#Mortality

Ashleigh Stewart

Ash_Stewart_

So, I've been down a strange wormhole the past few weeks, involving 228 pages of reports from a cholera outbreak in 1947 in the UAE (then the Trucial States) to

DrSalunkhe Shivaji

YDrshivaji

#Cliniciansdilemma When doctor faces trust deficit, a part of clinician within each doctor is undermined at times resulting in unnecessary & insane tests usually at the behest of patient who's

David Paton

cricketwyvern

How should governments evaluate lockdowns as a policy?Jury is out on whether lockdowns significantly decrease cases & deaths relative to other measures (e.g. social distancing, hygiene, limiting big events)However we

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

David Roberts

drvolts

My new post: the latest research on air pollution is jaw-dropping. Scientists now believe its effects on health & mortality are roughly *double* previous estimates. If that’s true, air-quality benefits

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On Saturday, Premier François Legault delivered horrific news: 31 residents of the privately run Herron long-term care centre had died during the #COVID19 pandemic. In this thread, I will

Tareena Musaddiq

tareena_m

Great start to the day today listening to @DaveEvansPhD talk about girls' education around the world. I summarize two main sections of his presentation below (What do we know &

Irish Data Viz

IrishDataViz

What if we had a better metric for communicating the risk COVID-19 currently poses to society than case numbers?The R number and deaths also have big flaws (more )What if

Sam Horwich

samhorwich

Sad to see two leftist professors from @harvardmed join the right wing attack on the *lockdown proponents*, a term which in itself is a straw man. A thread 1/nhttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality?f

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Looking at my notes from March and April and reappraised our response (Irish people).Strong conclusion is we did excellently for our part of the world and you should all be

Austin Kellerman

AustinKellerman

HERE’S A STAT WORTH SHARING! Global #COVID19 #coronavirus total recoveries have passed 700,000.That’s nearly 4x the number of deaths.There have been 100,000+ recorded recoveries in the last 72 hours. (source

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

I’ve been following the research on experimental therapies to treat #covid19 from the beginning and in the last month the three biggest results came from just one trial: Recovery in

JohannesBorgen

jeuasommenulle

Last Friday, Macron floated the idea of a new general lockdown in France. Ouch. And because I’m fed up with reading so much garbage and contradictory stuff on Covid, I

Shai Akabas

ShaiAkabas

THREAD: This week, Social Security’s trustees projected that reserves in the retirement trust fund will deplete in 2034 & the disability fund in 2065. But the report didn’t look at

Tara

tarauk

#BiharElections2020 Choice of female doctors, social activists, professors, Panchayat Pradhans, seasoned MLAs; risen from sweepers & football coaches, earned stripes in grassroots politics; 1 had a baby mid campaign

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

Today, OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind is out. I thought I knew the basic story of Millennial life - that it's precarious, that we're broke,