#Epidemic

Corey Lynn - Corey's Digs

CoreysDigs

This is excellent news! Listen to what our President says about the WHO. Then read my next tweet and see just how much we fund the WHO for HIV alone.https://twitter.com/TheSpeaker2018/status/1247648794344173568

Probabilistic Thinker

samclark2225

Here we go for my first thread on Twitter, where I'd like to discuss the illusion of prudence and some comments on arbitrariness. One of the more toxic components of

Dirk Niepelt

DirkNiepelt

On the Optimal "Lockdown" During an Epidemic, #CEPR DP 14612In our baseline specification a #covid19 shock as currently experienced by the US optimally triggers a reduction in economic activity by

Ryan James Girdusky

RyanGirdusky

Who would I like to see at speaking at the RNC Convention:What about a factory worker who watched Obama say his job wasn't coming back. A parent who lost her

Stuart Williams

CaprockDemocrat

My name is Stuart Williams. I live in Lubbock, TX and I'm voting for @JoeBiden because....my grandmother, Mattie Lee Linzsey, was 45 years old before she could vote in the

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

There is no epidemic of interracial violence in either direction no matter how much partisan media tries to create it with anecdotes...https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1284159962479054850 https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/

The Surrealist Side of the Street

coolgrey

The Bay Area during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic...Open-air police court being held in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco. To prevent crowding indoors, judges held outdoor court sessions The SF Board

Golriz Ghahraman

golrizghahraman

I still remember when he said he someone like me (then born and raised ‘kiwi’ Gov General Anand Satyanand) “looks like a kiwi or sounds like a kiwi” enough to

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Our preprint is up on bioRxiv! We discuss key findings about the adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 for humans, scenarios for cross species transmission (pangolins, Wuhan Huanan market), and measures to prevent

Jan Choutka

jan_choutka

As days get shorter, evenings longer, and the world in turmoil due to a pandemic, let me tell a sad and forgotten story. A tale of the early outbreaks of

Ed White

EdWhiteMarkets

COVID-19 is becoming a world hunger epidemic too: Jim Cornelius of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Unemployment, food supply disruptions, likely food production shortfalls a problem in developing countries. Starvation a

Miguel Hernán

_MiguelHernan

Europe and US in total or partial lockdown to mitigate #COVID19.Soon more hundreds of millions will be confined to their homes. Huge personal sacrifices. Staggering economic losses.Ok, we accept the

Raquel Willis

RaquelWillis_

It’s easy for cis folk to call out J.K. Rowling’s transphobia + not acknowledge their own. How do you make trans folks lives less violent outside of that? How do

Manuel L. Quezon III

mlq3

What other countries are discussing but we're not. Basically, it's a top down (lockdown) and bottom up (testing, contact tracing) approach that will flatten the curve. But after that massive

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ To look back at those crucial days last March when lockdowns spread globally is to realize NONE OF THIS HAD TO HAPPEN. Italy set the stage when it locked

Dr Siouxsie Wiles

SiouxsieW

Our #FlattenTheCurve graphic is now up on @Wikipedia with proper attribution & a CC-BY-SA licence. Please share far & wide and translate it into any language you can! Details in