#Infections

David Fisman

DFisman

This is a great question. Here’s my responsehttps://twitter.com/dianaberrent/status/1330255535808122881?s=20 The idea of vaccines is to get you to immunity without having to go through the risk and discomfort of illness, and

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MoyoFidelis2

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Dominique Heinke

Epi_D_Nique

Ok, great - but how do we use this incredible knowledge to protect ourselves and others from respiratory infections? Ah… Well, let's go on another short journey.https://twitter.com/Epi_D_Nique/status/1321936463987154951 2/ Those gross

Good Morning Britain

GMB

A group of 22 leading scientists have signed an open letter calling on the govt to abolish social distancing for good in June.Hugh Osmond says data shows hospitality hasn't been

James White

DrOakley1689

Emotional manipulation is a powerful weapon, and it has been used to fundamentally end the experiment in liberty begun in the 18th century in what became the United States.A lot

Hamza Shaban

hshaban

Sanjay Gupta on CNN says they examined 17 locations where Trump held rallies and found that 82% of the time, the infections jumped in counties soon after a Trump campaign

Larry Sanger

lsanger

SOME NEWS OF THE DAYA few of my picks...my annotations are at the bottom of the thread.1/ Trump tweets that he ordered Navy to destroy Iranian gunboatshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-tweets-that-he-ordered-navy-to-destroy-iranian-gunboats/

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

OtherSociology

Let's talk about the new COVID-19 ads and continued focus on people "not following the rules." In Australia (and elsewhere) a vocal minority who refuse to wear masks or who

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

My take—I personally think the Oxford AstraZeneza #COVID19 vaccine at 90% efficacy (with its half-then-full dose regimen) simple refrigeration vaccine that costs $2.5-4/dose is superior. Cheaper + much easier to

Ben Hunt

EpsilonTheory

All of the "CDC Shows 94% of COVID-19 Deaths Had Underlying Medical Conditions!" stories are bullshit cartoons.Rusty tries to be nice in describing the people who buy these cartoons as

Jeff Jones

jmjones

Squinting very hard at the outlines of a “just send everyone to Arizona for the summer” plan for MLB, and I just don’t see how it’s feasible. Each team would

Valthor

vlthr

The Swedish CDC @Folkhalsomynd released a (now retracted) report yesterday with a mathematical model for the number of infected in the Stockholm area. Since the report was only available in

Guilaine Kinouani

KGuilaine

I’ve encouraged you to think about wellbeing & self-care. And was frustrated we were not talking enough about the impact of social isolation on mental health. But...we also need to

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

Welcome to another day of people comparing the wrong things and drawing the wrong conclusions. And don't forget your Internet logic: If it is sunny today, it means it will

Leana Wen, M.D.

DrLeanaWen

The U.S. has just reached 100,000 deaths from #covid19. What have we learned? A thread of 10 lessons: 1. This is an extremely contagious respiratory illness that spreads rapidly from

Professor Ian Donald

iandonald_psych

1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of