#Epidemic

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

To stop major outbreaks - we either need major behavioral change - seems unlikely - need to shutdown the economy again, vaccines (all of which problematic), or we need the

Dr.SicilianoCalipari

TheErinCalipari

A lot of focus has been on controlling COVID19 (rightfully so), but let's talk about a huge problem getting less attention: Opioid overdoses are up 47% from this time last

Vinod Scaria

vinodscaria

B.1.618 - a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2 predominnatly found in India and characterized by a distinct set of genetic variants including E484K , a major immune escape variant. Initial sequences

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Why didn't we lockdown earlier? (Thread)This is a subject about which theories are put forward endlesslyI wanted to explore it in more detail and teamed up with @BBCPM to do

Council President M. Lorena González (Seattle)

CMLGonzalez

Gun violence, a THREAD1/ For over a decade, I’ve been a staunch police reformer and advocate for gun safety legislation in Seattle and beyond. Portraying gun violence as an issue

Patrick Radden Keefe

praddenkeefe

The AP has details of the Purdue settlement, which will be formally announced in half an hour. Lots to unpack here, but two things for now. (1/3)https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-business-criminal-investigations-opioids-epidemics-5f

Ruminator Dan

RuminatorDan

An estimated 750M, 10% of world’s population have been infected by Covid-19, says WHO's Dr M RyanThis implies far lower Infection Fatality Rate than previously claimed & potentially significant implications

Rajeev Venkayya MD

rvenkayya

More exciting vaccine news from Oxford/AstraZeneca. These would normally be considered very good results. Would be cautious about early comparisons to mRNA, given that we haven’t seen full datasets and

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Lot of people are really trying to change history by stating when our leaders should have acted.I think Trump was far, far too slow. But dates people are suggesting are

20.10.2020

I_Am_Ilemona

I have a theory about why it seems difficult for a majority of Nigerians to assimilate the threat #COVID19 poses to us. We are so surrounded by deaths from infectious

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about epidemic modelling, prompted by calls to "release the modelling" and the MJA paper. #COVID19 Disclaimer: I'm an epidemiologist and ID physician. I have published the occasional mathematical

Robert Gehrke

RobertGehrke

You’re Wednesday Covid update from @UtahDepOfHealth 1,575 new cases, 108,803 total 10 new deaths, 588 total 299 currently hospitalized, up 3 from yesterday 7,364 people tested, 21.4% positive rate

Paul Starr

StarrProspect

Why did #CDC this weekend drop cautions about choirs and "congregant singing, chanting and reciting" from its guidelines for communities of faith? On Friday May 22, the guidelines read:“consider suspending

Josh Busby

busbyj2

Am going to do a piece on the Duck on teaching the coronavirus for next term. Want to collective pieces/multimedia on how we're not ready for the next pandemic, written

Carl A. B. Pearson

cap1024

Thanks to the folks at @cmmid_lshtm and @SacemaQuarterly, and particularly @carivs, @kathmoreilly, Anna Foss, and @SACEMAdirector. This work is now peer reviewed at: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.18.2

स्वच्छंद हिंदु

Newfangled_

@myogiadityanath Ji- My Kind of Superhero1) Yogi- The Iron ManSelfless & Coherent-He has his has vision sorted on every matter. Be it political ideology or his decisions-He put citizens &