfectly captures two different attitudes.But there's so much more to this photo: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-18/cities-are-bu

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

OMG—Biden WH just created a new *National Center for Epidemic Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics*. Just like a national weather center or NASA’s asteroid detection center (CNEOS), this will be a

Kiri

kiriparr

1/ @BradyHeywood dropped his latest podcast last night and he said I’d love it. https://www.bradyheywood.com.au/podcasts/ My promised commentary follows. 2/ In this podcast, Sean Brady bites off the gnarly

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Comparing #COVID19 infection fatality rates (IFRs) of #SARSCoV2 with influenza can be problematic. As the piece below touches on, the IFR estimates for seasonal influenza are very poor. Though, another

Tálib

talibinfecto

A text in English to everybody read.This pandemics brought me a profound shame of my medical class.I've seen a great part of my class leaving good clinical practices, clinical evalutions,

Words are what make up the tweets כריס רולינגס

crawlings13

Wealthy white parents are disproportionately less likely to:- Get Covid (due to housing density, work from home, etc.)They are disproportionately more likely to - Be vaccinated- Support (and insist on)

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