#Estimates

Chinmay Tumbe

ChinmayTumbe

Lot of talk on the scale of under-reporting of deaths in India in this Covid19 wave. My research on the 1918 influenza outbreak in India placed it as 3x i.e.

CT National Guard

CTNationalGuard

The 103rd Airlift Wing's #FlyingYankees have scheduled a salute to Connecticut health care workers tomorrow, May 14th with C-130H Hercules aircraft conducting flyovers of hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the

Aditya Srinath

adi_fatalis

Gonna use #WorldLionDay to illustrate that a lion the size of your average horse used to stalk the wild lands of North America; enter Panthera atrox, otherwise known as the

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

It's been a while, #energytwitter, but it's time for another nerd rant. This time on the difference between being pro-market and pro-business, and how that has distorted US energy policy.

Marc Daalder

marcdaalder

A common canard in NZ, spread by talk show hosts, misguided academics and conspiracy theorist political candidates, is that the @WHO revised down its estimate of the death rate of

Chief Justice Keef

ohip13

since I'm already tweeting about infrastructure today, I figured it's time to do a thread on the stupidest ongoing infrastructure disaster in the city (in america??). That's right folks, we're

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SuperstringLtd

Seeing a lot #gamedev (particularly pixel artists (?)) flirting with NFTs and starting a journey down a worrying road. A very quick thread! If you're aware of the problematic aspects

Wilfred Frost

WilfredFrost

Lots that stands out in $JPM numbers. But the key is provision for credit losses of $8.3bn. Estimates ranged from $1.5bn to $20bn, median at $4.7bn. Q1 2019 was $1.3bn.

Upfront

iamiqbal

Covid-19 is wrecking the economies across the world. A new category “Neo-Poor” is emerging to join ranks of poor and marginalized.#neopoor#neopoor According to estimates about 25% uptick in school drop

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Looking at the estimates for daily new cases in England (8K/day), the openings of shops/schools on Monday, watching carefully what's happening in East Asia & combining this with what we

Rory Tierney

rorymtierney

Some thoughts on Covid-19 and health econ. We know that policy choices about the lockdown involve weighing up the economic and social cost against the health benefits. So how do

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

Dear @WHO,When you announce there are 1 million #COVID19 cases, please can you make it clear that the actual number of infections may be closer to 100 million.Estimates here (Imperial

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

The debate on voluntary infection-and-quarantine coming up again. Estimates of COVID CFR for 20—40 y.o.s is around 0.1%. (Selecting on those without underlying conditions would likely make this significantly lower.)https://www.thelancet.com/journals/

Tom Hancock

hancocktom

Sources cited in this story: 1. Unnamed "social media sleuths" 2. A Radio Free Asia reporthttps://twitter.com/annafifield/status/1246149713016918016 This thread highlights the problems with estimates of this scale.https://mobile.twitter.com

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

When we talk about the return to school in the fall, there's a lot of emphasis on making sure that community transmission is 'low'. If we have fewer cases in

Braley Dodson

BraleyDodson

I'm here in Saratoga Springs tonight, where the Alpine School District Board of Education will be discussing its plan for opening in the fall. Wifi is spotty here, so tweets