#Herd

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Let me tell you about a different test. The COVID antibody test. This has demonstrated that only 7% of the UK population had antibodies to COVID in May (it was

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي

iyad_elbaghdadi

Accepting under this tweet your theories about why Islam bothered to prohibit the consumption of pork given that Arabs did not eat pork or keep pigs anyway (you can't herd

badly-drawn bee 🐝

soapachu

Everything apart from:Attend initial COBRA meetingsClose portsRequire quarantine for incoming pplProvide enough PPELock down hard/fast enoughClose schools early enoughBuild an effective track & trace systemSome of these they STILL haven

Ravi Rannan-Eliya

ravirannaneliya

THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS.Indicates a SERIOUS FAILURE of authorities to protect our public health and economy.The UK B117 variant has been detected by Prof @GMalavige team in #lka community

John Roberts

john_actuary

A brief summary of the latest @ICNARC report on COVID ICU activity, on behalf of @COVID19actuary, focussing on numbers of patients, as outcomes are now relatively stable. The no. admitted

Michael Girdley

girdley

A thread on psychology and game theory in raising capital.Here’s some stuff I’ve learned about how to create a good outcome in a fundraise. Processes and PlansI’ve seen people do

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

We need to treat the new variant as a new pandemic, and recalibrate our response accordingly.A short thread. The responses to Covid so far - 'Covid-secure', social distancing, etc. have

Sam Bowman

s8mb

"Zero Covid" – which, apparently, doesn't mean "eliminate Covid with vaccines, suppression and border controls", it seems to mean "lock down until there are zero Covid cases" – feels like

Lauren Wolfe

Wolfe321

1/ I've covered the virus since May. Here's what scares me most: The vaccines are coming. They'll be shipped starting tomorrow before 7 a.m. That's fantastic news. 2/ But it's

Illiberal Democrat

Me_Predictor

People value "credentials" too much. Fact is most people don't have much knowledge beyond their area of expertise. And in a lot and lot of fields, people don't have expertise

Louis Rossouw

lrossouw

SA COVID-19 model updated: I have not tweeted about it in some time. So as a reminder the model is calibrated to 90% of excess deaths from the MRC (up

Michael Story ⚓

MWStory

What's the best thing to read on public sector desensitisation? Professionals working with the most chaotic parts of society gradually slipping into extreme doomerism because all they see is impulsivity

Dr Anthony (Tony) Moore

PerpetualWinger

1 Thread on Astra Zeneca vaccine Irrespective of your political views you hold, Australians should be disappointed about the misleading headlines around the Astra Zeneca vaccine in the SMH and

Olayide

Ola_yide

So for my BBN ppl,This thing called herd mentality ehn, sometimes it doesn't happen intentionally.When you engage same set of handles all year and all your friends talk about the

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

This is a clear, accessible explanation--in the Economist, paywalled--of the paradox of Covid-19, and the reason no one should be reassured by the overall low case fatality rate: to the

Dan Held

danheld

1/ Why Bitcoin may be going through a "Supercycle"This time is different: COVID, Gold 2.0 narrative, institutional herd, and ease of use have set a new stage. Instead of a

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