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David W. Higgins

higginsdavidw

Ireland's Vitals65 new hospital admissions and 5 new ICU admissions.We're now 2 weeks since the day of highest hospital admissions and 1 week since the day of highest ICU admissions.This

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Another remarkable fact about this mismanaged epidemic. Your personal doctor, your GP, is not able to order a test or home test for you. You have to go yourself through

Ben Adida

benadida

A few days ago, I delved into the Google/Apple contact tracing --> https://twitter.com/benadida/status/1249067484679794688?s=20Today's news: "France is asking Google+Apple to weaken privacy protections around digital contact tracing"

Sasha Costanza-Chock

schock

The users we need to prioritize, from a design perspective, in contact tracing #CovTech are 1. contact tracers, and 2. people who are being contacted. What do contact tracing teams

Michael Veale

mikarv

Apple & Google's annoucement provides HUGE support for #DP3T against centralised solutions, which *no longer work* under it. The API they specify lets devices to query list of IDs they

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MackayIM

Human-to-human (h2h) spread of the new coronavirus detected in Wuhan.A few thoughts.To say that there is *no* h2h during the discovery phase of an emerging disease is using language that

erin

ysmiac

if ur protesting revise the area before you go, look for a safe place to run to.also memorise a phone number of a contact close by, if you can’t, write

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

A lot of people are asking how "backward tracing" is any different to standard contact tracing.It’s not obvious, but there are major differences, and it’s one of the factors cited

Marcel Salathé

marcelsalathe

Are contact tracing apps able to get us out of the #COVID19 crisis? A thread. 1/12 The idea behind contact tracing: find the contacts of an infected person - they

George “WASH YOUR HANDS” Scriban

scribandotcom

Setting aside some *major* challenges—privacy, adoption, accuracy, adherence, prevalence, backwards compatibility—it's a *significant* development for the two major mobile platform companies to create interoperable APIs for public health apps.Lik

Simon Naitram

SimonMNaitram

My UWI colleague Mahalia Jackman has done super interesting research on attitudes towards homosexuality. Using survey data for Barbados, she finds that Bajans have an "ambivalent" attitude towards homosexuality: they

Robintrack

robintrack

As of a few hours ago, Robinhood has disabled the API endpoint that Robintrack used to collect popularity data. As a result, Robintrack will no longer be able to display

Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation

CDEIUK

1/4 We recently hosted a virtual international roundtable on the ethics of contact tracing apps. We've published a blog on the discussion, in which representatives from nearly 10 countries talked

More science, less quackery.

Brasilmagic

Valerie Pastore of Nutley, NJ was seen at the anti-BLM protest in Nutley yesterday in a MAGA hat, screaming at protestors and at one point making the Nazi salute. She

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soulxhild

I've gotten in contact with the girlfriend of Daunte Wright and what her & their son need. I will post her cash tag info and the list of their needs

Vanessa Franko

vanessafranko

If you're saying "the media isn't showing this!" here are a couple things you should know:1-Your local news outlet is "the media" and is likely there. (I see many posts