#Rates

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA

Greg eh6.

greg_curious

I don't agree with everything that @Keir_Starmer, @BorisJohnson @EdwardJDavey @jackiebmsp @willie_rennie or @Douglas4Moray stand for.They are all in my view decent people doing politics as honestly as they can.@NicolaSturgeon &

Daniel Reeders 🏳️‍⚧️

engagedpractx

I'm seeing people with absolutely no data other than their own feelings of alarm saying 'we reopened way too soon.'Thing is, this is a novel pathogen with unknown epi dynamics.

Anil

anilsaidso

The Sovereign Individual (1999) is a guide for navigating the current transition from Industrial to Information Age.Remarkably, it predicted the rise of 'digital gold'.“If our deductions are correct, you stand

Jawad Mian

jsmian

1) I have found it useful to study the 1970s Nifty Fifty era as it appears to have considerable overlap to the so-called FAANG stocks of today. 2) The Nifty

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

"Finland and Norway boast the West’s lowest rates of mortality,..now stand out as the closest Western equivalents to Asian nations that have managed to avoid the worst of the pandemic."Their

Rachel Clarke

doctor_oxford

A visual argument for vaccines, in five tweets:1/ A ward of polio victims, incarcerated inside "iron lungs" in 1950s America. Many are children, their lungs paralysed, unable to breathe unaided.

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

@mgmgomes1 and coauthors have a preprint out where they analyze the impact of models incorporating variability in exposure (contacts) or susceptibility on epidemic trajectories in several countries. Quick thread on

Eamon Keane

eamokeane

Duplication in software developmentTrue Duplication Vs Accidental Duplication:Be careful not to take DRY too far and really think about what you're doing.#codenewbie 2/ True duplication is when a change

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

One common question I got was “What happens if I get the vaccine and I’ve already had COVID?” Related to that, “Should I get the vaccine if I’ve had COVID?”

AlexL #TeamReality

FD2403

Great thread by Dr. Kaur. Lockdowns kill. I’m going to start with the obvious that human intervention has done nothing more than delay the inevitable. Thread below 1/nhttps://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1324862575021010948 Can anyone

Hilary Abernathay. Some #Covid19 & #Nexit for all?

atatimelikethis

Excuse the following:WE ARE VERY LUCKY THE ONLY EFFECT OF THIS MUTATION IS HIGHER RATES OF TRANSMISSION.Because it could have been much worse, it could make the new vaccines redundant.Who

Hal Brands

HalBrands

There have been many excellent tributes to George Shultz today. Here's my contribution, which argues that although Shultz never had aura of a Kennan or Kissinger, he had every bit

Sam Easter

SamKWEaster

How bad have North Dakota's COVID numbers been? Let's take a peek at nationwide data. 1/x The state leads the country in cases per capita (~12,500 cases per 100k residents).

Andrew Knack

AndrewKnack

Why does #yeg have more debt per person compared to other cities?It's not a simple answer but we can start answering that question by going back to 2005 when the

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

An end to most surprise medical bills is finally coming. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/upshot/surprise-medical-bills-congress-ban.html with @sarahkliff Surprise medical billing was a weird Washington issue. Both parties wanted it fixed

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