#Epidemic

Caitlin Fitzsimmons 🧜‍♀️

niltiac

Strong story by @Kaubo with a small contribution by me (I interviewed Professor McLaws) COVID-19 study clears NSW schools for student returnhttps://www.smh.com.au/national/safe-as-houses-covid-19-study-clears-nsw-schools-for-student-return-20200425-

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Who feels like a sobering wake up call? Well here goes. This paper from @hsalje et al (inc @SCauchemez) examines what we can learn from France’s initial surge in the

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: If we'd taken certain steps in winter - and recognized #coronavirus had characteristics we always feared in its balance between transmissibility and lethality - we may be in different

Scott Reid

ScottReidCPC

Tomorrow, I’ll be wearing a face mask when I take my seat in the House of Commons. Why? Well, it makes things safer, it sets a good example for Canadians,

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Dear @MartinKulldorff. 1. Few I know are arguing for massive, total lockdowns of society. 2. It's convenient to use this idea as a straw man, but it doesn't reflect anything

Rob *BUILD BACK GREENER* Hughes

R_Hughes1

OK. Seems very likely that we're currently cruising towards a potentially extremely damaging failure to get, and keep, kids in #school in England (and beyond). I hope I'm wrong but

Hammond Institute

HammondInst

This week, Hammond Institute scholars published a series of op-eds about #covid19: 1. "A Case for Proactive Policies." Rik W. Hafer, PhD https://bit.ly/2QZvuI5 2. "The Power of Civil Society: A

L 🤺

SomeBitchIKnow

I had to take a little break from Twitter after I got some messages suggesting I stop digging into what I'm about to share with you. I took some time.This

Seventh

SeventhDegreeUK

~100 rightwing rally goers are gathered in Parliament square in London protesting against Muslim ‘rape gangs’. The event is organised by the ‘Hearts of Oak’ organisation. Tommy Robinson & Sargon

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly Thread: Worser and Worser, Every Week Cases increasing exponentially in most of US; current epicenter including increasing hospitalizations, deaths is in midwest. Likely half million new infections/day.

Pauli Alin

pauli_alin

So the Swedish approach was influenced by "viral coronavirus conspiracy videos" created by a dude referred to as a "virus truther" by the Bulwark and defended by Laura Ingraham when

David Frum

davidfrum

I made this point w @AriMelber tonight am still brooding on it:So Trump has confirmed in his own voice that he was not self-deluded about COVID. He knew the danger

Nick Hassey

nickhassey

I've tweeted about how vaccine pauses seemed a rly bad idea a fair bit, but the decisions made by some countries to do them while very rare events were investigated

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

It's interesting to see how, at every stage of this pandemic, people leap from the event being unusual to the virus defying the normal rules of its kind, when in

Samuel V. Scarpino #BlackLivesMatter

svscarpino

The intensity of #COVID19 epidemics is heavily influenced by population structure. Our new paper analyzing high-resolution case, population, & mobility data from China and Italy is out today in @NatureMedicine.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

I’m sooo ANGRY about this - Trump WH & its CDC w/ no advance notice removed warnings that singing in church choirs can spread the coronavirus. THEY SUDDENLY DELETED IT!