#EPIDEMIC

Joe

josephmarsh

Some things I note watching this clip from Tucker:https://twitter.com/realjameswoods/status/1281426779605876738 Tucker is using media and information to craft a particular narrative (yes those in media on the Right do it too).

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Coverage of disease modelling tends to focuses on population-level 'what could happen next?' scenario analyses and predictions. So I wanted to highlight some early COVID-19 insights that you've probably heard

foone

Foone

you know what's the problem with all these current-virus conspiracy theories?they don't go far enough, and they're not inventive. they're just old tricks. "oh the virus was created in china

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Is herd immunity now high enough to contribute to reduced transmission of #COVID19?Thread from @trvrb is provoking substantial discussion as it should. I'd like to add a few details that

Zlazloj Zlizlek

ZlazlojZlizlek

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹: 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Today's announcement of ~95% efficacy in the @moderna_tx #COVID19 vaccine trial is amazing, auspicious news. 1/8https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/16/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-is-strongly-effective-early-look-at-data-show/ This coupled wi

J.B. Handley

jb_handley

1/ why did the vaccine safety movement (derisively refered to as anti-vaxxers) almost universally call BS on Covid-lunacy from Day 1? 2/ because we’ve seen this movie so many times

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let’s talk about a COVID19 seroprevalence study, this time well conducted (it seems), which provides a petri-dish type natural experiment. It’s the small Austrian mountain ski village of Ischgl, one of the epicenters of SARSCoV2.

Catie Lilly

catielila

Day 0 of quarantine & the excitement is nonstop! My hotel delivered fresh milk tea. I received a call from Taiwan CDC thanking me for my patriotic service. I struck

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

“Hundreds of seroprevalence studies have been done around the world, which vary in quality, methods and the type of tests used”, says @DrTedros at @WHO #covid19 presser. “They tell us

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

1\n What the sigmoid is a Gompertz? An elegant and simple prediction approach by @MLevitt_NP2013. Beware, though, it is really that simple. A medium rare explanation by @maestro_rayo, @LDjaparidze and

Feliz COVIDad

quephird

The Republican Party has been evolving into what it is today beginning in the late seventies when the so-called Vulcans (e.g., Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz) began planning world domination in

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

Many have asked me about the effects of altruism in economic-epidemic models (in about every talk I give!). I've thought hard about this for a number of years and there

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW with @jemimajoanna: why are so few people in the UK wearing masks?We dug into the numbers, the science and the nuance to see what’s going onStory here: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/07/09/1594305988000/Why-are-we-not-wearing-masks-

Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH

JuliaLMarcus

As @BillHanage has written, hybrid schooling may be the worst of all worlds. I'd like to walk you through a week in the life of my first grader to illustrate

Matthew Sekol

MatthewSekol

When you wonder "what happened to #NetNeutrality " and you hear that speeds have gone up, ask yourself this.Where was the investment in rural broadband we were promised?https://www.wsj.com/articles/remote-schooling-out-of-reach-f

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