#SARS

This herd immunity quote highlighted by @danwootton is hilariously flawed. Why? Because each year there are >700K live births in the UK. Herd immunity proponents forget a simple fact -
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There's a paper out in PNAS that features a number of evolutionary psychology speculations about SARS-CoV-2. Some of my friends are coauthors, so I apologize in advance to them, but
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Thread:So I decided to have a look at the claim that the schools aren't an issue for the spread of #Covid19. Based on the numbers since schools reopened and some
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Est-ce que le crash du #MH17 de la Malaysia Airlines est relié à l’opé. #Covid_19? Explications et sourcesAu vu des infos rassemblées, toute personne sensée ne peut que se poser
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Karl Friston's model suggests that LSHTM/Imperial/Academy of Medical Sciences projections of numbers of deaths in a second wave are way too high. But a functioning ‘find, test, trace, isolate, support
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A thread (18 tweets) on Nicholas Wade's story on the 'Origin of Covid'- a natural origin or a lab leak. Nicholas has covered science for @nytimes for 30 years.https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6
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Thread: Following up on my previous threads about the true nature of SARS-CoV2 as a virus that attacks the blood not the respiratory system, I stumbled across a couple of
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As cases surged this week, I asked more than half a dozen researchers (epidemiologists, virologists and psychologists) if the U.S. has lost its COVID-19 war and if widespread lockdowns are
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Time to clear the air on #COVID19 The most important thread you read today!You want to survive and not become a death statistic?STOP what you are doing and read!The answer
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1/Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is looking worse&worse as an option for care of #COVID19 The best new study offers a *superb* example of a statistical approach to data where treatment wasn't randomly
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I'm sure most of you have seen that NYTimes article about how the U.S. probably won't reach herd immunity, and so I did some ~digging bc the NYT loves to
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1/ Case-study #1 in politics masquerading as #medicine. sciolism: superficial knowledge.scientism: appealing to 'science' in an invalid way.dishonesty: you know already.Tom Jefferson & Carl Heneghan, "Covid-19 – The tipping point?&qu
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To be perfectly clear: #Covid19 will happen again. And again. And so on, until humans stop treating Earth as its personal rummage sale (THREAD)https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/asia/china-swine-flu-pandemic-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html?ref=hvp
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New preprint *NOT PEER REVIEWED* from the @opensafely team which we would love comments on! We looked at whether inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), used in asthma and COPD, might influence
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There is a *lot* of this sort of thing going on right now: explicit state direction of industry, commandeering of production and outright nationalization.https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/21207310/coronavirus-new-york-hospitals-andrew-cuomo In many if n
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Let’s talk about Fall Semester. Colleges and universities have to make some big decisions soon1/ And it won’t affect just students. For example, the University of Michigan #GoBlue has 46,000
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