#Epidemic

Herd Immunity Thread.Herd Immunity *was* part of government policyHerd Immunity was *against* WHO advice and many of the subsequent deaths were predictable.Feel free to contribute links, articles, or videos.#HerdImmunity #COVID19
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Another appalling @RealDonaldTrump presser. He says he hasn’t seen a recent study that said coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine had higher death rates. Why not? Surely SOMEBODY around him should be
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Those insisting it's never going to be safe to resume normal life are absolutely exhausting and downright toxic. Their defeatist coping methods require scolding those who refuse to join in
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People are correct in pointing out that our ire and urgent calls to curb this pandemic should be primarily aimed at our government officials -- both locally and federally. I
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It's late, but I didn't forget death day.And the news is bad. Estimated R values are up for several indicators. Excess deaths are up. My "normal by Thanksgiving" hopes of
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A monkey in a cage goes bananas, a thread.Humans in modern environments are like monkeys at the zoo.Evolutionary mismatch regarding diet, exercise and the nature of our modern social world
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This open letter reminds me of the previous so-called "open letter of scientists" that came out on March 4. Both are signed by almost the same group of people and
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Instagram culture and coronavirus thread For scientists, you’re patient zero, but for me, you’re always number one. Previous me: sore throat again nvm drink more waterNow me: OMG I
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Rape epidemic in our countries is deeply rooted in the gendered hierarchies and power from home to the nations capital and state houses.Castration is headline catching but it doesn’t deal
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God knows I'm sick of churning out COVID-19 data myself, so going to post a bit of a thread that hopefully might help other people to at least interpret it
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A thread on toe-out vs toe-in gait patternsWe see this all the time. Just walk down a street (well, once this epidemic is over) to see just how common this
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This is a love story. It began 50 years ago over apple strudel in Paris, but Howard Smith says he has no time for romantic notions about the past. Right
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NEW: 3 minutes “casual contact” led to transmission in NZ where cases rare & contact tracing very detailed. But now “concern mounts over the revelation of one port worker
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Paul Romer is a Nobel-winning economist. He advocates for moving toward a regime of wide-scale testing.We don't have the capacity to do this *today*.He argues we could have the capacity
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Our report on the largely unobserved COVID-19 epidemic in Damasucs was just published in @natcomms. I don't like sharing my publications but this one I a really proud of. Why?
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Open source projects like #CovidShield are so important. A @ScienceMagazine study found 46% of transmission is PRE-SYMPTOMATIC. Rapid & complete #ContactTracing is essential to personal & economic health. 80% of
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