#Prevalence

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Things are getting complicated with variants.The problem is that there are not one or two variants - there are many.A short thread on varaints and mutations. (Naming them after places

Alan U. Kennington

kennington_u

AZ vaccine 70.4% efficacy for #COVID19 means:−log₁₀(1−70.4%) = 5.3 dB case reduction.P/B and M vaccines 95% means:−log₁₀(1−95%) = 13.0 dB case reduction.So AZ effectiveness is only 40.6% of P/B and

Jens von Bergmann

vb_jens

There has been a lot of talk about the high positivity rates for COVID testing in BC. In a recent chat @dancoombsUBC hypothesized that the rise in positivity might (in

Liz Crash

AsFarce

what interesting things have you read on the DLP and the 1955 ALP split? especially interested in stuff to do with migration (e.g. the dream of creating an Italian Catholic

el gato malo

boriquagato

spain has done quite a lot of interesting covid tracking.much of it has not made its way into US discourse because it's in spanish.i'd like to share some as it

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zei_squirrel

the most unhinged part of krugman's claim that "americans took 9/11 calmly" is that an entire respectable elite intellectual movement was spawned out of it based on anti-muslim resentment led

Dr Simon Ashworth

DrSimonAshworth

Just listened to Luke Johnson telling me that hospitals had plenty of capacity.So was the tripling of ICU capacity in my trust in my imagination? Was the fact we were

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/9) #LongCovid is common. In this study of 180 Faroe Islanders (of whom only 8 were hospitalised), 53% had at least 1 symptom after an average of 4 months (minimum

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

When I said that the US is having one Wuhan a day (50k/day #coronavirus cases in the US vs. 50k for all time in Wuhan), many people responded: "You can't

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

There were roughly two approaches to the disease taken by developed countries, one I will call “socio-technical” and was used primarily in Asia and Australasia, but also in some notable

Christine Padgham 💔

AlixJoan1

Followers, please RT. @jasonleitch @NicolaSturgeon @devisridhar I hope you are able to follow this.And please forgive the language. But I'm getting very cross!I make a concerted effort not to hear

Michael Salter

mike_salter

It's important to recognise that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has long been subject to intentional disinformation from vested interests. These campaigns have had considerable success in convincing the media

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Happy Friday!Chancellor Merkel considering Zero Covid (#s as low as possible, like last Summer) & admits this is the best way to get normal 'free' daily life back. Political question

Kelly Brown

rubiconcapital_

1/ @globaandmail article today comparing #COVID19 in Toronto and Ottawa, headlined, “Two pandemics”.In this brief thread will show, with simple data, why this article, in my view, is way off

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

I wrote about an obvious contributor to police violence that’s received a shockingly small amount of attention in the police reform debate—guns.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/overlooked-role-guns-police-reform-debate/

Richard Neill

txorich

Thread 1/ My wife and I moved to New Zealand in 2018 after working in Philadelphia for 20+ years. It was supposed to be a pre-retirement gig, working as locum

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