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National Geographic

NatGeo

Join @MoNscience for our next #COVID19 Q&A today at 1pm ET. Leave your questions below and stay tuned for answershttps://on.natgeo.com/3iWDXYX That’s an interesting question—and one that’s created some public confusion.As

Siberian Fox

SilverVVulpes

This is more extreme than even the choir superspreading event, and thus worse from the people defending a pre-existing immunity to infection idea. Attack rate of 85.2%, 104/122 individuals (and

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

Education is the foundation of a properly functioning society. So when we have a large scale problem, education is our "go to" tool. Without a doubt, epidemiologists have proven to

Rohit Jindal 📚

rohit_jindal29

A THREAD on thought provoking ideas by Bertrand Russell:1/If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

This is going to sound like mockery but I don't mean it that way: we need to try to be more understanding & forgiving of folk who are saying bonkers

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DrSidMukherjee

1/n Please pay attention, please. I'm afraid that we are falling behind in this COVID race. There are at least 4 variants of concern: variants arising in London, Manaus, Japan

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

Happily, someone seems to have archived the article.https://archive.vn/UWnAm It seems that SUNAK is unable to grasp that a short early circuit break followed by a carefully calibrated & measured exit

abolish kamala harris ☭

austin_g_graham

ATTENTION: The decision today to okay the leasing of land in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil extraction is much worse than you would think, particularly in its effect

Containment Now! #zeroCOVID

ContainmentNow

So now we know in more detail what we've argued all year long. Everyone said we were exaggerating. It was actually worse than we thought.1. Containment was a real option.

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 2: Lets say we were in a war. A war where we are attacked at home and hundreds of thousands of people died. We would have a

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

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

Job growth has seriously slowed in November. While still heading in the right direction, at this pace of 245k a month would be 3.3 years until we got back all

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Not sure what’s happened at WHO but I strongly recommend you don’t let any A-level biology students see this lot of chuff. It’s factually wrong in numerous ways. The phrase

el gato malo

boriquagato

when COV is all said and done, there will be questions:how dangerous was the disease?what was the cost of the things we did to try to stop it?then we will

Dominic Minghella

DMinghella

Government - accused of manipulating covid death figures in order to make it look like they weren't the worst crisis handlers in Europe and beyond - comes up with this

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Quick thread on one aspect of vaccination that currently doesn't quite make the headlines but is likely to become very important in the coming months - vaccine reluctance.This different from

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